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Wifi up there? uhh. sure, why not? how d he get out?! a camera might figure it out. that was easy! glad i could help. at xfinity, we re here to make life simple. easy. awesome. so come ask, shop, discover at your local xfinity store today. david moffet s trial for the murder of justin michael was underway in an iowa courtroom. prosecutors had presented evidence to bolster their theory that david moffett had
Welcome back to dateline extra. i m craig melvin. while investigating the justin michael murder case, police had just come across a few possibly relevant facts all connected to one man. they learned that someone named david moffitt, who briefly dated justin s fiance, had also worked with justin and david had crashed his car the morning justin was killed, not far from the crime scene. these details, if unrelated, would be an odd coincidence and homicide detectives tend to believe in an investigation there s no such thing as a coincidence. once again, here s keith morrison. justin michael had been shot to death in his own bed. but his fiance, angie ver huel, had been spared.
uh-huh. in his closing, prosecutor steve foritano told the jury what must have happened. david moffitt, i think, was obviously fixated on angie ver huel. that she broke off with him, which caused him some pain and hurt. and then that wound was probably reopened when he started working with justin. and justin wound up getting engaged. and david, obviously, would be concerned about the fact that it was justin that was with angie. and that he couldn t be with her because of him. so he gradually formed a plan that somehow he was going to get rid of justin, possibly even get angie back again. i realize that there is a very high bar to cross to to be considered insane by the legal system. but that s pretty crazy, isn t it? well, he had a goal. and he worked to achieve that goal. so his trying to commit this murder, trying to plan and make
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 flashlight. and so he wore gloves when he was carrying the flashlight, but not when he was putting the batteries in the flashlight. and when they said that, he goes, ah. as if david just then understood his error. it was at the trial, said justin s mom, that she finally learned what that red light in her eyes was. it was not some kind of strange flashlight as she thought.