Blanche Taylor Moore (née Kiser; born February 17, 1933) is an American convicted murderer and a possible serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina.

[4][5] Moore's father was a womanizer and alcoholic who, she later claimed, forced her into prostitution to pay his gambling debts; he died, reportedly of a heart attack, in 1966.

Dwight Moore, the divorced pastor of the Carolina United Church of Christ in rural Alamance County.

The wedding date was pushed to November 1988,[5] but Moore developed a mysterious intestinal ailment that required two surgeries to correct.

[5] Within days of their return, Dwight became severely ill and collapsed after eating a fast-food chicken sandwich that Moore had given him.

[5] After several days of extreme nausea and vomiting, Dwight was admitted to Alamance County Hospital on April 28, 1989.

Doctors Lucas Wong, Jonathan Serody, Mark Murphy and George Sanders, after discussions with the hospital toxicologist, ordered a toxicology screen to check for herbicide poisoning.

[6][7] The hospital and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) notified the police of Dwight's toxicology results.

When interviewed by police from his hospital bed, he mentioned that a former boyfriend of Moore's died from Guillain–Barré syndrome, which presents similar symptoms to arsenic poisoning.

The levels found in Reid and Taylor were determined to be fatal, therefore reclassifying their deaths as the result of arsenic poisoning.

[6] During interviews, Moore stated that both Taylor and Reid felt depressed and suggested they had probably been taking arsenic themselves—something investigators found highly improbable.

The state had an easier time making such a complex case because Reid's ex-wife and sons sued Baptist Hospital for malpractice; they were able to get the normal statute of limitations for wrongful death thrown out because they were able to prove that Moore, as executor of Reid's estate, should have been the person to find out about the toxicology screen.

[6] Under the terms of a deal between the Forsyth County district attorney's office and lawyers for the Reid family, most of the evidence against Moore was gathered by the latter party.

[11] In 2010, Moore and the 11 other death row inmates from Forsyth County filed a motion to convert their sentences to life imprisonment based on the state's Racial Justice Act.

In 1999, the Discovery Channel's The New Detectives series, season 4, episode 6, "Women Who Kill", featured Blanche Taylor Moore's crimes.

In the reenactment segment of the last episode of Season 1 of Deadly Women, Blanche Taylor Moore was portrayed by Maja Meschitschek.