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
but it would have been horrific if he had not been found guilty, so it did help. and can you imagine if that person was still free in our society? who knows who he would have attacked next, and he would have. i think he would have. i think he enjoyed the planning. the planning and seeing if he could accomplish his task. verdicts are always hard, i think, because nobody ever wins in this situation. his family is obviously still in pain. the moffitt family is obviously in pain as well. so there really is no winner here. we want to hold him responsible for what he did, and the jury s verdicts did that.
it s always an anxious moment when you re trying to wait for them to return a verdict. oh, but it wasn t a moment. hour after hour they waited. and then, almost seven hours later the judge asks do we have a verdict? the jury says they do. we find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree. if david moffitt felt anything in that moment, he didn t show it. nothing. stone cold reaction. almost gave you chills up your spine. the insanity defense clearly did not work. the threshold that you have to reach for an insanity defense is that you don t understand the nature and consequences of your actions, or you don t understand the difference between right and wrong. that s an incredibly high threshold. yeah. you look at the degree of premeditation, the degree of planning that went into that. those are not the actions of an insane person. it does nothing to bring justin back.
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?
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