FL - Nicole Rose Scott, 29, murdered, Sarasota, Dec 2011 *Man Confesses in 2021*

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Sarasota man confesses to killing a Sarasota woman in 2011 and dumping her body near Lakewood Ranch | East County | Your Observer

Sarasota's Benjamin Moulton, 43, told Manatee County Sheriff's Office detectives he couldn't live with the guilt.

Sarasota's Benjamin Moulton, a 43-year-old man who had been questioned at the time about the 2011 murder of Sarasota's Nicole Rose Scott, walked into the Manatee County Sheriff's Office Operations Center Wednesday and confessed to the murder.

 

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I've never heard of this crime and I've lived here for years. Found this old 2011 article tho.

Manatee County detectives search for clues in homicide | East County | Your Observer

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Manatee County Sheriff’s Office detectives are withholding cause of death information for the homicide case of Nicole Rose Scott. Scott’s body was found Dec. 11, at the end of University Parkway east of Lakewood Ranch.

Scott died in the two days before her body was discovered. As of press time, detectives did not say whether she was killed at the scene or was placed there following her death.

Scott had a long record with in the Sarasota County court system that included multiple drug possession charges, prowling, robbery, fraud, larceny, prostitution and vehicle theft. In Manatee County, her record included several traffic infractions as well as two felonies, one in 2003 for uttering a forged instrument and a second a year later for driving with a suspended license.

 

[Gardenista]

"Couldn’t live with the guilt anymore.” Watch as Benjamin Moulton turned himself in to
@ManateeSheriff
Wednesday for the murder of 29-year-old Nicole Rose Scott on Dec. 11, 2011.

Video at the link

https://twitter.com/WFLAJustin/status/1443657270538158088

 

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Florida Man Who ‘Found Jehovah’ Confesses to Decade-Old Murder Saying He ‘Couldn’t Live With the Guilt’: Sheriff

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Less than three months after Scott was murdered, police is Sarasota arrested then-33-year-old Moulton on charges of attempted murder, sexual battery, and aggravated battery after he allegedly tried to kill a pregnant prostitute.

According to a 2012 report from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the alleged victim was nine months pregnant when Moulton picked her up outside of a motel at 1 a.m. on a day “in early December” of 2011—meaning the encounter likely took place within a week of Scott’s death.

 

[LadyL]

"Couldn’t live with the guilt anymore.” Watch as Benjamin Moulton turned himself in to
@ManateeSheriff
Wednesday for the murder of 29-year-old Nicole Rose Scott on Dec. 11, 2011.

Video at the link

https://twitter.com/WFLAJustin/status/1443657270538158088

betcha that was a new one for that cop

 

[PayrollNerd]

Man walks into Manatee County Sheriff's Office, confesses to 10-year-old murder (msn.com)

On Thursday afternoon, Moulton refused to make his first appearance in court on the charges. Circuit Judge Frederick Mercurio ordered that Moulton be held without bond after the Assistant Public Defender Anne Hunter said she would not challenge probable cause or pretrial detention pending an Arthur hearing.

"We are not conceding, however, to any Arthur standards. We will be setting a hearing down the road and have a full hearing," Hunter said.

At an Arthur hearing, both sides argue whether a 1980 Florida Supreme Court ruling can be applied to allow for the defendant to be held in pretrial detention without bond if "the proof of guilt is evident and the presumption of guilt is great."

Moulton was also ordered not to have any contact with the victim's family.