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This is a good whodunit case. Reporter there was the one who watched her. He knew an awful lot about her routines, and who she dated. Reporter the one who hacked her. He is trying to get into her Bank Accounts, her emails. Reporter and a third, who talked to police, then to himself am i overreacting . Reporter so much odd behavior. In a case that would would come down to one stunning clue. There was a locked drawer, inside the drawer was a letter in russian. A blonde beauty, with a dark secret. There were all kinds of things in annas life that she didnt tell anybody about. She did not. Reporter im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres josh mankiewiecz with and it was here she found what she was looking for. Love and success, along with men and women who found her, well, fascinating. I met anna after church one afternoon. I was delighted to meet someone who was more, worldly and sophisticated than the runofthemill, suburban american you meet. We just had that connection. I cannot describe it in words. I dont think i have words to describe what i we felt. Reporter like a blossom to bees, the sweetnatured anna attracted a circle of admirers. Safe to say you had a crush on her . You could probably say that, yeah, at some point. I dont think she ever had a problem. Everybody loved her. Reporter so many people would soon become potential suspects, when someones love and admirati, turned toxic and deadly. Somee in that circle o fans, danger was waiting. But if anna saw it coming, she kept it to herself. And so shed listened to your really deepest secrets but she wouldnt she did. Give you any of her own. No. Reporter her friend donna was able to glean a little about i knew that she was ethnically russian, but born in kazakhstan, and i knew that at some point the family had moved to st. Petersburg. Where she, i believe, got a degree in economics at the university. I knew she married when she was fairly young and had her son igor. Reporter the marriage didnt last long, and the husband dropped out of the picture so 20s, with a little boy to support. She wanted a better life, and she made her move when she met an american tourist named bob moses, whod been invited to visit her english class. He was 19 years older. She seemed real nice, real friendly. And had a great smile. And so i just said, you know, would you like to have lunch . Reporter the answer was yes. Lunch turned to dinner, one thing led to another. After i left, we communicated. We emailed. Before finally, you know, said, you know, and you know, possibly we have, you know, relationship here together. Reporter it was october, 1998. She came without her son. She told me she wanted to kinda, you know, check things out before she brought her son over here. So she was here. And you know, we got married in december of that year. Reporter two months later, igor came to united states, and suddenly bob had a family. Reporter the onetime bachelor was smitten with his young wife and his new fouryearold son. Know, runnin around, have fun, you know, he was fantastic. Repter bob fmally adopted igor. Hmy se s. You know, i you know, i wouldnt csider m anything else. Reporter and he meant it. In 2002 fate dealt the family a sucker punch when igor suffered what could have been, a catastropic health crisis, cancer. But with bobs help he pulled through. I care about that child. So ah, we did everything reporter they recovered from the setback with igor, and life picked up in frisco, an ambitious little city outside of dallas. Bob worked in sales, anna landed a job as a data analyst at the university of texas dallas. Where she met jayshree bihari. She came and she met with me and we clicked instantly. What made you guys click like that . I was new, so she came over and told me about who all are around. You know, we met people and we went out for lunch. So it was really nice of her to make me feel very comfortable. Reporter anna clicked with a lot of people. Like john wiorkowski, a professor at the university, who worked just upstairs from anna. She wanted to learn about quantitative methods, thats my specialty, so it just sort of hit, you know. Good, good buddies. Reporter anna was big on selfimprovement. She was taking a course in public speaking, when she met jerry caspell, and he joined her crowd of admirers. We used to kinda tease each other. I said, you used to be my enemy. You were from a communist country. And she thought that was pretty funny, yeah. Reporter in donna ross, anna found a kindred spirit. Once a professional ballet dancer, donna now teaches dance in frisco. She was very passionate about some of the same things i was passionate about. We went to the dallas symphony, went to texas ballet theater. Reporter as annas world got bigger, her life with bob began to wither. The marriage that had survived a childs illness faltered over time, and anna surprised everyone when she asked bob for a divorce in 2012. For igors sake they parted as friends. And anna was again on the lookout for a nice guy. Which brings us to michael is a very attractive, very intelligent, softspoken young man, about annas age. He is a professor at the university of dallas. Reporter and aas new man. Good looking, age appropriate, a mildmannered business professor. So with a nice new boyfriend and again moving on up, until the day in january of 2015, when she didnt show for work. Michael said he couldnt get in touch with her, so he contacted police. They went to check on her. And so when you get a welfare check call, what do you normally expect to find . Usually go to the house and find, you know, somebody there who didnt wanna talk to the person whos trying to find them. Or you know, theyve gone woah wow. Now i feel more like making a mess is part of growing up. 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And had my blinds open. And i noticed that Police Officers came. And were knocking on the the door. So i came out and asked what was going on. D they said that they were following up on a well check. Reporter annas boyfriend, michael stodnick, had called police to say he was worried. He said hed gone to her house for a date, but she didnt answer the door. And now her colleagues were saying she hadnt shown up for work. Frisco sgt. Jay reim was one of the officers checking the home. No signs of any type of forced entryanywhere. Reporter which means, also, you dont really have any excuse to go inside. Correct. Ah, we didnt we didnt have any rson to go kick in somebodys door because there didnt seem to be anything out of the norm. Reporter the doo were locked, so sgt. Reim asked some officers to find annas 20yearold son to help them get into the house. Igor was by then a Student Living at the university where his mother worked. They show up with the son and the key and the alarm code you gettin any kind of a read off the son . I didnt talk to the son. He sat in the car. Reporter and thats where igor waited while police went into his moms house. A member of sgt reims team was wearing a body camera. The first thinge wanted to so we waed in. And as you walk in, two of my guys went in the garage, looked. Said, hey, theres no car. Reporter but then they looked down. And what they saw was beyond bad. Anna moses, whose sunny presence had touched so many lives, was lying dead on the garage floor. Was standin in the laundry room. And like, is she is she deceased . And they were like, yes, she is. Trauma . Blood out the mouth. So we did a quick protective nobody else was inside, and then we came out and locked the door. That way we kept the the scene pristine for the crime scene and and detectives to arrive. Reporter investigators were there with minutes. One of them was Reuben Mankin of the texas rangers. My initiaobservation was just from congn through the for was that it was a clean house. Then i made a beeline for the the laundry room, which was reporter wait one sec. Clean meaning didnt look like shed interrupted a burglary . Thats correct. Thats correct. Reporter i mean, there was no stuff missing, drawers pulled right. Reporter Something Else was telling on the floor of the garage was annas purse, which still held 300. And nothing else seemed to be missxcept annas car. Ranger mankin surveyed the scene with lead detective ian tschudy. Thats when we notice some shell casings in the garage. Um, just multiple shell casings. Reporter the casings easily identied the murdeweapon as a. 22 and a careful look at annas body told them a little more. I obsved her to bin on her back. She was heavily clothed still wearin, you know, her jacket and a couple of scarves. I whaappeared to be a bullet hole in her in her scarf that was wrapped around her neck. And thats when i observed a hole in her neck. Reporter so she was killed presumably by somebody who got into the house and waited for possibly. Yeah. Or, um she opens the garage door, she pulls in and somebody runs in there, shoots and kills her and takes the car. Reporter all right, so so an alert goes out for the car, right . Correct. Yes, sir. Reporter there were so many scenarios under consideration. This didnt feel like a burglary or a carjacking. The medical examiner outlined annas cause of death. He was able to document that she had been shot six times. Reporter they found a seventh bullet in annas clothing that hadnt penetrated. Examining table. The deadly Bullet Wounds were close together. Someone had shot her in the chest, and then in the back. So this is somebody who was probably not too far away from her . Correct. Yeah. Reporter and fired a bunch of times . Correct. Reporter the trajectory of the bullets suggested anna had gotten out of her car, perhaps seen her assailant, and started to turn away. She doesnt go down with those three rounds. Bullets on her back, um, that are square in her back. So, like, if we startle you and the doors right there yeah. And you go to turn to run to that door, youre gonna catch it left to right. Reporter there was Something Else and it was, at the very least, odd. Anna may have been shot seven times, but police found eleven shell casings at the scene. And no sign of the other four bullets. Did crime scene ever fd other slugs the walls or the floor, anywhere . No, sir. No, sir. Reporter thats kinda weird. Yeah. Reporter rht . Sir. Reporte so now the detectives turned their tention to the circle of people who knew and loved anna moses. Among them could be a clue perhaps even a suspect and detectives would begin with the . Hab . As escuchado eso . Have you ever ladder anybody react like that . 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R this e different . It it was different in the response that i received. Reporter in fact, s the basically no response, according reim. Just a blank stare. Did he cry . Was he emotional . Not at all. Or if thats what this was, continued. Is your moms car usually here . Yeah. Okay. Is it not here . No. Reporter thats when igor asked a question that seemed to come totally out of left field is she in one piece . Yeah. . . I mean, i i i dont know exactly. And then that thats what we tta try to figure out. Reporter i is sone piece . R reyb rter t . Er. Ath notification. Never. Reporter but it wouldnt be so ill let you talk to a detective and and well go from there, if youre good with that. I do have class. Even though i know thats kind of insignificant at the moment. Okay. Yeah, i think i think you can get an excuse for that. Reporter igor never made it to class that night. Instead, he was brought here to the Frisco Police department for a formal interview. Investigators had already been briefed about his odd reaction to the news of his mothers death. Later, hed tell her friends he didnt want to have a funeral for her. Had killed anna moses should be forgiven. Igor said he was in class the night his mom was murdered. But after interviewing him for five hours, investigators were still wondering about his unusual reaction. Especially when they learned that right after the interview, that very same night, igor was in the gym playing a game called wallyball wh friends. By no means d he seem to be needin to dig a little bit deeper and find out, you know, what was goin on. Reporter this is, what, hours after his mothers been found dead . Thats correct. Reporter and when detectives did dig deeper, they discovered what could be a motive. Anna had a 750,000 Life Insurance policy with just a single beneficiary igor. Hes a person of interest. Igor being the direct beneficiary of a large sum of cash, yes, thats someone were gonna look at. Reporter not long after annas body was found, her friend, donna, read the awful news on facebook from a posting by another friend. That had to be terribly shocking to hear that shed been killed. Completely. Completely, because i didnt know anyone who wished anna any harm. Nobody. Reporter and whod hate her . Exactly. Reporter donna said she could not picture igor as the killer. Never. Never. Never. I just know igor is not capable of murder. Reporter and another friend, jayshree bihari, remembered how close anna and igor always were. She just adored him. Her son was like the center of her life. Reporter what did she tell you about her son . You know, she just said that, i wan passion, which is in music. And she would always go to his concerts. Reporter igor played guitar in a christian rock band, combining two big interests music and religion. He was studying speech pathology at the u. T. Dallas, the same school where his mother worked. She used to even wash his clothes on weekends and when he was at the dorm. Reporter hes in college and shes still doin his laundry. Yes. She will take all his clothes, get him some food, homemade food and stuff like that. Reporter the last time donna saw anna, anna couldnt contain her excitement about travel plans shed made with igor. She was telling me about her wealthy aunt giving her money so she and igor could go on vacation, and she was really looking forward to that. Reporter but as much as annas friends believed in igor, they still werent sure what to make of some of his statements. He said that whoever had done this should be forgiven. It was unusual. But igor in the last year had become fanatically religious. Become fanaticallyeligious. Reporter day one of the investigation, and igor was just the first of the men in annas life Police Wanted to talk to. The list would be long. Admirers, relationships anna moses had never shared with even her closest friends. We cast a broad net. Reporter including her exhusband. Clearly, hes gonna be at the top of the list of people you wanna interview . Correct. Coming up, detectives talk to bob mow sis and leave with more questions than answers. I do not think this going to be something we can solve. Yeah, chevy was great in that. Who played the wife . Beverly dangelo Juliette Lewis costarred as the daughter. Oh, i think it was um. Chris columbus was the director. Its called claymation. Narwhals really exist. Yukon cornelius. . Die hard . Is considered a Christmas Movie thats the unlimited effect. Stream your entertainment with unlimited data when you switch to at t and have directv. Nothinseafood celebration. Lf like red lobsters holiday so try new dishes like the new grand seafood feast, and the new wildcaught lobster shrimp trio, with a lobster macandcheese topped lobster tail. Come treat yourself to feast fit for the season before it ends. If you could see your cough, t a cough. 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But this time, ranger mankin and detective tschudy were also messengers, arriving at bob mosess house with some bad midnight, you know, you somethins happened. And i said, well, what happened . Is my son ok . Your your sons fine. But reporter the investigators, who were recording their conversation, preferred to tell bob about anna when they all went to the police station. But his peristence forced their hand. Tell me what happened here. Ok, well, something happened to anna. What happened to her . Annas dead. What, what . What are you talking about . Annas dead. When. How how how is that possible . Reporter the cops, who at that point hadnt revealed how she died, noticed that bob, unlike igor, had a strong response. His reaction seemed appropriate. He was upset . He was emotional . Yes. My first thoughts were for igor. Hes like 20 years old at this he just lost his mother. And they told me that he knew, he, you know, knew about what had happened. Reporter bob agreed to follow the cops to the frisco pd in his car for a more formal interview. On their way to the station, the ranger can be heard telling his partner that bob had passed the credibility test. Seemed genuine. Reporter one a. M. In a little room downtown. Already a long day for mankin, whose back is to the camera, and tschudy, at the table, facing bob. Were tryin to figure out what happened. And, uh, maybe whens the last time you saw her, spoke with her . What do you mean, what happened . I mean, i dont we have we have good reason to believe that anna was murdered. Oh, my god. Yeah. No. God. How how would Something Like that happen . How would that happen . Do you know of anybody who i mean, why would somebody want to harm anna . Reporter the detectives needed to nail down bobs timeline for the evening anna was murdered tuesday, january 13th. I wasnt really doing anything yesterday. You know, watching tv more than anything else. Reporter bobs alma mater, ohio state, had won the National Championship monday night, and he said he spent the next day reveling in postgame celebrations and commentary on tv. And, he said, one of the three men he shared his house with could vouch for him. Who was at home yesterday whenever you were at home . Um, well, the guy who was there right there ken. Ken. Reporter bob said it was cold so he never ventured outside until around 7 pm when he drove to twin peaks, a nearby restaurant. Police would confirm that on security video, spotting bob wearing his red ohio state to bob was his son, who needed him now more than ever. I should go see igor. You know, i should really go see him and talk to him and see how he is. From talking to him on the phone a couple hours ago, he seemed all right. All right . Yeah. How can he be all right . He cant be all right. Reporter as the exhusband, investigators, of course, asked about the broken marriage. Bob and anna divorced two years before anna was murdered. Yall were married . I mean, we had disagreements. I mean, thats kinda, why were divorced. I mean, we just were kinda like, opposites in some ways. Gotcha. Reporter the investigators asked bob if he owned guns, and he said yes, five of them. Three were. 22caliber, the kind of weapon that killed anna. Bob readily agreed to let Police Search his home and take his guns and ammunition. Bob even provided a dna swab, right on the spot. This is a qtip, a big long qtip. So i want you to go ahead and rub it on your left cheek. Left. We use this evidence in to help rule you out. Ok. Reporter after being interviewed for about an hour, bob left to find his son. When he and i were together. I was, you know, really upset about it. Reporter and they never stopped supporting each other. Soon, bob and igor moved into annas house to grieve together. It was ano affection for his adopted son that had always impressed annas friends. Bob was essentially the only father that igor has ever known. And when igor was sick bob definitely delivered . Was incredibly, kind, and loving and caring to igor when igor was suffering with, ah, cancer. There was a little sevenyear rare form of bone cancer. Reporter everything bob did was to protect igor even the divorce. Anna and bob kept it secret for months until igor could finish high school. Then they made sure it was amicable also for igor. She said that he will be coming often to see igor and we are well be on friendly terms. Bob also came by the house to do handyman repairs. She knew if she called somebody it was gonna be very expensive. And i was like, well, i can fix it. Reporter after interviewing annas exhusband and son, police were ready to widen their investigation. More men were on the radar. I did not think this was gonna be somethin easy to solve. Reporter and the next man up, annas current boyfriend, would do something bob and igor didnt do. Coming up, the boyfriend would do Something Else too. Something truly bizarre. After talking to police, he talked to himself. Am i overreacting . Reporter when dateline continues. Get your appreciation on. And get your unexpected on. Kay jewelers. Where right now, youll save up to 30 on select stunning diamond fashions. And this charmed memories gift set. So go to kay. The number one Jewelry Store in america. And get your kiss on. [ bird warbling ] [ whispering ] the new iphones finally here. And you can get it on any network, but why would you . U. S. Cellulars got a great new offer, and we put towers where the other guys didnt for a strong signal wherever you go. [ cellphone ringing ] so, you might want to put your new iphone on silent. Woman hi, honey, its your mother dude. Why is it so dark . Act now, and youll get iphone 7 for half off Reporter Police and texas annas car was missing. Cops suspected whoever killed her had taken it. Twelve hours after annas body was found. One officers was drivin through the neighborhood, and he got a hit on the plate. I get a phone call from patrol, advising they located anna moses car just a couple streets away from her house. Reporter the officer on the scene told detectives tschudy and ranger mankin he could see what appeared to be a bloodstain inside the car. Did you find inside the car . Three areas where blood was located. The seat bottom, the seat back, and the center console. What else did you find in the car . A red bull can and, a weathered cigarette butt. Did anna moses smoke or drink red bull . Not to our knowledge. Reporter annas car was towed to the crime lab where csi techs worked it over. They found no useful fingerprints. The cigarette butt, energy drink can, and bloodstains were all sent for dna testing. Results could take weeks or even months. Meantime, cops had a killer on the loose. Investigators were following annas electronic footprints, reconstructing her last day alive. We had some camera footage that showed her leaving the college at approximately 5 07 p. M. We also got, some footage from, one of the schools nearby, and a she was buying food . Correct, correct. Both were en route to coming back home. Uh, she was also captured on a camera, in this neighborhood, and that was at 5 49 p. M. So if you believe that she was killed pretty much right after she got out of her car, then around 6 00 seems a plausible time . Thats correct. Reporter while the forensics were being collected, an oldfashioned shoe leather investigation was underway. Cops were looking hard at the starting with her official boyfriend michael stodnick, who had a date with anna the night she was killed, and who reported her missing. Detectives invited stodnick downtown and grilled him about his whereabouts the night of annas death. And the boyfriends alibi is, i was there at the scene of the murder. I just couldnt get in and i didnt know she was there . Right, right. Well yes. He said he was at um his daughters grades. Reporter stodnick answered all their questions, but a couple of things left the cops wondering. During the interrogation, he asked if he should get a lawyer. And then later, he did. Annas son igor, talks to you freely, doesnt hire an attorney. Her exhusband bob talks to you, doesnt hire an attorney. Her boyfriend, however, does. That make you sit up and take he does raise the question, should i get an attorney . Its right about the time we start askin for dna. Reporter stodnick did eventually provide a dna sample, but that didnt put questions about him to rest. Because when the cops left the interrogation room, annas boyfriend had a private and animated conversation, with himself. I have no idea. Did i [ bleep ] up . Reporter strange if not downright suspicious. It definitely didnt help his standing on the cops hit parade of suspects. Annas dear friends, still shellshocked from the news of her death, were drawn into the investigation. What did you know about this guy she was going out with, when she started going out with him, she called me to say, hey, um you know, ive found somebody who im seeing. I said, oh, thats very nice. Im so happy for you. Did she tell you anything else about him . No. She just said that, he seems to be, like, a nice person and, uh im happy. Reporter jayshree had never met annas boyfriend michael. And most of annas other friends didnt know her exhusband, bob. Retired ballerina donna ross, who had danced with the joffrey ballet in new york, was one of the few who knew both men. She found bob lacking in didnt always recognize the audience he was playing to. I hung out with the movers and shakers, the glitterati of manhattan. And for someone to relate to me, as though i were somebody, in a little, small, provincial town in texas, it was pretty insulting. And here you were, being sort of looked down on . Uh yes. He said, well as he pulled up his bermuda shorts, if youd ever been to new york city youd know about the subway. That was one of the wrong wrong thing to say . Yeah, bob did not feel good unless he was putting someone else down and trying to elevate himself. Tell me about michael . Well michael is very lowkey, very kind, very sensitive. Oh, absolutely. Yes. I mean, michael is 20 years younger than bob. Much more handsome, much more intelligent, much more successful, much more accomplished and much wealthier. Whats not to like . And yet, anna and michael did not get along perfectly, did they . Oh no, there was lots of of squabbling. Reporter it was dawning on annas friends how little they really knew about this enigmatic russian woman. In this picture its me and anna. Jayshree today, treasures the gifts anna gave her. Like this matroyshka, the famous russian nesting doll. But she also wonders. Explain to me how you were among her closest friends. Uhhuh. You called her your soul sister. I did. And she was. And yet there was so much of yes. She never told you. No, no. She was very good at dodging things. Reporter that was dawning on investigators too. When did it become clear to you, that anna moses had parts of her life that she wasnt sharing with anybody else . I think through the interview process with friends, family and the people that knew her, it seemed like she had her life compartmentalized. And that certain types of people, she would let into this section of her life, and other types of people she would let closer and give em more detail. Reporter as her friends and the cops continued to peel back the multiple layers of the late anna mosess singularly opaque love life, she was starting to resemble a real life matryoska. Beautiful, intricate, and with a lot unseen. And, detectives were just beginning to tally annas legion dallas area. Reporter coming up, one of those admirers, a poet, insisting he was just good friends with ana. Generally, when men describe a woman as their muse and will theyre writing poems about her, theres more going on than just poetry. It cleans better. You should try it, skidz. We all go. Why not enjoy the go with charmin . Should we put a jellybean on the top . Purple . Absolutely. . . . . . . . . . I was born a dreamer. . . I was born a dreamer. . Discover card. Im not a customer, but im calling about that credit scorecard. Give it. Sure its free for everyone. Oh well thats nice and checking your score wont hurt your credit. Oh im so proud of you. Well thank you. Free at at discover. Com creditscorecard, i just see a black screen. What are you looking at . Crazy stuff, man. Youve gotta see this. Whatwhat is this . Its like some 3d virtual world. Oh yai yai yai yai yai yai. Look at the moon. Reporter Winston Churchill referred to russia as, a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Texas homicide investigators looking into the murder of russian immigrant anna moses were finding the same thing. Michael stodnick, her boyfriend who put himself at the scene of the crime, told cops how he met anna. She was on match. Com. I believe they met through match. Com. Reporter annas hard drive on match. Com, anna had page after page, eleven to be precise, of winks, postings by men whod admired her photo. And, it wasnt just cyberspace keeping cops busy. Lovely anna had plenty of flesh and blood admirers, including jerry caspell, whod met her years earlier. We met at toastmasters. Which is a speaking club . Its for public speaking and leadership, and she wark on her english, of course. And, i kinda tried to help her. It sounds as if there was very quickly a connection between the two of you . Yeah we got to be pretty close friends. She asked me for example to help her with her resume. You said keep writing dont forget. Reporter jerry, who is married and works for a medical equipment company, is also a poet and songwriter. Writing and eventually helped edit a collection of his poems. She always raved about poetry. And she said, i can be your muse. And thats what struck me. I said, yeah, you can be my muse. What guy wouldnt want a muse, particularly an attractive russian one . So i called her my muse. She thought that was great. Maybe im very cynical here, bu yeah. Generally, when men describe a woman as their muse, and theyre writing poems to her or for her or about her. Theres more going on there than just poetry, or at least the man hopes there is. Yeah. Well, there wasnt. It was a deep, deep friendship. I loved her like i would love a sister. Im gonna read you an excerpt of a poem you wrote. A soft touch to heal my sad soul when it aches. Heart when it breaks. Thats the kind of poem that guys write about their girlfriends. Yes, maybe it is. Uh, she inspired me to write things like that. Reporter anna may have been merely jerrys muse, but she was careful to conceal their relationship from her husband, bob while they were still married. She made sure i wasnt there Something Like that. Sounds like she was trying to avoid the two of you meeting. Yeah, thats what it seemed like, and i was fine with that. Could a reasonable pers, an investigator, look at the emails and texts between the two of you and conclude that maybe there was sure. Something extracurricular going on . Sure, i got it. Reporter investigators were in the midst of their own musis about that relationship, and had some questions for jerry, like whether he had any guns. 22 for target shooting, the came caliber as the weapon that killed anna. And jerry says he was learning things as well. I met some of her friends as they were preparing for the memorial, they started talking about her boyfriend. And i said, i dont know about any boyfriend. So that was quite, quite odd. She shed never mentioned michael to you i never, ever, knew about him until the memorial. Reporter and now there was someone else on the cops radar. Remember that neighbor, david stafford, who noticed the Police Activity outside her house . He was extraordinarily helpful in providing details about annas love life to detectives. I would see one guy. He was around you know for a while and then all of sudden i would see a another guy maybe three, four, five months later. Dating a third guy. Reporter the curious neighbor explained to us how he knew so much about annas private life. You know by sitting here i can see you know everything that went on across the street. And cars driving by and and stuff like that. Reporter but, he told us he wasnt that interested in the pretty russian divorcee whose dating life he so carefully i had never asked her out, no. I mean, shes from a foreign county. She was russian. And her english was with a very heavy accent. And im just not attracted to any woman like that. Reporter after annas body was found he had visitors. Ranger mankin and i went over to mr. Staffords house and uh sat down and talked with him. Reporter the neighbor told time anna was killed. Did he fill in any gaps on the timeline . Did he hear any gunshots . Not really. He didnt hear any gunshots. That neighbor seemed to know quite a bit about her. Yes, he did. And we we made note of that, that he knew an awful lot about her routines, as far as who she was dating, who she had dated. Reporter tschudy and mankin invited the neighbor downtown for a longer conversation. Added his dna sample to the investigators growing collection. Reporter coming up, yet another person of interest. For anna, he was a friend with benefits. Financial ones. Is he some kind of sugar daddy . ll take this one. Can you hear that . vo dont let a 1 difference cost you twice as much. Happy holidays to you and your family. 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Her exhusband husband, bob, divorced but still in the picture. Her soulmate, jerry the poet, who called anna his muse. Her boyfriend chael, who admitted he went by annas home the night of the murder. David, who kept curiously close tabs on anna. But wait. Theres more. Her colleagues pointed detectives toward another special friend of annas. Coworkers indicated that she had a close relationship with dr. Wiorkowski. Reporter dr. John wiorkowski is a vice provost at u. T. Dallas. Anna took one of his classes knew her for out six years. But then about three years or doing coincided with something i was doing. So we worked together more, so thats how it sort of sort of became friends. She liked music, i liked music. Reporter before long, anna and the married professor were spending time together outside of work. As the professor told it, they became even closer around 2012 when annas marriage hit a rough patch. The two met most mornings for tea and sympathy. I would come down around 10 00 and um, uh just see how she was doing. And then she she would we would, you know we might talk about music or lots of times she was trying to improve her english. He would go visit her probably twice a day while she was at work. Reporter you guys both married . Yes. Yes, sir. Reporter your wives be okay with that kinda mentoring relationship between you and somebody else probably reporter visiting her twice a day and having coffee . Probably not. Married to bob, the relationship evolved into a romance. The professor said he ended their fling ended after he concluded the 30year age difference was simply too mu. They went back to being just friends. But clearly for anna, this was friendship with a benefit for her. One more fiscal than physical. The professor was quite generous with his time, and his money, even after their romance was supposedly over. How much money did he give anna . 46,000. Reporter 46,000 . Yes, sir. Reporter a man is gonna give 46,000 to a woman that he spends a lotta time with, works with, seems attracted to but theres nothin goin on between em . I think hes liking to pay, um to see the the happiness that that that it brings to peoples life. From russia for a visit and to pay igors college expenses. And the cash kept flowing. The professor gave her another 6,000 just days before her murder. And almost all of this, like so much of annas life, stayed on the downlow, at least with her friends. What could you tell about annas relationship with john wirkowski . They were friends. Very good friends. Reporter during the investigation it came out that john and anna had dated for a while. Really . Reporter yes. Surprising . Yes. Very. I didnt know that. Reporter there were secret relationships that were known apparently only to her and maybe one other person. Mmhmm. Reporter its like there were two annas or four annas. Uhhuh. And i see where shes coming from, because, you know, i know our cultures are like that. I know that people dont share things. Reporter the professor his personal charity. The cops wondered about his motives. When a man whos interested in a woman basically bankrolls her, gives her 40something thousand dollars and nothing happens, shes not interested in him, or she says, youre too old, or you realize youre too old um, that can make some guys pretty angry . Absolutely. Obviously we needed to keep diggin. Reporter the professor im not sure what dated means, but i mean, is he some kind of sugar daddy . Thats what it appears to be. That hes, you know, givin her money in maybe hopes that, you know maybe at some point, maybe she would gain some interest in him. Reporter when they burrowed deeper into annas finances, investigators found about 111,000 in her Bank Accounts, money cops thought her University Job couldnt have provided. And the professors generosity accounted for less than half of so all that money begged a lot of questions. Reporter was somebody else giving her money . I have no idea about that. Ah, this is new to me. If she had asked me, i would give her money. If she was in need, i would have given her money. Reporter the unaccounted for cash was just another piece in a puzzle that already featured more characters than a hollywood caper. This is a good whodunit case. We didnt know a lot at that time and we had to rely on t scene and evidence to point us to who did it. Reporter coming up, where would that evidence lead . The answers would surprise even anas closest flends. There were all kinds of things that she didnt tell anybody about. Thats how you become americas bestselling brand. Shop now during the ford year end event. Get a thousand dollars ford smart bonus cash on select models, on top of all other great offers. See your local ford dealer today. 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Oh, yeah [ indistinct shouting ] is this your chauffeur . What . no, i was just showing him how easy it is to save with snapshot from progressive. You just plug it in and it gives you a rate based on your driving. Does she have insurance for being boring . [ light laughter ] reporter the many heartbroken friends of anna moses crowded into her Memorial Service ten days after her murder. Jerry played this song. He wrote it just for her. We dont know what well do without you, we could never doubt you, to brighten up our we cant think of anything about you, anna, that doesnt make us feel so glad youve come our way. Reporter it was time to say goodbye, except for many of her friends, who were saying hello because many were meeting each other, even learning about each other, for the f t there were all kinds of things in annas life that she didnt tell anybody about. She did not. There were relationships that were not known by her closest friends. Uhhuh. Reporter jerry says he didnt even know who annas exhusband was, until well after the service. He got up and talked about meeting her for the first time in i think in st. Petersburg. And he started crying, and it wasnt until maybe a day later friends and they said that was bob. Reporter bob says he had a hard time holding it together. At the Memorial Service when i spoke about her, i was extremely emotional. In fact, i had to have somebody bring a tissue because it was so upsetting to me to talk about this. Reporter annas son, igor also managed to speak but it wasnt easy for him, or for anyone. They shared their grief that day, their memories but on another level they were also sharing a few suspicions. Donna knew the odds. Anna was probably killed by someone close to her. And that someone could have been at that very service, putting on a show. You know, the fact that somebody cries on the stand or at a funeral or so on and so forth, well, of course. I mean, if theyve just committed a crime and and yes, they can still cry. Grief does not imply reporter in the days that followed, detectives would consider the cast of characters who had reveled in the glow of the anna moses starlight, and then mourned her passing. And some began to drop off the list of suspects. Including anyone she might have recently met from online dating. So anna did have a match. Com account. But she hadnt been on it, or actively searching or looking, to our knowledge. And thats verified through the match. Com records. She wasnt dating anybody except the boyfriend . Correct. Reporter and the first real suspect was one of the first to be cleared. Igor, the son, not terribly interested in helping Law Enforcement. Says he doesnt want a funeral for his mother, says whoever did this should be forgiven, and hes the beneficiary of a 750,000 insurance policy. Yes, sir. Police believe anna was killed around 6 00pm. Igor had a good alibi. Where was igor when she was killed . In class. How far away . Its about 45 minute drive. Youre convinced he was there in class . Yes, sir. We spoke to classmates. Reporter as for igors odd reaction at the news of his mothers death, friends told police that igor is just that way sometimes. No one who knew him doubted igor was devastated. And youve got a neighbor across the street who helpfully keepve anna moses . Yes. Translator okay, the neighbor was nearby, quite nearby, when the the murder happened. The neighbor is home . On a Conference Call. And you can prove hes on the Conference Call . Yes. Yes. Reporter so police ruled out the neighbor. But what about the boyfriend, michael . He was supposed to have had a have committed the murder. They confirmed he was attending an event at his daughters school. We got the boyfriend signed in, and then hes also on video at the school, grapevine elementary. Too far away . Too far away. Reporter as for that strange conversation michael had with himself . Did i [ bleep ] up . Reporter in the end, police figured it was just shock, another odd twist in a case full of them. But there were still other people who had spun through annas orbit, and then shed tears at her memorial. Did one of them have a reason to turn on her . That question continued to nag at police as they narrowed the search for her killer. Reporter coming up, a surprise discovery turns the investigation inside out. There was a lot more and inside the drawer was a letter in russian. Would it lead investigators to the truth . Was going to be our guy. When dateline continues question, are my teeth yellow . Ugh yellow. What do you use . Crest whitestrps. Crest 3d whitestrips whiten 25 times better than a leading whitening toothpaste i passed the tissue test. Oh yeah. At perdue, we take some unexpected extra steps. To raise healthy chickens with no antibiotics ever. Like putting oregano in their water. 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On the tollway. The poet is where . On the tollway, driving. Reporter investigators had they hadnt found their killer. They needed a break. And two weeks after the murder, they got one. A mysterious message from anna herself, in essence, from beyond the grave. A search warrant was conducted on anna mosess office at utdallas and, um, there was a locked drawer. And inside the drawer was a letter in russian. Reporter straight from a cold war spy novel. But where would it lead . We had to get an fbi agent to come translate the letter for us. You dont know whether ats gonna be a great clue or just a shopping list. Right, right. Reporter the note was a mixture of russian and english. In any language, it was a bombshell. It was in her own handwriting, written apparently during Divorce Proceedings two years earlier. Anna was telling a lawyer about a threat from her husband, bob. A convoluted one, but a threat translates that, bob was going to kill himself and blame anna. And write a letter to igor, blaming anna to get igor to hate anna. All of this presumably, is some way of convincing anna to stay with bob . Yes, sir. Reporter if true, it was a bizarre blackmail attempt that put a more sinister spin on bobs claim of an amicable divorce. That letter really kinda gave you a window into what was really happening in that marriage . Right. If if youric homicidal. That thats a real quick switch. Reporter that gave detective tschudy and ranger mankin a powerful reason to reinterview bob. But fearing hed lawyer up, they lured him back to the frisco pd, by saying they had information for him on annas estate. Thanks for coming up, bob. We appreciate it. Cramped interview room, the investigators immediately changed the subject to bobs shy alibi for e day of the murder. Turns out, his roommate could not uch for him or his timeline, as bob had said he would. I know its been a couple of weeks. But if you can remember. Right now, i have a hard time tellin you what i did yesterday. Its been so distraught. Im sorry, but that is that is vague. Im not tryin to be vague, its just i dont have details for you because theres no details. Sittin there watchin tv, i didnt look m watchin tv. I wasnt keepin track of time. Reporter he was selling. The cops werent buying. You understand this is a Murder Investigation . I absolutely understand, okay. So, anna was murdered. I yes. So when i get this, i mean its not like a baseball was stolen out of some store. Right. Everyone else is bendin over backwards to accommodate us and now were catchin i dont know, i dont know, i dont keep i cant tell you where where i was at 2 00 yesterday. Reporter but in bobs first interview at the police station, he did remember going to twin peaks around 7 00pm. The problem is the police think anna was killed an hour before that. You see on camera, walking in, sitting down at the bar. Okay. So maybe if he comes in at 7 00, he left home at 6 45 . Yes. Yes, sir. Thats still plenty of time to have been at annas house and commit the murder . Correct. Correct. Were focused on bobs alibi and catching a killer,ob wanted to talk aut well, just about anything else. Like his guns the cops took to examine. My guns, can i get those back . Reporter the cops said bob changed the subject anytime he felt cornered. Bob never asked us e time about the killer, how the investigation was going, any leads. But he did ask about the will. Reporter annas will, that was the hook that brought bob to were looking to see if anna has a new, or newer, will. What did the old will say . Do you know . Well, basically, i gave my stuff to her. She gave her stuff to me. But anna restructured her will and didnt tell him . Bob didnt even know that igor was the beneficiary. Bob at that time thought that he was the beneficiary on the will. Reporter so maybe bob thought he would be the one cashing in annas 750,000 Life Insurance policy, it was money police said he desperately needed. Hein anna moses wasnt even cold and in the ground by the time robert moses moved back into the house. So as were looking at the investigation, who whos benefitting from annas death . Reporter investigators were smelling the oldest of motives. It was all about the money. You think bob moses essentially killed his wife by mistakenly thinking that he was gonna get a pot of gold at the either he was gonna be the beneficiary or he could manipulate igor, to get access to that money. Reporter and now, cops were eager to confront the man with a motive. They went in for theill. We either think were sitting across from a monster or somebody that had a lapse in judgment. Me . No. Absolutely not. Why not, bob . Okay. I dont know what youre talki youre accusing me of something. Were were factfinders, okay . Good. I hope you find the facts. Youre making it hard for me to find the facts, bob, because you cant tell me [ bleep ]. You know what . Im done im done talking to you guys. Im done talking to you, okay . Because i dont know everything i did that day, and youre trying to twist all this around now. Reporter with that, bob strode out of the room, but not out of suspicion. Do you guys think you have we were pretty confident that he was gonna be our guy. Reporter on february 26, 2015, six weeks after anna was gunned down, bob moses was arrested. It was his birthday. Hed spend it behind bars, facing a charge of murder. And thats where we interviewed him. Did you kill your wife . No, absolutely not. I would never hurt anna. Reporter oming up, bob moses goes on trial, facing a prosecution witness who claims he terrified anna. She said, can i come to your house, im afraid he will kill from moderate to even severe diabetic nerve pain. Lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. 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Anybody whos gonna be in a circumstantial case where there arent any witnesses, you start looking at people and you say who are the people closest to her . You know, boyfriends, friends, uh anybody thats had any reporter so, in an unusual move, walker decided to preempt the defense and call those men as her own witnesses. She began with annas boyfriend, michael stodnick, who said he was intrigued by anna the day they met. She was an amazing woman. Um, she was incredibly intelligent, very well spoken, uh extremely kind, and just someone i knew i wanted to get to know right away. Reporter the prosecutor showed michael a photo of anna. This is how you want to remember ann anna . Is that correct . Yes. Is she a beautiful woman . She is. Reporter and she asked him straight out did you kill anna . No, i did not. Reporter she asked the same of the others the neighbor across the street. Did you kill anna . No. Reporter the poet. Did you have anything to do with annas death . No. Reporter the professor. Did you have anything to with annaseath . No. Alibied, not just by their own words but by subsequent investigation . Yes. Reporter except bob moses . Except bob moses. He was very general, very vague. Reporter with the frisco pd detective on the stand, walker played bobs interviews with police. What did you do from the time you woke up to i mean, i probably took the dog for a walk. Reporter remember, bob said hed been at home most of the day and into the evening. But on t couldnt vouch for him. Do you ever remember seeing bob moses in the house . I would say no. I i was rarely in the house. So on the january 13th, you dont remember i dont remember seeing him at all. Reporter the prosecutor said bobs whereabouts couldnt be confirmed until he appeared on that restaurant video at 7 00 pm. The texas ranger told the jury anna was killed an hour earlier. I knew she had left work, her Office Around 5 00. Security cameras on her route, including that video from a neighbors camera right near annas home. She was captured one more time as she was traveling, uh, north on, uh, charleston. Reporter even though the time stamp says 6 59 pm, police determined it was actually 5 49 pm when annas car drove by. Did you have an idea of when anna was when you believe about the time she was killed . Based on the fact that shes checked her mail, um because the the mail is strewn underneath her. Its loose. I believe its soon after she arrives there inside the garage. Reporter the Police Theory at about 6 00 pm, bob shot anna seven times six bullets found their mark. He then spread four other shell casings on the garage floor, took annas car, parked it a few cigarette butt and the can of red bull. In a weird way, you ended up with too much evidence. I mean, theres all this stuff that is there uhhuh. Reporter at the actual scene of the murder, and then later in the car. The you know that didnt make any sense. Thats right. It made it feel more like this was designed to sort of throw off the investigation, put somethin else out there to say, oh, it it could be somebody else. Reporter but Cynthia Walker said it wasnt somebody else. She told the jury bob had been nursing a longsimmering, murderous rage that bubbled to the surface on january 13th, 2015 and that anna may have seen it coming. The evidence came from one of annas russian friends. I think we become good friends just from beginning. Reporter she dispelled the notion that bob and annas relationship had been amicable, and told the jury about a harrowing night about two years before the murder. In the winter of december of yes. Reporter anna and bob were still married. Anna said she had locked herself in the bedroom. Did she appear to be upset and crying . Yes. She told me that, um, she called police. And she said, can i come to your house . Im afraid he will kill me tonight. Reporter so far, the case was all circumstantial, but the state was about to present evidence that it said pointed directly at bob moses, and only bob moses. When investigators first interviewed bob, the day after annas murder, they saw something. Noticed that he had a cut. That he had a bandage that was covering a wound on his, uh, right hand. Reporter investigators remembered that bandage when they saw those blood stains inside annas car. And i observed what appeared to be a red, uh, crimson stain on the seatback of her car. Right side of the drivers seat, and a wound on bobs right hand. Is this another stain that i am circling right now . Yes, it is. Reporter and when this dna analyst testified, the prosecution thought it was game, set, match. She told the jury those stains were a mixture of dna annas of course. It was her car. But the other person . He was sitting at the defense table. Obtaining that mixture profile was one 1. 22 sextillion times more likely if the dna came from anna moses and robert moses, than if the dna came from two unrelated, unknown individuals. Reporter translation . It was bob moses blood and that second interview with police, he had no explanation for it. Is there any reason why, um, your blood would be inside of her car . Not that i can think of, no. Reporter the prosecutor told over the edge on that january night were some of the oldest reasons in the book of murder not just money, but jealousy and envy. She lives in this beautiful house. Shes dating this nice, wonderful man. And then you have robert moses, whos in debt, whos having to live in a house with other men in a small bedroom. Who benefited from her death . Right after her murder, the defendant moved into her house. Hego finances, he is trying to get into her Bank Accounts um, her emails, trying to determine, you know, what her finances are. The evidence points beyond a reasonable doubt to the man, the killer, who is looking at us right now, robert moses. Reporter now, the defense was ready to pounce. Two attorneys, both of them former prosecutors, were about to try to rip the states case to shreds. And they would be asking the jury to consider this simple question who ate the quesadilla . About to rip the case state to slids. Question. Who is the case at hand. Coming up. The defense brought to you by taco bell. Bobs attorney say a fast food rep at the scene calls it a prosecution timeline. If she ate guess disei well, then, bob moses, hes lilly. She pretty much lives in her favorite princess dress. But once a week i let her play sheriff so i can wash it. I use tide to get out those week old stains and downy to get it fresh and soft. You are free to go. At jared. We turn feelings. Into jewelry. Jewelry that tells her shes the best thing thats ever happened to you. In a way that goes beyond words. 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Dont have it. A paragraph. Dont have it. Her credit card was missing from the purse. And theres no one who knew that in this entire Investigative Team until they were asked on the witness stand. Reporter it was shoddy police work, he told the jury, as was the theory that all the by bob to throw off the cops. What do you make of the extra bullet casings at the crime scene . They never sent any detectives across the street to see if any projectiles had struck a fence, a car, a house. You mean out the open door of the garage . Out the opening door. The shooting couldve happened while that door was open. And the projectiles couldve gone out and struck something. But they admitted they never bothered to look. Reporter and that can of red bull . Police said it was a red herring another red hot clue with no followup. They test it for dna, it comes back to an unidentified male. Uh, not bob moses. Not any of the other suspects they listed and certainly not anna moses. Reporter shook argued dna on the can could have led investigators to a whole new suspect. But he said police focused only on annas ex. They had in this case classic tunnel vision. The first day and anything else that came up, they didnt Pay Attention to. Reporter the defense also tried to knock down the testimony of the friend who said anna was afraid of bob. And she said, can i come to your house . Im afraid he will kill me tonight. Reporter bobs lawyers pointed out that call was two years before the murder. And after the divorce anna and bob remained on good terms. You knew bob was coming over the house, and still fixing things, repairs and picking up igor . Yes. She wasnt telling you when bob comes and fixes the water pipe thats leaking, you you know shes afraid of him, was she . No. Reporter then the defense tried to blow up the prosecutions timeline, saying that video from annas neighbor was hardly definitive. The only thing you can tell this jury about that car was that its a sedan right . Yes, sir. Make . Model . Color . That . No, sir. Reporter so maybe that wasnt anna, driving by that camera just before 6 pm. The defense reminded the jury of the last proven stop anna had made that day when she pulled up to that taco bell drive through at 5 37 pm. And they asked, who ate that quesadilla . Just the package is found in the trash next to her body. So she ate it or the killer ate it. She ate it or the killer ate it. Reporter the defense called its my opinion that that if she had eaten the quesadilla, chicken quesadilla ten minutes prior to dying that i would still be able to see chicken and other identifiable parts of that that quesadilla in her stomach. Reporter but there was no mexican food in annas stomach. If she ate the quesadillas, she wasnt killed at 5 55 pm. She had have to be killed a couple hours later at the at a minimum. Reporter and if the states timeline was off, then bob moses if the killing happens two hours later, well, then bob moses, hes sitting in the twin peaks on video. Okay . We know where he is. Were not sure where all these other people are. Reporter if the timelines wrong, said the defense, the alibis of all the other potential suspects fall apart. The telltale quesadilla was never found. If the killer ate it, presumably his or her dna might be all over you could have skin cell dna on that. You could have touch dna and you could have fingerprinting on that. Reporter skipper asked the lead detective about that. You didnt uh submit that taco bell trash uh for touch dna correct . Correct. You didnt submit it for latent prints correct . Right. Reporter the defense portrayed bob as the victim of halfbaked police work. But there was another victim the his mother, but could now lose his father too. In a hushed courtroom, the defense called their star witness to the stand. My name is igor moses. Reporter igor told the jury how he felt about his mother. Igor, you loved your mother greatly didnt you . Yes. Miss her. Yeah. Reporter and igor said he had no doubt his father was innocent. I do not believe my father killed my mother. Reporter it turned out igor was bobs biggest supporter. He said there was only one reason his dad had returned to living in annas house. Uh following my mothers death my grandmother and i both asked my dad to move back into the house. Reporter and igor said his dads actions had nothing to do with greed. Was he trying to get the money from you . Asking you to give him money from the account that he could that he could have . No. Reporter igor even tried to discredit the states strongest is that the car were talking about . Yes, that is my moms car. Reporter his dad, he said, had often driven that car and that blood stain on the drivers seat was hardly fresh. Yeah that ones been there for quite a long time. Do you know how long . I mean since high school i would imagine. Theres no way to tell how long his blood was in that car . No. No. No. They cant they couldnt age the dna. They dont know when the blood was was put there. The the dna folks could not tell them how old that blood was. Reporter even more important, there was no evidence putting bob in the garage where anna was murdered. Bobs guns were tested, none fired the fatal shots. And the murder weapon was never found. No witnesses. No dna or prints or security video at the crime scene. Theres nothin tyin him to her body. No. Reporter shook offered that to the jury. Why didnt you find the why didnt you didnt you find it on her clothing his blood . It doesnt make sense. Reporter this case said the defense was far from a slam dunk. You dont have answers at the end of this case. Alls you have are questions. Reporter and the final question was, who would the jury believe . Reporter coming up, all rise. We didnt know what to do to stop the crying. 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This investigation, which you rely on to make your decisio et inconclusive. Dont let the fact that anna moses, an innocent woman, was murdered and ive got to bring someone to justice for her. Dont let em guilt you into that. Reporr prosecutor ndy walker wasnt having any of it. Ladied u hi. The only guilt that belongs anywwihere i that man rit the, robert moses. Everhing points to him, it poin nowhere else. Reporter the prosecutor didnt want jurors to lose sight of why they were there. So she made sure a photo of anna was always on display. This is anna. She was beautiful woman. Reporter now it was up to those six men and six women to decide if bob moses stalked, and shot his exwife in her garage that january night. They deliberated for eight hours for the night. The next day, after their morning coffee, they told the judge they were ready. Madam foreperson, i understand the jurys reached a verdict. Is that correct . Yes, your honor. If you would, please hand that to thbailiff. Defe go ahead and rise. The stat t Robert Arthur moses, we, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder as charged in the indictment. Reporter bob moses got life in prison. In the back of the courtroom, annas friends thanked prosecutors and police. I was happy that, i could bring them a little bit of justice. Reporter at the defense table, bob was left alone with his thoughts. Igor, whod supported his father during the entire case, was not in the courtroom. Donna thinks the jury got it right. Its very sad that bob would t only ruin anstroy annas life, hes alsdestroyed his vewas a relief for annas inner circle. All her friends were cryi. L her friends were crying. I mean, we didnt know what to do, totop orte as sa co sin to fight. Imppeang cause i think if, you know, obviously verdict is 100 wrong. Reporteo testify at hisrial, so we took this opportunity to ask him some quesons in jail th he di not face in urt. How could yr blood get in her r . Ec ere workin around the house. Theres small little stains, okay, that couldve been there for coulda been there a week, a month, it couldve been there six months. Whod wanna kill her . I dont know. I have no idea. Itsnt makto me at all. If you look at allhe actual evidence thats out there, okay . First of all, they said that it wasnt a robbery, okay . But if you go through what happened in court, you will find at, ok . I didnt do this. And the person that did is still out there. And the Frisco Police department have given people a false sense of security over this. Reporter t day after the verdict, jayshree went to annas favorite rtaurant. I went d sae ant erd my breakfast right there, at the table where i met her last. So jusfeeling her presence and in a way, saying, okay. There is a closure now. I believe in, life after death and so im hoping to see h sometime. Reporter donna remembers the little moments, like annas russian accent and her trouble with the pesky nuances of american english. She used to say, then this afternoon, i go store. And id say, but anna, go to the store. Oh, its not necessary. Why to the . Itsilly. Its not necessary. I go store. Reporter and anna will she isnt a dream, she is real as can be, knew it the moment her wings cer me. She flew from afar and awakened new sight, and only i see r, my angel of light. Reporter thats all for this edition of datelin well see agaixtri at nine, 8 00 central. Im lester holt, for all of us at nbc news, good night. Now at 10 00 tonight. The calm before the snow. The city of milwaukee getting a head start on the first major snowfall of the season will arrive on a weekend. Some streets are pled. ll tell you about the cities plans. Snowstoris on the way. Ere this ht for thees othe winter season. Had a first small snow last sunde picked up couple of inches. The cld air is here. It will not be heavy wet snow it snow star to push in with a low pressure system, probably after 6 00 oclock, or 7 00 oclock milwaukee time. 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