This Sexual Predator Started as a Child

Lisa Marie Fuqua
True Crime Addiction
9 min readSep 26, 2021

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If ever there was a case for saying someone was born to assault, it would be this one.

Anthony Allen Shore | via The Mirror

A Killer Childhood

Anthony Allen Shore was born on June 25, 1962, in Rapid City, South Dakota. His parents Robert and Deanna were both enlisted in the military, and the family frequently moved throughout Shore’s childhood.

In total, the family moved nine times before Anthony made it to high school. Shore would grow up with two younger sisters, Laurel and Gina.

Both Robert and Deanna also compulsively cheated on each other and fought regularly. They would divorce in 1976 when Shore was 14 years old.

Starting in childhood, Anthony was beyond meticulous about nearly everything. He abhorred getting dirty and routinely coached his sisters on how they should behave. His family remembers Anthony hanging his socks out on hangers, only wearing silk underwear, and always being neat.

While still a child, he took his first life, a neighbors cat. Also, at a young age, he started to molest female classmates and the friends of his two younger sisters.

Anthony and his sister Gina would ride their bikes around the neighborhood together while Anthony talked about the girls who lived inside. One day they stopped in front of a house, and Anthony…

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Lisa Marie Fuqua
True Crime Addiction

True Crime Writer in Las Vegas. I used to be a Web Developer in the Newsroom, now I spend my time in coffee shops researching murder.