Republic’s Moore arrested for abandoning corpse, evidence tampering

A Republic woman has been arrested after being charged with crimes stemming from the alleged murder of Coy Cole, of Miller, last November. Tanya Moore, 38, is charged with abandoning a corpse and two counts of tampering with evidence.
Cole was allegedly murdered by Matthew Abney, of Verona, on Nov. 19, 2019. According to the probable cause statement in the murder case, Moore (previously not identified because she hadn’t been charged at the time) said that Abney came to Cole’s residence in Miller and forced both her and Cole, 52, to get on their knees. She said Abney shot Cole in the arm, and that he shot at her also but missed. She also reported that Abney fired several shots, and she heard Cole shout, “No, Matt!” and then saw him dead in his chair in the living room. Abney also allegedly took Cole’s keys and destroyed Cole’s and Moore’s cellphones.
Moore also said that Ray Fryling, also of Verona, and Abney wrapped Cole’s body in a shower curtain and loaded it into a small trailer with two chairs that belonged to Cole. Fryling and Abney also allegedly discussed removing the bullet which Abney shot Cole with in the arm; it reportedly had gone into a wall. According to the probable cause statement, it was removed and given to Fryling. She also stated Fryling threatened to kill the witness’s family members in front of her and make her watch, and then kill her if she told anyone about what had happened.
However, in the probable cause statement regarding the charges against Moore, the investigating detective reported that Moore admitted that she retrieved the shower curtain used to wrap Cole’s body from the upstairs bathroom in Cole’s house.