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Jury selected in strangling death trial

PANAMA CITY — The trial of a man accused of carrying out the strangling death of his father-in-law at his mother-in-law’s behest began Monday.

Jurors were selected Monday in the first-degree murder case of David Clanton, 33, who is charged with the strangling death of his father-in-law Arthur Moore, 69, of Youngstown, on Sept. 8, 2013. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office began investigating Moore’s disappearance after his wife, Lottie Moore, reported her husband missing.

But the investigators got a tip from a man from Minnesota who said he’d had a conversation in which David Clanton jokingly described choking his father-in-law to death in his bed and burying his body in the woods. They re-interviewed Clanton, and he confessed to killing Moore at Lottie Moore’s request and led investigators to the body, BCSO reported at the time.

Mary Clanton, who is Arthur Moore’s daughter and David Clanton’s wife, told investigators she rode with her husband to bury her father’s body off Steelfield Road. All four lived together on Stauber Road, off Campflowers Road. About a week earlier, her mother openly proposed conspiring to kill Arthur Moore, authorities reported. David Clanton accepted, Mary Clanton said, but never thought the plan would get carried out.

“You know, whenever you see somebody hurting, you say something to comfort them,” she said during her deposition earlier this month. “That’s what I took it as.”

The night of his death, Lottie Moore poisoned Arthur Moore’s food and removed his gun from the room in case he struggled against David Clanton, Mary Clanton said. She heard from another room Arthur Moore call out “David” before the room fell silent, she told prosecutors.

Lottie Moore and Mary Clanton have been adjudicated guilty as accessories after the fact to murder.


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