Court records suggest Roy Moore dated wife while she was still married

By Moore’s account, he and Kayla began dating “soon after” she visited the law office of his colleague “early in the new year” of 1985. They dated for “about a year,” he claimed, before becoming engaged and then married on Dec. 14, 1985.

That would lead readers to believe the pair began dating in late 1984 or early 1985, a period during which court records show his bride-to-be was still legally married to Heald and would be until the spring.

“That was always an assumption,” a source with knowledge of Kayla’s first marriage said when asked whether she dated Moore before finalizing her divorce. The same source said Moore gave Kayla’s daughter a puppy for Valentine’s Day in 1985, further suggesting that he and Kayla were seeing each other at that time.