Couple on Gulf Coast killing rampage have killed 3, injured one

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When the bodies of 30-year-old Alicia Ann Greer and 39-year-old Jacqueline Jeanette Moore were found Jan. 31 at the Emerald Sands Inn on Highway 90 in Milton, Fla., it seemed like a tragic but isolated mystery.

“It’s just unfortunate whatever was going on in their lives caused this to happen,” the inn’s owner

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Three days later, though, the body of 52-year-old Peggy Broz was found in her yard in Baldwin County, just across Perdido Bay, which separates the Florida panhandle from Alabama. The woman had been shot, and her white 2003 Chrysler Concorde was missing.

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In Pensacola, back on the other side of Perdido Bay, 28-year-old Kayla Crocker’s mother worried when her daughter didn’t show up from work. She drove to her house to check on her daughter and 2-year-old grandson.

There, she found her daughter bleeding out from a gunshot wound at 6:30 a.m. Her son was also in the house, unharmed. Crocker’s 2006 white Chevrolet Cobalt, adorned with a skull and crossbones sticker, was missing.

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“What we are experiencing is a running nightmare, quite honestly,” Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Chip Simmons said during a Monday news conference. “In short, we have a killer. He is in our midst. … Everyone, and I mean everyone, should be aware of this, should be aware of what they look like.”

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