to tell them something, they got a tip. local reporter stephanie moore. we heard that sheriff deputies were walking the fields along highway 141. so that would be the highway you would take from des moines to go to grimes. and they were just walking these fields. and we asked them, are you looking for a body? no. are you looking for someone? no. are you looking for a weapon? we can t say. but the public is not in any danger. we think hat happened in grimes isn t related to this. walking up and down. walking in a line so they don t miss anything. kind of how they do if there s a missing child. but we thought maybe they were looking for a gun or a weapon. good guess. in fact, that small army of cops was looking for anything that looked like evidence. because hours earlier david moffitt s car went off the road around here and facts were piling up. moffitt had worked with justin, dated angie, and wrecked his car the morning of the murder just six miles away.
troubling. i it s just unfathomable still, like the twilight zone. the prosecutors saved david moffitt s computer searches for last, and then the jury and everybody else heard what david looked up on his laptop in the days before the murder a window into the mind of a killer. the only murdering murder guide you ll ever need. seriously. convicted crimes of passion in polk county. traffic cameras in grimes. what does hell look like? and so on and so on. interesting that he would ask what hell looks like. there s some reference to the confessional times. that is, times when some local priest would be available. a priest whose oath would swear him to secrecy. he obviously was concerned about what was going to happen
he saw somebody that might be able to help him, but i don t know if he was necessarily happy to see me. reporter: david moffitt told him he was on his way home from visiting his brother that night. so then i basically asked him, like, there s no way in chance maybe you visited a friend in grimes tonight? now why would you bring that up? there had just been, within an hour, a homicide had taken place in grimes. the suspect was still unaccounted for. and you got a guy who s sweating and smelling sweet. exactly. hmm. what did he say? i don t even know where the town is. reporter: everything about david moffitt made the deputy feel anxious. all the hair not on my head, but all the hair on my body was standing on edge. that s weird. i mean, he s just a regular guy, right? didn t seem to be armed or anything. you re a cop and you got your weapon, and you re still feeling nervous? well, i knew he wasn t armed because i did just a patdown for weapons before he
when i showed him the photo line-up with andy wegener, he looked at it and immediately looked at it and pointed to andy wegener and said, that s very odd. he said, this is strange. he was confused. he goes, that looks like the i.d. that looks like the person i sold the gun to. he picked out both of them, so we still have our questions. it was all very confusing. it didn t help that david moffitt and andy wegener look similar. so one last thing to try. earlier, when deputies searched david moffitt s house, they found the bill of sale for that carbine. but they also discovered a receipt for lemonade and a candy bar bought at a dollar general store in the very town where the rifle was purchased. so i requested video from that store. a person walks into the store, still wearing the hat, but the sunglasses are hanging off of his shirt. and the video depicts david moffitt. well, well, well. and he purchases a lemonade and a candy bar.
bottom of a red tub that had a few inches of water in the bottom of it. and you know how computers hate water. but the waterlogged laptop wasn t all they found. the red tub ended up being a gold mine of evidence. like what? they found ammunition that ended up being consistent with the ammunition found at the crime scene. and remember that shoebox they found near the car crash? it was a nevados brand shoebox. and in david moffitt s red tub? what do you know. in that red tub were those nevados shoes, size 11. it s almost like he was laying the trap for himself. absolutely. they sent the wet laptop off to the computer lab, hoping maybe the techs could find something on it. and surprise, surprise, they did. and off of that computer, we were able to find the work that david moffitt had done to create a fake i.d. in andy wegener s name.