Attorney General Dave Yost, who inherited the case, mentioned that the advancements in analytical tools that led to Moore’s arrest were not available back in 2013 when Sherman was killed.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost recently commented on the arrest of former attorney Gregory Moore for the murder of nurse Aliza Sherman. Yost expressed confidence in the evidence, stating that the public and potential jurors would be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt upon reviewing the facts.
In a significant breakthrough in the cold case of Cleveland Clinic nurse Aliza Sherman’s 2013 murder, her former divorce lawyer Gregory Moore has been indicted. This development marks the culmination of a 12-year investigation that utilized the expertise of various law enforcement agencies and benefited from advancements in forensic technology.
‘He’s trained to be methodical’
On March 24, 2013, the 53-year-old Sherman was fatally stabbed outside Moore’s downtown Cleveland office. Sherman had been in the midst of divorce proceedings and was scheduled to meet Moore that day.
According to the indictment, Moore lured Sherman to his office under false pretenses and orchestrated her murder to prevent her from attending an upcoming court hearing related to her divorce. Paperwork claims Moore manipulated phones and his office ID system to mislead authorities.
“He’s trained to be methodical and to think about the proof of facts,” Yost, who’s also a candidate for Ohio governor in 2026, said of Moore. “The evidence, when it comes out in court, is going to prove out the fact that this was very deliberate and very thoughtful.”
Investigators allege that Moore disconnected his phone from its cellular network and used a mobile hotspot to mask his location on the day of the murder. These actions made it challenging to trace his movements.
The development of law enforcement technology helped the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (which is under Yost’s authority) to put all the moving pieces together after taking over the case in 2021.
“There were anomalies measured in seconds; there was a destruction of evidence,” Yost detailed. “It all pointed toward what actually happened. This wouldn’t have been something that would have been obvious back at the time of the crime, because the analytical tools didn’t exist to detect those patterns.”
The arrest
Moore was arrested last Friday in Round Rock, Texas, by U.S. Marshals. He faces multiple charges, including aggravated murder, conspiracy, kidnapping, and six counts of murder. An extradition hearing is scheduled for May 14.
Yost says having Moore behind bars is a big relief for law enforcement.
“Just because time has gone by since a heinous killing doesn’t mean that people have forgotten or it’s time to move on. These cases haunt people in law enforcement,” Yost explained. “This is a big day for justice, and I know that everybody that worked on the case is celebrating that we finally got to closure.”
When asked for a timeline about the potential trial and sentencing, Yost said Moore’s defense team could dictate what happens next.
“This will go through a normal murder case process. There will be pretrial hearings about evidence and discovery and ultimately it will be presented to a jury,” Yost added. “I would expect that it may take many months or a year to get to trial. That’ll be a little bit in the hands of the defendant.”
