I-Team: Thousands of hours of investigative work, new technology led to arrest in Aliza Sherman case
CLEVELAND (WJW) — The state attorney general told the FOX 8 I-Team that more than 6,000 hours of work and new technology led agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation to file charges in the murder case of Aliza Sherman.
On Monday, Attorney General Dave Yost said the alleged killer, former divorce attorney Gregory Moore, left an electronic trail.
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'We were able to create a geospatial map with geography and time and it led to the truth that had long been obscured,' Yost said. 'We have been learning as law enforcement how to use these kinds of records. Also, part of it is just the sheer ability to analyze it. The analytical tools in 2025 are very different than they were in 2013.'
Sherman was murdered in March 2013 outside her attorney's office in downtown Cleveland. The case remained unsolved for 12 years.
Yost said that this was a massive case for BCI. He said agents started investigating the case in 2021, at the request of Cleveland police.
On Friday, Moore was secretly indicted by a Cuyahoga County grand jury on several charges, including aggravated murder, conspiracy and kidnapping.
'The purpose of Aliza Sherman's kidnapping was to obstruct Judge Rosemary Grdina Gold from conducting the trial in the divorce case of Sanford Sherman v. Aliza Sherman,' the indictment states. 'The scheme to use telecommunications devices and/or services to kidnap Aliza Sherman began on or about January 3, 2013, when Gregory Moore and at least one other unnamed individual learned that the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office ('CCPO') was investigating Moore's cell phone usage in 2012 when bomb threats were called into courthouses where Moore was scheduled to be in trial. The bomb threats on January 18, 2012, May 30, 2012, July 10, 2012, were part of a pattern of behavior Moore exhibited to delay court appearances he was scheduled to attend in the calendar year of 2012, a pattern that members of Stafford Law Co. were aware of on January 3, 2013, and which continued from January 3 up to and including March 24, 2013. Within a day of when Moore and said other individual(s) learned of the CCPO investigation, Moore obtained a new cellular phone on the Stafford Law Verizon business account and was given control of a 4G Mobile Broadband device ('mobile hot spot') that was also on the Stafford Law Verizon business account by an individual with authority to make such changes to devices on the firm's account. This change to the mobile hot spot facilitated Moore's ability to perform the overt acts in furtherance of the kidnapping of Aliza Sherman in a manner calculated to avoid detection by law enforcement.'
Authorities said the motive for the murder was that Moore was not prepared for Aliza Sherman's divorce trial.
In 2016, the I-Team questioned Moore about the murder, asking if he was prepared to take her divorce case to trial. He declined to answer.
'They had billed $100,000 on this divorce case and the trial date had been moved several times previously and it wasn't likely to be moved again,' Yost said. 'He wasn't ready to go to trial.'
The indictment further notes that either Moore or 'an unknown co-conspirator approached Sherman from E. 12 St., circled behind her, chased her from 55 Erieview to 75 Erieview, and then stabbed her over ten times.'
Moore was arrested near Austin, Texas, on Friday, at a relative's home. He is being held in jail in Texas and is expected to have an extradition hearing soon. A date for that hearing has not yet been set.
Cuyahoga County officials said once he is brought back to Ohio, he will be in court to face to the murder charges.
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Jan Lash, one of Sherman's good friends, said she was stunned to learn an arrest had finally been made.
'Personally, I thought there would have been an arrest right away,' Lash told the I-Team on Monday. 'So I'm looking forward to hearing the truth and getting my questions answered. There's so much that doesn't make sense. That doesn't change the fact my best friend isn't here.'
BCI agents searched Moore's Summit County home on Friday. Yost said agents are still working with the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office on the case.
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