Board delays Decision on Emporia Killer’s Parole
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Lorna Anderson Moore will not be paroled from prison today.
The Kansas Parole Board has postponed a decision on her parole until late February, according to an announcement this week. Today had been the earliest date she could be released, after a series of public comment sessions had been held by the board in December.
The board, made up of Patricia Biggs, Robert Sanders and Paul Feleciano, will meet this month to discuss the case and vote on her possible parole. A date has not been set for the meeting.
Moore can be paroled if two board members vote in favor of her release.
She has been working in the private sector in Topeka since April 2006. She returns to the correctional facility in Topeka after work, according to Bill Miskell, spokesman for the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Moore was convicted in the mid-1980s of criminal solicitation to commit first-degree murder in Lyon County in connection with the death of Sandra Bird, wife of former Emporia minister Thomas P. Bird, who was convicted of first-degree murder in the case. Moore later pleaded guilty in Geary County District Court to second-degree murder in the death of her husband, Martin Anderson, who was shot in a field adjacent to Highway 177, about five miles south of its intersection with Interstate 70 Highway. Bird had been charged with first-degree murder in the Anderson case, but was found not-guilty.
He was paroled on June 14, 2004, after serving less than 19 years on the charge.
The parole board has turned down Moore’s previous requests for parole in 1988, 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2005.