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This is an execution. This was a planned murder. The
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killer came into this house looking for Justin and got Justin.
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A brutal killing.
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Justin Michael was brutally gunned down and Angie Verhill was unharmed.
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It just didn't make sense.
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A dark mystery with shocking twists.
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The motives could be infidelity, jealousy. Is there some type
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of love triangle gone bad?
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He was face to face with the guy. that he
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could say, that's the guy that took my girlfriend away
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from me. Maybe it just kind of picked the scab.
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Maybe that's when his anger toward Justin Michael began to build.
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The truth will be revealed.
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Most victims know their killer. You're almost always going to
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find a connection. There's some tie back to the victim.
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The key to the investigation is finding that tie.
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Every day in North America, dozens of people are murdered.
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The key to solving the toughest of these homicides lies
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in the final 24 hours of the victim's life. To
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crack the case, detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline, the
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minutes and hours containing evidence that can help unlock the
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mystery and catch the killer. Some 15 miles north of
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Des Moines, Iowa, Just off the highway and down some
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gravel roads lies the town of Grimes, though if you blink,
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you just might miss it.
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Grimes is a very small town surrounded by nothing but farmland.
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You have the old brick downtown area, and then out
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for miles in every direction, you have farm fields.
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Grimes is very quiet, has that Midwestern charm. It has
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low crime rate. The last violent crime was 42 years ago.
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Most of the crimes are property crimes, thefts, burglaries.
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But then one spring night, the residents of this peaceful
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farming community are awoken by the sound of sirens.
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911, what's your emergency?
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Somebody just came in and shot my fiance in the head.
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Can you go over and check the status of.
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He's dead. Okay.
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I know he is.
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So there's no signs of life at all?
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No.
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When you get a shots fired trip, especially in the
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Grimes area, a lot of the times it's just people
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doing fireworks. You get backfire from a car. We've had
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transformers blow. Homicide?
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Very rarely.
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Very rarely.
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When you see a lot of authorities on the scene
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in Grimes, Iowa, you start thinking, this probably isn't just
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a normal crime, it's a lot more serious.
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The victim is 30-year-old Justin Michael.
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Justin was a good-looking, bright young man. Family and friends
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loved to be around him. He had a sense of adventure,
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a great job.
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Nobody had an unkind word to say about him. He
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was always willing to lend a hand. Just a good guy.
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Angie and Justin were engaged to be married. Angie had
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bought her wedding dress, so it's heartbreaking to know they
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were that close to the wedding and then their lives
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were shattered.
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Tasked with investigating Justin Michael's murder is Detective Robin Bartholomew.
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I was called out at roughly 3.30 in the morning
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and was notified of a shooting. Once on scene, I
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observed a white male, early 30s, laying on his back
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in the bed. There was a significant amount of blood.
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He had four gunshot wounds, three to the head and
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one to the neck. The victim appeared to be gunned
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down in his sleep.
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The person that shot Justin was clearly standing right over
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the top of him, shooting almost downward into his head.
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The bullets passed through Justin, through the pillow, through his mattress,
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and one of the bullets actually passed through the wall
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and exited the home.
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Justin Michael's fiance, Angie Verhul was laying right next to
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Justin Michael when he was shot. And Angie Verhul was unharmed.
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Angie said she was asleep in bed. She heard several
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shots and immediately woke and saw what appeared to be
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a dark figure exiting the bedroom. The description of the
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intruder was so vague. Average size person, unknown male or female,
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dressed in all dark clothing. We have no idea who
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we're looking for.
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Detective Bartholomew must now track down Justin's killer by focusing
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on the last 24 hours of his life, starting with
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the crime scene.
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Shell casings were located in the bed next to the victim.
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I'd never seen the shell casings before. They were Tula ammo,
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which I later learned is a Russian manufactured steel casing ammo.
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The weapon used was a nine millimeter automatic.
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Whenever you have a murder involving a firearm, ballistics is
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a very important forensic component of an investigation. Whenever you
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see a particular brand of ammunition show up that is atypical,
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that points police in the direction.
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Of a specific type of buyer.
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That said, the more rare a brand or a make
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or model of ammunition, the much smaller your potential pool
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of suspects, and they can be much harder to find.
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Police comb through the house, looking for more clues.
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It was a small, well-kept house. There was no signs
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of forced entry. The only thing that appeared out of
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order with some electronic equipment that had been pulled from
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an entertainment center.
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Then, something unusual catches the detective's eye.
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There was a piece of clothing that was left there
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in the living room that did not belong to anyone
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in the house. It was a construction yellow hoodie. I
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thought that was odd. In the preliminary stages of an investigation,
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you can't rule out a burglary gone wrong. But after
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examining the scene, Nothing was missing from the house. The
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house wasn't ransacked. To me, it was a poor attempt
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to stage a burglary.
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Staging is any attempt by an offender to create an
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alternate scenario, to move things around in a way to
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misdirect the police. Whenever you see staging at a murder scene,
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or any crime scene for that matter, It will often
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reflect the fact that the offender knows they're going to
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be the prime suspect. They have some personal connection to
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the victim. So by introducing staging or countermeasures, as we
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call it, it creates an alternate scenario to frame someone
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in particular.
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It did not seem it was some type of a
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burglary that was taking place. It appeared that this was
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a targeted attack. This was somebody that came into this
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house looking for Justin and got Justin.
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It's very unusual that someone's going to enter a house,
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gun down one person, and leave witnesses.
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In many cases, leaving a witness behind would have to
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have some other pragmatic purpose. In other cases, we see
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where an offender will murder one victim because they have
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a very specific motive. That doesn't necessarily mean they have
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it in them to take the life of an innocent
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bystander or a witness. In reality, some killers just aren't
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that cold-blooded.
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To get more answers, the investigators turned to the other
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witness at the scene, Justin's mother, Marie.
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Marie Michael was in town for wedding planning purposes. So
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she was actually staying at the residence with Justin and Angie.
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Marie was in a guest room across from Justin and
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Angie's room. At approximately 3.20 in the morning, she was
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awoken by the door opening.
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Marie Michael told us the gun that was used had
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a laser sight on it and she was woken up
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by the light shining in her eyes. She obviously was
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very scared, pretended to remain asleep. At one point she
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took a peek and she sees a figure in the
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doorway clad in all black. you know, nothing to indicate
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who it was. In very short order then, she heard
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four rapid gunshots.
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911 calls came in by Angie Verheule and Marie Michaels
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at 3.22 in the morning. We were able to establish
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that the homicide occurred at approximately 3.20 in the morning.
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But who would want to kill Justin Michael, and why?
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Justin Michael was brutally gunned down, and Angie Verhill was unharmed.
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It just didn't make sense. It was something that was
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suspicious to me.
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Angie said as soon as the shots happened, she immediately
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jumped up out of the bed. The fact that she
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didn't get blood on her, maybe from the way the
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gunshots occurred, all of the splatter went opposite of where
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Angie was lying. It's not out of the realm of possibility,
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but that's incredibly unusual.
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At this point, I think we need to look at
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what was the cause of this. Was it a coincidence?
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We wanted to look at Angie Verhill a little bit closer.
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When one learns that Angie was sleeping right beside Justin
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when he was shot and there was no blood on her,
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she wasn't harmed, one has to think, was she in
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on it? How could she possibly be uninjured or unscathed
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as a result of this brutal attack?
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When you examine crime scenes, and especially when you have
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blood evidence, it tells a story. And with The lack
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of blood on Angie Virgil, to me that was a
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red flag. In these types of cases, you really want
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to look at the person closest to the victim. More
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times than not, it's going to be a significant other
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or a family member that is involved in the homicide.
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I want to take a closer look at Angie.
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With suspicion swirling around Angie Verhul in the brutal killing
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of her fiance, Justin Michael, detectives bring her down to
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the station for questioning.
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Angie, by virtue of being Justin's fiance and being at
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the crime scene unharmed, is a person of interest.
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As detectives interview Angie, she's surprisingly unemotional.
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Do you have any suspects on who you think would
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have shot Justin? I have no idea.
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One would think that you'd be completely shattered that your
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fiancé was brutally gunned down right next to you. Angie
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was very calm. She wasn't upset. She wasn't crying. Her
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demeanor was a little suspicious.
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Is there anybody in Justin's life that harbors any ill
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toward him? Not that I know of.
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Everyone responds differently to grief and distress. So in order
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to calibrate a person's response and determine if it's suspicious
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or not, like we see in this case, we would
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have to first get to know every person of interest,
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their background, their habits, their associates, to understand if a
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theatrical response is out of character or if that's actually
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how they just operate day to day.
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You're the closest to them.
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Right.
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So you've got to know something.
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This is a planned murder. Angie survived the shooting. She's
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laying right next to Justin when it occurs. So why
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is she still alive? What's the motivation behind this murder?
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Detectives question Angie about how she and Justin spent his
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last 24 hours.
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The day before Justin Michael was murdered, they met for
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dinner at Justin Michael's sister's house. Angie said there was
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nothing unusual. Everything was normal. They were busy making preparations
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for the wedding, planning. They were happy, and they got
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home about 10 p.m. and went to bed approximately 11 p.m.
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Detectives press Angie for more details about Justin's life.
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Trying to figure out why something like this happens, you
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start looking at backgrounds, you start looking at all of
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the people that Justin knows.
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Has he had any issues with anyone?
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No enemies.
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Not that I know of.
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Did you party a little bit? No drugs involvement whatsoever.
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Did Justin ever sell drugs? Not that I know of.
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There was no indication that Justin was involved in drugs.
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There was no indication that Justin was involved in gambling
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or any of the things of that nature.
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You always want to look into, you know, was there
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something in Justin's background that was the cause of this homicide?
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There was.
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Really nothing. And also, there was nothing noteworthy in Justin
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Michael's past relationships that would indicate somebody wanting to harm him.
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We will do everything in our power to discover where
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the truth lies, nothing but the truth. And whoever's responsible
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for this, we need to make sure they're held accountable.
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Investigators look closer at Angie's relationship with Justin Michael. They
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want to know if there were problems between them.
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Angie had met Justin in 2013. They hit it off
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so well, she had moved in very quickly. She described
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their relationship as a great relationship. There was no stress, fights,
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no issues. They were both excited to get married. Angie
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said that their relationship was solid.
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People generally don't kill people just for the sake of
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killing people unless they are completely deranged Most victims know
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their killer. You're almost always going to find a connection.
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There's some tie back to the victim. The key to
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the investigation is finding that tie.
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With Angie still in their crosshairs, investigators dig deeper into
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her past relationships.
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During the course of Angie Verhul's interview, one of those
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things they asked about is, you know, who are your ex-boyfriends?
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Who are the people that you've been involved with that
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could be responsible for this? The first name she mentioned
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was a guy by the name of Andy Wagner.
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How long did you date Andy? About three years.
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Andy Wagner was a funeral director here in town.
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He was Angie's ex-boyfriend. It was a long-term relationship, and
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they were pretty serious and lived together, and eventually they
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broke up.
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How did Andy take the breakup? He was like, well,
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I feel like we're getting along really well, and.
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You know, it's hard for me to believe.
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We're making the right decision.
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And he was like, I'm taking this a little harder
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than I thought I would.
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At that point, Andy's a person of interest. He's somebody
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that has got a history with Angie. So we need
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to know what he's been up to. And we've got
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to figure out where he was, what he was doing,
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and see if he has any motivation to be involved
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in this.
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When pressed on who else might have wanted to harm Justin,
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Angie recalls a strange incident from a few months back.
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Angie had talked about an incident involving her vehicle where
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it was vandalized. The windshield was cracked, three windows were
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broke out, and someone had keyed her car. At the time,
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it was thought that kids in the neighborhood had damaged
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her vehicle. But after learning the amount of damage to
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Angie's car, it seemed very personal. The vandalized vehicle and
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the murder of Justin Michael could be related.
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Detectives ask Angie if she has any ideas as to
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who might be behind the vandalism.
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There was one guy that I had dated in between
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Andy and Justin.
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She mentions that for a very brief period of time,
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she dated this guy named Dave.
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It was not a full-on relationship. Angie talked about meeting
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up with him a half a dozen times, but nothing serious.
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It was just more of a hookup.
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According to Angie, when she ended things with Dave, he
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didn't take it well and sent her several angry texts.
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So at that point, Dave is on our radar, but
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we still don't know who Dave is. What does Dave
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look like? What is his last name?
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No, I just forgot.
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For a period of time, she could not remember Dave's
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last name.
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Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave.
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God, I don't know why I can't think of it
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right now. I thought that was odd. We were trying
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to ask more details or something that would help her
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remember Dave's last name. As we pressed forward, out of
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the blue, she comes up with... Moffitt.
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Moffitt, M-O-F-F-I-T-T. I can't remember if there's two T's or
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just one.
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We already had Andy Wagner's name, so we're running a
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criminal history check. We're doing those things with Andy Wagner,
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but now Dave Moffitt is somebody that we need to
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see what's going on. And then Angie said David and
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Justin had worked together at Wells Fargo.
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And what's even weirder is that he ended up working
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in Justin's department.
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Wells Fargo is a huge company. I mean, 10 plus
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thousand employees in Polk County. And by pure happenstance, David
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Moffitt then gets assigned to the very team within the
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mortgage division where Justin Michael worked. And both of these guys,
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Justin and David, had dated Angie Verheule. So he was
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face to face with the guy that he could say,
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that's the guy that took my girlfriend away from me.
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Maybe it just kind of picked the scab. Maybe that's
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when his anger toward Justin Michael began to.
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Build love triangles can be dangerous they involve intense emotions
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they involve jealousy and potentially rage and so I think
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anytime where you hear that there's a love triangle it
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raises the question Is there some sort of emotion or
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hostility here that's potentially leading to violence?
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This connection is most interesting. Knowing that Angie had a
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relationship with David Moffat, David Moffat has a work relationship
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with Justin Michael. Is there some type of love triangle
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gone bad? Jealousy, in my mind, could be the motive here.
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Jealousy is one of the most destructive emotions we need
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to find. David Moffitt and Angie's ex-boyfriend, Andy Wagner. We
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need to talk to these guys.
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We had to determine if they were involved in the
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murder of Angie's fiance.
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In the murder of Justin Michael, detectives are pursuing two
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new leads from his fiance, Angie's past.
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Knowing that Angie had a relationship with David Moffitt, and
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Andy Wagner is Angie's long-term ex-boyfriend. We want to dig
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a little deeper and find out everything we can about them.
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We're checking if David Moffitt has a criminal history. Does
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he have a weapons permit? While checking on David Moffitt,
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we learn that David Moffitt's vehicle was impounded the same
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night as the homicide. I needed to find out why.
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They discover David Moffitt had an accident the night of
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the homicide, approximately five miles from Justin Michael's home.
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At 3.45, shortly after the homicide, within the same hour,
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David Moffitt's in an accident.
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Having David Moffitt's name pop up at that time, in
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that location, is not something we expected to see.
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This is the piece of the puzzle we're looking for.
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I was dispatched to that car accident. When I arrived
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on scene, it was about 0400, about approximately 40 minutes
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after the homicide took place. On a gravel road, I
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come up on the red Ford Taurus. It struck this
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telephone pole. The front end of the car was smashed in.
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When I give the plate to dispatch and they advise
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me it belongs to a guy named David Moffitt.
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I don't see anybody in the area.
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And as soon as I'm starting to get back into
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my car is when the white male subject comes out
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of the ditch from the north. And he says, I
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need help. He said his name was David Moffitt. He
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just said he was out for a joyride and he
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got in a car accident.
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Deputy Tartt was aware at this time that five miles away,
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we have an active homicide scene going on. So while
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not immediately apparent that these two things could be related,
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It certainly got his suspicion up.
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The first thing I noticed is just how much sweat
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that he's covered in. He's from head to toe covered
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in sweat. I asked him what he's doing in the
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Grimes area. At that moment, he became really defensive. I
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couldn't find insurance on the car, so I made the
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decision that I was just going to impound the car.
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Gut was telling me that he knew more about what
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was actually happening, about the homicide. So I got all
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the information that we needed in case we needed to
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come back and talk to him, which I felt at
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some point we were probably going to.
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David Moffitt lives on the other side of the county.
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He lives 26, 27 miles away from this area. So
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barring some unusual circumstance, there's really not much reason for
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him to be over in that area at 4 o'clock
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in the morning.
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This startling new information that places David Moffitt both on
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the timeline and near the crime scene could be the
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break investigators have been looking for.
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Knowing that Angie dated David Moffitt and David Moffitt's vehicle
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was impounded the same night of the homicide, is that coincidence?
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Maybe?
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Maybe not?
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There's just too many coincidences that start to stack up
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in this case. He works with the victim. He's in
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a motor vehicle collision near the scene of the crime.
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That creates a nexus that is undeniable and that merits
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investigation full bore.
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So Dave goes from being an interesting character that we
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need to find out about to the top of our
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list in very short order.
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Detectives head to the scene of David Moffitt's car accident
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hoping to find evidence that will connect him to Justin's homicide.
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We have a lead. We can't get out there fast enough.
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Searching the area where David Moffitt crashed, we found some
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incredible items. We found a shoebox that contained ear protection,
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a flashlight, and camo makeup.
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So a lot of things that are associated with concealing
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your identity and committing a crime such as this murder.
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As detectives continue to comb through the area, they gather
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even more crucial evidence.
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We also find a gun magazine with ammo. It's Tula ammo.
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It's a match to the shell casings found at the
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crime scene. This is a big breakthrough.
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But then, detectives make an unexpected discovery.
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Along with the magazine, ammo, flashlight, was a receipt for
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an oil change in the name of Andy Wagner.
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What in the world is going on here? Andrew Wagner's
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already on our radar because, you know, he's Angie's ex-boyfriend.
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We have to figure out how in the world this
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receipt ends up at the crash scene, you know, where
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David Moffat's crashed his car.
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It just didn't make sense. Did Andy Wagner kill Justin Michael?
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Did David Moffat kill Justin Michael? Were they in it together?
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We've certainly seen collusion in homicide scenes, but by all accounts,
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other than the Angie factor that they had both dated her,
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there's no reason that David Moffat and Andrew Wagner would
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have crossed paths. We've got to figure out what the
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connection is between these two.
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The discovery of Andrew Wagner's name on a receipt at
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the scene of David Moffat's car accident, five miles from
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where Justin Michael was killed, has turned the investigation on
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its head.
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These two are tied to this crime scene. Are these
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two guys working together? Are they working with Angie? I
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need to do some digging.
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While detectives wait on a search warrant for David Moffat's house,
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they bring Andy Wagner in for questioning.
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Andy Wagner and Angie Virgil lived together for three years.
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When we interviewed Andrew Wagner, he had moved on. He
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had a new girlfriend.
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Andy Wagner said that he was aware that Angie was
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engaged but did not know to who she was engaged to.
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We asked Andy Wagner if he knew David Moffitt. He
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did not.
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Andy claimed that after their breakup, he didn't stay in
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contact with Angie.
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During interviews, it's very common that people minimize and don't
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tell the truth.
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Andy denies having any involvement in the crime, but detectives
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press on, looking for answers.
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When Andy was asked about a receipt for an oil
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change in his name, he didn't really have an explanation
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to why or what had happened to it. who said
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he recalled getting an oil change and thought that the
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receipt was still in his vehicle or at home.
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When people are interviewed, there's many reasons why they may
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be evasive. Sometimes they're trying to conceal information which isn't
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connected to the crime, but maybe portrays them in a
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negative light. Sometimes they're taken aback and they're confused by
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the information that they're being presented with, not because they're guilty,
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but just because that's their way of responding when they're
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in a stressful situation.
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Detectives question Andy about his whereabouts during the time Justin
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was killed.
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Andy talked about leaving work about 4 p.m. He went home,
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took care of a couple things, and then ultimately ended
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up staying overnight at his girlfriend's house.
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She lives in another community several miles away. They had
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gone to dinner that night, and they hung out at home,
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watched some TV, and went to bed.
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With Andy saying he's at his girlfriend's at 9 p.m.
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and Justin killed at 3.20 a.m., it's still possible that
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Andy had opportunity to sneak away from his girlfriend's place
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and kill Justin.
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We need to establish that he was, in fact, at
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his girlfriend's house. But at this point, Andy Wagner is
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still high on our list as far as suspects.
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In any circumstance where you have two mutually strong suspects,
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this creates a real dilemma for investigators because at some
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point you need to begin excluding one of them. So
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when you have two who can't be excluded, you can't
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move forward until one or the other is eliminated.
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As detectives are wrapping up their interview with Andy Wagner,
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they receive the search warrant for David Moffitt's home.
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David still lived at home with his parents. He came
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from a a pretty well-to-do family.
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We were able to conduct a search at the Moffitt residence.
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No one was home. Anytime you conduct a search, you're
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going to look for any kind of evidence that's related
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to the crime. We're going to look for weapons. We're
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going to look for ammunition. Anything that could lead us
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back to that homicide.
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Detectives quickly uncover an important new piece of evidence.
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In the basement, we found a bill of sale for
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a firearm, specifically a 9-millimeter automatic firearm, like the one
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that is involved in the homicide.
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Interestingly, though, on that bill of sale for that 9-millimeter gun,
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the seller was a gentleman by the name of Drew Ballman,
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and the purchaser on that bill of sale was Andy Wegner.
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Why does Andy Wegner's name keep popping up in this case?
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We got this receipt that we can't really you know,
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get a good answer on that's found at the crash
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site for the oil change. Now we have this bill
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of sale for a 9mm gun found in David Moffitt's basement.
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Investigators find Drew Ballman's address on the bill of sale
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for the gun, and they set off to pay him
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a visit in the nearby town of Sigourney.
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Drew Ballman's the guy that's going to solve this mystery
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for us. He's going to tell us who he saw
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when he sold the gun. If Andy Wagner went down
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and bought that gun, or if David Moffat went down
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and bought that gun.
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We met with Drew Ballman, and he had no criminal history.
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He lived in a small town, was a school teacher. Drew,
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he was legitimately concerned, very upset, knowing that a weapon
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that he had sold was involved in a homicide. He
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was very cooperative.
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He was a meticulous record keeper, which was of great
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value to us. As part of the sale of the weapon,
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he prepared two copies of the bill of sale. So
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we found that the one copy in David Moffitt's garbage can,
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he had an identical copy of that same bill of
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sale signed by both him and Andy Wagner. The other
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thing that Drew Ballman gave us, in addition to being
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a meticulous note taker, he's an avid target shooter. And
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fortunately for us, he actually had casings that he had
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fired through the nine millimeter gun that we believed to
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be the murder weapon. So we were able to match
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the bullets from the crime scene where Justin Michael was
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killed to the bullets that were provided to us by
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Drew Ballman. Now we know that we have our murder
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weapon that was sold by Drew Ballman.
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Police are one step closer to uncovering the identity of
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Justin Michael's killer.
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We showed Drew a picture of Andy Wagner, and we
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also showed him a photo lineup with a picture of
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David Moffitt.
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David Moffitt and Andrew Wegner look very, very similar. Drew
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Ballman pointed at the first lineup and identified David Moffitt.
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But he also pointed to Andy Wegner.
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Drew wasn't 100% sure who he had met with.
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Witnesses are really a double-edged sword for any investigator. You
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rely on witnesses to move an investigation forward, to prioritize
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certain suspects, to establish a timeline, but at the same time,
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eyewitness evidence is notoriously unreliable.
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With Drew Ballman having ID'd both David and Andy as
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the purchaser of the gun used to kill Justin Michael,
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his fiancée Angie is ruled out as a suspect. But
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even with this promising new lead, the investigation is at
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a crossroads.
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In this case was odd because We couldn't connect the dots.
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You know, whoever was committing this crime had the intention
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of throwing us off base. We don't usually have that,
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where it's false leads, for lack of a better term.
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We're not sure what's going on here, but we're going
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to find out who did this.
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In the murder of Justin Michael, detectives have two suspects
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on their radar, Andy Wagner... and David Moffitt. They need
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to identify which one is the killer. In the nearby
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town of Sigourney, they have one more piece of evidence
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to look into. It could be the key to solving
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the case.
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One of the requirements that Drew Ballman had for selling
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this gun was to make sure that the sale took
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place in a public place, so it would be recorded
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should anything go wrong.
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One of the receipts that we found at David Moffitt's
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residence was a receipt dated May 4th, from a convenience
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store out of Sigourney, Iowa. A lemonade was purchased along
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with a candy bar on May 4th at 6.13 hours.
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That is the same date and time that Drew Ballman
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sold the weapon.
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Fortunately for us, the inside of that store had a
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surveillance camera.
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Detectives turned to the surveillance cameras in the hopes of
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spotting David Moffitt or Andy Wagner. After scouring hundreds of
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hours of footage, they find the missing piece of the puzzle.
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We were able to positively identify this person as David Moffitt.
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At that point, we knew that David Moffitt was the
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person who purchased the weapon.
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The critical value of CCTV or video evidence is that
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it is an impartial witness. It can provide a historic
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record of a timeline that is unassailable, that is unlike
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eyewitness testimony that is subject to a lot of problems.
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Detectives now know that David Moffitt acted alone and was
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posing as Andy Wagner to buy the gun that killed
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Justin Michael. They believe he's the killer, but to prove it,
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they'll need more evidence tying him to the crime.
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A second search was conducted at the Moffitt residence.
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We found... There was tool ammo, which was consistent with
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both the tool ammo found at the primary crime scene,
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as well as the ammunition provided us to, by Drew Ballman.
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In the bathroom trash, we'd found recon notes. Notes that
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were specifically for Justin Michaels' neighborhood. Notes that would indicate
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certain times that neighbors were home, what time lights came off.
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things that would put David Moffitt there watching at Justin
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Michaels' house. Those notes indicated that David Moffitt had put
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some planning into this.
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Then, police come across a possible attempt to conceal evidence.
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We'd found a tote in the basement that was not
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there the previous day. And inside that tote was a
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laptop computer.
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And the red tub also contained about two inches of
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water in the bottom of it. It appeared that it
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was an attempt to eliminate whatever information was on the computer. Fortunately,
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our lab gurus were able to get this laptop dried
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out and in a functioning state. We found a substantial
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amount of evidence that specifically tied David Moffitt to the
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execution of this crime. The first file that was found
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on the computer was a forged driver's license that had
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David Moffat's picture on it, but the license was created
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in the name of Andy Wagner.
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The evidence suggested that David Moffat put a lot of
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planning into this. And this was all an elaborate ploy
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to frame Andy Wagner.
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So at that point, once we find this computer, it
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all makes sense. Then Andy Wagner is pretty much exonerated
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in this case.
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One may want to frame someone else, say, Andy, for
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the murder so he won't get caught, and perhaps he
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wants to get rid of all the competition so that
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he's either the last person standing for Angie's affections, or
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he wants to send a message to Angie and everybody
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that she's been involved with.
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Detectives then uncover even more revealing evidence connecting David Moffitt
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to the crimes.
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Once David's laptop was examined, we were able to look
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at all the internet web searches that he had made.
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You could see during the forensic analysis kind of the
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beginnings of a search history of David Moffitt searching Angie Verheule,
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David Moffitt, you know, typing in the name Justin Michael,
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things like that. And then days prior to the homicide,
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the search history ratcheting up in a sense.
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We learned that David Moffitt had searched how to commit
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a murder, what are the confession times at a local
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Catholic church, and the craziest one was the murderinest murder
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guide you'll ever need.
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The internet searches revealed that David Moffitt was trying to
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get away with murder.
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What stands out for me is the clear level of
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planning and forethought that was invested into committing this crime.
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This was not a crime of rage.
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The level of planning and plotting that this takes shows
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that there's a level of instrumentality here in this offense.
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With the evidence now stacked against him, David Moffitt is
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arrested for the murder of Justin Michael.
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So when we arrested David Moffitt, David Moffitt had a
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blank stare, no reaction whatsoever. It was like he'd been caught.
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Looking over this case, jealousy in my mind is the
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motive here. And David Moffitt was violently jealous.
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Detectives are now able to piece together Justin Michael's final
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24 hours.
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The night Justin Michael was murdered, they had all got
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home about 10 p.m. and went to bed approximately 11 p.m.
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Just after 3 a.m., David Moffitt entered Justin Michael's house
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with murder on his mind.
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On the night Justin was killed, the perpetrator was able
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to make entry through the back deck door. We then
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believe he went to the front of the house and
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staged that area to make it look as though it
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was some type of a burglary that was taking place.
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but this was not a burglary. This was a targeted attack.
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David Moffitt then came down the hallway, entered the wrong
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bedroom where Marie Michael was staying. At that point, he
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realized that that was not the person that he was
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going after. Moffitt then goes across the hall to the
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master bedroom where Angie and Justin were. Justin's laying in
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the bed, Angie's laying in the bed, and there's four
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shots that go into Justin. The bullets pass through Justin,
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through the pillow, through his mattress, and one of the
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bullets actually passed through the wall and exited the home.
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The killer was certainly looking for Justin, and the killer
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got Justin. We believe ultimately the gun had been thrown
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off a bridge into a lake.
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David Moffitt's car crash was his fatal error. Looking back now,
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if he would have never crashed, he might have gotten
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away with murder.
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In July 2015, David Moffitt is found guilty of first-degree
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murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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It was absolutely tragic. Justin certainly didn't deserve this.
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It just.
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That's what makes this hard. You know, you can't reconcile
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things like that in your head and have it make
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any kind of sense. The only reconciliation you get in
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a case like this is getting a conviction and holding
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the person responsible.
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I really feel for Justin's mother. As a mother myself,
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I can't imagine losing a child. And so your heart
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just breaks for her when she's talking about Being there
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the night her son's murdered and, you know, seeing the
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crime scene is just horrific for any mother. You don't
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expect to outlive your children ever.
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We may never know why David Moffitt killed Justin Michael.
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Was it in hopes that he would get back with Angie,
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he would get a second chance, or he was just
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pure evil? Thank you.
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This is an execution. This was a planned murder. The
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killer came into this house looking for Justin and got Justin.
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A brutal killing.
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Justin Michael was brutally gunned down and Angie Verhill was unharmed.
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It just didn't make sense.
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A dark mystery with shocking twists.
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The motives could be infidelity, jealousy. Is there some type
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of love triangle gone bad?
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He was face to face with the guy. that he
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could say, that's the guy that took my girlfriend away
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from me. Maybe it just kind of picked the scab.
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Maybe that's when his anger toward Justin Michael began to build.
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The truth will be revealed.
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Most victims know their killer. You're almost always going to
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find a connection. There's some tie back to the victim.
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The key to the investigation is finding that tie.
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Every day in North America, dozens of people are murdered.
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The key to solving the toughest of these homicides lies
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in the final 24 hours of the victim's life. To
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crack the case, detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline, the
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minutes and hours containing evidence that can help unlock the
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mystery and catch the killer. Some 15 miles north of
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Des Moines, Iowa, Just off the highway and down some
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gravel roads lies the town of Grimes, though if you blink,
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you just might miss it.
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Grimes is a very small town surrounded by nothing but farmland.
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You have the old brick downtown area, and then out
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for miles in every direction, you have farm fields.
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Grimes is very quiet, has that Midwestern charm. It has
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low crime rate. The last violent crime was 42 years ago.
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Most of the crimes are property crimes, thefts, burglaries.
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But then one spring night, the residents of this peaceful
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farming community are awoken by the sound of sirens.
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911, what's your emergency?
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Somebody just came in and shot my fiance in the head.
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Can you go over and check the status of.
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He's dead. Okay.
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I know he is.
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So there's no signs of life at all?
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No.
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When you get a shots fired trip, especially in the
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Grimes area, a lot of the times it's just people
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doing fireworks. You get backfire from a car. We've had
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transformers blow. Homicide?
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Very rarely.
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Very rarely.
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When you see a lot of authorities on the scene
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in Grimes, Iowa, you start thinking, this probably isn't just
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a normal crime, it's a lot more serious.
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The victim is 30-year-old Justin Michael.
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Justin was a good-looking, bright young man. Family and friends
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loved to be around him. He had a sense of adventure,
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a great job.
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Nobody had an unkind word to say about him. He
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was always willing to lend a hand. Just a good guy.
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Angie and Justin were engaged to be married. Angie had
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bought her wedding dress, so it's heartbreaking to know they
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were that close to the wedding and then their lives
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were shattered.
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Tasked with investigating Justin Michael's murder is Detective Robin Bartholomew.
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I was called out at roughly 3.30 in the morning
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and was notified of a shooting. Once on scene, I
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observed a white male, early 30s, laying on his back
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in the bed. There was a significant amount of blood.
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He had four gunshot wounds, three to the head and
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one to the neck. The victim appeared to be gunned
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down in his sleep.
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The person that shot Justin was clearly standing right over
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the top of him, shooting almost downward into his head.
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The bullets passed through Justin, through the pillow, through his mattress,
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and one of the bullets actually passed through the wall
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and exited the home.
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Justin Michael's fiance, Angie Verhul was laying right next to
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Justin Michael when he was shot. And Angie Verhul was unharmed.
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Angie said she was asleep in bed. She heard several
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shots and immediately woke and saw what appeared to be
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a dark figure exiting the bedroom. The description of the
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intruder was so vague. Average size person, unknown male or female,
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dressed in all dark clothing. We have no idea who
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we're looking for.
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Detective Bartholomew must now track down Justin's killer by focusing
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on the last 24 hours of his life, starting with
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the crime scene.
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Shell casings were located in the bed next to the victim.
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I'd never seen the shell casings before. They were Tula ammo,
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which I later learned is a Russian manufactured steel casing ammo.
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The weapon used was a nine millimeter automatic.
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Whenever you have a murder involving a firearm, ballistics is
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a very important forensic component of an investigation. Whenever you
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see a particular brand of ammunition show up that is atypical,
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that points police in the direction.
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Of a specific type of buyer.
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That said, the more rare a brand or a make
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or model of ammunition, the much smaller your potential pool
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of suspects, and they can be much harder to find.
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Police comb through the house, looking for more clues.
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It was a small, well-kept house. There was no signs
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of forced entry. The only thing that appeared out of
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order with some electronic equipment that had been pulled from
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an entertainment center.
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Then, something unusual catches the detective's eye.
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There was a piece of clothing that was left there
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in the living room that did not belong to anyone
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in the house. It was a construction yellow hoodie. I
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thought that was odd. In the preliminary stages of an investigation,
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you can't rule out a burglary gone wrong. But after
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examining the scene, Nothing was missing from the house. The
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house wasn't ransacked. To me, it was a poor attempt
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to stage a burglary.
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Staging is any attempt by an offender to create an
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alternate scenario, to move things around in a way to
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misdirect the police. Whenever you see staging at a murder scene,
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or any crime scene for that matter, It will often
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reflect the fact that the offender knows they're going to
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be the prime suspect. They have some personal connection to
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the victim. So by introducing staging or countermeasures, as we
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call it, it creates an alternate scenario to frame someone
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in particular.
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It did not seem it was some type of a
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burglary that was taking place. It appeared that this was
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a targeted attack. This was somebody that came into this
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house looking for Justin and got Justin.
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It's very unusual that someone's going to enter a house,
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gun down one person, and leave witnesses.
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In many cases, leaving a witness behind would have to
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have some other pragmatic purpose. In other cases, we see
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where an offender will murder one victim because they have
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a very specific motive. That doesn't necessarily mean they have
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it in them to take the life of an innocent
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bystander or a witness. In reality, some killers just aren't
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that cold-blooded.
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To get more answers, the investigators turned to the other
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witness at the scene, Justin's mother, Marie.
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Marie Michael was in town for wedding planning purposes. So
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she was actually staying at the residence with Justin and Angie.
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Marie was in a guest room across from Justin and
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Angie's room. At approximately 3.20 in the morning, she was
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awoken by the door opening.
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Marie Michael told us the gun that was used had
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a laser sight on it and she was woken up
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by the light shining in her eyes. She obviously was
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very scared, pretended to remain asleep. At one point she
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took a peek and she sees a figure in the
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doorway clad in all black. you know, nothing to indicate
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who it was. In very short order then, she heard
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four rapid gunshots.
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911 calls came in by Angie Verheule and Marie Michaels
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at 3.22 in the morning. We were able to establish
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that the homicide occurred at approximately 3.20 in the morning.
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But who would want to kill Justin Michael, and why?
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Justin Michael was brutally gunned down, and Angie Verhill was unharmed.
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It just didn't make sense. It was something that was
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suspicious to me.
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Angie said as soon as the shots happened, she immediately
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jumped up out of the bed. The fact that she
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didn't get blood on her, maybe from the way the
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gunshots occurred, all of the splatter went opposite of where
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Angie was lying. It's not out of the realm of possibility,
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but that's incredibly unusual.
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At this point, I think we need to look at
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what was the cause of this. Was it a coincidence?
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We wanted to look at Angie Verhill a little bit closer.
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When one learns that Angie was sleeping right beside Justin
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when he was shot and there was no blood on her,
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she wasn't harmed, one has to think, was she in
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on it? How could she possibly be uninjured or unscathed
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as a result of this brutal attack?
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When you examine crime scenes, and especially when you have
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blood evidence, it tells a story. And with The lack
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of blood on Angie Virgil, to me that was a
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red flag. In these types of cases, you really want
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to look at the person closest to the victim. More
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times than not, it's going to be a significant other
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or a family member that is involved in the homicide.
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I want to take a closer look at Angie.
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With suspicion swirling around Angie Verhul in the brutal killing
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of her fiance, Justin Michael, detectives bring her down to
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the station for questioning.
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Angie, by virtue of being Justin's fiance and being at
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the crime scene unharmed, is a person of interest.
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As detectives interview Angie, she's surprisingly unemotional.
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Do you have any suspects on who you think would
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have shot Justin? I have no idea.
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One would think that you'd be completely shattered that your
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fiancé was brutally gunned down right next to you. Angie
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was very calm. She wasn't upset. She wasn't crying. Her
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demeanor was a little suspicious.
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Is there anybody in Justin's life that harbors any ill
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toward him? Not that I know of.
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Everyone responds differently to grief and distress. So in order
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to calibrate a person's response and determine if it's suspicious
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or not, like we see in this case, we would
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have to first get to know every person of interest,
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their background, their habits, their associates, to understand if a
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theatrical response is out of character or if that's actually
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how they just operate day to day.
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You're the closest to them.
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Right.
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So you've got to know something.
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This is a planned murder. Angie survived the shooting. She's
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laying right next to Justin when it occurs. So why
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is she still alive? What's the motivation behind this murder?
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Detectives question Angie about how she and Justin spent his
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last 24 hours.
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The day before Justin Michael was murdered, they met for
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dinner at Justin Michael's sister's house. Angie said there was
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nothing unusual. Everything was normal. They were busy making preparations
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for the wedding, planning. They were happy, and they got
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home about 10 p.m. and went to bed approximately 11 p.m.
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Detectives press Angie for more details about Justin's life.
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Trying to figure out why something like this happens, you
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start looking at backgrounds, you start looking at all of
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the people that Justin knows.
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Has he had any issues with anyone?
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No enemies.
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Not that I know of.
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Did you party a little bit? No drugs involvement whatsoever.
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Did Justin ever sell drugs? Not that I know of.
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There was no indication that Justin was involved in drugs.
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There was no indication that Justin was involved in gambling
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or any of the things of that nature.
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You always want to look into, you know, was there
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something in Justin's background that was the cause of this homicide?
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There was.
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Really nothing. And also, there was nothing noteworthy in Justin
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Michael's past relationships that would indicate somebody wanting to harm him.
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We will do everything in our power to discover where
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the truth lies, nothing but the truth. And whoever's responsible
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for this, we need to make sure they're held accountable.
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Investigators look closer at Angie's relationship with Justin Michael. They
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want to know if there were problems between them.
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Angie had met Justin in 2013. They hit it off
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so well, she had moved in very quickly. She described
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their relationship as a great relationship. There was no stress, fights,
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no issues. They were both excited to get married. Angie
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said that their relationship was solid.
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People generally don't kill people just for the sake of
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killing people unless they are completely deranged Most victims know
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their killer. You're almost always going to find a connection.
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There's some tie back to the victim. The key to
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the investigation is finding that tie.
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With Angie still in their crosshairs, investigators dig deeper into
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her past relationships.
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During the course of Angie Verhul's interview, one of those
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things they asked about is, you know, who are your ex-boyfriends?
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Who are the people that you've been involved with that
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could be responsible for this? The first name she mentioned
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was a guy by the name of Andy Wagner.
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How long did you date Andy? About three years.
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Andy Wagner was a funeral director here in town.
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He was Angie's ex-boyfriend. It was a long-term relationship, and
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they were pretty serious and lived together, and eventually they
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broke up.
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How did Andy take the breakup? He was like, well,
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I feel like we're getting along really well, and.
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You know, it's hard for me to believe.
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We're making the right decision.
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And he was like, I'm taking this a little harder
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than I thought I would.
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At that point, Andy's a person of interest. He's somebody
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that has got a history with Angie. So we need
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to know what he's been up to. And we've got
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to figure out where he was, what he was doing,
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and see if he has any motivation to be involved
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in this.
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When pressed on who else might have wanted to harm Justin,
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Angie recalls a strange incident from a few months back.
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Angie had talked about an incident involving her vehicle where
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it was vandalized. The windshield was cracked, three windows were
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broke out, and someone had keyed her car. At the time,
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it was thought that kids in the neighborhood had damaged
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her vehicle. But after learning the amount of damage to
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Angie's car, it seemed very personal. The vandalized vehicle and
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the murder of Justin Michael could be related.
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Detectives ask Angie if she has any ideas as to
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who might be behind the vandalism.
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There was one guy that I had dated in between
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Andy and Justin.
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she dated this guy named Dave.
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It was not a full-on relationship. Angie talked about meeting
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up with him a half a dozen times, but nothing serious.
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It was just more of a hookup.
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didn't take it well and sent her several angry texts.
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So at that point, Dave is on our radar, but
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we still don't know who Dave is. What does Dave
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look like? What is his last name?
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No, I just forgot.
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For a period of time, she could not remember Dave's
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last name.
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Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave.
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God, I don't know why I can't think of it
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right now. I thought that was odd. We were trying
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to ask more details or something that would help her
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remember Dave's last name. As we pressed forward, out of
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the blue, she comes up with... Moffitt.
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Moffitt, M-O-F-F-I-T-T. I can't remember if there's two T's or
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just one.
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We already had Andy Wagner's name, so we're running a
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criminal history check. We're doing those things with Andy Wagner,
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but now Dave Moffitt is somebody that we need to
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see what's going on. And then Angie said David and
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Justin had worked together at Wells Fargo.
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And what's even weirder is that he ended up working
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in Justin's department.
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Wells Fargo is a huge company. I mean, 10 plus
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thousand employees in Polk County. And by pure happenstance, David
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Moffitt then gets assigned to the very team within the
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mortgage division where Justin Michael worked. And both of these guys,
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Justin and David, had dated Angie Verheule. So he was
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face to face with the guy that he could say,
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that's the guy that took my girlfriend away from me.
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Maybe it just kind of picked the scab. Maybe that's
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when his anger toward Justin Michael began to.
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Build love triangles can be dangerous they involve intense emotions
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they involve jealousy and potentially rage and so I think
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anytime where you hear that there's a love triangle it
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raises the question Is there some sort of emotion or
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hostility here that's potentially leading to violence?
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This connection is most interesting. Knowing that Angie had a
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relationship with David Moffat, David Moffat has a work relationship
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with Justin Michael. Is there some type of love triangle
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gone bad? Jealousy, in my mind, could be the motive here.
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Jealousy is one of the most destructive emotions we need
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to find. David Moffitt and Angie's ex-boyfriend, Andy Wagner. We
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need to talk to these guys.
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We had to determine if they were involved in the
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murder of Angie's fiance.
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In the murder of Justin Michael, detectives are pursuing two
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new leads from his fiance, Angie's past.
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Knowing that Angie had a relationship with David Moffitt, and
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Andy Wagner is Angie's long-term ex-boyfriend. We want to dig
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a little deeper and find out everything we can about them.
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We're checking if David Moffitt has a criminal history. Does
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he have a weapons permit? While checking on David Moffitt,
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we learn that David Moffitt's vehicle was impounded the same
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night as the homicide. I needed to find out why.
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They discover David Moffitt had an accident the night of
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the homicide, approximately five miles from Justin Michael's home.
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At 3.45, shortly after the homicide, within the same hour,
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David Moffitt's in an accident.
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Having David Moffitt's name pop up at that time, in
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that location, is not something we expected to see.
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This is the piece of the puzzle we're looking for.
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I was dispatched to that car accident. When I arrived
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on scene, it was about 0400, about approximately 40 minutes
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after the homicide took place. On a gravel road, I
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come up on the red Ford Taurus. It struck this
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telephone pole. The front end of the car was smashed in.
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When I give the plate to dispatch and they advise
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me it belongs to a guy named David Moffitt.
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I don't see anybody in the area.
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And as soon as I'm starting to get back into
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my car is when the white male subject comes out
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of the ditch from the north. And he says, I
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need help. He said his name was David Moffitt. He
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just said he was out for a joyride and he
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got in a car accident.
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Deputy Tartt was aware at this time that five miles away,
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we have an active homicide scene going on. So while
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not immediately apparent that these two things could be related,
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It certainly got his suspicion up.
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The first thing I noticed is just how much sweat
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that he's covered in. He's from head to toe covered
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in sweat. I asked him what he's doing in the
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Grimes area. At that moment, he became really defensive. I
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couldn't find insurance on the car, so I made the
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decision that I was just going to impound the car.
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Gut was telling me that he knew more about what
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was actually happening, about the homicide. So I got all
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the information that we needed in case we needed to
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come back and talk to him, which I felt at
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some point we were probably going to.
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David Moffitt lives on the other side of the county.
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He lives 26, 27 miles away from this area. So
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barring some unusual circumstance, there's really not much reason for
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him to be over in that area at 4 o'clock
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in the morning.
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This startling new information that places David Moffitt both on
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the timeline and near the crime scene could be the
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break investigators have been looking for.
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Knowing that Angie dated David Moffitt and David Moffitt's vehicle
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was impounded the same night of the homicide, is that coincidence?
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Maybe?
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Maybe not?
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There's just too many coincidences that start to stack up
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in this case. He works with the victim. He's in
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a motor vehicle collision near the scene of the crime.
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That creates a nexus that is undeniable and that merits
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investigation full bore.
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So Dave goes from being an interesting character that we
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need to find out about to the top of our
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list in very short order.
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Detectives head to the scene of David Moffitt's car accident
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hoping to find evidence that will connect him to Justin's homicide.
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We have a lead. We can't get out there fast enough.
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Searching the area where David Moffitt crashed, we found some
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incredible items. We found a shoebox that contained ear protection,
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a flashlight, and camo makeup.
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So a lot of things that are associated with concealing
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your identity and committing a crime such as this murder.
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As detectives continue to comb through the area, they gather
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even more crucial evidence.
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We also find a gun magazine with ammo. It's Tula ammo.
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It's a match to the shell casings found at the
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crime scene. This is a big breakthrough.
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But then, detectives make an unexpected discovery.
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Along with the magazine, ammo, flashlight, was a receipt for
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an oil change in the name of Andy Wagner.
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What in the world is going on here? Andrew Wagner's
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already on our radar because, you know, he's Angie's ex-boyfriend.
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We have to figure out how in the world this
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receipt ends up at the crash scene, you know, where
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David Moffat's crashed his car.
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It just didn't make sense. Did Andy Wagner kill Justin Michael?
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Did David Moffat kill Justin Michael? Were they in it together?
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We've certainly seen collusion in homicide scenes, but by all accounts,
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other than the Angie factor that they had both dated her,
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there's no reason that David Moffat and Andrew Wagner would
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have crossed paths. We've got to figure out what the
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connection is between these two.
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The discovery of Andrew Wagner's name on a receipt at
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the scene of David Moffat's car accident, five miles from
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where Justin Michael was killed, has turned the investigation on
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its head.
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These two are tied to this crime scene. Are these
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two guys working together? Are they working with Angie? I
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need to do some digging.
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While detectives wait on a search warrant for David Moffat's house,
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they bring Andy Wagner in for questioning.
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Andy Wagner and Angie Virgil lived together for three years.
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When we interviewed Andrew Wagner, he had moved on. He
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had a new girlfriend.
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Andy Wagner said that he was aware that Angie was
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engaged but did not know to who she was engaged to.
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We asked Andy Wagner if he knew David Moffitt. He
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did not.
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Andy claimed that after their breakup, he didn't stay in
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contact with Angie.
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During interviews, it's very common that people minimize and don't
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tell the truth.
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Andy denies having any involvement in the crime, but detectives
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press on, looking for answers.
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When Andy was asked about a receipt for an oil
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change in his name, he didn't really have an explanation
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to why or what had happened to it. who said
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he recalled getting an oil change and thought that the
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receipt was still in his vehicle or at home.
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When people are interviewed, there's many reasons why they may
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be evasive. Sometimes they're trying to conceal information which isn't
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connected to the crime, but maybe portrays them in a
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negative light. Sometimes they're taken aback and they're confused by
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the information that they're being presented with, not because they're guilty,
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but just because that's their way of responding when they're
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in a stressful situation.
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Detectives question Andy about his whereabouts during the time Justin
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was killed.
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Andy talked about leaving work about 4 p.m. He went home,
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took care of a couple things, and then ultimately ended
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up staying overnight at his girlfriend's house.
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She lives in another community several miles away. They had
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gone to dinner that night, and they hung out at home,
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watched some TV, and went to bed.
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With Andy saying he's at his girlfriend's at 9 p.m.
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and Justin killed at 3.20 a.m., it's still possible that
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Andy had opportunity to sneak away from his girlfriend's place
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and kill Justin.
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We need to establish that he was, in fact, at
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his girlfriend's house. But at this point, Andy Wagner is
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still high on our list as far as suspects.
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In any circumstance where you have two mutually strong suspects,
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this creates a real dilemma for investigators because at some
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point you need to begin excluding one of them. So
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when you have two who can't be excluded, you can't
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move forward until one or the other is eliminated.
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As detectives are wrapping up their interview with Andy Wagner,
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they receive the search warrant for David Moffitt's home.
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David still lived at home with his parents. He came
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from a a pretty well-to-do family.
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We were able to conduct a search at the Moffitt residence.
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No one was home. Anytime you conduct a search, you're
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going to look for any kind of evidence that's related
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to the crime. We're going to look for weapons. We're
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going to look for ammunition. Anything that could lead us
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back to that homicide.
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Detectives quickly uncover an important new piece of evidence.
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In the basement, we found a bill of sale for
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a firearm, specifically a 9-millimeter automatic firearm, like the one
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that is involved in the homicide.
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Interestingly, though, on that bill of sale for that 9-millimeter gun,
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the seller was a gentleman by the name of Drew Ballman,
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and the purchaser on that bill of sale was Andy Wegner.
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Why does Andy Wegner's name keep popping up in this case?
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We got this receipt that we can't really you know,
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get a good answer on that's found at the crash
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site for the oil change. Now we have this bill
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of sale for a 9mm gun found in David Moffitt's basement.
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Investigators find Drew Ballman's address on the bill of sale
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for the gun, and they set off to pay him
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a visit in the nearby town of Sigourney.
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Drew Ballman's the guy that's going to solve this mystery
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for us. He's going to tell us who he saw
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when he sold the gun. If Andy Wagner went down
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and bought that gun, or if David Moffat went down
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and bought that gun.
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We met with Drew Ballman, and he had no criminal history.
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He lived in a small town, was a school teacher. Drew,
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he was legitimately concerned, very upset, knowing that a weapon
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that he had sold was involved in a homicide. He
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was very cooperative.
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He was a meticulous record keeper, which was of great
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value to us. As part of the sale of the weapon,
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he prepared two copies of the bill of sale. So
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we found that the one copy in David Moffitt's garbage can,
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he had an identical copy of that same bill of
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sale signed by both him and Andy Wagner. The other
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thing that Drew Ballman gave us, in addition to being
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a meticulous note taker, he's an avid target shooter. And
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fortunately for us, he actually had casings that he had
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fired through the nine millimeter gun that we believed to
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be the murder weapon. So we were able to match
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the bullets from the crime scene where Justin Michael was
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killed to the bullets that were provided to us by
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Drew Ballman. Now we know that we have our murder
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weapon that was sold by Drew Ballman.
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Police are one step closer to uncovering the identity of
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Justin Michael's killer.
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We showed Drew a picture of Andy Wagner, and we
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also showed him a photo lineup with a picture of
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David Moffitt.
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David Moffitt and Andrew Wegner look very, very similar. Drew
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Ballman pointed at the first lineup and identified David Moffitt.
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But he also pointed to Andy Wegner.
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Drew wasn't 100% sure who he had met with.
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Witnesses are really a double-edged sword for any investigator. You
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rely on witnesses to move an investigation forward, to prioritize
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certain suspects, to establish a timeline, but at the same time,
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eyewitness evidence is notoriously unreliable.
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With Drew Ballman having ID'd both David and Andy as
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the purchaser of the gun used to kill Justin Michael,
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his fiancée Angie is ruled out as a suspect. But
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even with this promising new lead, the investigation is at
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a crossroads.
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In this case was odd because We couldn't connect the dots.
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You know, whoever was committing this crime had the intention
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of throwing us off base. We don't usually have that,
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where it's false leads, for lack of a better term.
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We're not sure what's going on here, but we're going
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to find out who did this.
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In the murder of Justin Michael, detectives have two suspects
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on their radar, Andy Wagner... and David Moffitt. They need
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to identify which one is the killer. In the nearby
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town of Sigourney, they have one more piece of evidence
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to look into. It could be the key to solving
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the case.
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One of the requirements that Drew Ballman had for selling
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this gun was to make sure that the sale took
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place in a public place, so it would be recorded
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should anything go wrong.
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One of the receipts that we found at David Moffitt's
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residence was a receipt dated May 4th, from a convenience
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store out of Sigourney, Iowa. A lemonade was purchased along
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with a candy bar on May 4th at 6.13 hours.
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That is the same date and time that Drew Ballman
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sold the weapon.
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Fortunately for us, the inside of that store had a
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surveillance camera.
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Detectives turned to the surveillance cameras in the hopes of
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spotting David Moffitt or Andy Wagner. After scouring hundreds of
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hours of footage, they find the missing piece of the puzzle.
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We were able to positively identify this person as David Moffitt.
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At that point, we knew that David Moffitt was the
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person who purchased the weapon.
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The critical value of CCTV or video evidence is that
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it is an impartial witness. It can provide a historic
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record of a timeline that is unassailable, that is unlike
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eyewitness testimony that is subject to a lot of problems.
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Detectives now know that David Moffitt acted alone and was
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posing as Andy Wagner to buy the gun that killed
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Justin Michael. They believe he's the killer, but to prove it,
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they'll need more evidence tying him to the crime.
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A second search was conducted at the Moffitt residence.
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We found... There was tool ammo, which was consistent with
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both the tool ammo found at the primary crime scene,
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as well as the ammunition provided us to, by Drew Ballman.
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In the bathroom trash, we'd found recon notes. Notes that
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were specifically for Justin Michaels' neighborhood. Notes that would indicate
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certain times that neighbors were home, what time lights came off.
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things that would put David Moffitt there watching at Justin
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Michaels' house. Those notes indicated that David Moffitt had put
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some planning into this.
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Then, police come across a possible attempt to conceal evidence.
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We'd found a tote in the basement that was not
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there the previous day. And inside that tote was a
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laptop computer.
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And the red tub also contained about two inches of
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water in the bottom of it. It appeared that it
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was an attempt to eliminate whatever information was on the computer. Fortunately,
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our lab gurus were able to get this laptop dried
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out and in a functioning state. We found a substantial
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amount of evidence that specifically tied David Moffitt to the
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execution of this crime. The first file that was found
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on the computer was a forged driver's license that had
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David Moffat's picture on it, but the license was created
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in the name of Andy Wagner.
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The evidence suggested that David Moffat put a lot of
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planning into this. And this was all an elaborate ploy
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to frame Andy Wagner.
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So at that point, once we find this computer, it
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00:37:56.889 --> 00:38:01.389
all makes sense. Then Andy Wagner is pretty much exonerated
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in this case.
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One may want to frame someone else, say, Andy, for
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the murder so he won't get caught, and perhaps he
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wants to get rid of all the competition so that
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he's either the last person standing for Angie's affections, or
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he wants to send a message to Angie and everybody
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that she's been involved with.
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Detectives then uncover even more revealing evidence connecting David Moffitt
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to the crimes.
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Once David's laptop was examined, we were able to look
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at all the internet web searches that he had made.
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You could see during the forensic analysis kind of the
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beginnings of a search history of David Moffitt searching Angie Verheule,
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David Moffitt, you know, typing in the name Justin Michael,
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things like that. And then days prior to the homicide,
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the search history ratcheting up in a sense.
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We learned that David Moffitt had searched how to commit
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a murder, what are the confession times at a local
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Catholic church, and the craziest one was the murderinest murder
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guide you'll ever need.
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The internet searches revealed that David Moffitt was trying to
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get away with murder.
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What stands out for me is the clear level of
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planning and forethought that was invested into committing this crime.
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This was not a crime of rage.
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The level of planning and plotting that this takes shows
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that there's a level of instrumentality here in this offense.
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With the evidence now stacked against him, David Moffitt is
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arrested for the murder of Justin Michael.
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So when we arrested David Moffitt, David Moffitt had a
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blank stare, no reaction whatsoever. It was like he'd been caught.
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Looking over this case, jealousy in my mind is the
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motive here. And David Moffitt was violently jealous.
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Detectives are now able to piece together Justin Michael's final
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24 hours.
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The night Justin Michael was murdered, they had all got
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home about 10 p.m. and went to bed approximately 11 p.m.
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Just after 3 a.m., David Moffitt entered Justin Michael's house
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with murder on his mind.
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On the night Justin was killed, the perpetrator was able
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to make entry through the back deck door. We then
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believe he went to the front of the house and
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staged that area to make it look as though it
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was some type of a burglary that was taking place.
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but this was not a burglary. This was a targeted attack.
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David Moffitt then came down the hallway, entered the wrong
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bedroom where Marie Michael was staying. At that point, he
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realized that that was not the person that he was
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going after. Moffitt then goes across the hall to the
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master bedroom where Angie and Justin were. Justin's laying in
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the bed, Angie's laying in the bed, and there's four
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shots that go into Justin. The bullets pass through Justin,
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through the pillow, through his mattress, and one of the
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bullets actually passed through the wall and exited the home.
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The killer was certainly looking for Justin, and the killer
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got Justin. We believe ultimately the gun had been thrown
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off a bridge into a lake.
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David Moffitt's car crash was his fatal error. Looking back now,
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if he would have never crashed, he might have gotten
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away with murder.
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In July 2015, David Moffitt is found guilty of first-degree
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murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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It was absolutely tragic. Justin certainly didn't deserve this.
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It just.
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That's what makes this hard. You know, you can't reconcile
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things like that in your head and have it make
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any kind of sense. The only reconciliation you get in
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a case like this is getting a conviction and holding
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the person responsible.
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I really feel for Justin's mother. As a mother myself,
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I can't imagine losing a child. And so your heart
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just breaks for her when she's talking about Being there
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the night her son's murdered and, you know, seeing the
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crime scene is just horrific for any mother. You don't
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expect to outlive your children ever.
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We may never know why David Moffitt killed Justin Michael.
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Was it in hopes that he would get back with Angie,
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he would get a second chance, or he was just
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pure evil? Thank you.
