Bio 

William David Montgomery was born on August 17, 1963. By the early 1990s, Montgomery lived in the Bensalem area of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was described as a manual laborer who lived with his parents. He also described as a regular visitor to strip clubs in the Philadelphia area, where he became familiar with dancers and was recognized by people who worked in those clubs.

Montgomery was also described as a crack cocaine user. The source material states that investigators believed his life at the time was centered heavily around crack use and topless clubs. He was known to spend time around adult-entertainment venues, and both confirmed victims were women connected to sex work or adult entertainment.

Murder Story

William David Montgomery’s first confirmed victim was Toshiko Ciaccio, a 42-year-old Japanese-born woman who had worked for many years as a dancer in the Philadelphia area. She had come to the United States after marrying an American soldier and later divorced. By the early 1990s, she was still working as a stripper in the region.

In September 1992, Ciaccio was murdered. She suffered repeated blunt-force injuries to the head and was also reportedly choked. Her body was found nude and wrapped in material after being dumped. Investigators believed she had been killed elsewhere and then left at the discovery location.

Police interviewed many people connected to the bars and clubs where Ciaccio had worked, but the case did not immediately lead to an arrest. The investigation continued into the following year.

In August 1993, a second woman, 25-year-old Amy Moore, was found dead. Moore was described in the source material as a former hairdresser who had become involved in prostitution. Like Ciaccio, she had been beaten to death with a blunt object. Her nude body was wrapped in a camper awning and dumped near the Delaware River, a few miles from where Ciaccio’s body had been found.

A television report later helped investigators identify the camper awning. A viewer recognized it and contacted police. Investigators then searched Montgomery’s camper, which was described as bloodstained and missing the awning. That evidence led police to arrest him in 1994 for the murders of Ciaccio and Moore.

Prosecutors had strong forensic evidence linking Montgomery to the crimes, including evidence recovered from the camper. He eventually pleaded guilty to both murders and received life imprisonment. Older summaries say he pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 1994, while later reporting states he pleaded guilty in 2001 and received two life sentences. Because of this conflict, the most careful wording is: “Montgomery pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment, sources differ on the exact year.”