later that day, detective hopper drove out to meet with drew, who turned over all the e-mails and text messages, he had saved them all, as well as photos of the rifle, three ammo magazines, a scope, and a red laser pointer attached to the weapon, part of the deal. and i asked him if he had any shell casings from the weapon that he sold. he went, left, and came back shortly after and had 63 casings. wow. he s a person who likes to keep things. yes. most of those casings were tulammo, 9 mm. the same ones that were found at the murder scene. and at the crash site. but who bought the carbine? we still don t know where we re at with david versus andy. so, could drew i.d. the guy in a photo lineup? coming up detectives show drew pictures of david and sandy. he said, that s very odd.
was able to get back and retrieve the weapon and throw it into saylorville lake. and then once it s in the lake, there s no way you re going to find it. not without a lot of work. but with all the other evidence collected, prosecutors felt they had enough. with the physical evidence that we were able to get, specifically from drew bahlmann and at the homicide scene and at david moffitt s house from a ballistics perspective, we were able to connect all of those dots. the state showed the jury bullet casings and ammunition magazines, targets for practice shooting, david s reconnaissance notes, a kindle containing a map of justin s neighborhood, a can of pepper spray. even a flashlight that, for all of david moffitt s careful planning, ultimately betrayed him. it was something that caught the attention of justin s sister, sydney, and brother nathan. there were two times that he reacted significantly in the whole trial, and one was they found a fingerprint on the battery in the
that s the one david presented to the schoolteacher, drew bahlmann. he also created a fake andy wegener email 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? in the sweatshirt was a boat registration that we could not figure out why it was there and what its meaning was at the time. ultimately, several months later, we learned that that boat registration belonged to the father of the registered sex
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 detective. and he said, drew, did you sell a firearm recently? and that was my second thought, yes, i am going to jail. i have completely screwed everything up.
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. reporter: 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. reporter: 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 such. loves it. mind you, there s only so much a person can ferret out using equipment that s well, to say down-market may sound cruel, but