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Vanessa Richardson
Hi, Crime House community. It's Vanessa Richardson. Exciting news. Conspiracy theories, cults and crimes is leveling up. Starting the week of January 12th, you'll be getting two episodes every week. Wednesdays we unravel the conspiracy or the cult, and on Fridays we look at a corresponding crime. Every week has a theme. Tech, bioterror, power, paranoia, you name it. Follow conspiracy theories, cults and crimes now on your podcast app because you're about to dive deeper, get weirder, and go darker than ever before.
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Katie Ring
This is Crime house. Within roughly 48 hours, Sharon Moore's life was turned upside down. He went from being one of the most promising new head coaches in college football to a disgraced coach who was fired from his job, booked into county jail, and arraigned on felony and misdemeanor charges. Police in Michigan are investigating an alleged assault, and a prosecutor is reviewing charges against former University of Michigan football coach Sharon Moore.
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Katie Ring
Sharon Moore now being charged with three crimes, two misdemeanors, and a felony. Welcome to crime house 24 7. I'm your host, Katie Ring. We're following the cases making headlines now, where justice is still unfolding. Follow us wherever you are listening and if you want ad free episodes, subscribe to Crime House plus on Apple Podcasts. This episode discusses active criminal cases and breaking news news. The information we share is based on what's publicly available at the time of recording and may change as new evidence comes to light. We aim to inform, not to decide guilt or innocence. So everyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. I'm really excited to dive into our cases this week because we're going all in on the world of college crimes, starting with a commotion over at the University of Michigan. If you've ever been to Ann Arbor, you know the University of Michigan isn't just a campus. It's a community built around tradition, identity, and a kind of electricity that pulses almost every Saturday in the fall. And nothing defines that more than Michigan football. The Wolverines are one of the most dominating programs in the history of college football. They compete in the Big Ten Conference along other top programs like Ohio State and USC. They've claimed 12 national championships, including the 2023 title that brought the program back to the top spot. Not to mention the fact that they play inside the largest stadium in the country. The stadium, dubbed the Big House, can hold more than 100,000 people. And when it fills up, it becomes its own small city of blue and maze. And it's not just about college football. Hundreds of Michigan players have made it all the way to the NFL. Some of the top draft picks whose names stretch across Pro bowl rosters and even the NFL hall of Fame. The program carries expectations that never really fade, no matter the era or the coach. After all, winning is the standard and striving to be the best in the Big Ten is the expectation. In 2025, the Wolverines went 9 and 3 in the Big Ten, locking in the Citrus bowl matchup against the Texas Longhorns on Dec. 31. It was the kind of game that promised national attention and a chance for the program to prove that it was steady even while rebuilding. And all of this was unfolding under the leadership of head coach Sharon Moore, who came to Michigan back in 2018 as the tight ends coach. He was young, energetic, and immediately connected with players. Three years later, in 2021, he was promoted to co offensive coordinator. And by 2023, when then head coach Jim Harbaugh got multiple suspensions, Moore stepped in as the acting head coach. Those games mattered more than anyone realized at the time. He proved he could handle pressure, lead without hesitation and command the team during moments when everything felt uncertain. So when Harbaugh officially left for the NFL in January of 2024, Michigan didn't launch a national search. They didn't need to. They had a fully capable candidate right at home. Moore was promoted to permanent head coach, inheriting a program fresh off a national championship and filled with expectations that follow any coach who steps into one of the most high profile jobs in college football. And the transition was smooth. Moore wasn't just Harbaugh's replacement. He was becoming the face of the program's next phase. But on December 10, 2025, it all came crashing down. Moore was fired as the head coach of Michigan for having an inappropriate relationship with an employee. For a while, the University of Michigan hadn't officially released its termination letter, but it was finally obtained by Detroit News in early January. According to the letter, the university received hotline reports about Moore's relationship with a staffer. But the school also alleges that during their investigation into it, Moore. Moore gave, quote, untruthful statements during investigative interviews. We're also Learning that on December 10, Moore's wife, Kelly Moore, called 911 and told the dispatcher that she was worried her husband was going to hurt himself after being fired. In a recording obtained by tmz, she told the police that Moore said he wanted to kill himself she even asked the police to track him because she didn't know where he was at the time of this recording. The aforementioned staffer, who Moore was in a relationship with has not come forward publicly. Her identity hasn't been revealed, and despite a few pieces of evidence pointing towards who it is, we are going to refrain from identifying her until the police officially release her name. Fox News reports that she was his executive assistant. And get this. Between 2024 and 2025, right around the time Moore was getting comfortable at Michigan, his alleged mistress received a massive pay raise. Michigan's fiscal reports show that in 2023 and 2024 fiscal years, she was being paid $58,000. Coincidentally, in 2025, her salary went up by 70% to about $99,000. As of this recording, exact details of the story have also not been released by the university or police, but there are two current versions circulating. Some outlets are reporting that the victim broke up with Moore on December 8th. And according to the charging documents, the breakup didn't create space. It created pressure because Moore did not take the breakup lightly. He allegedly began harassing her, calling her, contacting her repeatedly. And as the communication intensified, she went to the University of Michigan and told them what was going on. The second version is that everyone was aware of this relationship, and Moore was advised to not work directly with the employee. He was told to either move her to another position within the department or. Or fire her. This version alleges that he opted to fire her, and so she came forward with the evidence of their relationship. On the 911 call, the victim said that Moore had been stalking her for months, which makes me believe she probably broke up with him a while back. So I'm leaning towards this version. But regardless of the exact orders of events, the university had already been investigating the relationship using an outside law firm. But the two denied any relationship. That is, until the staffer came forward. And once Michigan got the staffer's confirmation, it made a decision that would change the future of its program. Michigan fired Moore. That was bad enough as it was, but suddenly, this wasn't just a private breakup. The staffer had a safety concern on her hands, because after Moore was fired, he broke into her house.
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Katie Ring
On December 10, 2025, Sharon Moore went to his ex mistress's apartment. Moore had just gotten fired from his job as head coach and blamed it all on his mistress. So he let himself inside her apartment to confront her, and an argument erupted. Moore allegedly forced his way in, went to a kitchen drawer and pulled out two butter knives and a pair of scissors. That detail alone caught everyone's attention, but prosecutors said the real danger wasn't directed towards Moore's ex. He directed it to himself. Moore made a series of disturbing and deeply emotional statements, ones that trapped the woman into a terrifying situation. He said things like, quote, I'm going to kill myself. I'm going to make you watch. My blood is on your hands, and you ruined my life. These weren't fleeting comments. Prosecutors described them as intentional, targeted and terrifying. For the person hearing them, they painted a picture of a man unraveling in real time and of a victim stuck in the emotional blast radius. So the woman called her attorney, and when she made it clear that she was about to call the police, only then did Moore leave the apartment. And at about 4:10pm officers began searching for Moore, looking at his home and the Michigan practice facility. They found Moore in Saline, which is a small city about five miles away. Police brought him to a hospital for evaluation, and from there he was taken to Washtenaw county jail. And on December 12, his specific charges went public. Moore was charged with home invasion, breaking and entering, and stalking. Together, they formed a portrait of a night that spiraled far past heartbreak or frustration. The filings describe a sequence, a breakup, repeated contact, a break in, and a confrontation that ended in panic, threats of self harm, and most importantly, fear. As those details hit the news early the next morning, Michigan fans were stunned. Their head coach, the man expected to lead them into a major bowl game and to many more victories after that, was suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation that no one saw coming. Moore was supposed to be preparing to bring the Wolverines to a bowl victory. Instead, he was sitting behind bars in a jail cell. And he wasn't just in trouble with the law. His crime upended the moral clauses in his contract, his marriage vows, the lines between personal matters and the workplace, and shattered a fan base that was counting on him. The sports world held its breath as everyone wondered what came next. But behind the scenes, the University of Michigan had already been making moves. Remember, they were investigating Moore's relationship with the staffer before he was even arrested and had already been fired. Moore's contract contained strict conduct and morality provisions that allowed the school to suspend or terminate employment if an arrest involved violence or behavior deemed harmful to the institution. Specifically, Moore had been fired for cause. And if you don't know what that means, being fired for cause means that an employee was fired because of bad behavior, insubordination, breaching confidentiality or other things like that. Basically, if the employee violated company policy in any way. And here's the thing, a four cause firing meant that Michigan was not responsible for paying out the remainder of Moore's contract. And Moore was making millions. He was on a five year contract with Michigan and had a whopping 13.9 million million dollar buyout. So when the news broke and Moore was officially arraigned on December 12, the world of college football went into a full blown panic. Even Michigan's former head coach Jim Harbaugh, who is now coaching the LA Chargers in the NFL, was reacting. When asked by reporters what he thought about the situation with Moore, he said, quote, still processing that. Like a lot of people, I'm sure. From that moment on, the story became bigger than Moore's criminal charges alone. It became about how fast a career can unravel, how quickly a university can be thrown into crisis, and how a program built on history suddenly found itself facing one of the most unexpected leadership gaps in its modern era. And let's not forget how a woman was harassed and threatened the morning after Sharon Moore's arrest. It wasn't just the charges themselves that left people stunned. It was the sense of deja vu. Because this wasn't the first time the program had been thrown off balance. It wasn't even the second. This was just the latest turn in a long, exhausting line of controversies that had reshaped one of the biggest brands in college football. To understand why Moore's arrest landed the way it did, we have to go back nearly a decade to when Moore's predecessor, Jim Harbaugh, first stepped onto the Michigan sideline. Former Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh arrived at the university in December of 2014, returning to a school where he once had been the starting quarterback. And in a program like Michigan, expectations were high. Michigan was struggling when he arrived. They had a five and seven win record in 2014, and their national relevance was being questioned. And the program had been knocked around by rivals who used to fear playing in the big house. But Harbaugh brought the swagger back immediately. He was animated, theatrical, polarizing and Compelling. Everything that makes a college football coach larger than life. In just a year, he turned the program around, and by 2015, Michigan was winning again. They went 10 and three that year, and it felt like Harbaugh had restored the Wolverine's identity. He climbed trees during recruiting visits, ran satellite camps across the country, and embraced every camera pointed at him. He turned the program into a spectacle in a good way, at least at first. But the farther Harbaugh pushed Michigan back into the spotlight, the more complicated things became behind the scenes. The first major controversy that set this entire chain of events in motion surfaced in 2023. Nearly nine years into Harbaugh's tenure. The NCAA discovered that Harbaugh had gotten cheeseburgers at a restaurant with a pair of recruits during the recruiting dead period. If you don't know what a recruiting dead period is, it's a specific time set by the NCAA where college coaches are prohibited from any face to face contact with prospective student athletes, meaning no in person meetings, evaluations of games, or hosting campus visits. However, digital contact like calls, texts and emails are generally still allowed, but coaches can't see recruits compete live. These periods occur at various times throughout the year, often around holidays, major championship weeks, or for specific sports to control the intensity of recruiting. So seeing athletes in this time period is a big no no. The incident was dubbed Burger Gate, and it haunts Harbaugh's career to this day. Suddenly, a minor rules issue became a major character issue, and Michigan found itself bracing for consequences. When the 2023 season began, Harbaugh was suspended for the first three games. That absence forced Michigan to rely on its assistant coaches to keep the season on track. And this was the first moment Sharon Moore stepped into the real public view. He handled his part of the coaching rotation with composure, and fans began to see him not just as an assistant, but as someone who could take the lead and the heat that comes along with it. But before the dust from the NCAA case could settle, another scandal arrived. And this one was much darker and could have an entire episode of its own. But to summarize, on January 5, 2023, the University of Michigan received a report regarding fraudulent activity involving someone accessing university email accounts without authorization. The activity was coming from within the athletic department building and the university found evidence that led them to the co offensive coordinator, Matt Weiss. He was suspended and then fired in January of 2023 for inappropriately accessing the computer accounts and of other individuals. When I first heard about this, I thought it would have maybe been for recruiting purposes, but it was so much more disturbing, so much so that the FBI got involved and are now charging him with 14 counts of unauthorized access to computers and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft. The FBI's indictment reads, quote, between approximately 2015 and January of 2023, Weiss gained unauthorized access to student athlete databases of more than 100 colleges and universities that were maintained by a third party vendor. After gaining access to those databases, Weiss downloaded the personally identifiable information and medical data of more than 150,000 athletes. Using the information he obtained from the student athlete databases and his own Internet research, Weiss was able to obtain access to the social media, email and or cloud storage accounts of more than 2,000 target athletes. Weiss also illegally obtained access to the social media, email and or cloud storage accounts of more than 1300 additional students and or alumni from universities across the country. Once Weiss obtained access to these accounts, he downloaded personal, intimate digital photographs and videos that were never intended to be shared. Beyond intimate partners, investigators seized thousands of intamin images and videos from Weiss's electronic devices and cloud storage accounts during the probe. As of this recording, Weiss has pled not guilty. But the investigation has hung over the school like a cloud that won't move. If the program had hoped for stability after Weiss's departure, that hope didn't last long because later that same year, Michigan was thrust into one of the biggest national stories in sports. The sign stealing scandal. In October of 2023, ten months after the Weiss scandal, reports surfaced alleging that Michigan staffer Connor Stallions had orchestrated a scheme to record other teams sideline signals which by the way, completely violates NCAA rules. What started as a strange, almost unbelievable rumor quickly ballooned into a full blown national investigation. Video evidence appeared and analysts dissected Michigan's wins, wondering whether the success had been too good to be true. The NCAA and Big Ten launched formal probes and the story dominated headlines for weeks. As pressure mounted, the Big Ten took action and Harbaugh was suspended again for the final three games of the regular season. So once again, Michigan turned to the assistants to steady the ship. With Sharon Moore stepping into the lead role, his emotional post game moments went viral and his leadership was praised. He kept Michigan winning and guided the team all the way to the college football playoffs where they eventually won the national championship. Despite the school's scandal filled year, it was during this stretch that Moore began to feel like the future of Michigan football. He was a coach who could guide the program through controversy and keep players grounded when everything around them felt unsteady. But as Moore rose in prominence, the relationship Between Michigan and Harbaugh had started to fray. And after nearly a decade at the school, one filled with big wins, bitter losses, many memorable press conferences and NCAA investigations, Jim Harbaugh seemed ready for something new. In January of 2024, he left Ann Arbor to become the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. For Michigan, the transition felt almost seamless. Instead of looking outward, the university promoted from within, elevating Moore to head coach. He was young, respected, and the players trusted him. Michigan hoped that his leadership would finally bring calm after years of turbulence. However, even with Harbaugh gone, the NCAA sign stealing investigation didn't go away. And in 2024, the NCAA formally alleged that Moore had obstructed parts of the inquiry, an allegation he denied, but one that kept Michigan in the national spotlight. Nevertheless, the program kept moving and winning. But the feeling of being underscored, scrutiny never quite lifted. And then came December 10, 2025. A police call, an arrest, charges filed, a head coach fired, and another public scandal. For a program used to being defined by championships, Heisman races, NFL draft picks, and sold out stadiums, the last few years had become a string of crises that left fans wondering when the program would finally catch its breath. For the people closest to the program, the crises no longer felt like isolated incidents. It felt like momentum shifting, a sense that something larger was happening inside the walls of one of the most iconic teams in college sports. And in the hours after Moore's firing, the question wasn't just about what Michigan would do next. It was whether the program had finally hit a breaking point. In the days after Sharon Moore's arrest, the impact on Michigan football wasn't abstract. It wasn't theoretical. It was immediate, concrete, and documented across every corner of the program. Although I am 100% against getting involved with anyone in a relationship, no one should ever have to endure stalking, harassment, breaking and entering and being threatened the way Moore did to this young woman. Although we don't know much about the victim or the nature of their relationship yet, the fact that Moore was her boss shows a clear power imbalance. And if it's true that he fired her to try and save his own a, it does not look good. And his behavior in the fallout was extremely concerning. Moore was erratic. He stalked her. He broke into her apartment, he blamed her for everything and threatened to take his own life if she didn't do what he wanted. That's not love, that's abuse. Despite trying to blame his mistress for ruining his life, Moore is the one who broke his marriage vows and promises to his family and pursued one of his employees, knowing it was a fireable offense. Sharon Moore ruined his own life because if he didn't make these decisions, he would still have a family, a career, and a contract worth millions. In the meantime, we'll be waiting to see what the legal system does with Moore's case. He has been placed under GPS tether monitoring as part of his bond condition, which is set at $25,000, and he also has to undergo mental health treatment. His probable cause conference is set for January 22, so we'll keep our eyes on that as well. Even after that conference, Moore's arrest will still hit like a shockwave, not just because of what he's accused of, but because of everything Michigan fans and staffers have already endured. What did you think of tonight's case? Drop your thoughts and theories in the comments. See you next time if you haven't already. Follow us Wherever you're listening Rimehouse247 and make sure to follow us on social media Rimehouse24.7 for real time updates. Because the pursuit of justice never stops.
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Vanessa Richardson
Looking for your next listen? Hi, it's Vanessa Richardson and I have exciting news. Conspiracy theories, cults and crimes is leveling up starting the week of January 12th. You'll be getting two episodes every week. Wednesdays we unravel the conspiracy or the cult, and on Fridays we look at a corresponding crime. Follow Conspiracy Theories, Cults and Crimes now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen.