To me very calm. I thought maybe there was a boyfriend on the side, seem kind of love triangle. But on a dark highway, the case will take a dramatic turn. All the hair on my body was standing on edge. It made you nervous . Extremely nervous. A mysterious driver carrying ominous cargo. How did he explain that . At that time you dont. It is evidence to suggest there is some kind of conspiracy. Unraveling a mindbending plot revealed a shattering truth. Evil the only word i can think of, inhuman to do Something Like that. It was moonless night in iowa, four income the morning. The quietest of quiet hours. A small cop head down the empty highway, bound for his early shift at the police department. Thats when he saw, the corner of his eye, what was that in the ditch, maybe 30 yards off the highway, a car in trouble . He swung around. Somebody clearly missed a curb on the gravel access road. The drivers door is hanging open on it. It looks like the air bags deployed and dome light on. And the
that is, the bill of sale for a 9mm carbine. and the name on the document, bold as brass, was indeed andy wegener. how was that remotely possible? it s more evidence to suggest that there s some sort of conspiracy involved here. it s too early to really rule anybody out. we wanted to find out if andy was the actual purchaser of that weapon. fortunately, that bill of sale gave us the lead to where the weapon came from. his name was right here drew bahlmann. and here he is. he s a small-town high school english teacher in a little place called sigourney, 90 miles or so from des moines. there is something you can do with a degree in english then? yes, there is. yes. and i love my job. an english teacher who likes to tell stories. and this one? sort of thing that would make an interesting plot for a novel, wouldn t it? for a novel perhaps, yes. drew is a self-described nerd. he also is a target shooter and a metal detector enthusiast. he s forever digging up old coins and s
i have completely screwed everything up. and i told him you know, be forthright, be honest i said, yes, i did. he asked me to describe what it was. i told him it was a 9-millimeter carbine. he said, drew, we have reason to believe that that weapon was used in the commission of a crime. and my heart just sank. what happened? i have no idea. and he told me it was used in a murder, and i about dropped my phone. that s what that does to you. i i unwittingly took part, was an accessory in somebody s death. i felt terrible about that. you felt that way, that you were an accessory? how would you feel? i mean, i sold the i sold something to a man, to a person who later used that to take somebody s life. terrible. just oh god. and i still today, i ve rationalized it, i ve gone to a counselor about it. i still feel bad about it. what s the expression? guns don t kill people people kill people. and i still i still believe that. but i provided him that method.
i kept. all the text messages between he and i, i kept. and i still had pictures that i had originally posted on armslist, those were still on my home computer. and as he was leaving, again, to cover myself, i wrote down his license plate number. you are a careful guy. i am. was he a nice fellow? for the very limited interaction we had, yeah. he seemed very nice, very normal. he asked me how to load it. i showed him how. and that was it? off he went? off he went. and then, a few days later, the school secretary gave drew a message. a polk county detective wanted to talk to him right away. and my very first thought was i interpreted the law wrong when i had looked up the iowa codes, and i m going to jail. you immediately thought about selling that weapon? that s the first thing that came to my mind. why else would a polk county detective be calling me? i was going to jail. scary thought? it was very scary because i had taken so many precautions. i called the dete
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. that s the one david presented to the school teacher, drew bahlmann. he also created a fake andy wegener e-mail address and stole that oil service receipt from andy s car, all of which made it obvious, said the prosecutors. david moffitt planned to get away with murder by framing a perfectly innocent man, andy wegener. what kind of a mind is behind that sort of behavior? it was very cold, very calculating. tremendous amount of planning and premeditation that went into this murder. and he tried to execute it so that he would not be blamed, that he would get away with it. and remember that sweatshirt left behind after the shooting, as if the killer had been sloppy?