Anthony Shore killed one woman and three girls before he was executed by lethal injection last year
For almost 15 years, serial killer Anthony Shore brutally murdered and sexually assaulted young women and girls.
Fro the outside, the father-of-two looked like a loving family man, who worked hard to provide for his wife and daughters.
But behind his respectable facade, a dark and sinsiter obsession with sexual abuse and violence towards youngsters was never far from the surface.
Shore killed one woman and three young girls and sexually assaulted many of them.
The twisted killer even sexually abused his own daughters, Tiffany and Amber, who he was a single parent to after the breakdown of his first marriage.
The 55-year-old was sentenced to death and was executed by lethal injection on January 18, last year.
His bizarre final words were “Oooh-ee! I can feel that,” as he was put to death.
Anthony Allen Shore, 55, said the drug used to kill him in the first execution in the US execution of 2018 “burned”.
Shore became known as Houston’s “Tourniquet Killer” because of his method of strangling his victims with a homemade tourniquet.
Crime+Investigation’s I Lived With A Killer speaks to Shore’s daughter, Tiffany, about the appalling shadow her father’s actions have cast over her life.
She said: “He was basically just convinced that nothing bad would happen to us if we were locked inside the house.
“You know, ‘Don’t go outside because someone might kidnap you.’
“In reality, I think the worst thing out there was probably him. He was the worst person in the neighborhood.”
Charismatic and popular, Shore worked as a telephone repairman and was given the nickname, Telephone Tony by his pals.
Chillingly, his job meant he had access to homes that would have been otherwise out of bounds to him.
And to his daughters, especially Tiffany, he was the perfect father, spoiling her and her sister with the best gifts money can buy.
But Shore had a disturbing secret, which has started when he was a teenager.
He used to use his sister to lure girls out of their homes and into his car, where he would then harass and fondle them.
As Shore became an adult, his behaviour did not change – and neither did the age of the girls he was targeting.
He murdered his first victim, 14-year-old Laurie Tremblay, in 1986.
Shore had become friends with the teenager when he started giving her lifts after spotting her on the street.
But when he made a move on her and she refused him, Shore ‘silenced’ her.
He hit her over the head in his van and strangled her with a cotton cord.
As he twisted the cord, his fingers got stuck and he injured his hand before dumping Laurie’s body behind a restaurant.
This would be the first and last time Shore would kill in this way.
DNA evidence was still in its infancy and police had no leads that would link him to the crime.
And at home, Tiffany and Amber’s life continues to unravel.
Tiffany said: “We were pretty well isolated from other children. We didn’t really have lots of outings to other people’s houses.
“So we didn’t understand what the social norms were for family dynamic. Our family dynamic was pretty abusive at best. And to us that was the norm.
“We did not know any better. We had nothing to compare it to. So I just accepted it as life at that point.”
In 1992, Shore sees Maria del Carmen Estrada as she is walking in the early morning.
At 20, she is older than the rest of his victims but looks young and he talks her into getting into his van.
He again tries to make a move on her and when she says no, Shore becomes violent.
Gerald Bourque, Shore’s court appointed attonry, said: “He locks all the doors.
“He takes his nylon ligature with a stick attached to it and slips it around her neck and begins to sexually assault and kill her.”
Shore did not want to hurt his hand as he had done with his first murder and adopted the home-made tourniquet as his method with the rest of his victims.
This is what lead to his nickname, the Tourniquet Killer.
Police did gather some DNA evidence from Maria’s body after it was dumped and store them.
Within a year of commiting his second murder, Shore’s marriage has crumbled and he is awarded full custody of his two daughters.
For Tiffany and Amber, the situation is horrific.
In a bid to save money they are forced to share bath water and have to wash all their clothes by hand.,
Tiffany said: “The food situation was less than desirable. We kind of had an infestation of cockroaches and insects in the house.
“We found cockroach eggs in our cereal, or ants in our peanut butter.
“Kids would make comments about the way we smelled, or that our clothes were dirty.
“It made me feel very insecure. Nobody wants to be the smelly nasty kid at school.”
Violence became common at home and the girls were often locked in when their father went out at night.
In 1993, Shore targets a 14-year-old, knowing she would be home alone through his work as a telephone repair man.
He sexually assaults her but can’t bring himself to kill her – and because of his disguise is still unrecognisable.
Because this crime was so different to Shore’s previous two sex assualts and murders, police don’t connect them.
Shore was also starting to turn his sick attention to his two young daughters.
Tiffany said: “I would wake up and I would see him exposing himself in our bedroom while touching himself in a lude and lascivious manner, if you will.
“And I never said anything or drew attention to it. I would just pretend to be asleep in the hopes he would go away.
“I think I was like 10 years old. We were all sitting there and we’re playing a card game.
“And it was a drinking game. And he got me very, very, very intoxicated. And I was very sick.
“And I remember waking up completely in the nude and he was assaulting me while I was unconscious.”
The abuse had a devastating effect on Tiffany who tried to take her own life.
Child protection officers got involved but because both girls were so terrified of their father, they lied and claimed everything was fine at home.
Even visits from social workers failed to flag something was seriously wrong as Shore would clean to house and make sure he had a meal cooking when they turned up.
Then, in 1994, Shore sees nine-year-old Diana Rebollar walking to the shops for her mother.
The following year, he kills Dana Sanchez as she was hitch hiking and dumped her body in a field.
Shore was so certain he would never be caught he even phoned a TV station, anonymously, to alert reporters as to where he had left Dana’s body.
Finally, when Tiffant was just 12, her life changed for ever.
Shore wanted to marry his much younger fiance and so she and her sister were sent to their grandmother’s in Sacramento, California.
Their gran immediately realised something was wrong and she and their aunt confronted them about the problems at home.
This time, Amber and Tiffany came clean and police in HOuston, Texas, arrest Shore for child molestation.
Shore was let out on probation and is now a registered sex offender, with his DNA on a national database.
While his daughters were receiving therapy for the terrible abuse they ahd endured, the net was closing in on their father.
In 2003, Shore is finally connected to his second killing, Maria Estrada, through the DNA under her fingernails.
He immediately confesses to her murder, along with the killings of Laurie, Dana and Diana as well as raping a 14-year-old.
Tiffany said: “Finding out one of your parents went out and killed anybody is pretty devastating – even when you know they’re a bad person.
“It takes it to a whole new level of awful.”
Following his trial, where Tiffany is called to give evidence, Shore is handed te death penalty.
He is executed almost 15 years later – no one from his family was there.
Brave Tiffany is now moving on with her life and works in the justice system to help other victims.She said: “So since receiving lots of therapy and support from other individuals and just learning through life experience, trial and error type stuff, I do feel a lot more confident about my life and about myself as an individual.
“I want to lead by example for my daughter, I want her to emulate the right things from me so it’s, it’s a daily work in progress.”
