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what comes to your mind? what are you thinking when you first heard about this and what we do know about this? a terrorist attack very likely. i don t want to jump to conclusions, but some sort of act of terrorism. certainly wasn t a robbery. it wasn t a demonstration. so it s a terrorist attack. probably a lone wolf type of situation. again we re speculating and making a wild guess here. if i would bet dinner with you i would bet it s a terrorist attack. arthel: well, there we are. you have lots of people on scene and as you said they are doing a lot of work behind the scenes as well. authorities don t seem to think it s too dangerous because it looks like a lot of local media or international media on scene, too, who seem to be close to the original scene of the crime. so that says something, too.
they are. they re up close. there s no way to do it from a distance. o everything about that says this wasn t a robbery. this was someone who wanted to kill joe morrissey in particular. in addition to that, he still had his wedding band on, still had his watch on, valuables that if it was a robbery, it would have been taken out of the house. what s more, his wife kay was still alive, not stabbed, not even once. they do a brutal vicious murder to joe morrissey, why leave her alive? why leave a witness alive? why indeed? in murders like this, the spouse is often the first suspect, sometimes the only suspect. all of that became clear that night to kay s daughter christina. i remember when they took her to the police station, she asked me to stay and watch the house. and i remember sitting there and they would come up and ask me questions and the different detectives and the police officers. they asked me did they ever
reporter: bob moses insisted all along that he was innocent. he had not killed his ex-wife. were you violent toward your wife? did you ever hit her? i would never hurt anna. i would never hurt any woman, okay? reporter: and in a north texas courtroom, defense attorneys toby shook and cody skipper argued the state got it wrong. the only side that s gonna to be left standing at the end of this is gonna be this one right here. reporter: skipper said bob wasn t an angry ex who killed anna for money. he was the victim of an inept investigation. police were sloppy, the defense suggested, and missed big clues. remember, cops concluded this wasn t a robbery. but the credit card anna used at taco bell wasn t in her purse. i m pulling out the wallet so the records clear. point me to where you indicated that anna moses had a missing
missing and two jade statues. likely expensive. but wait a minute. maybe it wasn t a robbery. her purse was present on the kitchen table. there was jewelry. in the father s pants pocket, which were in his bedroom, there was a large amount of cash. $9,000 in cash rolled up in his jeans pocket. and that was untouched? untouched. so was the crime scene staged to hide something more sinister than robbery? why, for example, did they find that odd and very obvious pattern of bloody shoe prints but only around the bodies? and the shoe prints would go back and forth to each victim but they just disappeared. you were thinking how did this person get out? still, easy enough to i.d. the shoe prints. there was an obvious nike swoosh right there in the middle. a little checking revealed it was a nike impacts tomahawk. big. maybe close to size 12. but who wore them? who would do such an awful thing?