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11-11-2009 , 03:52 AM
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Paul Ferrell was a rookie deputy sheriff who had only been on the force for a few months at the time of his arrest for Ford’s murder. He was also dating a woman who had a young son and the couple was discussing marriage. Ferrell's girlfriend was unaware that Ferrell was also dating Cathy Ford, a 19 year old waitress who worked at her parents’ restaurant in Gorman, Maryland. Likewise, Cathy Ford's boyfriend, Darvin Moon, was unaware that Cathy was dating Ferrell.

On the afternoon of February 17, 1988, Cathy Ford left her parents’ restaurant. Cathy told her mother that she had received a phone call from a friend who told her that the local police department was going to be conducting stings to crack down on bars and restaurants serving alcohol to minors. Cathy left the restaurant in her Ford Bronco presumably to meet with the caller. She never returned. That same evening, Paul Ferrell went to a bowling alley to meet with some friends. When he arrived at the bowling alley, the manager informed Ferrell that a young woman had called the bowling alley repeatedly asking if he was there. The woman wouldn't leave her name but did leave a phone number. Ferrell claims he called the number and spoke with Cathy. He said she sounded distressed and that her speech was slurred. She wanted to meet Ferrell at his trailer. He declined but suggested they meet in a local high school parking lot instead. Ferrell claims Cathy agreed to the meeting but never arrived. Cathy's parents reported her missing and a search began.

In the days after Cathy's disappearance, Ferrell claims he made a gruesome discovery on his property. He says he found Cathy’s burned out Bronco in the woods about 75 yards behind his trailer. Fearing that Cathy’s body may be inside, and that he might be blamed for her murder, Ferrell did not report the discovery to anyone. He then hand wrote an anonymous letter to Cathy’s parents. In the letter, he wrote that Cathy had intentionally run away. He also included $200 cash to help cover the cost of the missing Bronco. Ferrell would later deny that he wrote the letter, but changed his story after an FBI handwriting expert testified that the writing was indeed Ferrell’s. A few weeks after the letter was received by Cathy’s parents, Darvin Moon found the burned Bronco behind Ferrell’s trailer and notified authorities.

The police obtained a search warrant and began a vigorous and comprehensive search of Ferrell’s property. Investigators found blood stains on the ceiling of the trailer and under a newly laid carpet. The blood could not be positively linked to Cathy Ford, but testing showed it did belong to a female and was consistent with blood from other members of Cathy Ford’s family.

At Ferrell’s trial, several witnesses testified against Ferrell. One of his neighbors, Kimberly Sue Nelson, testified that she had heard a female scream and a gunshot originate from Ferrell’s trailer on the day Cathy Ford disappeared.

Another witness, Tamela Kitzmiller, claimed she received an obscene phone call from Ferrell. The prosecution presented evidence that Ferrell had a bizarre habit of calling local bookstores and libraries pretending to be a doctor and asking the female clerks to read sexually explicit passages from medical books. There were at least 400 documented incidents of these phone calls. The prosecution used this testimony to paint Ferrell as a pervert who lived in a fantasy world.

An FBI profiler who interviewed Ferrell gave testimony that he noticed “signs of guilt” in Ferrell’s body language while the two were discussing a hypothetical murder scenario involving Cathy Ford.

Ferrell was convicted of kidnapping, murder, and arson and sentenced to life in prison. He immediately appealed the conviction and has always maintained his innocence.

So, was Ferrell innocent? Here are some issues raised by the defense...

* Ferrell admitted that he had been the first to find Cathy’s Ford Bronco and that he had also been the author of the anonymous letter, but now says he was scared and that these were just “stupid mistakes”.

* Ferrell’s attorneys pointed out that the blood could not be conclusively linked to Cathy Ford. In addition, the trailer was several years old and Ferrell was not the first tenant to occupy the trailer.

* Kimberly Sue Nelson would later retract her statements about the shot and screams she allegedly heard on the day that Cathy Ford disappeared. She claimed that the prosecution prepared a type written statement of her testimony and instructed her to sign it. She didn’t read the statement before signing but now says that that there are inconsistencies. She said she told the police that she did not know the exact date she heard the shot, and that gunshots were pretty common in that area. She also said that prosecutors badgered her saying that Ferrell was a killer and might come after her or her children if she didn’t testify against him.

* Tamela Kitzmiller would also recant her testimony about the crank phone calls and has claimed it was coerced. She said the police told her that they knew Ferrell was a “sicko” and that he was responsible for other unsolved murders, including some in Yellowstone Park.

Investigators deny making such statements to both witnesses.

Ferrell also admits to making some sex phone calls but says it irrelevant. He says that the calls were harmless, and that he made them because he couldn’t afford a credit card to call actual phone sex lines.

* Ferrell’s attorneys claim that the testimony about Ferrell’s demeanor as given by the FBI profiler is subjective and should not have been allowed in court in the first place.

* Finally, a year after Ferrell’s conviction, there was one reported sighting of Cathy Ford. Two residents of Gorman who knew Ford prior to her disappearance claim they saw her waitressing at a restaurant in Tennessee. The witnesses stated that the woman appeared to recognize them too, and had another waitress ask the couple where they were from. When the waitress relayed the information back to the mystery woman, she fled the restaurant. According to Robert Stack, the police did NOT investigate this sighting. However, Ford’s brother was interviewed on FA and stated that the family believed that Cathy was dead.

As an interesting footnote, Ferrell was paroled in 2005. FA mentioned he would be eligible for parole in 2002.

He seemed pretty guilty to me. Any thoughts?

EDIT: To elaborate on a few things - I was disappointed that FA did not present any alternate scenarios to explain the evidence against Ferrell, or more specifically, who may have planted it (assuming he was framed). While the sighting of Cathy after her "death" does cast some doubt on the "official version", I find it difficult to take the sighting seriously. It is also difficult to take the whole "Cathy Ford lives" theory seriously without some more background. Why would Cathy Ford suddenly and abruptly vanish leaving her burned out car on her lover's property and leaving him holding the bag at the same time? Not once did the show touch on other suspects or attempt to explain Cathy's behavior here. I thought that aspect was pretty weak. There have been numerous cases on Unsolved Mysteries where a witness will appear on the show and swear up and down that they saw a missing person alive and well. Then we get an "update" saying that the person's body was found and they have been dead since the day they disappeared. I can't help but wonder if the same thing is going on here. Not to mention members of Ford's family think she is dead, and these people typically hold out hope the longest.

I wonder if FA's selection of cases to had anything to do with it's cancellation. If they were all this weak, and the defendants so blatantly guilty as I feel that Ferrell was, it's no wonder the show wasn't taken seriously.
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11-11-2009 , 03:58 AM
their talking about a different darvin moon...
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11-11-2009 , 03:58 AM
Cliffs (presuming its the same Darvin Moon):

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Likewise, Cathy Ford's boyfriend, Darvin Moon, was unaware that Cathy was dating Ferrell.
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A few weeks after the letter was received by Cathy’s parents, Darvin Moon found the burned Bronco behind Ferrell’s trailer and notified authorities.
Sounds like a ****ty chapter in the guys life. Good to see things are looking up these days.
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11-11-2009 , 04:00 AM
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their talking about a different darvin moon...
There must be tons of Darvin Moon's in Maryland. I'm sure if you Google Gorman, MD you will find it right next to Darvin's hometown.
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11-11-2009 , 04:02 AM
From the Twitter of Washington Post reporter blog-shadowing Darvin Moon (@jfdulac) comes a story from the Baltimore City Paper, detailing Darvin’s numerous past transgressions over the past few years. It includes him pleading guilty and receiving probation for forgery and theft, along with three counts of passing bad checks. Court records also show Moon posting bail for others on two occasions, in 2002 for a man who plead guilty to drug dealing and is serving a 10-year sentence, and once for an apparent relative on assault charges.

But it is Moon’s record of civil judgments against him that may come into play in the future, given the kitties he’s been winning in Vegas. Court records show liens filed against Moon for nearly $20,000 owed to City National Bank of West Virginia, a little over $1,000 owed to Miners and Merchants Bank, nearly $13,000 owed to Pasadena Receivables, and about $1,000 owned to Southern Auto Supply in Moon’s own community of Mountain Lake Park, near Oakland in Western Maryland.

His creditors, no doubt, will be much obliged to share in his recent winnings.
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11-11-2009 , 04:03 AM
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From the Twitter of Washington Post reporter blog-shadowing Darvin Moon (@jfdulac) comes a story from the Baltimore City Paper, detailing Darvin’s numerous past transgressions over the past few years. It includes him pleading guilty and receiving probation for forgery and theft, along with three counts of passing bad checks. Court records also show Moon posting bail for others on two occasions, in 2002 for a man who plead guilty to drug dealing and is serving a 10-year sentence, and once for an apparent relative on assault charges.

But it is Moon’s record of civil judgments against him that may come into play in the future, given the kitties he’s been winning in Vegas. Court records show liens filed against Moon for nearly $20,000 owed to City National Bank of West Virginia, a little over $1,000 owed to Miners and Merchants Bank, nearly $13,000 owed to Pasadena Receivables, and about $1,000 owned to Southern Auto Supply in Moon’s own community of Mountain Lake Park, near Oakland in Western Maryland.

His creditors, no doubt, will be much obliged to share in his recent winnings.
Sounds like their 'share' of his recent winnings amount to piss in a bucket.

Chalk me up in the camp of people who think it's ******ed that someone can't play in a poker tournament without some ****** reporter doing background checks on them and publishing their little "SHOCKING EXPOSE! DARVIN MOON! BAD CHECKS! BAIL! PROBATION! FILM AT 11!!!!"

Guys like Moon usually don't live the sterilized sort of life that a lot of rat-racers have convinced themselves is the 'right way'. I like guys like him, chiefly for that reason.
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11-11-2009 , 04:05 AM
obv that there is only one darvin moon in the world
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11-11-2009 , 04:15 AM
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Chalk me up in the camp of people who think it's ******ed that someone can't play in a poker tournament without some ****** reporter doing background checks on them and publishing their little "SHOCKING EXPOSE! DARVIN MOON! BAD CHECKS! BAIL! PROBATION! FILM AT 11!!!!"

Guys like Moon usually don't live the sterilized sort of life that a lot of rat-racers have convinced themselves is the 'right way'. I like guys like him, chiefly for that reason.
Yes, freedom of the press is ridiculous. How dare some journalist do his job and investigate people & events. Would be better for everyone if reporters only wrote about happy things and not dwell on pesky facts that may or may not cloud up someone's reputation as a good ol' boy.
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11-11-2009 , 04:20 AM
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Yes, freedom of the press is ridiculous. How dare some journalist do his job and investigate people & events. Would be better for everyone if reporters only wrote about happy things and not dwell on pesky facts that may or may not cloud up someone's reputation as a good ol' boy.
Because what I was obviously saying is that the reporter should be forbidden from saying that...

Just because someone is free to do something doesn't mean that what they freely choose to do is magically enriched with merit. This is pointless, salacious tabloid bull**** at it's dumbest.

While we're free to follow people around and dig up dirt just because they happen to fall in the public eye, it doesn't mean it's necessarily the right thing to do, especially for a guy like this.

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11-11-2009 , 04:27 AM
Are we sure every single one of these things is the same Darvin Moon?


Also we do have freedom of the press but we also have libel.







We also have tabloids which at times may print libelous things ... but which also may print things .... but also I don't give a damn and I really wish less people cared about the tabloids.
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11-11-2009 , 04:28 AM
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Because what I was obviously saying is that the reporter should be forbidden from saying that...
Because what the reporter was obviously saying is "SHOCKING EXPOSE! DARVIN MOON! BAD CHECKS! BAIL! PROBATION! FILM AT 11!!!!"

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11-12-2009 , 02:32 AM
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Are we sure every single one of these things is the same Darvin Moon?


Also we do have freedom of the press but we also have libel.

We also have tabloids which at times may print libelous things ... but which also may print things .... but also I don't give a damn and I really wish less people cared about the tabloids.
We are being told that it's THE Darvin Moon by the reporter. Presumably he has verified what he has written.
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11-12-2009 , 02:40 AM
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11-12-2009 , 03:07 AM
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Because what the reporter was obviously saying is "SHOCKING EXPOSE! DARVIN MOON! BAD CHECKS! BAIL! PROBATION! FILM AT 11!!!!"
Yeah. Pretty much.

I mean, you're either completely ******ed and have the reading comprehension of a 4 year old, or you're doing that Rain Man hyper-literal thing- since the reporter didn't LITERALLY say "SHOCKING EXPOSE", you feel that you have some sort of counter-position to my making use of illustrative conversational organics. Even though the tenor and theme of what he was saying was basically "EXPOSE! BAD CHECKS! BAIL!", since he didn't *literally say* precisely those very words, well, that negates the point I was making.

I sure hope you're at least got a freakish ability to count fallen matchsticks as a consolation prize. It would kinda suck to be like that.
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11-12-2009 , 03:20 AM
I live one county over from Moon and play some of the same local places he does...It's the same one I believe.

Edit: I don't know if it mentions it in the OP, but I believe Ford was Moon's girlfriend at the time of her disappearance.

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11-12-2009 , 03:23 AM
Wow, a small businessman owes $35k to a bunch of random *******s.

STOP THE PRESSES!!!111!!!!1!1!!11!!!!1
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11-12-2009 , 03:33 AM
- bit puzzled why he lied about the QQ
- not accepting sponsorship buys him a lot of brownie-points in my book. I've been thinking about that myself and I never understood why 95% of the guys look like a walking (or rather sitting) advert. They must either pay REAL good (like paying your entry-fee and more good), or people are real greedy...
- sounds like the law-related stuff isn't THAT significant... I mean he isn't a lawer, executive or whatever... He's a logger...
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03-25-2011 , 08:55 PM
The girl that went missing ( Cathy Ford ) was my babysitter .... To answer the question is it the same Darvin Moon .... Yes it is the same Darvin Moon and he also lives right down the raod from me ... Sadly Cathy's body has never been found ... And on a happy note Obviously Darvin is in a better place in his life ....
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03-25-2011 , 10:47 PM
Any chance he chose to turn down sponsorships so that he didn't remain in the spolight post-WSOP, giving the media more chances to dig into his past and bring to light the fact that he was dating a girl that went missing and maybe his wife never knew such info?
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03-25-2011 , 11:04 PM
well at least now darvin is ballin super hard with his logs and cash, life goes on, sucks for him though at that time I guess... his millions should cheer him up
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03-25-2011 , 11:18 PM
I'm really glad Moon is on the case. I didn't bother reading the OP, because I know the case is in safe hands.
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03-25-2011 , 11:24 PM
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I sure hope you're at least got a freakish ability to count fallen matchsticks as a consolation prize.

lmao
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03-25-2011 , 11:31 PM
Who the hell is "Darwin" Moon?
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03-25-2011 , 11:43 PM
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The girl that went missing ( Cathy Ford ) was my babysitter .... To answer the question is it the same Darvin Moon .... Yes it is the same Darvin Moon and he also lives right down the raod from me ... Sadly Cathy's body has never been found ... And on a happy note Obviously Darvin is in a better place in his life ....
is above poster that bumped the thread named "csan" actually cathy ford, or the ghost of cathy ford?
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03-25-2011 , 11:50 PM
OP takes down the 2011 Darwin award.
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