The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder by Sally Denton

Author:Sally Denton [Denton, Sally]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781450283786
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2001-09-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

When beautiful Rebecca Moore left her Cincinnati apartment on December 16, 1980, she told her parents that Jimmy Lambert had invited her to a party he was hosting for Trumps waitresses to celebrate the sale of the nightclub.

“We never saw her again, and later found out there had been no party,” Rebecca’s mother tearfully recalled.

The twenty-four-year-old art student worked at the Cincinnati club owned by Lambert, Governor John Y. Brown, and Paul Hornung.

Ralph’s surveillance team hadn’t taken particular notice of the petite blonde entering the Old Dobbin house. To observers, the coed would have been but one of many attractive young women entering or leaving the cream-colored residence.

Normally, a Missing Persons Report filed with the Kentucky State Police would not have grabbed the attention of Ralph Ross. But when the missing person was a “pretty young thing” who had last been seen alive by Jimmy Lambert, Ralph could hardly contain his interest in the case. He pored over the available information, vague and disjointed though it was, searching for clues in the disappearance.

A reconstruction of events would determine that “Becky” drove her old Chevy Nova from Cincinnati to Lambert’s house in Lexington. Sometime that day, she accompanied Lambert to Boonesboro, where Lambert owned a cabin located on the bank of the Kentucky River.

The state police surveillance of Lambert did not include the cabin property, so the activities of Jimmy and Becky had gone undetected.

Dr. John Moore, a Cincinnati veterinarian, and his wife, Barbara, hired a private detective when Becky failed to return home. “She was due back on Friday, December 19, to help me with the last of the Christmas shopping,” recalled Mrs. Moore.

Worried sick, the Moores finally retained investigator Peter Thielen on Christmas Eve. The sketchy report that Thielen provided the Moores a few days later raised more questions than it answered. Oddly, one of Thielen’s first tasks was to contact Jimmy Lambert and Lambert’s Mends on the Lexington police force. Thielen apparently did not believe in subtlety or discretion, and seemed eager to tip his hand.

Leaving several phone messages for Lambert at Old Dobbin, Trumps, and the Library Lounge, Thielen received a call from the Lexington businessman.

“Lambert… explained that Becky finished finals on Wednesday and drove to his home on Old Dobbin,” Thielen wrote in his report to the Moores. “She was ‘strung out’ from lack of sleep (awake three days) preparing for her finals. Upon leaving the home Becky asked if she would need her warm, dress coat. James said ‘no’ and they left the coat at the house… James and Becky left the house with her suitcase in the backseat. They first picked up a painting from a local artist paying $1,800 in cash. They went to dinner. Another $100 was spent… The night was spent at Lambert’s cabin on Upper Amster Grove Road.

“Becky awoke the next morning (9:00 a.m.) and went for a walk alone. Lambert stayed in bed. He heard Becky return, take a shower and then leave again around 10:00 or 10:30. He did not get up until 2:00 that afternoon.

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