he just seems like, you know, he was a a he didn t get his way and he took justin s life for no reason. and the woman at the center of it all? what kind of a life would she have had with him? a thought, perhaps, best packed away like a lot of things. had the had the wedding dress. had the houses booked. had the venue booked. had catering booked. i mean, we were just a little over two months out. yeah. boy, oh boy. a wedding dress is such a symbol. what do you do with a thing like that in a situation that you re in? haven t even looked at it. where you put it? it s in my mom s basement. she s moved a couple of times. and it s in her basement.
welcome back to dateline extra. i m craig melvin. while investigating the justin michael murder case, police had just come across a few possibly relevant facts all connected to one man. they learned that someone named david moffitt, who briefly dated justin s fiance, had also worked with justin and david had crashed his car the morning justin was killed, not far from the crime scene. these details, if unrelated, would be an odd coincidence and homicide detectives tend to believe in an investigation there s no such thing as a coincidence. once again, here s keith morrison. justin michael had been shot to death in his own bed. but his fiance, angie ver huel, had been spared.
it was a red laser pointer, most likely attached to the murder weapon. pointed at my face. that s a very sobering thought. that s sitting at the trial brought back a lot of trauma issues and that being one of them. and the other thing that really bothered me was finding out that this guy had the gun six inches from justin s face when he shot him four times. because we had thought, you 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 him. to me, that s just beyond
uh-huh. in his closing, prosecutor steve foritano told the jury what must have happened. david moffitt, i think, was obviously fixated on angie ver huel. that she broke off with him, which caused him some pain and hurt. and then that wound was probably reopened when he started working with justin. and justin wound up getting engaged. and david, obviously, would be concerned about the fact that it was justin that was with angie. and that he couldn t be with her because of him. so he gradually formed a plan that somehow he was going to get 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
and inside? no, they didn t find the murder weapon. but they did find these strange notes, seemed to have been written by someone who had been watching justin and angie s neighborhood. those surveillance notes listed addresses in the immediate area around the crime scene. and they were very specific about when neighbors were turning on and off their lights. the creek behind the house is is it wide enough where i can jump across that? obviously, it looked like a way to make an escape once the murder was done. reporter: but then they found what looked like the mother lode a bill of sale. it was in andy wegener s name. reporter: yeah. but there it was in david moffitt s house. reporter: 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.