Sherry Freebury. Elmer Setting. Lisa Dean Moseley.
We all know that Freebury and Setting, at the time they accepted favors from Moseley, were/are among the most powerful people in New Castle County and deeply connected to the county police.
Freebury received, and publicly admitted that she would never have had to repay, a $2.3 million sweetheart loan from Linda Dean Moseley allegedly in exchange for county approvals for a country club that Moseley wanted. At the time she received that loan, she was Tom Gordon’s CEO, as she was from 1997 to 2004. She previously was the head of NCC police, as was Gordon. There’s so much more on Freebury and Gordon. This article serves as a good starting point.
More recently, the longstanding ‘rent-free’ deal that current NCC Police Commissioner has enjoyed from Moseley was documented in the this WDEL story. He claims he provides ‘security and maintenance’ for the property. (BTW, didja know that one of Lisa Dean Moseley’s marriages was to her gardener? Another was to her gynecologist. But more on that later.)
Lisa Dean Moseley died recently. Here is the obit from the paper.
I searched for anything recent in the News-Journal to place her life and death in context. After all, context is everything. So far, nothing. If she had merely had the two clearly inappropriate relationships with Freebury and Setting, that alone would have warranted such an article. Two law enforcement officers at the highest level being paid off for their ‘services’.
But here’s another reason why anyone from law enforcement should have had nothing to do with Moseley, and perhaps a reason why they did. It is quite possible that Moseley paid to have someone killed (her husband did, and it’s impossible to think that she wasn’t aware, and unlikely that her money wasn’t involved). I’m not making the accusation, but you’ll see it in black and white soon enough if you click on the upcoming link.
I didn’t know this story, although I was aware of some ‘unpleasantness’ in her past. It was only when I read that both her sons predeceased her that I got curious and decided to do a Google search and came up with this. Written in a sensational and sensationalistic manner as only Dominick Dunne could. The ‘glamorous DuPont heiress’ mentioned at the top of the article is Lisa Dean Moseley. Here’s the tease:
On August 2, 1998, a woman of no importance was beaten and strangled to death in a cheap motel in Las Vegas, Nevada, that rents rooms on an hourly basis to prostitutes, drug addicts, perverts, and, on this occasion, a trio of alleged murderers for hire. Across the country in a grand mansion at the end of a quarter-mile-long driveway in the rolling hills of Delaware, an heiress from one of America’s most prominent families and her third husband were making plans for the opening of an exclusive new golf club that he would manage on land that she had inherited. The two stories are closely related.
Read the whole story. If you start, you won’t be able to stop. What’s clear, however, is that Moseley’s then-husband arranged for a hit and that Lisa Dean Moseley may well have been involved. They didn’t want their drug-addled son marrying someone ‘unsuitable’.
You will also see that, at the exact same time, the Moseleys started their full-court press for Fieldstone, their country club project, which was the project that led to the $2.3 mill ‘loan’ to Freebury.
So, do you see now why any close relationships between Lisa Dean Moseley and any police officials might be viewed as tainted, not to mention, completely unethical? Freebury and Setting are/were aware of this as, of course is Gordon, yet they have both taken favors from Moseley. The husband who paid for the hit was gonna run the bleeping country club, for bleep’s sake. Didn’t stop Freebury or Setting from receiving enormous favors. Kinda makes me wonder whether ‘keeping the bodies buried’ is part of their quid pro quo.
The stink and corruption that emanates from Tom Gordon’s ‘government by cop’ goes on. For all we know, many of the other cops ‘working’ with Gordon are on the take. The precedents established by Freebury and Gordon demonstrate that cops are above the law in Gordon’s administrations. Fairly or not, they’re all under suspicion. At this point, they’re guilty until proven innocent.
The so-called paper of record owes what’s left of its readership an article placing Lisa Dean Moseley’s life in context. At least as long as Setting continues to get free lodging for his ‘services’. In the meantime, I hope our readers who have more information to flesh out this story do so.
Now, I’m gonna take a long shower.