Kathleen Dorsett (born July 2, 1974) is a former Neptune, New Jersey schoolteacher who was convicted of the August 2010 murder of her ex-husband, Stephen Moore, in May 2013.
[3] Kathleen Dorsett, a kindergarten and third grade teacher at the Gables School in Neptune Township, New Jersey,[3] and Stephen Moore, a salesman at a local Honda dealership, and former speed skater, married in June 2007.
[1] Later that day, when he failed to show up to work at the Honda dealership, Stephen was reported as a missing person by his employer.
Two days later, on August 18, 2010, Stephen's body was found in the back of his mother's burning 2001 Nissan Altima in Long Branch, New Jersey.
[8] Another man, Anthony Morris, was charged with arson and desecration of human remains; he had allegedly been paid $3,000 by Thomas Dorsett to burn Stephen Moore's mother's car with his body in the trunk.
[8] While in jail awaiting trial, Kathleen Dorsett and her mother Lesley were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder for attempting to arrange and solicit a hit man to kill Stephen Moore's mother, Evlyn, who received custody of his daughter after Kathleen's arrest.
She is serving her sentences, running consecutively, at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Union Township, New Jersey.
Stephen Moore's murder was featured on Dateline NBC in April 2015[15] and the Oxygen channel's series Snapped in August 2015.