Melissa Mooney’s neighborhood ten years later

In 1999, former FBI secretary Melissa Mooney was moving into her new home here on Reminisce Road. She barely had a chance to settle in, when police say neighbor Tyrone Delgado entered her home, and murdered her.

Former FBI agent Larry Bonney remembers the day Melissa didn’t make it in to work, “That day was an important day for her. She was moving into her first house, and we were supposed to help her, and meet her. And at the office she failed to show up, and when she was fifteen minutes late, we knew there was a problem.”

After nine long weeks in court, the jury came back with the verdict. Delgado was found guilty of murder in the first degree. His sentence – Life in prison without parole. Former FBI agent, and friend of Mooney’s, Larry Bonney says justice was served. “A predator was taken off the streets, and this is a man that would have been back again, injuring, maming and killing people, cause that’s just who he is.”

Bonney says Delgado is a natural born killer. “Tyrone Delgado is a man who works on impulse. He has low impulse control, he saw a victim of opportunity, and saw a chance to go and do the things that he does.”

After hearing the jury’s verdict, Delgado maintained his innocence. “Tyrone Delgado remained who he was right to the end. As he was being led out of the courtroom, he had to give one more order to his ex-wife, one more command, and one more demand, to show that he was still in control.”

After Delgado left the courtroom, Bonney says Delgado lost control, and broke down in tears.
Tears some say he should have shed a long time ago.