Lorna Anderson Moore will be paroled from prison.
She has been serving time since September 1985, when she was sentenced in Lyon County for criminal solicitation in the murder of Sandra Bird, the wife of Moore’s boss and alleged lover, former Emporia minister Thomas P. Bird. She later pleaded guilty in Geary County to second-degree murder in the death of her husband, Martin Anderson.
The Kansas Parole Board decided Friday that Moore could be paroled to what is termed an “approved plan,” and then will be released. Her release date will be determined after the plan is approved, according to a parole-board representative. Her earliest release date for this latest parole application was Feb. 1st.
“When she has that approved plan, then she’ll be released,” said Colene Fischli, parole board administrator. “I would say it would be some time within the next couple of weeks or so.”
Fischli said that Moore’s standard conditions of release will include reporting to her parole officer, obeying the law, not having weapons and not using drugs, among other basic conditions.
“But the special conditions are programmatic in nature and therefore cannot be disclosed,” Fischli said.
That release plan will be developed by Moore and her unit team counselor.
According to state law, an inmate under consideration for release by the parole board must be the first to be notified when parole has been granted, Fischli said. Moore received her notification Friday.
Moore’s prison term has extended more than 2 1/2 years beyond that of Bird’s term. Bird paroled in 2004. He had been convicted of criminal solicitation to commit murder in the death of Sandra Bird and in 1985 was convicted of first-degree murder in his wife’s death. He was sentenced to life in prison on the latter charge.
Bird told an Arts & Entertainment network interviewer shortly after his release that he was working as a marriage counselor. While he was in prison, he married Terry Smith, a teacher at a Lutheran elementary school in the Kansas City area.
Moore had married gospel singer Randy Eldridge shortly before entering prison in 1985. They later divorced. She now is married Terry Moore. Terry Moore and three of her four children supported her parole at comment sessions held in December.
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hjcary (anonymous) says...
Why would someone marry someone who pleaded guilty to killing her husband and why would someone go to a marriage counseler that himself did so poorly at marriage that he had an affair and possibly commited murder???
February 3, 2007 at 9:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
hottopics (anonymous) says...
No kidding!
February 3, 2007 at 11:37 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
purplelle (anonymous) says...
AND why would someone marry someone in prison for killing her husband? OR their wife?
February 3, 2007 at 2:34 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
rollingdavidspade (anonymous) says...
those are all good points, but you are forgetting the obvious. why would you want a murdering, cheating pile of you know what back on the streets where your kids play, i think that is the real question.
February 3, 2007 at 9:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
mercyou (anonymous) says...
She's paid her price, let her be. Many other people who have done similar things have never spent a day in jail for their crimes. She did something horrible but she's paid up. Like it or not, that's how our system works.
February 5, 2007 at 11:02 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
browneyes (anonymous) says...
What I would like to know is. Why is Bird out of prison when he was givein a life sentence for first degree murder? He has spent less time in prison then most for way lesser crimes?
February 5, 2007 at 5:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
mercyou (anonymous) says...
Perhaps he had a good lawyer.
February 6, 2007 at 9:39 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
ScottStrohkirch (anonymous) says...
Tom Bird never admitted guilt in his conviction. He is trying to gain a re-trial to have the evidence and witnesses testify again. I don't believe he killed his wife, I believe Lorna and two men with whom she slept around killed Mrs. Bird all because she wanted Tom for herself. To understand the case from his perspective instead of the way the movie "Murder Ordained" showed it, you should go to http://www.daveracer.com and order the book, "Caged Bird" The writer gives some pretty compelling evidence to believe that Tom Bird was framed and never committed the murder of Sandi.
November 9, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
truelovecharlie (anonymous) says...
In Kansas, Life means minimum of 15 years. I lived out by where Sandra was killed when that "accident" happened. I said to myself immediately that something was fishy. People marry other people for all kinds of reasons other than Love; inside and out of prison. I agree; how bad would someones marriage be to have to go to Bird for conseling? Just more things that make you go HUH????
November 10, 2009 at 9:26 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
lildarling (anonymous) says...
It is amazing that you can have a hand in killing two people and serve such a short time in prison.
Good for the one child of hers that doesn't support her getting out of prison.
November 10, 2009 at 10:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )