Downstate man to be sentenced in baseball bat killing

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — A man who claimed he pummeled a southwestern Illinois woman with a baseball bat in self-defense is slated to hear his punishment in her beating death.

Fifty-four-year-old Scott Moore is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in Madison County, where jurors convicted him in July of first-degree murder and armed robbery.

Moore told investigators the deadly July 2009 confrontation in Catherine Fowler’s Granite City apartment came during a dispute about money he owed her for cocaine.

He says Fowler began poking him with the bat, then swinging it at his head before he grabbed it and hit her back.

A pathologist testified that Fowler was hit repeatedly on the head and face and suffered massive blunt-force injuries, among other trauma consistent with someone trying to defend herself.