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reporter: anna s boyfriend, michael stodnick, had called police to say he was worried. he said he d gone to her house the night before to pick her up for a date, but she didn t answer the door. and now her colleagues were saying she hadn t shown up for work. frisco sgt. jay reim was one of the officers checking the home. no signs of any type of forced entry, anywhere. reporter: which means, also, you don t really have any excuse to go inside. correct. yeah, we didn t we didn t have any reason to go kick in somebody s door because there didn t seem to be anything out of the norm. reporter: the doors were locked, so sgt. reim asked some officers to find anna s 20-year-old son to help them get into the house. igor was by then a student living at the university where his mother worked. they show up with the son and the key and the alarm code. you gettin any kind of a read off the son? i didn t talk to the son. he sat in the car. reporter: and that s where igor waited while
met anna s boyfriend michael. and most of anna s other friends didn t know her ex-husband, bob. retired ballerina donna ross, who had danced with the joffrey ballet in new york, was one of the few who knew both men. she found bob lacking in the social graces, someone who didn t always recognize the audience he was playing to. i hung out with the movers and shakers, the glitterati of manhattan. and for someone to relate to me, as though i were somebody, in a little, small, provincial town in texas, it was pretty insulting. and here you were, being sort of looked down on? uh yes. he said, well as he pulled up his bermuda shorts, if you d ever been to new york city you d know about the subway. that was one of the
investigation was going, any leads. but he did ask about the will. reporter: anna will, that was the hook that brought bob to the pd. i did have a couple of questions. we re looking to see if anna has a new, or newer, will. what did the old will say? do you know? well, basically, i gave my stuff to her. she gave her stuff to me. but anna restructured her will and didn t tell him? bob didn t even know that igor was the beneficiary. bob at that time thought that he was the beneficiary on the will. reporter: so maybe bob thought he would be the one cashing in anna s $750,000 life insurance policy, it was money police said he desperately needed. he s in over his head financially. anna moses wasn t even cold and in the ground by the time robert moses moved back into the house. so as we re looking at the investigation, who who s benefitting from anna s death? reporter: investigators were smelling the oldest of motives.
wouldn t she did. give you any of her own. no. reporter: her friend donna was able to glean a little about anna s exotic past. i knew that she was ethnically russian, but born in kazakhstan, and i knew that at some point the family had moved to st. petersburg. where she, i believe, got a degree in economics at the university. i knew she married when she was fairly young and had her son igor. reporter: the marriage didn t last long, and the husband dropped out of the picture so there was anna, in her late 20 s, with a little boy to support. she wanted a better life, and she made her move when she met an american tourist named bob moses, who d been invited to visit her english class. he was 19 years older. she seemed real nice, real friendly. and had a great smile. and so i just said, you know, would you like to have lunch? reporter: the answer was yes.