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On one hand Robert Moormann sounds like a terrible criminal. On the other hand Robert Moormann sounds like a mentally retarded man who has the intelligence of a 7 year old child.

But either way the tough on crime folks including Arizona Governor Jan Brewer will get their jollies by murdering Robert Moormann this Wednesday. I bet Jan Brewer is proud she will soon murder Robert Moormann.

Sadly many times our government masters are just as evil as the people they murder.

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Execution to conclude shocking Arizona murder case

by Michael Kiefer - Feb. 25, 2012 10:19 PM

The Republic | azcentral.com

Robert Moormann, the notorious killer scheduled for execution Wednesday, could be a character in an Alfred Hitchcock movie.

He's a pudgy, bald man with oversize eyeglasses who speaks with a childish affectation in a croaking old man's voice. He is 63 years old and looks a decade older, yet his prison mates, his attorneys and the mental-health professionals who have evaluated him say he has the reasoning and judgment of a child.

On Jan. 12, 1984, while on a furlough from prison, Moormann tied his 74-year-old mother to a bed in the Blue Mist Motel in Florence, beat her and then suffocated her with a pillow. Then, he meticulously cut her body into pieces and distributed the parts to garbage cans behind local businesses.

The crime-scene photos are ghastly: Maude's head being lifted out of a garbage bag, her feet lying on a table like cobbler's forms, her bones in a bloody box.

More shocking: Moormann, his lawyers and mental-health evaluators say the murder came after years of abuse in which Maude Moormann made her adoptive son perform sex acts and even arranged his prison furloughs to that end.

The prosecution, on the other hand, said that the crime was premeditated and that Moormann was looking to take over his mother's considerable assets.

Moormann was found guilty of first-degree murder in 1985, and a judge subsequently sentenced him to death. After 28 years, that sentence is about to be carried out.

Barring any last-minute legal miracles, Moormann will be executed Wednesday at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence. The state's last execution was in July 2011, when Thomas West, 52, died by lethal injection.

By every account, Moormann's life has been a nightmare.

He was born Bobby Conger in Tucson on June 4, 1948, to a 15-year-old girl who drank heavily and engaged in prostitution, according to court records and testimony at Moormann's clemency hearing. The baby's father abandoned his new family, and the mother died in an accident at age 17, so baby Bobby went to live with his maternal grandparents until he was put up for adoption because of his grandfather's alcohol abuse.

After stays in foster homes, he was adopted by a Flagstaff couple, Henry and Roberta Maude Moormann, when he was 2 and a half. Henry Moormann owned a taxicab company, and after he died, his wife remained single and raised their adopted son Robert, and, according to testimony at the clemency hearing, forced him to engage in sexual acts with her.

Moormann was classified as mentally retarded while in public school and attended special-education classes. His first stay in a state mental hospital occurred when he was 13 after he accidentally shot his mother. During his clemency hearing, Moormann said he was hiding a .22-caliber rifle in his bed. His mother came into his room and sat on the bed, and when he pulled the gun out to show her, it discharged.

After Moormann graduated high school, he attended barber college, but did not work as a barber. Instead, he worked menial U.S. Forest Service jobs and bused tables.

He had his first run-in with the law in January 1972, when he kidnapped an 8-year-old neighbor and family friend and tried to drive her to Las Vegas in his mother's car. He had wanted to kidnap and rape the girl's mother, but lost his nerve and took the girl instead, according to court testimony.

They spent two nights in motels along the way, Moormann forcing the girl to perform sex acts. Then, when Moormann got the car stuck near Temple Bar, he and the girl hitchhiked the rest of the way to Las Vegas. A car picked them up near Hoover Dam and drove them to a police station.

Moormann was convicted of kidnapping -- he claimed it occurred because he had stopped taking medication -- and he was sentenced to nine years to life in prison. He was paroled in January 1979, but was returned to prison 10 months later because he could not abide by the terms of parole.

In 1984, prisoners at state prisons could apply for 72-hour compassionate furloughs to meet with relatives or for conjugal visits. Maude Moormann came down from Flagstaff and the two stayed in Room 22 of the Blue Mist Motel, across the street from the prison complex in Florence. It was the third furlough they'd spent together.

On the second evening of the furlough, Moormann came to a local pizzeria and asked the owner if he could dump some cow guts in the garbage cans behind the restaurant. The owner said no, and because he worked at the prison and recognized Moormann, he called police, who paid Moormann a visit.

Moormann first said that his mother was ill and later said she had recovered and gone to visit friends.

They also discovered that Moormann had told other business owners that he'd wanted to dump some rotting hamburger meat and that he had given a prison employee a box full of spoiled "dog bones," saying there wasn't room for them in the motel dumpster.

The prison employee dutifully picked them up some time after midnight. Investigators eventually recovered Maude's dismembered body from several garbage cans. The "dog bones" were also Maude's.

Moormann confessed to police as he was sitting in the backseat of a squad car.

He told police that he had "dissected" his mother while he was in the nude and that he had lost one of her fingers for a while, then flushed it down the toilet when he found it.

Before his trial, Moormann told a court-ordered psychologist that he had been having an affair with his mother for years and that on the night of the murder, she had asked him to perform sex acts. During one of them, he put a pillow over her face to quiet her. He claimed he had accidentally killed her.

He meticulously dismembered her and put her body parts in garbage bags or flushed them.

The jury disregarded his insanity defense and found Moormann guilty of first-degree murder. He was sentenced to death.

During Friday's clemency hearing, Moormann said he no longer remembered details of the murder other than touching his mother's breasts while she was tied to a bed and later carrying her body to the bathroom.

"I remember she was tied up, but I don't remember doing it," he said. "I just remember seeing my hands doing things."

Moormann has lived quietly in prison, but his health has deteriorated.

He had a major stroke in 2007. Last September, Moormann was rushed to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy, and doctors discovered that he had several blocked arteries in his heart. In November, he returned to the hospital for a quintuple bypass.

On Feb. 16, he was again rushed to the hospital after complaining of abdominal pain and becoming unresponsive in a prison infirmary. Arizona Department of Corrections officials refused to comment on his condition.

He had recovered sufficiently by Friday to speak at his clemency hearing.

About a week after the state of Arizona murdered Robert Moormann they also murdered Robert Charles Towery.