but sure enough, something big was going down. though just what, the deputies wouldn t say. when we talked to neighbors, they were surprised just to see even more than one police vehicle in the neighborhood. and then the dci, the division of criminal investigation, van came and that s hard to miss. it s huge. people are coming out with little booties on and full suits, going in an out of the house. there s crime tape up. and nobody s saying what happened? and neighbors are starting to ask, what s going on here? anxiety is like a virus. it spread fast in grimes. yeah, they were nervous. people don t just get shot in grimes. and they knew justin michael and angie and couldn t imagine anything happening there. and if reporters and neighbors were mystified about what happened, so was detective robyn bartholomew. i was the on-call detective. i got called out at 3:30 in the morning.
continued living with him even after their romance ended. andy, or so she said, was well in her past when she met justin. hard to know what, if anything, to make of that. but then angie told the detective about some strange incidents. especially peculiar for grimes, sort of thing that just doesn t happen here. it was one night back in november, she said. she d parked her car on the street overnight in front of justin s place. and when she emerged in the morning? i saw the back window had been hit in. and i thought, oh, my gosh. and then i went around saw that two of the other windows had been hit in. she was shocked, she said. went back to the house to tell justin. they called the police. a police officer came and looked at it and noticed that it had been keyed, that it looked like somebody had thrown something at the windshield because there was a big dent on the hood. but that wasn t the only
find terrifying, but not them. you got engaged very quickly? uh-huh. when you know, you know. reporter: ever any doubt? i mean no day you woke up and thought, oh, god, what have i done? nope. so in august 2013, two months after they met, angie and justin were an engaged couple. in december, she moved in with him at his house in a tiny place called grimes, about 20 minutes outside of des moines. and they planned their wedding. which would be, they decided, a family event on the beach in north carolina where his parents lived. they set the date, july 20, 2014. it was may. excitement building when justin s parents came to visit in grimes. mother s day weekend. reporter: and on the wednesday evening before that mother s day we were laughing and talking about halloween costumes for the
entered their bedroom and shot him in the head before fleeing. angie and justin s mother who was staying with the young couple in their house that night were taken to the local police station for questioning. as residents of their small town woke up to the stunning news, it did not take long for detectives to have questions about angie and how she made it out of the house unscathed. here s keeith morrison with mor. on the morning of may the 8th, 2014, local tv trucks roared off to a most unexpected place. peaceful little grimes, iowa. population 9,000, was crawling with cops. very unusual, said reporter stephanie moore of des moines nbc affiliate, who-tv. it s the kind of place where they have the convenience store and everyone s there drinking coffee in the morning. what about crime? much of it? no, no crime in grimes. neighbors live there, probably don t lock their doors. it s just a quiet neighborhood.
welcome back. the investigation into justin michael s shooting death was still just a few hours old. his fiance angie was sitting in an interrogation room wishing she could go back in time to when she was looking forward to her future with the man she loved. now, detectives were focusing on ang angie s past. she was about to tell them about someone new. continuing with our story, here s keith morrison. detective robyn bartholomew was convinced of one thing in particular. justin michael s fiancee, angie, had to be the key to solving their murder case here in grimes, iowa. i maybe thought even though she was engaged, maybe there was a boyfriend on the side. right. and if there s a boyfriend on the side, either the boyfriend wanted to get rid of the competition or she wanted to get rid of this one so she could be with the other one. yeah, some kind of a love triangle. it sounds devious to say such a thing, but these things