$25,000 Reward Offered in Murder Case

GREENVILLE — Bolstered by a bigger reward pot, investigators in Greenville are hoping money will shake loose the information they need to solve November’s murder of a teenager. The reward now stands at $25,000 for Alicia Moore’s killer. She was last seen alive stepping off a school bus near her home. At first police did not investigate the case as a crime — only a missing teenager. Since then no suspects have been identified. Jessica Byrd, Alicia’s aunt, hopes the reward will give the police chief what he needs. Byrd says he might have something, but perhaps it’s not time for it to be made public. She says officials are trying to “make sure their ducks are in a row, since they dropped the ball on us” from the beginning of the case. The body of the 15-year was stuffed in a clothes trunk and left along a Van Zandt County road about 40 miles away.