months of hanging out, and it was kind of like a here or there. and he, i feel, like, wasn t being very serious so i wasn t being very serious with it. reporter: and who was this other guy? his name is dave. okay. what is dave what what is his last name now i just forgot. it ll come to me, i m sure dave dave dave dave i don t know why i can t think of it right now. reporter: wait, she couldn t remember his last name which was very odd. when did you first start seeing dave the weekend after andy and i broke up, and it was kind of just like a silly thing and where did you meet him at just at a bar okay. so i was just all right whatever
fargo office building as justin. david left under some kind of cloud, said angie, months before the murder but, really, what were the chances? their desks were just feet apart. did he know that justin was dating you he figured out that justin was dating me. reporter: justin told his parents about it he just said it was an awkward situation but there was no problem the alignment of that is astronomical in a company of 10,000 people here in des moines, what are the odds that they would be in the same - right, in the same cubical, they were. reporter: but they got on fine never any bad blood. and david moffitt had no criminal record. so should detectives add him to their list of suspects or what at this point, i don t know if i have the complete story regarding dave or not. reporter: coincidences. sometimes they come in clusters, don t they not long after angie s memory coughed up the name dave moffitt, there was another coincidence.
was enough to arrest him and charge him with first degree murder by now detectives understood that angie had nothing to do with the murder. that what seemed like a lack of emotion in angie s demeanor and marie s, too, for that matter, was shock. pure shock in fact, the thought that david could be the man who killed the love of her life hit angie while she was still being questioned and finally, after her apparent calm, she was overcome when dave came up and we talked about that. and the detective came back with a picture of him - do you know this person that s dave and i said, that s him and i immediately started shaking and was very visibly upset. i m just so that he had something to do with it and what if i have caused all of this and the detective was, what s going on
we figured we needed to continue and focus on dave and see where that leads us. the first thing that was done was a background make-up of dave to include to see if he had a weapons permit and so while that check for the weapons permit was being conducted, another office person heard the name and recognized dave moffitt and she immediately said, he had a car impounded this morning not only was it impounded, it was impounded approximately within 30 minutes of the homicide approximately 4:00 in the morning. and it was six miles approximate north of where the homicide occurred and dave moffitt resided approximately 28 miles southeast of where the homicide occurred reporter: wow well, that would be a red flag that s for sure. that was. through a further investigation, we learned that he had actually had an accident. reporter: so they pulled the accident report and read about those two cops and their strange
this guy s a funny guy reporter: angie told detective hopper she didn t spend much time with dave. they mainly texted each other and met up at bars a few times we had kind of had, i guess in this day and age relationship, where we only saw each other about once a week then the rest of our conversations were strictly through text messaging i don t think we ever spoke on the phone. and it was always just it was very, like, playful in nature almost not like a serious type of relationship but it was intimate it eventually did get intimate, but not right away okay. and then it was kind of like a once a week thing. we d hang out on like friday nights, generally. reporter: and then, of course, everything changed and then i met justin reporter: and she got the feeling justin just might be the real thing so she started avoiding dave did he sense something maybe. that s when dave sent angie a