David Alan Gore

David Alan Gore and his cousin, Fred Waterfiled, picked up Lynn Elliott, she was seventeen years old. Her friend Regan Martin, she was fifteen year old. The two girls were hitch hiking from Vero Beach to Wabasso beach. Gore, age of twenty-nine and Waterfield, age of thirty. The two men handcuffed Elliott and Martin then proceeded to drive them to Gore’s parents house on the outskirts of Vero Beach where the two men raped the girls. One of the girl tries to escape but gets shot by Gore. A fifteen year old Vero Beach boy riding past Gore’s house and saw Gore chasing down one of the girl and shooting her twice in the head. That girl was Elliott the fifteen year old. Later the boy agrees to testifies. Martin gets rescued by the law enforcement,

When police arrived at the home they found a car in the driveway with fresh blood dripping from the trunk. After opening the trunk, the police discovered Lynn Elliott’s body with a fresh gunshot wound to the head (Newton 1990). After a 90 minute standoff with authorities (Holsman 2012), Gore surrendered and directed police to where Martin was being held inside the home (Newton 1990). At the time, police were unable to find Waterfield at the home. When the cousins were bringing the two girls back to Gore’s family home, they drove passed Waterfield’s sister. Waterfield was so worried about the fact that he sister saw the two with these young girls that he left Gore at the home so that he could see if his sister showed up at his auto body shop asking questions (Holsman 2012). Once he was in custody, Gore began confessing to the numerous crimes that he and his cousin committed together (Newton 1990). However, both men were initially taken to court for the death of Elliot and the kidnapping and sexual battery of both Elliott and Martin. Because of the intense publicity surrounding the case, the trials were moved from Indian River County to St. Petersburg (Holsman