(no audio) (cursor clicks) (no audio) (no audio) - [Reporter] Matt, what do you have to say to the family? (bird chirping) Is there anything you can say to that to us? - They're making a mistake. It's a mistake. - [Reporter] Why? Why is it a mistake? Did you kill her? - No. - [Reporter] What happened? - [Officer] Turn around. Go ahead and sit down. You in? All right. (suspenseful music) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) ♪ Every Sunday ♪ ♪ Every Sunday ♪ ♪ Every Sunday ♪ ♪ Baby ♪ ♪ Every Sunday ♪ ♪ Every Sunday ♪ ♪ Every Sunday ♪ ♪ Baby ♪ (gentle music) (gentle music continues) - [Narrator] 52-year-old Emily Noble was a resident of Westerville, Ohio. Her sister described her as a selfless, independent, and courageous woman. One of her favorite hobbies was walking through local parks to forage and photograph nature. 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Get up to 40% off Ekster wallets this Christmas when you use my link, shop.ekster.com/thecrimeatlas or discount code, THECRIMEATLAS. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some Christmas shopping to do. (no audio) 50-year-old Matheau Moore, who goes by Matt, was a Las Vegas, Nevada resident. He had been married once before to a woman by the name of Lisa Pedersen. Together, Matt and Lisa had two children, one of whom died at a young age from a terminal illness. In an interview with WBNS-TV, Lisa characterized their marriage as up and down, but mostly up. However, she claimed they had separated three months into marriage and were living apart. She described an incident on New Year's day of 2001, in which, for unknown reasons, Matt put his hands around her neck and began to choke her. Lisa was pregnant at the time. Asked if she feared for her life at that moment, she replied, "Yes." She then said it never happened again, and a subsequent court case was dismissed. Five years later, their marriage dissolved. They have since kept in touch, and Matt has maintained a tattoo on his left wrist that reads "Pedersen." Matt eventually moved on and met Emily on a dating website. He relocated to Ohio to be with her, and they married in August 2018. Matt, Emily, and his 17-year-old son, Joey, lived in a condo owned by Emily. She worked for the State of Ohio in the Medicaid office. Although he struggled to maintain employment, he did receive a substantial inheritance after his mother passed away. According to court records, he placed all his inheritance money into their joint checking account. (no audio) By the year 2019, Emily had been managing multiple stressors in her life. She was described by a close friend as aggravated and frustrated. Her stepson, Joey, had been recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, and she had been coping with his mental illness. Additionally, she was frustrated with Matt's habitual drinking and there were ongoing marital problems. She felt she needed to reset, so she contacted her close friend, Brandy. They agreed to a mini-vacation in the summer of 2019, and Emily arranged a five-day stay at the Chalet in Hocking Hills. Unfortunately, their mini-vacation was cut short after Emily received a text message from Matt one day into their vacation. The text message read, "Joey is gone, he is dead, he hung himself." She and Brandy immediately drove the many hours back home before Brandy was dropped off at a friend's house. Emily arrived home to learn Matt's son was discovered hanging in an area park. From that point forward, the relationship between Emily and Matt slowly deteriorated. However, Matt and Emily felt they had made enough progress to celebrate her 52nd birthday on Sunday, May 24th, 2020. After a birthday dinner, the couple went to several bars in the downtown area before returning home. Matt reported they were intimate and went to bed shortly after returning that evening. At some point in the early hours of Monday the 25th, Matt claimed he got up to use the bathroom but decided not to return to the bed they shared to avoid waking Emily up. Instead, Matt slept in a guest room. It was the following morning that he realized Emily was missing. Matt said he knew something was wrong when he found Emily's car keys, wallet, and phone in the house but there was no sign of Emily. Her car was still parked in the driveway. So Matt contacted some of her friends to see if they'd heard from her. He told them he assumed she went foraging that morning as she regularly did. Still, he never saw her leave because he switched bedrooms during the night. Some friends doubted his explanation as they felt it made little sense for her to leave the house without water or her cell phone. This would be unlike her, considering she loved to take pictures when she foraged and post them on social media. Her friends suggested that he contact the police. So, just before 6:00 p.m. on Monday, Matt called 911 to report his wife missing. - [Matt] Hi, my name is Matt Moore. Can you hear me? - Barely. Matt, you said? - Matt Moore. The address is 46 Abbeycross Lane in Westerville. - Okay. - My wife, Emily Noble, my wife, has been missing all day. Um.... Her purse is here with her ID, her car is here with her car keys, and her phone's here. - [Operator] Okay. Okay. - [Matt] I don't know what to do. I've been advised to call you. It's very uncharacteristic for her to do this. - [Operator] Okay. And 46 Abbeycross Lane is where she's missing from? - Yes. - All right. And you said your wife? - [Matt] My wife. - [Operator] And when's the last time you saw her? - [Matt] Last night. (typing) - [Operator] How old is she? - She just turned 52- - 52? - [Matt] Yesterday, yeah. - [Male Voice] What's going on there, Sven? (typing) - [Operator] Did you guys have any kind of fight or anything or what? - Nope. Well, no, no. - No? Okay. Has she been depressed? - [Matt] No, we had a great day yesterday for her birthday, and we went out and celebrated the Memorial Day. Went out to a couple of bars downtown and uptown. Then we went home. I got up this morning and she wasn't there, which is not abnormal. But she'd usually come home and go for a walk. This is very, very unusual for her to not be in contact with me. Her phone is here. She always has her phone with her. - [Officer] This is simply me looking inside for her. - [Operator] What's her name? - [Matt] Emily Noble. - [Operator] N-O-B-L-E? - [Matt] Yes. - [Operator] Okay, so did you guys go to bed last night, and then you just woke up and she was gone? - [Matt] We went to bed. I get up in the middle of the night 'cause I have to pee - Hm mm? - 'cause I'm old. And I don't really know, I can't tell you exactly what time I woke up but I ended up just going to sleep in another room so I don't wake her up, right? I woke up late today. At the end of the morning which is unusual. And I got up, we were supposed to go to a picnic today. And she wasn't here. Wasn't here. And she hasn't been home since. - [Operator] She have any friends that she may be with that would have picked her up or? - [Matt] The- that, I can't see that happening. 'Cause I don't know why she wouldn't leave with her ID and her phone. She has a really good friend, her best friend. I just talked to her, she was the first person I called, I just called her. - [Operator] Okay, and she hasn't heard from her? - [Matt] She hasn't heard from her and she suggested I should call you. - [Operator] Okay. Okay, so when you woke up in the middle of the night, though, she was still there? - [Matt] Umm, it, it- I don't know. Imma say, "Yes." Everything was so normal, you know? - [Operator] Okay. - [Matt] The only normal thing was that I got up this morning before her, which isn't, um, normal but she'd walk, go foraging, just, uh... Well, she just never came back and then I started looking around and I noticed that her phone was still here, which was super unusual. Her car was here. - And her ID? - And her ID. Her ID is still here. - [Operator] Okay, we have an officer headed there to talk to you or to give you a call to see how they want to proceed with this, okay? - [Matt] Okay. - [Operator] You're there now, right? 46 Abbeycross Lane? - Yes. - Okay. All right, thank you. - Okay, bye. - Bye. (no audio) (nature sounds) (knuckles rapping) (birds chirping) - Hey. - Hey, how you doing? - All right, my wife is missing. - [Officer Hollis] This her? - Yeah. - That's your wife? - No, no. - Oh, okay. - [Celeste] Officer, hi, I'm her friend. - You looked just like her for like a second. I was like, "Oh my God, there she is." - Okay. - Matt Moore. - [Officer Hollis] Matt, I'm Officer Hollis. Hello. - Hi. - Celeste. (Celeste responding softly) - [Officer Hollis] Okay, so what's going on? - She's uncharacteristically missing. - [Officer Hollis] Okay. - Just, I don't, her wallet's here. Here's her wallet and ID. Some money, phone's here, car is in the garage. And I've been up since 10, phoning. - [Officer Hollis] 10 AM today? - Probably. Guessing more or less, a little bit, a little later than I usually sleep and she just hasn't been here. I sleep in this room. I get up in the middle of the night sometimes, go to the bathroom and I don't go back there because I don't wanna wake her up, but I (inaudible) sleep in there. I got up, called at least four times. Phoned find my phone and it said she was here, but no. Maybe she's in the other room. Eventually I got up, I walked around. - [Officer Hollis] What made you, you lost me a little bit, you said you got up, went to the restroom, and you went back to this room? - Yeah. - And then you looked on your phone to see if she was here? - This morning, yeah. Last night I didn't. - [Officer Hollis] Okay. - 'Cause my prostate, I don't know if you've had that, it's a pee battle. - No. - I get up a few times. Pee, so I get back into bed with her, so I wake her up, I just fall asleep in this bed. - [Officer Hollis] Did you go to sleep with her- - Prior to that? Yes. - Okay. Did you call her? I called, she's her best friend and I just called her right now like I've been waiting around all day for her to call, I called her. We were supposed to be at a party today, a picnic. - What time was that? (Matt speaks faintly) What time was the picnic with her? - She didn't tell me, it was still far away, we got some time, she didn't tell me when it was going to start, I was just waiting for her to tell me when we should go, I texted her twice to say, we're going to the party. She didn't get back to me. So... - [Officer Hollis] Okay. - I called that guy and I said she- - [Officer Hollis] What guy? The guy who's having the party. - [Officer Hollis] Oh, is this a friend? Do you know this guy? - I don't know him. It's an old friend of hers that she just connected with on Facebook. He invited her to a Memorial Day party. - Okay. - So I texted him, he said he hadn't seen her all day. - [Officer Hollis] Okay, so you got his phone number through Facebook, is that how you got it? - She got, she arranged it. I got her phone. And so looking through her, little investigating, looked through it and I saw that she had called some, rang some guy's number, some number. And I looked it up on Facebook and I saw his face. She had showed me the picture of like, what he looked like and texted it. - Okay. - She's not over there. - [Officer Hollis] Okay, and when was the last time you seen her? - Uh, I came over Friday. (police radio buzzing) Spent some time together. - Here? - Yeah. - Okay. Okay. - On Friday night. Okay. Yeah. Uh huh. - [Officer Hollis] And that was the last time you seen or talked to her? - She texted me Friday after I got home and then I texted her yesterday to wish her a happy birthday. Yeah, that was. - [Officer Hollis] Did she respond? - She responded with a happy emoji, but then let me see here what she said. This is her... - So yeah, it was six ... yesterday at six, twenty-six was the last time. - [Officer Hollis] And what did she say? - Well, I just said, "Happy birthday." - Uh huh? - And she said, - It was an emoji? - Emojis. - [Officer Hollis] And that was it? - Yeah. - Okay. Okay. - She forages, she goes for walks and she picks wild edibles, that's kind of her hobby. She goes around here, it's a real short walk, it's 15 minutes at the most. I thought, at the time I was like, maybe she's just out doing that, but. - [Officer Hollis] And is that something you guys do together? - Sometimes. - So you would know where we could look if we need to go down there. - Yeah, it's public, it's on a bike trail, I mean, I don't know why she would stop there. - The big, the bridge. So she's goes on this grass side and there's a lot of wild plants and actually we walked over there Friday. So I kinda know where it's at. And that's why I came over. To walk it and see if something happened to her. - But her not bringing her phone is very odd. She's very, very smart. - Extremely careful. - She's careful. She's very, very smart, careful person. She does go lots in there, just, She'd never leave the house without all that stuff. - The only thing I can think of is she forgot her phone, and she went for a walk, and something happened to her. - [Officer Hollis] But you haven't seen her since 10 o'clock? - I honestly definitely, we were together last night. We spent the day, came home, slept together in her- our bed. I got up, I'm guessing- It was early. Normally, like, 3 before I have to get up and go to the bathroom. last night was like, I'm saying 12:30, 1:00 got up, went to the bathroom, went into this room, fell back asleep, took a while to get back to sleep, and I woke up late, like 10:30, which is unusual. Usually get up around six, and I got up and she was not here. She was not here. - [Officer Hollis] Okay, you said you guys went to celebrate her birthday? - Yeah. - Tell me about that. - We went out to outside of town. It's a spring, a water spring, it's a town about an hour and 20 minutes southeast of here, I can show you on my phone, collected some water, halfway back we stopped, and had a picnic. Collected edibles, it's our hobby, got back in the car, came here decided to go down to Uptown, we heard a new store opened up. We wanted to call that, went to Baking House, went to Jimmy D's, we came home. Went to sleep. - [Officer Hollis] Okay. There's gonna be another cruiser coming here if you don't mind talking with him. Just give him some information before you go and take off and look at the path for me. That would be very helpful to me. And then I'm gonna talk to you inside here, okay? So 50 to 74. How far are you? (radio beeping) - [Narrator] Officer Hollis entered the condo and continued questioning Matt as they walked around. I will link the rest of the body cam footage in this video's description section. After speaking with Matt, Officer Hollis learned the neighbor claimed to have seen Emily going for a walk between 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM that morning. Police canvassed the neighborhood and the wooded area northeast of her condo without luck. Two days later, Matt was called into the Westerville police station for questioning. (door opening) - Sorry man, thank you. Sorry for keeping you. - That's all right, I can appreciate that. - [Officer] So now, like I told you when we were out there, said you were not under arrest, you weren't handcuffed coming in, is that correct? - Correct. - Okay. And that door doesn't lock. This is a voluntary interview. Okay? Obviously, we need to do the best we can to get the full story. So we can find your wife and you can get back to normal. Obviously part of that involves talking with you. So you know again, this is a voluntary thing. You know, I told you out there, I haven't lied to you and I'm not gonna start now. - We couldn't have done this at my house? - [Officer] No, this part we can't. - Because it's not voluntary. - [Officer] No, it's completely voluntary. - And I can leave if I want to. - [Officer] Yeah. - Okay. I don't want to, I'm just- - Yeah, try that door right now. - At some point could we like, I wanna help you, I wanna get this going 'cause I didn't do it and I want you to find whatever the hell happened to her. I want that to happen. - I don't mean to insult you, but you can read English, correct? - Yes. - Okay. I have to ask that because I've had people before that- - I can read. - And when I go over rights waivers later on, they magically can't read English. - I can read. - So again, I don't mean to insult you. So it says, before we ask any questions, you must understand your rights. Do you understand that part? - Yes. - You have the right to remain silent. Is it locked? (person muttering softly) That's weird. - These are my Miranda warnings. - Yeah. - So I'm being arrested? - You're not being arrested. - So why am I being read my Miranda warnings? - Because it is the standard protocol that I do just to make sure that we are on the same page with everything, you know, I told you honesty. I gotta, be fully aware of everything. Like I told you, you're not being arrested. - Was after my son died, there was tension, stress. She dealt with it differently than I did and so there was things that were said, but... This whole Corona thing really.... - Oh, yeah. - We became really super select. We knew each other. This thing. Guys, I did not hurt my wife. I did not hurt my wife. I loved her. Was there, uh, times, when she would kind of say, You know, "I'm not afraid to die?" This thing... I mean, don't they all kind of be like that? You know? Sort of nothing that I would ever call anybody, go, "My wife's gonna hurt herself." Nothing. - And why would you think she would hurt herself? I mean, the possibility? - Because she was not, not that she ever would, I'm just saying she was emotional. She'd get emotional. She was very, an emotional person. And she would say things like, "And then when Joseph died..." It was like this thing where she would be like, "Well I, if I was, I would do it if I needed to do it," you know? - Literally two weeks ago she, there was one person that she kind of confided in through text messages and so forth- - Is that something that- - And she said that you, She said, "Matt picked another fight with me last night." This was two weeks ago. You know? And then they kind of went on to talk about it a little bit. Um, early May, we're talking this month. "Matt and I are talking, we're friendly, but it's not the kind of relationship I want." (papers rustling) In April, a month ago. "Please don't talk about Matt and I on love." She said, same day, "He hasn't been the same since Joe." Which I understand that's not a criticism. I can completely get that. - Certainly. - Hm mm. That's (inaudible) - And at the same time she said, "I think Matt is mentally ill." And then the same day, "We aren't talking." Referenced your relationship: "We're not talking." And, um, "So I don't want to talk about him." "I'd rather focus on the future." "By the way, Matt got really drunk last-" This was February. "By the way, Matt got really drunk last night, said some things I don't think he can take back." "I'm fine, I'm pretty sure we are not going to stay together." - What you mean to say? - I mean we would argue about things, but I didn't think that it was that- - What was it that she said? - I, I... She's mad, that you didn't tell us? - And she focused on one thing here. "Matt picked a fight again," this is April. This is barely a month ago. - She would accuse me of picking fights. - Okay. But this was, this was a month ago, okay? - (stammering) - This is heavy. "Matt picked a fight with me yesterday and said some awful things." "I'm not wearing my wedding ring." - Hm mm? - That doesn't sound like somebody who's in a happy relationship. If I found out that my wife texted that to somebody a month ago... - I get it. I don't... I'm not gonna say that that those things, of course, there wasn't a rollercoaster relationship but it wasn't like anything that was anything that was, anything that you would think that someone would hurt someone. Just wouldn't. - I'm not- I'm just addressing the fact you've just told me that the last six months have been less than romantic? - Not- yes. - Okay. - There have been levels of that. - Okay? - And you can check the other texts and they are super, "I love you" so I'm gonna send- - I saw them. I saw them. - There aren't- - It's very much up and down. - That whole area of the relationship, That would go away. That would really go away. - Okay, so will you acknowledge that that's some pretty heavy shit when your wife said, "I took off my wedding ring?" "I don't think we're gonna stay together." - Hm mm, it's not as heavy as you think it is. - You don't think that, You don't think that's- - Nah. You might think it is but it's not. She would be like that at times because of her anger issues. It always swung back. We're always, it just wasn't- - Well why wouldn't you have said that whenever they asked how the relationship, I mean- - I didn't even remember that because it's not in my mindset. The good times have been so good- - Okay, but those, but you know- - You guys are really gonna try to- - I'm not trying to do anything. I'm reading your wife's words. - That's okay! - And I'm like- - Should we get- - I understand that. I understand that. Just, just let me, I'm not saying anything. I'm saying when you come in and say, "We had a great relationship." Told Officer Hollis, "We had a great marriage, no problems whatsoever." And then I read this, it's going back six months and you text her on New Year's Eve and say, "If you want a divorce and want me to move out, fine." I mean these are all things I just printed off, which have very, they aren't the usual fight, like, "I'm pissed at you, fuck off." "I don't wanna talk to you tonight." "Just leave me alone for...." It's, "Go golfing 'cause I don't wanna see you right now." "I wanna be alone." That's... - Okay- - you know. - You may think that's pretty, that's- - It's not even as heavy as you think it is. From out- looking at it from the outside I can see why someone would think that. But it's not. It's just the level of anger from... I'm not gonna say it's her fault. I had my issues with my son. I would get angry too. We would fall back in love the next day. It was just the thing that we would do. And it wasn't, I don't want- and when you say, "Hey, how was the last six months?" The last six months has been really nice, man. I mean, was there a time we had a night where I said some bad things and she took her wedding ring off at home, all of that? - A month- - Look, it happened but I mean I'm not gonna... I don't know how to explain to you. - Do you remember that happening though? - I remember her, I think taking her wedding off, but it wasn't, didn't last. But... This thing's been on forever. - When was the last argument you and her got into screaming match? - There was never really a screaming match. It was more just when- - When was the last argument slash loud conversation? - I couldn't remember. I couldn't tell you. I'd be guessing. - Because your neighbors are out there saying it was in the last two weeks. Would that be correct? - I dunno, and there there's screaming? We were screaming at each other? I have neighbors saying we were screaming at each other, that they could hear. I dunno, we weren't. She was saying that to her friend? I mean that's surprising to me cause I wasn't like, you know, I mean at times you would say, "Hey, I don't wanna be married to you anymore." But it doesn't go down the lines that I'm sitting in a police station right now being, being like, accused, going after me. - We just have to make sure we've got that sorted. - Trust me as a man to man, that what was going on, there was nothing out of, there was nothing to be worried about. There wasn't anything. - So can I change course now? So it was Officer Hollis, [I keep wanting to think it's Ciriglio], is Officer Hollis came out on Monday to take the report. - Correct?. That's about right. - I just need to know if you did it, and there's nothing wrong with it. - I don't know, I can't, I dunno. - Matt, this was two days ago? - I know... - You can't remember if she was on her phone- - Which phone I used- - Did you dial her, did you think to yourself, and this would make perfect sense to say, "Look, I don't know, I don't know her friends," which we know. So I'm gonna get on, but you made the comment, "I would like to post things to her account." That's why you wanted her phone back. So it's been through your mind. It would make perfect sense. I'm gonna go on her Facebook account and post "Hey, has anyone seen Emily? This is her husband." "I can't find her, somebody-" - I must have- I can't recall, but I must have. - You don't remember that? It was two days ago. - I don't really know. I don't know if it was me, that got on. I must have. I- - Was someone else using her phone? - No. - So the phone stayed at the house the whole time? You didn't like hand it out to a cousin or walking down the street? Some Joe Stranger or anything else like that? Okay, so if anything was posted on her account, have you ever accessed her Facebook from your phone? - I can't. So I've never done it, I can't access, I've tried to post stuff onto her page from my phone, but it doesn't, like- - But you can't, you didn't ask her on her Facebook. - I can do it from her phone. I can do it, yeah. Yeah, just get on her phone, go to Facebook. And I'm sure I did. I can't say I definitively did, but I'm sure I got on, I did, didn't I? I did. You guys know, I went on say, "Hey. This is Matt. "I'm Emily's husband. She's missing." I must have, I had to. I just don't recall right now if I did, but I'm pretty, I mean that would be the move to make, or any- - Just cause we ask you a question, it doesn't mean that we're going at you. - It's not a trick question. - You're right, and I'm just trying to tell you that if I don't like in my head picture it, I don't wanna say I did it, but I'm... But I mean it would be the move to make. I mean, yeah, I must have. - Okay. - I've been using my phone, her phone, my phone, her phone for the last, what? This is Wednesday now. I don't even know what day it is anymore. I've been using two phones. So it's looking at her friends- - But you know you can't post from yours so if you posting to her Facebook account, it has to be through her phone. - It has to be through her phone. There's no doubt about it. - Did you use her phone for any other purpose? - Hmm, like what? - You text a few friends, you text some friends of hers or any contacts? - I'm sure I did. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I had to have, because I don't have a lot of her friends' phone numbers and stuff, so yeah, that's why when I gave the phone to you guys, so I can get that phone back to contact people. Do you think, did you make- I know you say you don't remember, but did you make a couple posts on her Facebook account? Did you make one? You make five? - I mean, I mean- (sighs) So, and of course no one knows. I'm just asking for your opinion. So you think that she hung herself? - I don't know, I dunno. - Just what does your gut say? - That she hurt herself. - That's your gut belief right now? Has she ever- - Anything I say to you now, you think I'm lying. - We're just talking. - She has talked about killing herself before, but not, where I'll call (inaudible) and say (inaudible). - If she were to hang herself, where would she do it? - She would do it where she would be easily found. She wouldn't want to cause any problems. - So she hadn't been easily found? Is it possible that she didn't kill herself? - You tell me. You're the police. I'm not, I'm not- - I just want you to just look at that the entire thing. Just pull yourself out of it. Is there a chance that she went out at some point and someone abducted her from Westerville, Ohio, put her in the car and drove off with her? What are the odds of that happening? - In Westerville, Ohio? Almost zero. - Zero? - Especially on Memorial Day when everyone's at home, you know, it's a perfect day out. So I'm gonna say was she abducted? Probably not. I know I did not hurt her. I didn't. So the other other thing that I can think of is that she did something to herself. - [Narrator] Matt was released without charges. Meanwhile the search for Emily continued and included dogs, drones, and dive teams. Unfortunately, despite extensive searching, the police could not locate Emily and her case went cold for several months. In June, 2020, Matt appeared on "The Vanished" podcast to raise awareness for Emily's case. The podcast would air in September. He spoke with the host for more than 90 minutes. Matt claimed he had been actively searching for Emily since her disappearance. However, according to a report by "People" magazine, it is alleged he failed to attend any organized searches and has never cooperated with investigators. In addition, one of the podcast researchers said, "There are things that Matt said to me that I have never heard in an interview." "For example, when Matt was asked to describe Emily, he said:" "I never saw her get on the scale." "She's very small, like a hundred pounds." "Pretty legs, great arms." The podcast also reveals that some of Emily's coworkers felt she had been acting differently at work in the weeks following her disappearance, she was not making eye contact with anyone and was just out of character. I'll provide a link to the full podcast in the description section. On September 2nd, Emily's family filed a lawsuit to remove Matt from holding her power of attorney. According to the petition, Emily signed a durable power of attorney on May 15, 2019, designating her husband as her fiduciary and power of attorney. (no audio) On September 16, the Westerville Police Department received a 911 call. Three women had been foraging in the woods not far from Emily's home when they discovered a human body hanging from a tree by a USB cable. Unfortunately the body was in such a state of decomposition, they had to rely on dental records to identify it. On learning of this discovery media members expressed surprise as police had previously stated that area was searched by authorities three times, including at least once with cadaver dogs. One week later on September 22nd, the Westerville Police Department held a press conference to update the public. They said that the dental comparison was consistent with Emily Noble's dental records, but that they had ordered a DNA test to be sure. Results could take some time. There was no information on the cause or manner of death at that time. Emily's family was notified. However, Matt stopped taking calls from the police and referred all questions to his attorney. In the following months, authorities ordered several tests from various agencies and were awaiting results. As results came in, some led to additional testing. Finally, on June 16, 2021, a little over one year since Emily's disappearance, a grand jury indicted Matt on two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault. Subsequently, a warrant was issued for his arrest. At 9:36 the following morning, Matt was spotted by police entering his vehicle in front of his condo. (no audio) (no audio) (police radio buzzes) - Hands over your face! - You see him good? - His elbow? I can see him good. - Coming up on your left. - Look! - [Officer] Matt, use your left hand and unlock the door. Only your left hand. Put your hands back on your head. Do not move. - Yes sir. - [Officer] Stick both your hands out this way, Matt. Both of 'em. - Seat belt's on. Seat belt's on. - [Officer] Matt, just listen what you're being told. - [Officer 2] Alright? Take that. Undo your seatbelt, alright. - [Officer] Hey, I got contact and cover when you pull them off. - [Officer 2] Keep your hands right where they are, alright? - Coming off. Coming off. You got anything on you at all? - No. - Right, step straight out. - He's going to work. - C'mon, step straight. Is your car in park? - Yes, in park. - All right. - Step on out. All right, move. - [Officer] Keep the car in park. We're gonna walk over here towards the grass. All right? - [Matt] Gotcha man. - Steppin' in to approach the car. - Palms together like a prayer. (policemen chattering) (radio beeps) (policemen chattering) - [Officer] Can you come this way? (policemen chattering) - Hey, we still got gotta hit the trunk? - Yeah. - Hey, let's move some of these cars out of the way. Let's get everybody outta here. (policemen chattering) - [Officer] Are you ready to watch that trunk? (door opens) Coming up on the roof. - Yup. It's not poppin'. - [Officer] You have a floor latch on the driver's side? (police radio beeps) - You ready? - Yeah... We're good in there. (trunk latches) Any damage, any of these? - Nah, nothing. - [Narrator] In a press conference following Matt's arrest, police explained that the long wait was to ensure they had sufficient evidence of Moore's guilt to arrest and charge him. Detectives explained the Montgomery County Coroner's Office did the initial autopsy. However, due to the level of decomposition, authorities asked for the assistance of the Ohio State University's Skeletal Biology Research Lab. The OSU lab found face and neck fractures indicative of homicide. Detectives then compiled results from the initial autopsy along with the OSU findings and forwarded those to a strangulation expert. The strangulation expert concluded Emily's death was clearly a homicide based on the injuries sustained and the mechanism of those injuries. Furthermore, the expert stated with absolute certainty that Emily's body was crudely staged to appear as a suicide. Asked whether Emily's remains were placed in the woods after the initial searches, a detective said more information would be revealed during the trial. Matt pleaded not guilty and remained in custody on a two and a half million dollar bond. (no audio ) - Ladies and gentlemen, we expect you'll find out during the testimony that the defendant sent a text message to Emily just before noon on the 25th, used the "Find My iPhone" App, which is an application designed to try to find where someone else's phone may be, and that he did that around noon hour on the 25th. Instead of leaving the room that he was laying in, instead of walking through the house to see if Ms. Noble was there. And again, we expect you to hear testimony that it wasn't for at least six hours after that before Mr. Moore finally called someone and said, "My wife is missing." - Good morning. - Morning. - Good morning. - As I introduced myself yesterday, Diane Menashe on behalf of Matt Moore, my co-counsel Alexander Petrello. The state, I just listened to them for about 30 minutes and they told you their theory. Their theory is, is that Matt Moore killed his wife. Don't know when, but Matt Moore kills his wife and then somehow gets her body into the wooded area where you walked yesterday and stages her death. And then I heard the state go on to say that their evidence will show how not just was he that sophisticated to figure out those two things, but he then also took great efforts to control the situation after May 24th and May 25th, 2020. Members of the jury, the evidence will show that the state's theory is based on speculation and inferences. It is not supported by the evidence. And simply, members of the jury, their theory doesn't make sense. Now, I know you were listening to the state's opening just as well as I was and the judge has already told you that our opening statements are not evidence. They are just how we believe the evidence will unfold. But I say this, that in my 30-some minutes of listening to the state's argument, I noted that they didn't mention reasonable doubt. That is their burden. Their burden is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. And we talked about that in voir dire. It's their burden and their burden alone. And the judge has already given you the instructions of law and he will again, which say, "If the state fails to meet their burden, then the only appropriate verdict as to each and he acted like he was very distraught over the his wife disappearing and that was the first thing that I thought right away that this wasn't he wasn't putting on a show he was truly wanting to help. [Reporter] She says no other testimony or evidence could convince her, not the interview with detectives. [Juror] Honestly, I thought he was a nice guy that was totally manipulated and tricked. [Reporter] Not the Doctor who testified her injuries had to be murder and not suicide. [Juror] I had a hard time even believing that testimony from him. [Reporter] not the prosecutors who laid out the couple's troubled marriage. [Juror] I just will never believe he com he killed his wife. And so what does she think did happen to Emily Noble? [Juror] I sway back and forth and I don't think I could tell you directly. I believe she committed suicide or I believe someone else killed her. All I'm saying is I hope that they open this case back up and they make sure that they get it right next time. [Reporter] when it comes to who did get it right she says the jury did. Do you feel confident you made the right decision? [Juror] oh absolutely, absolutely I'll go to my grave knowing I made the right decision and I will always think of Matt more and hope he's got a bright future and happy and can move on from this because um it changed his life financially mentally everything you know he's got a little he's I hope his that he opens a door of opportunity and can be happy again