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Are able to shoot around in this place for a couple hours. >> let me double check, make sure were good to go. >> sure. >> the detectives exhausted their questions, took andy back to work, apparently in the clear. unaware that andys name was about to turn up one more time in a very suspicious place. coming up -- investigators had been looking for a single killer, but a fresh clue may send this investigation in a whole new direction. >> theres evidence to suggest that there is some sort of consp...

Saved them all, as well as photos of the rifle, three ammo magazines, a scope and a red laser pointer attached to the weapon, part of the deal. >> and i asked him if he had any shell casings from the weapon that he sold. he went, left, and came back shortly after and had 63 casings. >> reporter: wow. hes a person who likes to keep things. >> yes. most of those casings were tulammo, .9 milammeter. >> the same ones that were found at the murder scene. >> and at the crash site. >> but who bought th...

>> which may have settled the question of who picked up the murder weapon. but here was another question. how did david moffitt get hold of andy wegeners i.d.? the detectives had all kinds of reasons for wanting to talk to david moffitt. they picked him up about 15 hours after the shooting. took him to headquarters. installed him in an interview room. and? no dice. >> he requested a lawyer. >> and just like that, youre done. >> i sat there for approximately an hour with him, offering him a phone...

>> thats the one david presented to the schoolteacher, drew bahlmann. he also created a fake andy wegener email address and stole that oil service receipt from andys 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 tr...

The pace of this investigation was about to speed up. heres keith morrison with more. i really thought it was a random act. a home invasion. >> so during the course of that day, you were completely buffaloed? >> correct. >> while the investigation raced forward, the polk county sheriffs office told justin michaels family virtually nothing. didnt tell them theyd 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 th...

We wanted to find out if andy was the actual purchaser of that weapon. fortunately, that bill of sale gave us the lead to where the weapon came from. >> reporter: his name was right here -- drew bahlmann. and here he is. hes a small-town high school english teacher in a little place called sigourney, 90 miles or so from des moines. there is something you can do with a degree in english then? >> yes, there is. yes. and i love my job. >> reporter: an english teacher who likes to tell stories. and ...

>> uh, no, not really. >> is it a safe area? >> yeah. >> is it like gated to get in? >> no. >> camera coming in or anything like that? >> no. >> he had spent the night with his current girlfriend at that time. and we verified that before he left the office, before he had a chance to make a phone call or anything else. >> at least according to his girlfriend. >> according to the girlfriend. yes. and -- >> it would give him an alibi for the time of the murder. >> it would give him an alibi. whethe...

And inside? no, they didnt find the murder weapon. but they did find these strange notes, seemed to have been written by someone who had been watching justin and angies 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...

>> any ideas how it could turn up in this investigation? >> no. >> then detective hopper asked andy about guns. >> do you go shooting at all? >> shooting? >> yeah. do you have -- >> i have a 12-gauge. i havent shot it in six years. >> do you have any handguns? >> no. >> okay. >> and what he did the night before. >> yesterday, what time did you get off work? >> yesterday, i got off at -- 4:00? >> okay. can you walk me through what you -- occurred from 4:00 yesterday until we showed up at your doo...

>> reporter: andrew wegener, the boyfriend angie lived with before justin. weird. another guy without a criminal record. another apparently ordinary person, a des moines funeral director in his case. and yet, there it was in black and white, among all of those other pieces of evidence, andrew wegener. >> how did he explain that? >> at that time, you dont. >> so did andy wegener kill justin michael, the man who replaced him in angies heart? >> we immediately went to andys place of business and br...