know, he was in the hallway, at the doorway. and somehow it makes it even more invasive, you know, that he s that close and i mean, just executed somebody. it was an execution, yeah. and you actually look at somebody s face and make that choice to kill them. to me, that s just beyond 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.
defense attorney keith rigg did not dispute the wealth of evidence the state presented. all true, said mr. rigg. david moffitt did kill justin, said the defense, because he was legally insane and, therefore, not guilty. what the facts are in this case aren t really in dispute. the fact that this happens because of a mental disease isn t really in dispute, because this makes no sense otherwise. what happens here, for lack of a better term, is crazy. and why should the jury believe that? this was the defense s star witness dr. peter breggin, a
i do not know why, i am trying really? detective hopper turned up the heat. one of the first things i asked you in the beginning was, before justin, i said who were you in a relationship where if, you said andy. you love dave out. for whatever reason, and it doesn t matter at this point. is there any possibility that, with dave or anyone else that, while you are being with justin, that you maintained a relationship with anyone? no. and then, finally, after more than 30 minutes of questions of this dave guy, it s suddenly came to her, she said. i remember dave s last name by the way. and that is? we, david moffitt.
the eviction moratorium failed. the house is now in recess until late september. now back to dateline. i really thought it was a random act. a home invasion. so during the course of that day, you were completely buffaloed? correct. while the investigation raced forward, the polk county sheriff s office told justin michael s family virtually nothing. didn t tell them they d found the man who sold the murder weapon, nor that they had to figure out who he actually sold it to. because surely whoever bought the gun must have been the killer. i asked him at that point to look at the photo line-ups. the first set of six photographs i showed him contained the photograph of david moffitt. mr. bahlmann looked at it and he said, i can t be 100% certain. he said, the guy had a hat on,
location, highway 141, to see what else they could find in that area that might be of use or might be telling in terms of the investigation. that s why locals saw all these police officers wandering up and down the field looking for something. they were. they were. they were. and imagine what they found there in a ditch along the highway. probably the most important thing was they found loaded magazines. they had the same type of ammo that was found at the crime scene. the shell casings found at the crime scene matched that type of ammunition found in the ditch on highway 141. right in the ditch near where the car crashed. it was actually across the highway and a little bit farther down but within 500 yards of where the crash occurred. they also located in that ditch some paper targets that you would use for shooting target practice. some shooter s earmuffs, a camo neck cloth that you d wear you could wear as a mask. like somebody preparing for an act of terror or an ex