Flonnie gave half wages to P.D.
Blanche's mother Flonnie gave half of her approximately $40-a-week wages to her husband P.D., who openly spent it on young girls.
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Blanche Taylor Moore, The Oldest Woman on Death Row (Part 1)
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Jun 29, 2026
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Blanche's Childhood and the Keyser Family
At 6:21 · chapter starts 5:10
Born February 17, 1933, in Concord, North Carolina, Blanche Taylor Moore grows up in a household defined by religious rigidity and glaring double standards. Her father P.D. Keyser — a mill worker by trade but a passionate primitive Baptist preacher by calling — travels to rural campgrounds to deliver fire-and-brimstone sermons, but spends the family's meager income on gambling, drinking, and young girls. Mother Flonnie works full-time and gives half her roughly $40-a-week wages directly to P.D., who makes no secret of where it goes. The children are dressed in hand-me-downs yet subject to modesty inspections; they are forbidden from any after-school activities or socializing. Ash and Alaina note the profound hypocrisy, drawing a through-line between Blanche's repressive upbringing and her later rejection of all conventional rules.
A Father Who Preached Modesty While Visiting Sex Workers
P.D. Keyser preached primitive Baptist gospel, gambled, drank, spent wages on young girls, and still inspected his daughters' modesty. Growing up in that household meant Blanche never experienced stability — only control dressed up as virtue.
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