looked like airbags deployed, dome light was on. reporter: and then suddenly, who was that, knocking on his car window? gentleman didn t have a shirt on. reporter: seemed agitated, weird. eventually, a second cop appeared. he was excited. seemed like a you know, if you were to talk to somebody right after they got done running a marathon. out of breath, sweating profusely. the entire time i m out here, it s just a very, very it s an uneasy feeling. my stomach was turning. but no law broken. he called the guy a cab, sent him home. no idea what was coming. how could they know? it makes you question the goodness of humanity. it makes you question your faith. it makes you question your beliefs. it is a point where evil outdid good. reporter: even here in the heart of the heartland, its lovely capital, its famous state fair, all manner of deep-fried
been drinking. was he glad to see you? i don t know if he was glad to see me, but i mean, you were potentially going to rescue him from a bad situation, you d think. 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 re 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 t
didn t tell them they 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 lineups. 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, had sunglasses on. he goes, i wish i would have had him take it off. then he pointed at the picture of david moffitt and said, i m 90% sure that s the person that i sold the gun to. what happened when he looked at the picture involving andy wegener? when i showed him the photo lin-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,
that s when he saw it, 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 curve on the gravel access road. the driver s door hanging open on it, look like airbags deployed, dome light was on. reporter: and then suddenly, who was that, knocking on his car window? gentleman didn t have a shirt on. reporter: seemed agitated, weird. eventually, a second cop appeared. he was excited, seemed like a you know, if you were to talk to somebody right after they got done running a marathon just out of breath, sweating profusely. the entire time i m out here, it s just a very, very it s an uneasy feeling. my stomach was turning. but no law broken. he called the guy a cab, sent him home. no idea what was coming. how could they know? it makes you question the goodness of humanity, it makes you question your faith, it
that somehow he was going to gel rid of justin, possibly even get angie back again. i realize that there is a very high bar to cross to to be considered insane by the legal system. but that s pretty crazy, isn t it? well, he had a goal. and he worked to achieve that goal. so his trying to commit this murder, trying to plan and make sure that he got away with it. maybe. and maybe something else was going on. maybe david moffitt could blame somebody, or something else. and, sure enough, he did. with a legal defense that could defeat the best evidence in the world. david moffitt had no intention of going to prison. and then the verdict it sends chills up your spine. t ls up your spine.