Heads up to everyone I am fortunate to have follow and read this blog, this next one is about to be a little graphic at times. Feel free to heed my warnings when I give them, as the photos may be disturbing to some.

Holly Lynn Moore 2/28/96-3/6/15



This radiant 19 year old woman pictured above, is Holly Lynn Moore. An avid fan of ice skating, snow boarding, and a full time student and caretaker of her quadrapalegic mother until the day she died. Raised in Castle Rock Colorado, Holly was attending school for engineering, living in her own apartment shared with one other person, an army ROTC member known simply as “Zach”, she was close with her older sister, April and her dad, Ray. On March 6, 2015 Holly was found dead in her apartment by her roommate, Zach. Upon arrival, the emergency crews and PD immediately called it a “suicide” with no reason to prompt them to decide this without first waiting for the ME or local coroner to do an exam, was the first in a long list of poor choices the authorities made in her case. According to Zach, he’d found her hanging in her closet by a cord around her neck, off the clothing rod which measured five feet and three inches off the ground (Holly was six feet tall) with the shoes underneath her perfectly lined up straight, with no sign of any hand or finger prints on the door knob from her bedroom (which was suspiciously clean, according to those who knew her) to her bathroom where she was found. A few concerns from the family including absolute certainty Holly would never commit suicide in addition to an alarming incident her sister witnessed the prior week between Holly and her boyfriend Stephen (also a military man stationed in Colorado at the time, I believe in Fort Collins), made the family choose to have their own investigation done by world renowned medical forensic expert Dr. Selma Eikelenbloom, who came to several huge conclusions and discovered numbers huge issues with the entire investigation- leaving the family to question their local authorities. I will organize this best by starting with the findings, along with the photos that accompany them. Followed by the stories of the possible individuals in question (by myself and the public, not “official” persons of interest, suspects etc) in their words, as well as the circumstances that point to their stories being, shall we say, weak in some areas?





**WARNING THE STORY IS ABOUT TO GET GRAPHIC, APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNABLE TO READ THE CONTENT WITHOUT VIEWING THE PHOTOGRAPHS*







1. Dr. E asked Jill Romann, the coroner who did the autopsy (although later it was found she didn’t, another person under her did) for a set of x- rays routinely taken during an autopsy for examination by her independently. Jill stated that there were no such x- rays done, as it was immediately deemed a suicide and so x- rays weren’t required and not performed routinely. Therefore, when Holly’s body was released to the funeral home is when, with family permission she viewed and took pictures as well as x-rays needed to work on the case. The x-ray of her upper half clearly shows a severely broken clavicle bone on her right side, so bad, in fact, she would not have been able to use the two hands necessary to wrap the cord around her neck and fasten it to the closet rod it was attached to. Dr. E said the injury was far too painful, and the arm would have been useless, rendering Holly not able, to begin with, to be able to do anything required to put her body where it was found.

2. Upon laying eyes on Holly’s photos from her original arrival at the Coroner’s office, it is clearly seen in the photograph below that her fingers are trapped under the cord, as if she was fighting to put space between the ligature and her wind pipe, to buy herself a few gulps of air (likely to fight back) unsuccessfully.

*Here we see Holly’s left hand captured in her cadaveric spasm (exact position at the moment she died) likely trying get air into her lungs by trying to loosen the ligature.

Up close in the next photo we see the extent of the damage done by the strangulation ligature to her neck region:

*Photo taken at the coroners office to show measurement and comparison to document size and depth of ligature wounds on the body of Holly Moore.





The cord, as explained by Dr. E, had to have been wrapped around her throat very tight and very quick, almost overkill level, for it to cause the extent of the damage we see. Also discovered, by the family’s independently hired CSI team, who worked the apartment using luminol amongst other tools to help check for evidence and do follow up testing on whatever was found, that there was a significant amount of evidence all over the apartment that simply didn’t fit the scenario of her committing suicide. These details recovered, according to the team, include by are not limited to:

a bloody hand print that had been wiped/cleaned from her bedroom wall blood on her bed that had been wiped/cleaned off an alarming amount of bodily fluids confirmed to be blood by luminol and follow up testing as well, all over the apartment with no explanation from the roommate as to why or what could explain these findings. Injuries clearly visible to the naked eye, yet nowhere mentioned on the coroners report include: *a mark under her chin so severe it appeared to have been left by someone kicking her there- hard. *Marks on her neck being almost exactly horizontal in nature which would totally throw out suicide via hanging, as marks made in those circumstances go upward and diagonal, (that’s a huge difference.) * severe injuries to her lip, consistent with the kick to the face seen under the chin.

The PM prior, it’s been said, and confirmed in some parts by Holly’s cell phone and the bill that followed, there was a heated exchange between Holly and her ex boyfriend Stephen, regarding a “hook up” that “never happened” between Holly and her roommate Zach. Zach never confirmed or denied that any physical or sexual act had been committed by he and Holly, and Stephen was known to be jealous and abusive. Witnessed by her sister April a few weeks prior to Holly’s death. According to April, Stephen choked Holly so hard he lifted her all the way (about a foot) off the floor until she was turning red and begging him to put her down. That’s cute, right? Needless to say, Holly ended things with Stephen, but sent an odd photograph prior to ending contact for the night (and forever) sent with the message “you don’t even deserve a goodbye”.

*Seen here is a photo of Holly’s thigh, which contained two sets of handwriting according to officials.



The names written on her thigh, were definitely written by at least two different individuals the independent team concluded, leaving the family to wonder, yet again, what the hell had happened.

According to an article I found in a Denver news article, Zach stated that he’d seen Holly enter her bathroom at one point, from her bedroom the evening before she was found dead, and never come out. The next day, he claimed to have broken down the door to find her, cut her down using a knife, and called 911- only after picking up her ringing cell phone, a call from her dad, to which he simply said “you better come fast mister, she’s not breathing”, before hanging up. Troubling still, was the story Zach told claiming he last saw her at 11 AM that day she’d fought with Stephen (the night and day of March 5) yet later claimed he’d seen Holly later that evening, and overheard a fight she was having with Stephen on the phone.

Um, that’s a HUGE screw up if I’ve ever seen one. That, combined with the alleged “sexual behavior” between them (consensual or not, or non existent we’ll never know) and the fact that the door knob was wiped down entirely, (but we know he found her and had to open that door to do it) certainly doesn’t make Zach look like an altar boy walking the nuns to choir practice.

There is some speculation surrounding the alibi given by Holly’s ex Stephen, and some unconfirmed reports of him changing his story, having a shady excuse/alibi regarding another rape case and set of accusations he was “present” at elsewhere that night, and the choking event is enough to concern anyone paying attention. Adding in the military like precision of her room and the shoes under her body, having both men we’re discussing actually in the army (as mentioned above), this is a hard case to say a definite opinion one way or the other, at least for me. Both Stephen and Zach wold have to be held high on the list of individuals who are lying/know more/ may have involvement, at least to me. Last, but not least, is a woman who moved out of the apartment Holly and Zach shared a month after moving in, known by her first name “Brittany” the only other identifying detail we have is she was a nurse who moved to Chicago, but there was some bad blood reported between her and Holly which adds her to the list of people I’d personally at least like to ask questions, not necessarily sticking out in my mind as someone who might have information or involvement- but what do I know, right?

Not long after Holly’s passing, her mother passed as well, leaving April and Ray to grieve ENORMOUS losses in a short span of time. When Holly’s cause and manner of death were announced, it was shocking to everyone: “Suicide via ligature strangulation” declared with untested evidence still on the shelf at CRPD and being held by Dr. E, in hopes of finding a lab to test the samples with no bias one way or the other, to the local authorities.

An independent third opinion was taken from Dr. Doberson, consisting of files and documents as well as photographs etc taken by both sets of investigations and reviewed for conclusion or recommendation purposes, occurred when the coroner’s office claimed the broken collar bone was due to undocumented and unorthodox cutting of the bone with bone shears used to access parts of the body during the autopsy itself. For the record, this is not at all a method of doing things “as usual” and in the extreme event this had to happen, notes and extensive photographic evidence would have to be documented for the record- which it wasn’t.

Eventually, facing a $10,000 per sample of evidence price tag by one of few unbiased and trust worth state labs, the family had no choice after paying for two funerals but to wait on testing any samples they had for evidence, as the money simply wasn’t there.

Since her death and the conclusions made by two out of three parties investigating her case in favor of changing the death certificate AT LEAST to undetermined, the family has been holding on to their faith and remaining strong in their push for justice. Online media presence and the memorial fund in her name, in addition to candle light vigils, events, and reminders of who Holly was and what she meant to so many have made them one of the most active and persistent families I have ever seen in terms of response to the crap they’re being assaulted with by the “officials” who are clearly unwilling to admit their mistakes and how wrong they are in regards to Holly’s death and the follow up investigation. I know Holly would be so proud of you all, but especially Ray and April for their love has pushed her story into so many homes across the world- that I feel justice in this case is inevitable. I pray for you both, and I know deep down there will be justice here or in the hereafter. Remember the passage Deuteronomy: 5: 17-19, and I wish you the strength in keeping up hope.