She got shot in the back,
three more times over the heart,
and one last time in the neck.
Narrator: A cold-hearted murder of a devoted mother living
the American dream.
There's some sort of personal connection between
the perpetrator and the victim to drive that level of violence.
Narrator: A woman with many admirers,
any one of them a suspect.
Tschudy: He said that it was gonna be difficult for him
to write poetry anymore because his muse was dead.
Walker: Was there some expectation on his part
that she pay him back in some way?
Maybe with romantic interest?
Or it was a loan, and it needed to
be paid back quicker?
Arntfield: It's clear that a great deal
of plotting and scheming went into this crime.
Narrator: The truth will be revealed.
Now it all makes sense, and boom, we got him.
Narrator: Every day in North America,
dozens of people are murdered.
The key to solving the toughest of these homicides
lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life.
To crack the case,
detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline,
the minutes and hours containing evidence
that can help unlock the mystery
and catch the killer.
♪♪
Frisco, Texas -- Everything is bigger
and better in this small town.
It was just a nice, quintessential town.
It's a suburb of Dallas.
There's fairly large houses, family town.
It's kind of a close-knit community.
The Dallas cowboys are home here,
so that's where they practice and train at.
There's the minor league baseball team here
for the rangers.
So Frisco is definitely a sports town.
Walker: It's a very safe community.
It's friendly. It's diverse.
It was rated one of the best places in america to live.
Narrator: But on one chilly January morning,
Frisco's peacefulness is rocked to its core.
On January 14th, we got a call, a welfare check from
Henry Braxton.
He wanted to check in on his girlfriend, Anna.
She hadn't shown up for their date,
and she hadn't showed up to work all day.
So he was concerned about her health and safety.
Responding officers went to Anna's house.
There was no answer at the door.
Anna's son, Igor, met the officers at the house.
Igor has a key, and they check the house.
Everything looked fine -- looked like a normal well-kept house.
Then they go in the garage, and that's when they find
Anna's body.
She was on the floor, like, there was a little bit of blood.
We discovered there was multiple gunshot wounds,
and she was on her back with her body kind of twisted.
It looked like she got shot in the back.
She falls, kind of hits her car, falls down.
That's what twists her.
That's what puts her in the position
we find her at in the garage.
The shooter then shoots her
three more times, over the heart,
and then shoots her one last time in the neck.
How she was shot with the contact wound,
gunshot wound to the neck,
it was like the shooter had some sort of
emotional attachment
and just couldn't shoot her in the face.
But at the same time, they wanted her dead.
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Narrator: The victim is 42-year-old
university administrator, Anna Moses.
Anna was a very smart gal, ambitious,
a real go-getter, and also a very devoted mom.
I admired her so much.
She trained as an engineer and economist,
and if she was reading a book, she wasn't reading in Russian.
She was reading in English, which is astonishing because,
you know, English was her second language.
Narrator: Originally from Russia, Anna moved to Texas
with her young son after marrying salesman,
Robert Moses.
Walker: Robert Moses had adopted Igor.
He loved Igor, treated him like his own son
and cared for him.
Robert and Anna had a happy marriage,
but as the years went on,
it appeared that their marriage started to decline,
and eventually both parties
decided to enter into a divorce.
Ross: After Bob and Anna separated,
he would come over to her house to help her with,
like, if the washing machine was broken, things like that.
He didn't seem angry with her.
She didn't seem angry with him.
Anna was doing extremely well,
and she was happy.
Narrator: Heading up the investigation
into the murder of Anna Moses,
are detective Brian Tschudy and prosecutor Cynthia Walker.
They begin by processing the crime scene.
In the garage, I see right next to her body
is mail, and then there's
a fast food kind of bag or wrapper,
and her purse was there right next to her body, as well.
We find $300 cash inside the purse.
And it didn't appear to be rummaged through or anything
like that -- nothing appeared to be missing.
This occurred in January, and it was a cold day.
And as you would, getting out of your car
going into the house,
still had her coat on, still had her scarf on.
There was no sign of a struggle.
It appeared that she had probably stopped by her mailbox,
pulled her mail, had it in her hand,
and she was walking toward the inside of her house to go in
and then was ambushed by the shooter.
There's bullet casings in the garage.
We found almost a dozen.
It's overkill when you find 11 bullet casings for one person.
Your home burglar is not going to shoot someone
so many times, typically.
Usually, they will shoot someone
so that they can get away.
In this case, it was some sort of intentional
or planned murder.
[ Gunshots blast ]
Narrator: As detectives survey the crime scene,
they make a surprising realization.
Anna's car is missing in the driveway,
and it's not in the garage, either.
So, we don't know where her car is at.
Walker: Did somebody kill her for the car?
The police figure the person who killed Anna is probably
with the car, and if they can locate it,
that may lead them to where the killer is.
Narrator: To find Anna's killer, detectives will need to
unravel the final 24 hours of her life.
[ Gunshot blasts ]
Tschudy: It was critical for us to get the timeline going.
It establishes where the victim is
and then who has a contact with the victim
and when they last had contact with them.
That timeline is gonna be crucial for us
figuring out who the killer is.
Narrator: Investigators speak to Anna's
20-year-old son, Igor,
a student at the university of Dallas, Frisco,
the same university where Anna worked.
They're hoping he can help fill in
Anna's whereabouts in her final 24 hours.
Tschudy: Igor says he talked to his mother
the day before, January 13th,
but he hadn't talked to her that morning.
So Igor went to her office to see if she was at school,
because he lived on campus, and she wasn't at her office.
Walker: Anna's workday typically ended at five P.M.
Security cameras
showed her car leaving the university parking garage
at 5:07 P.M.
At the scene,
there was also a receipt that was close by her body that
showed that Anna purchased a quesadilla at 5:37 P.M.
The fast food place was on the major roadway
that she would been traveling on her way home.
Narrator: Police check surveillance video from
the fast food location
and spot Anna at the drive-through window
at 5:37 P.M.
She pays for her food, then leaves.
It appeared that she was alone in the car.
Though the vantage point wasn't perfect.
We looked at the route
that she would normally take home,
and there was an elementary school further up the road,
and so the officers got the security camera,
and they saw, at 5:46 P.M.,
a car that fit her description that was
going the same direction toward her house.
And so, it was like, okay,
she made it this far and just a few blocks from her home,
and still there was no evidence that there was somebody
else in the car with her at the time.
Narrator: Police request the footage from all
the other surveillance cameras in the area.
From the neighbors' surveillance cameras,
they were able to tell that there was a car that passed
at 5:49 P.M.
We presume that that was Anna's vehicle
as it approached her house.
So we believe that she had arrived at her home about
5:50 P.M.
We go to Anna's house to check the alarm system,
and we have an alarm technician tell us that
the alarm was last set on January 13th at 8:29 A.M.,
and it was never disarmed.
So the house was armed, she leaves her work on the 13th,
comes home, never goes back into her house,
and she was found dead in the garage.
We're thinking that the killer came in through
the garage and had access to the garage,
um, and just kind of laid in wait
and waited for Anna to get home,
and that's when they shot her.
Walker: The time of death, the investigators believed,
and I believed, it was about 5:50 P.M.
By the way that she was shot,
surprised, we assume that as soon as she arrived,
about 5:50, somebody shot her almost immediately.
So she never made it into her house.
Narrator: Having established that Anna was killed
at approximately 5:50 P.M., detective Tschudy asks
Igor about anyone in Anna's life who might have
wanted to harm her.
Walker: Igor said there was a man that Anna was dating
and had been dating since the summer
before she was killed.
His mother and her boyfriend had
a standing date night on Tuesday nights.
On the day that Anna was killed,
they were gonna meet in the evening and have dinner.
Narrator: Anna's boyfriend, Henry,
is already on detectives' radar
as someone they want to talk to.
He was the person who first reported her missing.
Detectives bring Henry in for questioning.
Tschudy: He has a dating relationship with the victim.
We're trying to establish what kind of relationship
they were in and, basically, wanted to try to find out
when he last saw and spoke to her.
Walker: He seemed to be very forthcoming, very detailed.
It appeared that he was trying to be very helpful.
And the police looked to see if there had been any sort of
major blowups and problems,
but he said that Anna really, you know,
enjoyed their relationship and really there wasn't anything.
Narrator: But as soon as investigators leave the room,
Henry transforms.
He's captured on video suddenly acting suspiciously.
Tschudy: He was nervous.
He starts kind of mumbling and talking to himself.
Tschudy: Henry's heard kind of saying, you know,
"what did I do? Did I mess up?" Or something like that.
That's kind of an odd statement.
So, there's cause for concern.
It raises the flag -- we've got to investigate further.
Whenever you see someone talking to oneself
the way Henry does in the interview room
when he thinks he's alone, of course,
everyone's still listening,
you have to ask yourself, why aren't those little details
occurring during the interview itself?
What is he hiding?
Narrator: In the brutal murder of Anna Moses,
investigators are zeroing in on her boyfriend, Henry.
Concerned about his alarming transformation in
the interrogation room,
detective Tschudy decides to put Henry to the test.
We didn't have a whole lot of evidence,
so pretty much when we started talking to people,
we're gonna ask for DNA.
So we asked Henry for consensual DNA.
And he's kind of reluctant, kind of hesitant,
and he said maybe he should get an attorney.
It raises a red flag
if someone doesn't want to cooperate with the investigation
that should have an invested interest.
Narrator: With Henry in their crosshairs,
detectives focus on whether he had the opportunity
to kill his girlfriend, Anna.
Tschudy: The night Anna was murdered, Henry said
he went to his daughter's school for an event.
He was there from six until seven.
At 7:03, Henry texted Anna that he was on his way
to her house to take her out on the date.
Tschudy: Henry said he showed up to the house around 7:37,
knocked on the door, no answer.
He looked in the windows up front,
there's no lights, nothing going on
in the house that he could see, the garage door's closed.
He's kind of banging on the door, making phone calls,
sending Anna text messages, asking where she's at,
what's going on,
but he can't get a hold of her at all.
Narrator: The next day, Henry still hadn't heard from Anna.
That's when he called police,
asking them to check in on her.
Tschudy: We look into Henry's alibi,
and at the time that Anna's murder happened,
the cctv at his daughter's school had his Jeep on camera
as being there, so Henry was at that school
during the timeframe of her murder.
We believe she died between
5:50 and 6:00 P.M.,
so there's no way that Henry could have
killed Anna because there's no physical way he could get to
his daughter's school in 10 minutes --
There's just -- it's impossible.
So during the investigation, we're able
to rule out Henry as a suspect.
Narrator: While Henry turns out to be a dead end,
investigators soon have a new lead.
We got the call that they located Anna's car.
We were pretty ecstatic,
because there could be evidence that
we needed that could be crucial to this investigation.
The car's located a couple of streets away
from Anna's house.
It's parked illegally on the side of the street.
Narrator: Detectives set to work processing Anna's car.
Walker: They found a red bull can and a very weathered
cigarette butt that was on the side of the seat.
They thought that was unusual.
One, because Anna didn't smoke.
Two, because she tried to keep her car very clean.
She was kind of meticulous in how she dressed,
and kept her house and her car.
And so, this was unlike her.
We also found blood on the inside of the car,
and we're thinking this could be our huge break
in the case.
Analysts find a bloodstain on the back seat and bottom of
the seat, and it looks like
it could marry up with when you put your seatbelt on,
and then on the center console, there's a little drop
of blood -- It was bright red in color.
It didn't appear to be an old stain or smudge.
It appeared to be fresh.
We're thinking, as long as that blood does not match
Anna Moses, then that will be our killer.
But when the forensics come in,
the results take investigators by surprise.
We found three different DNA profiles in the car.
The first genetic markers indicate Anna Moses,
the second, unidentified male,
and then the third was a mixture of Anna's DNA
and an unknown male's.
The fact that there's two unknown males,
it could mean that there's two different people
there to murder her.
Narrator: Investigators check the DNA samples
from the car against their database,
but they don't get any matches.
It's pretty frustrating, because we didn't know
who the suspect was.
So, just another kind of roadblock in the investigation.
But we have to keep moving.
We can't let the trail go cold.
This was my first big murder case,
and I am a big problem solver.
I like working towards that goal
of finding who the killer is.
Narrator: Searching for new leads,
detective Tschudy takes a closer look at Anna's
personal life.
Tschudy: We look into Anna's computer
and different social media things.
We end up finding a person named Jerry,
and Jerry had written some poems for Anna and had
actually published a poetry book.
Anna had a copy at her house.
We were kind of shocked, because, I mean,
there's some pretty strong feelings in --
In poetry in that.
So the best thing was for us to go talk to Jerry.
Ross: Anna told me that
Jerry was such an artist.
I never got any sense that
there was any kind of sexual relationship.
It was more like, um, some kind of very deep, spiritual bond.
Narrator: As detectives dig deeper,
they discover Jerry seemed obsessed with Anna,
emailing and calling her multiple times a day.
Tschudy: He described Anna as his muse, which shows,
you know, pretty strong emotional connections and ties.
If someone has pretty strong feelings, enough to write
a poetry book and get it published about a person,
we're gonna look into that person and see
if maybe those feelings were reciprocated or not
and what their relationship was all about.
♪♪
[ Gunshot blasts ]
Investigators didn't know if Jerry knew about Henry
or if there was a resentment because she had a boyfriend.
Walker: If there's that level of interest on Jerry's part,
you could see how there could be a jealousy or there could be,
um, anger -- is there something that had happened?
And so the police had to look to see
did Jerry commit the crime?
Did he kill Anna Moses?
Narrator: In Anna Moses' murder,
detectives are zeroing in on a new suspect,
an admirer and poet named Jerry.
When investigators question him about Anna,
he gets emotional.
Tschudy: Jerry was hit pretty hard with Anna's murder,
you know, breaking down, crying, sobbing.
Jerry said that it was gonna be difficult for him to write
poetry anymore, because his muse was dead.
It's a little odd where someone kind of makes it
about themselves, that, "I won't be able to write anymore."
Jerry said he and Anna met at, like, a speaking group,
public speaking, where people who want
to better themselves in public speaking can
join this group, and they get up,
and they give different speeches.
Anna was primarily taking that class to try
to get rid of some of her Russian accent.
Jerry said he liked her accent
and didn't want her to change it,
and that's how they first met.
Tschudy: Jerry would go to the opera with Anna.
He would go do things with her
that was real, you know, kind of artsy.
Narrator: When detective Tschudy presses Jerry for more details
about his relationship with Anna,
there's a surprising revelation.
Tschudy: He tells us, "I have a wife,
and my wife knows about Anna," and it seemed
like Jerry really liked Anna,
but he was married and committed to someone else.
There's indicators that Jerry don't want, you know,
his wife or Anna's boyfriend
to know everything that they were doing together.
Clearly, there's an emotional attachment.
Jealousy or lover's scorn could be a motive,
but we don't know if the opportunity is there
for him to actually have done this.
Jerry's alibi is that he was at his house
all night with his wife.
Jerry tells us he got off of work
around five and went straight home.
So we go try to vet the information he tells us.
We look at toll tag information to verify
his whereabouts.
We confirmed that on Tuesday the 13th,
Jerry leaves work at 5:00 P.M. and is tracked along
the tollway till he gets home around 6 P.M.,
where he's there all night.
We believe Anna was killed between 5:15 and 5:55 P.M.
On the 13th.
There's no possible way Jerry could have made it
to Anna's house at the timeframe she was killed.
Walker: The police could corroborate his alibi,
which is that he was traveling home in a different area,
and his car was hitting the different tollway gates.
And so, there just wasn't anything to substantiate
making Jerry a suspect anymore.
Narrator: With another suspect ruled out,
detectives broaden the scope of their investigation
to the university where Anna worked.
Tschudy: We interviewed Anna's coworkers just to see if
they could describe any possible
motive or suspect that might help us out.
Um, they let us know that she had
a mentor that worked at the university.
Narrator: Investigators learn that Anna
had a special relationship
with this mentor, Dr. Wiorkowski.
Tschudy: We know he's a professor at the university
for mathematics -- we wanted to make sure we just talked
to him and see what the relationship was.
Dr. Wiorkowski stated that at this stage in his life
and in Anna's that they were close friends.
He's almost 30 years older than Anna.
Tschudy: He talks about Anna like he's very fond of her.
It's someone he really likes.
The doctor had a sweet little nickname
for Anna -- "my little butterfly" in Russian.
Narrator: Investigators press Dr. Wiorkowski for
more details about his relationship with Anna.
Tschudy: He tells us at one point, he did have
a special love interest with her.
They kissed at one point, but he said he cut it off
because of his age difference.
And then he advised that he would
kind of help out Anna from time to time --
In fact, even help pay for Igor's college.
He had given Anna about $40,000.
Walker: He also had recently given her an additional $6,000.
That's a lot of money -- Police had to look at that.
Tschudy: We asked him why he would do that,
and he basically said that
he didn't want to give his money to
a charity that he'd never see how it helped people.
He would rather give his money to his friends
and see -- Actually see how it impacted
their life for the better, see happy it made 'em.
Walker: Was there some expectation on his part
that she, um, you know,
pay him back in some way, whether it was
romantic interest,
or maybe it was a loan, and she didn't pay it
back quicker or something that he would feel enraged by.
Stockdale: It's possible that he wants to help her,
and he's giving money to her
for that reason -- it's also possible that money is being
exchanged for another purpose.
Maybe he wants something in return.
Maybe he doesn't get what's promised.
Or perhaps Anna has some information,
and then she's expecting more money from him.
These things are entirely possible.
Tschudy: Also, Dr. Wiorkowski is a smoker,
and we found a cigarette in the car.
So that was just another odd piece of the puzzle.
Narrator: With suspicion now swirling around the professor,
police ask him about his activities
on January 13th, the day Anna was killed.
Dr. Wiorkowski advised, uh,
on the 13th, he was at work.
Had spoke to Anna a couple times that day.
They had tea together around 2:30.
He was the last person that we knew
talked to her before her death.
We asked how that conversation was -- I think he said,
"just normal conversation, just friends talking."
He told us he finished up his day
then went home, and he arrived home around 5:45.
We go through the toll tag records, um,
to verify where his car was, if it went the right direction
or what direction it was traveling
and when it was traveling -- The toll records showed
everything he said to be right on.
Based on where he lives and where Anna lives,
it's not possible to get from his house at 5:45 to Anna's
house at 5:50 to murder her.
Dr. Wiorkowski provided a consensual DNA sample.
We turned that sample over to the lab.
Nothing came back as a match.
His DNA sample exonerates him, so we have
no reason to believe Dr. Wiorkowski is a suspect.
Narrator: With Dr. Wiorkowski no longer a suspect,
investigators find themselves back at square one.
It's just kind of frustrating when you're working
these cases, and it's just --
You keep running into these roadblocks.
It's hard knowing that a killer's walking the streets.
We need to try to figure out and find who the killer is.
♪♪
Narrator: Having exhausted all their leads,
detectives go back to the drawing board,
looking for anything that could help
point them to Anna Moses' killer.
We did a search warrant on her house, and we located
Anna's life insurance policy -- It was for $650,000,
and it was designated to go to Igor, her son.
Walker: Igor was the most important thing to Anna,
and if anything ever happened to her,
she wanted to make sure that he was gonna be taken care of.
But if Anna was out of the picture, Igor --
He would be in a much better position
financially than if she had been alive.
Stockdale: As the cliche goes, people might say,
"follow the money," and in this case,
when it's learned that there is an insurance policy,
and the beneficiary is Anna's son,
clearly that's cause for concern
in terms of, you know, could the crime have been
committed to obtain this money?
Narrator: With Anna's son Igor now in their crosshairs,
investigators bring him down to the station for questioning.
Tschudy: When you're interviewing someone,
you do look around and kind of see what their body language is.
It's not only what they say but how they say it
and their demeanor, things like that.
And, at that time, Igor
just kind of raised a little flag like, hey, this is --
This is different.
He doesn't really express himself,
and you can't get a read off of him, because it's just --
There's nothing there.
Igor had some kind of
weird comment about his mom's murder.
He asked, "was she all in one piece?"
And it was kind of strange, we were like, "well,
why would you think she wasn't in one piece?"
It was just an odd statement.
When we first told him that, you know,
his mother had been killed,
he went and played sports with his friends in college.
So it just kind of perked our interest on kind of
where Igor's mindset was and what was going on with him.
Narrator: Detectives hone in on Igor's whereabouts during
the time Anna was killed.
On the 13th, Igor said he was in class
from 5:30 to 6:45 that night, and that he went and got
some food at the little campus bistro, and then went
back to class from 7:00 to 9:45 that night.
We went and interviewed people from Igor's classes that said
they saw him there at the times that he said he was
at class, and we were able to pull up a transaction from him
at the campus bistro, along with him on the cctv.
So he pretty much was eliminated
as a suspect based on his timeline
and the events that we saw.
Narrator: Before police let Igor go,
investigators ask about the insurance money.
Igor mentions that his father, Robert,
is managing Anna's assets.
Walker: It appeared that Robert Moses
had a very close relationship with his son.
Even though Igor was an adult,
Robert would have had a lot of control over where that
insurance money went.
Also, the home that used to be Robert's and Anna's,
when they divorced, Anna got the home, and Robert moved out.
Tschudy: We found out the day after Anna died,
Bob moves into her house.
And her body wasn't even cold in the ground,
and he moves into her house.
That's a huge red flag for us.
Walker: While everybody is devastated and upset,
his interest was all about the money,
and he would say that
he was doing it for Igor's benefit,
but it just struck people as particularly off-putting
and inappropriate.
Narrator: Talking with Anna's close friends,
investigators uncover more unsettling information
about her ex-husband.
Ross: Bob Moses, he had low self-esteem,
and he covered it up
by appearing confident,
even arrogant or cocky.
He always was acting like he was a real authority,
so he seemed like the kind of guy who liked to be
in the thick of things,
but he wasn't devoted to
some kind of career or calling.
He was Anna's svengali,
he thought.
Bob apparently had told Anna, "you'll never be able to make it
"on your own," because when she first came to this country,
she was really pretty dependent on Bob,
and I think he liked it that way.
Narrator: While Anna focused on her education and building
her career, Robert's career was sinking.
Ross: There was a pattern --
Bob getting a job, getting fired,
getting another job, not liking it,
quitting -- it had happened several times.
And it was bothering Anna, because she was not like that
at all.
Eventually, she didn't need him anymore.
In fact, she was doing
better than he had been doing when they first met.
I'm sure it drove Bob crazy.
Stockdale: In my mind, Robert is resenting Anna, both in terms of
her ability to move on with her life and also financially,
and I wonder if Robert also may have some over-controlled
hostility, and that he might be
the type of person who takes these resentments that
pile up until, one day,
he might explode with anger, and when he does,
it can be excessive.
This could be a motive for murder in this case.
Narrator: One of Anna's friends tells investigators
Bob was violent in their relationship,
and the situation reached a boiling point.
Tschudy: Anna came over to her house,
crying and kind of frantic, because Bob had pushed her down
the stairs and had basically assaulted her.
Anna had actually broke her wrist from that incident,
and we were able to get a copy of
the medical records from the hospital, and we had
photographs of her at an event with a cast on.
So that's putting the spotlight on Bob now.
Narrator: As investigators move Bob to the top of their list
of suspects, his motive comes more into focus.
Ross: Bob was not doing well at all financially.
Anna had gotten the house in the divorce,
so he had to rent a room in a house with, like,
three or four other grown men.
I mean, what 62-year-old man
wants to have three or four roommates?
That has to be depressing.
It was like his life was going -- spiraling down,
hers was spiraling up.
She was dating.
She had tons and tons of friends.
She was taking courses.
She had a good, solid job, and I think it just
ate away at Bob.
Tschudy: When I start diving into Bob's financials --
Oh, boy. There's a lot of debt.
And he's at that age where he can't
recover from that type of debt.
Anna has this big chunk of change
from a life insurance policy.
Bob is in serious financial debt.
It seems like there's this nexus between
these two people.
It's a red flag for us, because Anna
was killed, and the only one benefiting off of
her death at that moment is Bob Moses.
Narrator: After a series of false starts and dead ends,
investigators now have a prime suspect in Anna Moses' murder,
her ex-husband, Robert.
We bring Bob in and talk to him,
sit down, have a good interview.
Then we see, like, a little scratch
on his right hand above his knuckle.
We ask him about it.
Tschudy: It was this kind of long, drawn-out answer to, like,
a simple question,
and it's been my training experience
when someone answers a question like that,
it's the person thinking of a way to tell a lie,
and they're making it up as they go
and hoping you believe it.
And we're like, wow, that's pretty fresh.
He showed it to us, and it's a small, little cut.
And then we ask him, "hey, can we take a DNA sample?"
You know, he cooperated with that part of the investigation.
Many guilty offenders have voluntarily given DNA,
including some serial killers who,
as part of their confidence game,
will turn over a hair
or even provide blood, hoping
that by appearing cooperative,
that they're less suspicious-looking.
Narrator: Police continue their interrogation,
questioning Robert about his relationship with Anna.
Walker: He was very kind of vague in general.
Instead of a direct answer,
he would kind of move around the answer and talk about
something else that didn't have
anything to do with the question,
and so they felt that was pretty odd.
Narrator: With Robert's evasiveness
setting off alarm bells,
detectives push him on his whereabouts in the hours
leading up to Anna's murder.
Tschudy: He tells us that he was at work, and then that night,
you know, I was on the computer, I was watching TV,
and I went to a restaurant.
It's kind of a place where girls don't wear a whole lot of
clothes, and they serve beer and bar food there,
and he's kind of a regular there.
Narrator: Investigators check into Robert's story.
So I follow up with his work.
Well, his work says, well, Bob hadn't really been coming
to work, and he's pretty much
gonna be fired, because he's not
producing any business.
So that was very strange to us,
because he told us he was at work.
Walker: He lived in a rental home with three other men.
They checked -- in talking to those other men,
no one could say, "hey",
"Robert Moses was at home around 5:50 P.M.
On January 13th."
Tschudy: We go to the restaurant that he said he went to.
We review the video, and we verify him
walking into the restaurant at seven o'clock.
He's there for about an hour and then leaves.
But before 7 P.M.,
we cannot locate or pinpoint where Bob is at.
We've got all this information on Bob,
but it doesn't mean that he necessarily murdered Anna.
But we do have DNA that's waiting to be processed.
So, at this point, we are waiting to see if Bob's
DNA comes back a match to the DNA
that was taken from Anna's car.
Narrator: When the DNA results come back,
they confirm the blood found in Anna's car is
Robert's blood.
The bloodstain on the console was a mixture of Bob's
and Anna's DNA,
so that ties Bob to the crime scene.
That is a huge win for us,
because now we have the killer.
Now it all makes sense.
Everything matches with what we think is
happening and, boom, we got him.
Arntfield: In Robert's eyes,
he was a benefactor and even a savior for Anna.
He gave her a new life and, in his mind,
probably thought that he could do no wrong
and, to some degree, owned her.
And when she sort of goes out on her own and things didn't
work out according to plan,
we see that maybe he could never get over that.
And the rage just began to fester and boil.
And this murder ends up being
sort of the final actualization of
an anger streak that began years earlier.
Narrator: With this last piece of the puzzle in place,
investigators are now able to fill in
the final 24 hours of Anna's life.
On January 13th, Anna had left work around, you know,
5:00 P.M., traveled north on a major roadway, stopped at
a fast food restaurant, purchased a quesadilla,
drove to her house.
Bob got into the garage, lays in wait.
Anna comes home, gets her mail,
pulls in the garage at 5:50,
closes the door,
Bob pops up, boom, boom, boom, shoots her several times.
She falls down,
and then he comes up to her
and shoots her three more times over the heart.
[ Gunshot blasts ]
He didn't shoot her in the face,
because there's kind of this emotional attachment,
but he does shoot her in the throat.
That was the finishing shot, just to make sure she was dead.
He is the one who got into the car and then moved it.
We don't know exactly when he parked it,
but it was found two blocks away from the house.
Tschudy: We believe that Bob Moses disables the gun,
probably in pieces, or he throws the gun
in a trash can or a sewer.
Narrator: After killing Anna, Robert heads to
a nearby restaurant to give himself an alibi.
We interviewed the waitress and she was like, "you know",
"he made the comment like,
"'this is the greatest grilled cheese sandwich
I've ever eaten.'"
when I look back at it, I think that...
He said that because he was still kind of
high on the adrenaline and, like,
he just got away with murder.
Narrator: The only question left is how the energy drink can
and cigarette butt ended up in Anna's car,
bringing with them the second set of unidentified male DNA.
Walker: We have to question if this wasn't
part of Robert's way to throw off the investigation.
He could grab a can out of a trash can or a cigarette butt
on the side of the road and throw it in the car,
and that DNA, who knows where that would come from?
It would have absolutely nothing to do with this case.
It is clear by Robert's actions that a great
deal of plotting and scheming went into this crime.
To come up with a whole narrative and to actually move
the car to that location --
It has a -- has a theatrical quality to it that
you very rarely see in the case of a domestic murder.
Narrator: On February 26, 2015,
Robert Moses is arrested
for the first-degree murder of his ex-wife, Anna.
Ross: Bob was very emotional,
so I'm sure that some people thought,
oh, well, he couldn't have done it, because he was crying.
But of course, uh,
it's not always the case.
Just because you cry,
it doesn't mean you're not lying.
There was no doubt in my mind that we had the right person.
I knew the detectives felt the same way.
Narrator: The jury agrees and convicts Robert of
murder and sentences him to life in prison.
Tschudy: The timeline was critical.
The timeline helped us in determining
there's no way this person could be involved,
because they were on the other side of town.
There's no way this person can be involved, because they
were at this place when the murder allegedly happened.
Looking back at all the timeline,
the only one who has a big, glaring hole in their story is
Bob Moses.
Walker: Whenever there's a murder case,
you want to do your best and to make sure the perpetrator is
held and that justice is served for
the victim and the victim's family.
In this case, justice was served.
Ross: Anna certainly wasn't what you'd call plain vanilla.
I miss Anna's laughter,
and I miss sharing things with Anna.
I went to St. Petersburg for the first time, and it would
have been great to have gotten to go with Anna
and, you know, share that experience with her.
I felt lucky
that I met this interesting woman
with this interesting background,
and now that Anna's gone, it brings me to tears.
She was very beloved by many, many people.