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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Cold-case slayings end with arrests
Felton
Investigators solve
Capehart, Riddick killings
By Ritchie E. Starnes
Editor
Investigators have made arrests in
two unrelated Chowan County cold
case slayings, according to Sheriff
Edenton downtown
chief fired, arrested
Moore charged with
embezzling $15K
By Ritchie E. Starnes
Editor
EDENTON — The for
mer director of Edenton’s
downtown booster group
has been arrested on charg
es she embezzled nearly
$15,000 from the nonprofit
organization.
Jennifer Moore, who was
fired Thursday as execu
tive director of Destination
Downtown Edenton, was
arrested Sunday on two
counts of embezzlement,
Edenton police Chief Jay
Fortenbery said. One count
accuses her of embezzling
$10,000 from Destination
Downtown
Edenton.
The other
accuses
her of em
bezzling
$5,000 from
the group.
Moore
was re- Moore
leased on a
$15,000 un
secured bond, Fortenbery
said.
Moore is . believed to
have written herself a
serjes of unauthorized
checks, Fortenbery said.
The first series of checks
were written in September
2008, three months after
Moore was hired, he said.
See MOORE on Page 2A
CHOWAN HERALD FILE PHOTO
Former Edenton-Chow
an Board of Education
Chairwoman Glorious
Elliott says some of the
most rewarding times
other life have been
spent working with
children.
Dream to teach
fuels service
(In honor of Black Histo
ry Month, the Chowan Her
ald will feature an African
American in each edition
during the month of Febru
ary. Those featured include
local residents that have
made significant contribu
tions to their community.)
By Rebecca Bunch
Siaff Writer
Glorious Elliott once
dreamed of being a teach
er, so it’s not surprising
that much of her service
to the community has re
volved around education.
Elliott has worked for
j, the past 28 years as an area
probation/parole officer,
the last seven as chief of
the district that includes
Chowan and Perquimans
counties and, up until last
Friday, Gates County as
well.
But she said she had
been pondering a second
career once she retires
from her present job, and
thought education would
be a good fit for her.
She had served for years
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as a volunteer with the
Book Buddies program at
D.F. Walker School and eh
joyed the experience. This
mentoring opportunity
offered her the chance to
help various children, one
on one, with their reading
skills and comprehension.
Elliott remained with the
program until a few years
ago when Walker School
relocated to a site next to
White Oak School, and the
older students began read
ing with the younger ones.
It was one. of the ipost re
warding experiences of
her life, she said.
And it reinforced her
dream of being an educa
tor.
A graduate of Shaw
University in Raleigh, El
liott said she completed
all the necessary courses.
But when it came time to
do her student teaching,
Elliott said, she began to
have misgivings.
“The more I thought
about it, the more I felt that
I was getting a bit too old to
run back and forth after a
Jjunch of kids,” she said,
laughing. “I didn’t want
to have to ask them to help
me get back up every time
I satdown on the floor with
them!"
Elliott, now^n her late
See GLORIOUS on Page 3A
Dwayne Goodwin.
Goodwin said recent developments
have led to the solving of the Sept. 29,
2002 fatal shooting of U.S. Army Sgt.
Ronnie Capehart and the Dec. 26,1999
slaying of Norman Lee “Rabbit” Rid
dick. The 28-year-old Capehart was"
apparently a victim of mistaken iden
tity while Riddick, 65, was killed for
money, Goodwin said.
James Felton, 25, formerly of Eliza
beth City is facing murder charges
in the Sept. 29, 2002 fatal shooting of
Capehart, who was on leave from his
Fort Sill, Okla. base and visiting fam
ily in Edenton. Capehart was killed
at the intersection of Haughton and
Poplar Neck roads while driving back
to Edenton from Bailer’s Lounge in
Washington County.
Felton is believed to be the one who
riddled Capehart’s car with bullets,
fatally wounding the soldier in the
head.
“We have been conducting inter
views since the incident occurred
and no one came forward with any in
formation that could lead to an arrest
See SLAYINGS on Page 2A
Snow, ice pelt area
STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH/CHOWAN HERALD
Ernest Sanders, left, and Mary Lilly smile for the camera as her son Austin pats more snow onto the snowman they’re creat
ing outside their Second Street home Sunday afternoon.
STAFF PHOTOS BY BLAIR CURRIE
Left, below left: The
weekend’s wintry mix
blankets the wildlife and
nature setting at Blair
Currie’s yard. Snow and
ice cover a duck decoy,
backyard pond habitat,
and a holly tree.
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STAFF PHOTO BY GARY LEE
Despite Saturday and Sunday’s loss of commerce due to inclement
weather, the snow provided a few worthy images like this wintry white
blanket between the Barker House and the Edenton Bay.