Someone Was Waiting

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Speaker 7 I was completely baffled at how this could have happened. I didn't know anyone who wished Anna any harm.

Speaker 9 Nobody.

Speaker 10 She was stunning, model-like. She had that personality, that happiness from within.

Speaker 5 Men found Anna irresistible.

Speaker 12 I see her, my angel of light.

Speaker 11 Oh, I called her by Muse.

Speaker 13 They wrote her poetry, gave her gifts.

Speaker 15 How much money did he give Anna?

Speaker 16 $46,000.

Speaker 17 Is he some kind of sugar daddy?

Speaker 18 That's what it appears to be.

Speaker 10 She was found dead in her house.

Speaker 4 She's lying on the ground, blood coming out of her mouth.

Speaker 10 Who would do this to her?

Speaker 5 With so many men in her life, there would be plenty of potential suspects.

Speaker 16 He knew an awful lot about her routines and who she dated.

Speaker 20 He is trying to get into her bank accounts, her emails.

Speaker 21 He's a direct beneficiary of a large sum of cash. That's something we're going to look at.

Speaker 5 Could this strange clue reveal a killer?

Speaker 21 There was a locked drawer and inside the drawer was a letter in Russian.

Speaker 24 That letter gave you a window into what was really happening. Right.

Speaker 6 We were confident he was going to be our guy.

Speaker 27 Of all the places a beautiful, bright young Russian might end up, Frisco, Texas might not make your list.

Speaker 30 But that's where Anna Kichatova went.

Speaker 26 And it was here she found what she was looking for, love and success, along with men and women who found her, well, fascinating.

Speaker 7 I met Anna after church one afternoon. I was delighted to meet someone who was more worldly and sophisticated than the run-of-the-mill

Speaker 7 suburban American you meet.

Speaker 10 We just had that connection. I cannot describe it in words.
I don't think I have words to describe what we felt.

Speaker 39 Like a blossom to bees, the sweet-natured Anna attracted a circle of admirers.

Speaker 42 Safe to say you had a crush on her?

Speaker 44 You could probably say that

Speaker 45 at some point.

Speaker 10 I don't think she ever had a problem. Everybody loved her.

Speaker 47 Well, maybe not everyone.

Speaker 50 So many people would soon become potential suspects when someone's love and admiration turned toxic and deadly.

Speaker 53 Somewhere in that circle of fans, danger was waiting.

Speaker 30 But if Anna saw it coming, she kept it to herself.

Speaker 46 And so she'd listen to your really deepest secrets, but she wouldn't give you any of her own. No.

Speaker 56 Her friend Donna was able to glean a little about Anna's exotic past.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 I knew she married when she was fairly young and had her son Igor.

Speaker 36 The marriage didn't last long and the husband dropped out of the picture.

Speaker 60 So there was Anna in her late 20s with a little boy to support.

Speaker 29 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.

Speaker 26 He was 19 years older.

Speaker 37 Real nice and, you know, real friendly and had a great smile. And so I just said, you know, would you like to have lunch?

Speaker 62 The answer was yes.

Speaker 37 lunch turned to dinner one thing led to another after I left we communicated we emailed before I you know finally you know said hey I'd like you to come over you know and you know possibly we have you know relationship here together it was October 1998 she came without her son She told me she wanted to kind of you know check things out before she brought her son over here so she was here and you know we got married in December of that year two months later Iger came to the United States and suddenly Bob had a family.

Speaker 25 The one-time bachelor was smitten with his young wife and his new four-year-old son.

Speaker 37 You know, little boy, you know, you know, running around, have fun. You know, he was fantastic.

Speaker 15 Bob formally adopted Eager.

Speaker 37 He was my son. You know, I would, you know, I wouldn't consider him anything else.

Speaker 64 And he meant it.

Speaker 66 In 2002, fate dealt the family a sucker punch when Eager suffered what could have been a catastrophic health crisis, cancer.

Speaker 67 But with Bob's help, he pulled through.

Speaker 69 They recovered from the setback with Eager and life picked up in Frisco, an ambitious little city outside of Dallas.

Speaker 70 Bob worked in sales.

Speaker 72 Anna landed a job as a data analyst at the University of Texas Dallas, where she met Jay Shri Bihari.

Speaker 10 She came and she met with me and we clicked instantly.

Speaker 46 What made you guys click like that?

Speaker 10 I was new so she came over and told me about who all are there in the office and took me around. You know we met people and we went out for lunch.

Speaker 10 So it was really nice of her to make me feel very comfortable.

Speaker 15 Anna clicked with a lot of people like John Wurkowski.

Speaker 73 a professor at the university who worked just upstairs from Anna.

Speaker 74 She wanted to learn about quantitative message, that's my specialty. So it just sort of hit.

Speaker 75 You know, we were good buddies.

Speaker 64 Anna was big on self-improvement.

Speaker 27 She was taking a course in public speaking when she met Jerry Caspel, and he joined her crowd of admirers.

Speaker 11 We used to kind of tease each other.

Speaker 16 I said, you used to be my enemy.

Speaker 11 You were from a communist country. And she thought that was pretty funny.

Speaker 77 In Donna Ross, Anna found a kindred spirit.

Speaker 72 Once a professional ballet dancer, Donna now teaches dance in Frisco.

Speaker 7 She was very passionate about some of the same things I was passionate about. We went to the Dallas Symphony.
We went to the Dallas Opera. We went to Texas Ballet Theater.

Speaker 80 As Anna's world got bigger, her life with Bob began to wither.

Speaker 15 The marriage that had survived a child's illness faltered over time.

Speaker 50 And Anna surprised everyone when she asked Bob for a divorce in 2012.

Speaker 29 For Iger's sake, they parted as friends, and Anna was again on the lookout for a nice guy.

Speaker 81 Which brings us to Michael Stodnick.

Speaker 7 Michael is a very attractive, very intelligent, soft-spoken young man, about Ana's age.

Speaker 7 He is a professor at the University of Dallas.

Speaker 15 And Anna's new man.

Speaker 83 Good looking, age-appropriate, a mild-mannered business professor.

Speaker 48 So with a nice new boyfriend and a good job, Ana Moses was once again moving on up.

Speaker 82 Until the day in January of 2015 when she didn't show for work.

Speaker 31 Michael said he couldn't get in touch with her, so he contacted police.

Speaker 45 They went to check on her.

Speaker 85 And so when you get a welfare check call, what do you normally expect to find?

Speaker 86 I usually go to the house and find, you know, somebody either there, didn't want to talk to the person that's trying to find them, or, you know, they've gone gone somewhere and just not told somebody.

Speaker 87 But this was different.

Speaker 86 Yes, sir.

Speaker 36 What was going on with Anna?

Speaker 84 Police were about to uncover a troubling clue.

Speaker 21 That's when we noticed some shell casings in the garage.

Speaker 77 One alarming discovery, and just feet away, another.

Speaker 44 I observed her lying on her back.

Speaker 19 I saw what appeared to be a bullet hole in her scarf.

Speaker 29 It was late morning, January 14th, 2015, when Ana Mosa's neighbor David Stafford thought he spotted trouble across the street at Ana's house.

Speaker 92 And had my blinds opened and noticed that the police officers came and were knocking on the door. So I came out and

Speaker 92 asked what was going on, and they said that they were following up on a well check.

Speaker 50 Anna's boyfriend Michael Stodnick had called police to say he was worried.

Speaker 66 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.

Speaker 51 And now her colleagues were saying she hadn't shown up for work.

Speaker 52 Frisco Sergeant Jay Ream was one of the officers checking the home.

Speaker 86 No signs of any type of forced entry anywhere.

Speaker 85 Which means also you don't really have any excuse to go inside. Correct.

Speaker 86 Yeah, 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.

Speaker 49 The doors were locked, so Sergeant Ream asked some officers to find Ana's 20-year-old son to help them get into the house.

Speaker 84 Eager was by then a student living at the university where his mother worked.

Speaker 85 They show up with the son and the key and the alarm cove. Are you getting any kind of read off the sun?

Speaker 86 I didn't talk to the son. He sat in the car.

Speaker 56 And that's where Eager waited while police went into his mom's house.

Speaker 36 A member of Sergeant Ream's team was wearing a body camera.

Speaker 86 The first thing we wanted to see is if the car was there. So we walked in, and as you walk in, two of my guys went in the garage, looked, said, hey, there's no car.

Speaker 95 But then they looked down, and what they saw was beyond bad.

Speaker 39 Anna Moses, whose sunny presence had touched so many lives, was lying dead on the garage floor.

Speaker 86 I was standing in the laundry room. I'm like,

Speaker 86 is she deceased? And they were like, like yes she is. Trauma?

Speaker 96 Blood out the mouth.

Speaker 86 So we did a quick protective sweep of the house to make sure nobody else was inside and then we came out and locked the door that way we kept the the scene pristine for the crime scene and detectives to arrive.

Speaker 48 Investigators were there within minutes.

Speaker 84 One of them was Ruben Mankin of the Texas Rangers.

Speaker 4 My initial observation was just from coming in through the foyer was that it was a clean house.

Speaker 4 Then I made a beeline for the

Speaker 46 laundry room, which was...

Speaker 43 Wait, one sec.

Speaker 97 Clean, meaning it didn't look like she'd interrupted a burglary.

Speaker 67 That's correct.

Speaker 22 That's correct.

Speaker 98 I mean, there was no stuff missing, drawers pulled open.

Speaker 6 Right.

Speaker 49 Something else was telling.

Speaker 46 On the floor of the garage was Anna's purse, which still held $300.

Speaker 90 And nothing else seemed to be missing, except Anna's car.

Speaker 48 Ranger Mankins surveyed the scene with lead detective Brian Chuti.

Speaker 21 That's when we noticed some shell casings in the garage.

Speaker 21 Just multiple shell casings.

Speaker 72 The casings easily identified the murder weapon as a 22.

Speaker 52 And a careful look at Ana's body told them a little more.

Speaker 19 I observed her to be lying on her back.

Speaker 44 She was heavily clothed, still wearing her jacket and a couple of scarves.

Speaker 19 I saw what appeared to be a bullet hole.

Speaker 44 in

Speaker 44 her scarf that was wrapped around her neck.

Speaker 19 And that's when I observed a hole in her neck.

Speaker 46 So she was killed, presumably, by somebody who got into the house and waited for her in the garage?

Speaker 100 Possibly. Possibly.

Speaker 63 Yeah, or

Speaker 16 she opens a garage door, she pulls in, and somebody runs in there, shoots and kills her, and takes the car.

Speaker 75 All right, so an alert goes out for the car, right?

Speaker 99 Correct.

Speaker 51 There were so many scenarios under consideration.

Speaker 76 This didn't feel like a burglary or a carjacking.

Speaker 29 The medical examiner outlined Anna's cause of death.

Speaker 16 He was able to document that she'd been shot six times.

Speaker 29 They found a seventh bullet in Anna's clothing that hadn't penetrated.

Speaker 32 In fact, it fell onto the examining table.

Speaker 36 The deadly bullet wounds were close together.

Speaker 32 Someone had shot her in the chest and then in the back.

Speaker 46 So this is somebody who

Speaker 46 was probably not too far away from her.

Speaker 45 Correct.

Speaker 30 Yeah. Fired a bunch of times.

Speaker 48 Correct.

Speaker 90 The trajectory of the bullets suggested Anna had gotten out of her car, perhaps seen her assailant, and started to turn away.

Speaker 19 She doesn't go down with those three rounds, and that's where you have the following barrage of bullets on her back

Speaker 19 that are square in her back.

Speaker 21 So like if we startle you and the door's right there,

Speaker 21 and you go to turn to run to that door, you're going to catch it left to right.

Speaker 32 There was something else, and it was, at the very least, odd. Anna may have been shot seven times.

Speaker 87 But police found 11 shell casings at the scene and no sign of the other four bullets.

Speaker 102 Did crime scene ever find the other slugs in the walls or the floor or anywhere?

Speaker 45 No, sir, sir.

Speaker 46 That's kind of weird. Yeah.

Speaker 63 Right? Yes, sir.

Speaker 73 So now detectives turned their attention to the circle of people who knew and loved Ana Moses.

Speaker 9 Among them could be a clue, perhaps even a suspect.

Speaker 48 And detectives would begin with the person she loved the most.

Speaker 52 Police tell Anna's son, Iger, about his mother's murder, and his response is strange.

Speaker 96 Is she in one piece?

Speaker 42 Is she in one piece?

Speaker 103 Have you ever heard anybody respond like that?

Speaker 79 Never.

Speaker 35 The bullet-riddled body of 43-year-old Anna Moses had been found in her garage in a suburb of Dallas.

Speaker 15 Now, Sergeant Jay Ream had the difficult task of breaking the news to her only child.

Speaker 86 We needed to notify the son.

Speaker 75 He's right there at the curb.

Speaker 86 He's at the curb, so could not tell him anything.

Speaker 50 After helping police get into the house, 20-year-old Eager Moses was waiting outside, sitting in a car.

Speaker 96 What's your name? Iger? Eager? I'm Jay.

Speaker 104 Hi.

Speaker 51 Sergeant Ream's body cam was switched on, but as you can see, it wasn't framed properly.

Speaker 15 His words, however, were direct and to the point.

Speaker 96 There's really no easy way to tell you what's going on. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 96 Your mom is deceased.

Speaker 96 Okay.

Speaker 96 So right now, we've got to do a lot of things to try to figure out how, why, and what's going on.

Speaker 85 You've done that kind of notification before, haven't you?

Speaker 50 A lot. And they're not pleasant?

Speaker 45 No.

Speaker 86 Worst thing to do.

Speaker 87 Was this one different?

Speaker 86 It was different in the response that I received.

Speaker 40 In fact, there was basically no response, according to Reen.

Speaker 46 Just a blank stare.

Speaker 79 Did he cry?

Speaker 22 Was he emotional?

Speaker 86 None at all.

Speaker 32 Their conversation, if that's what this was, continued.

Speaker 96 Is your mom's car usually here?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 96 Is it not here? No.

Speaker 89 That's when Iger asked a question that seemed to come totally out of left field.

Speaker 96 Is she in one piece?

Speaker 96 Yeah, I mean, I don't know exactly. And then that's that's what we got to try to figure out.

Speaker 85 Is she in one piece?

Speaker 103 Have you ever heard anybody respond like that?

Speaker 22 Never. To a death notification?

Speaker 67 Never.

Speaker 40 But it wouldn't be the only response that left Sergeant Ream scratching his head.

Speaker 96 So why don't you talk to a detective and we'll go from there if you're good with that? I do have class, even though I know that's kind of insignificant at the moment. Okay.

Speaker 96 Yeah, I think we can get an excuse for that.

Speaker 22 Eager never made it to class that night. Instead, he was brought here to the Frisco Police Department for a formal interview.

Speaker 71 Investigators had already been briefed about his odd reaction to the news of his mother's death.

Speaker 98 Later, he'd tell her friends he didn't want to have a funeral for her.

Speaker 22 And also this, that whoever had killed Animosis should be forgiven.

Speaker 29 Eager said he was in class the night his mom was murdered.

Speaker 65 But after interviewing him for five hours, investigators were still wondering about his unusual reaction, especially when they learned that right after the interview that very same night, Eager was in the gym playing a game called Wally Ball with friends.

Speaker 72 By no means did he seem to be grieving.

Speaker 19 Just kind of added to us needing to dig a little bit deeper and find out, you know, what was going on.

Speaker 17 This is, what, hours after his mother's been found dead? That's correct.

Speaker 31 And when detectives did dig deeper, they discovered what could be a motive.

Speaker 77 Anna had a $750,000 life insurance policy with just a single beneficiary, Iger.

Speaker 21 He's a person of interest. Iger being the direct beneficiary of a large sum of cash.
Yes, that's someone we're going to look at.

Speaker 56 Not long after Anna's body was found, her friend Donna read the awful news on Facebook from a posting by another friend.

Speaker 53 That had to be terribly shocking to hear that she'd been killed.

Speaker 7 Completely. Completely, because I didn't know anyone who wished Anna any harm.

Speaker 49 Nobody.

Speaker 7 I just, I couldn't imagine it. Who didn't love Anna?

Speaker 46 And who'd hate her?

Speaker 7 Exactly.

Speaker 71 Donna said she could not picture Igor as the killer.

Speaker 7 Never, never, never.

Speaker 7 I just know

Speaker 7 Igor is not capable of murder.

Speaker 63 And another friend, Jaishri Bihari, remembered how close Anna and Igor always were.

Speaker 10 She just adored him. Her son was like the center of her life.

Speaker 79 What did she tell you about her son?

Speaker 10 You know, she just said that I want him to pursue his passion, which is in music. And she would always go to his concerts.

Speaker 84 Eager played guitar in a Christian rock band, combining two big interests, music and religion.

Speaker 72 He was studying speech pathology at UT Dallas, the same school where his mother worked.

Speaker 10 She used to even wash his clothes on weekends and when he was at the dorm.

Speaker 22 He's in college and she's still doing his laundry.

Speaker 10 Yes, she will take all his clothes, wash them, iron them, get him some food, homemade food, and stuff like that.

Speaker 9 The last time Donna saw Anna, Anna couldn't contain her excitement about travel plans she'd made with Igor.

Speaker 7 She was telling me about her wealthy aunt giving her money so she and Igor could go on vacation, and she was really looking forward to that.

Speaker 106 But as much as Anna's friends believed in Igor, they still weren't sure what to make of some of his statements.

Speaker 43 He said that whoever had done this should be forgiven.

Speaker 7 We all noticed it and thought it was unusual, but Igor in the last year had become

Speaker 7 fanatically religious.

Speaker 84 Day one of the investigation, and Igor was just the first of the men in Ana's life police wanted to talk with.

Speaker 15 The list would be long.

Speaker 48 And on it would be some names that would qualify as secret admirers.

Speaker 22 Relationships Ana Moses had never shared with even her closest friends.

Speaker 16 We're casting broad net,

Speaker 67 including her ex-husband.

Speaker 46 Clearly, he's going to be at the top of the list of people you want to interview. Correct.

Speaker 30 Detectives talk with Bob Moses and leave with more questions than answers.

Speaker 21 I did not think this was going to be something easy to solve.

Speaker 46 Law Enforcement 101 on any murder, talk with the ex.

Speaker 63 But this time, Ranger Mankin and Detective Chudi were also messengers arriving at Bob Moses' house with some bad news.

Speaker 37 I mean, they come at midnight, you know, something's happened. And I said, well, what happened?

Speaker 109 Is my son okay?

Speaker 21 Your son's fine.

Speaker 109 But something to somebody else?

Speaker 16 Well, that's what we want to talk about.

Speaker 45 The investigators who were recording their conversation preferred to tell Bob about Anna when they all went to the police station.

Speaker 54 But his persistence forced their hand.

Speaker 37 Tell me what happened here. Okay, well, something happened to Anna.

Speaker 46 What happened to her? Anna's dead.

Speaker 109 What?

Speaker 109 What? What are you talking about?

Speaker 21 Anna's dead.

Speaker 109 And

Speaker 109 how is that possible?

Speaker 63 The cops, who at that point hadn't revealed how she died, noticed that Bob, unlike Eager, had a strong response.

Speaker 19 His reaction seemed appropriate.

Speaker 45 He was upset. He was emotional.

Speaker 99 Yes.

Speaker 37 My first thoughts were for Eager. I mean, he's like, you know, 20 years old at this time.
He just lost his mother. And they told me that he knew and he, you know, knew about what had happened.

Speaker 50 Bob agreed to follow the cops to the Frisco PD in his car for a more formal interview.

Speaker 14 On their way to the station, the Ranger can be heard telling his partner that Bob had passed the credibility test.

Speaker 14 January 5th.

Speaker 52 1 a.m.

Speaker 36 in a little room downtown.

Speaker 32 Already a long day for Mankin, whose back is to the camera.

Speaker 72 and Chudy at the table facing Bob.

Speaker 111 We're trying to figure out what happened and maybe when the last time we saw her spoke with her I mean I don't

Speaker 16 we have we have good reason to believe that Anna was murdered.

Speaker 16 Oh my god. Yeah.

Speaker 16 No.

Speaker 16 How would something like that happen?

Speaker 16 How would that happen?

Speaker 16 You know of anybody who would want to harm Anna?

Speaker 16 No, I mean,

Speaker 16 why wouldn't somebody want to harm Anna?

Speaker 47 The detectives needed to nail down Bob's timeline for the evening Anna was murdered, Tuesday, January 13th. I wasn't really doing anything yesterday, you know, watching TV and anything else.

Speaker 51 Bob's alma mater, Ohio State, had won the national championship Monday night, and he said he spent the next day reveling in post-game celebrations and commentary on TV.

Speaker 32 And he said one of the three men he shared his house with could vouch for him.

Speaker 32 Who was at home yesterday whenever you were at home?

Speaker 29 Bob said it was so cold he never ventured outside until around 7 p.m.

Speaker 72 when he drove to Twin Peaks, a nearby restaurant.

Speaker 48 Police would confirm that on security video, spotting Bob wearing his red Ohio State jacket.

Speaker 76 What seemed to matter the most to Bob was his son, who needed him now more than ever. I should go see Iger.
I mean, I really should go to the scene and talk to him and see how he is.

Speaker 76 From talking to him on the phone a couple hours ago, he seemed all right.

Speaker 76 All right? Yeah.

Speaker 76 He'll be all right. He can't be all right.

Speaker 50 As the ex-husband, investigators, of course, asked about the broken marriage.

Speaker 30 Bob and Anna divorced two years.

Speaker 47 before Anna was murdered.

Speaker 92 Did y'all ever fight whenever y'all were married? I mean, we had disagreements. I guess that's kind of why we're divorced.
I mean, we just were kind of like opposites in some ways.

Speaker 48 The investigators asked Bob if he owned guns, and he said yes, five of them.

Speaker 36 Three were.22 caliber, the kind of weapon that killed Anna.

Speaker 29 Bob readily agreed to let police search his home and take his guns and ammunition. We're going to have to get them analyzed.

Speaker 48 Bob even provided a DNA swab right on the spot. This is a Q-tip, a big long Q-tip.
So I want you to go ahead and rub it on your left cheek.

Speaker 48 We'll use this evidence to help rule you out. Okay.

Speaker 76 After being interviewed for about an hour, Bob left to find his son.

Speaker 37 When he and I were together, I was, you know, really upset about it.

Speaker 62 And they never stopped supporting each other.

Speaker 48 Soon, Bob and Igor moved into Anna's house to grieve together.

Speaker 32 It was another example of the affection for his adopted son that had always impressed Ana's friends.

Speaker 7 Bob was essentially the only father that Igor has ever known.

Speaker 76 And when Igor was sick, Bob definitely delivered.

Speaker 7 Bob was incredibly

Speaker 7 kind and loving and caring to Igor when Igor was suffering with cancer.

Speaker 23 Her little seven-year-old boy has...

Speaker 37 really really rare form of bone cancer

Speaker 91 everything Bob did was to protect Igor, even the divorce.

Speaker 66 Anna and Bob kept it secret for months until Igor could finish high school.

Speaker 15 Then they made sure it was amicable, also for Igor.

Speaker 10 She said that you will be coming often to see Igar and

Speaker 10 we'll be on friendly terms.

Speaker 15 Bob also came by the house to do handyman repairs.

Speaker 37 And she knew if she called somebody it was going to be very expensive. And I was like, well, I can fix it.

Speaker 46 After interviewing Ana's ex-husband and son, police were ready to widen their investigation.

Speaker 45 More men were on the radar.

Speaker 21 I did not think this was going to be something easy to solve.

Speaker 26 And the next man up, Ana's current boyfriend, would do something Bob and Igor didn't do.

Speaker 67 He lawyered up.

Speaker 112 The boyfriend would do something else too, something truly bizarre.

Speaker 31 After talking to police, he talked to himself.

Speaker 34 Police and Texas Rangers were working overtime investigating the murder of Ana Moses.

Speaker 58 The upwardly mobile Russian immigrants' pursuit of the American dream had ended in a hail of bullets in her suburban garage.

Speaker 101 Anna's car was missing.

Speaker 39 Cops suspected whoever killed her had taken it.

Speaker 54 12 hours after Anna's body was found.

Speaker 86 Well, the officers was driving through the neighborhood and

Speaker 86 he got a hit on the plate.

Speaker 21 I get a phone call from patrol advising they located Annamos' car just a couple streets away from her house.

Speaker 30 The officer on the scene told Detective Chudi Chudi and Ranger Mankin he could see what appeared to be a bloodstain inside the car.

Speaker 45 How many bloodstains in all did you find inside the car?

Speaker 19 Three areas where blood was located.

Speaker 16 The seat bottom, the seat back, and the center console.

Speaker 24 What else did you find in the car?

Speaker 21 A Red Bull can and a weathered cigarette butt.

Speaker 22 Did Animosa smoke or drink Red Bull?

Speaker 21 Not to our knowledge.

Speaker 52 Anna's car was towed to the crime lab where CSI techs worked it over.

Speaker 76 They found no useful fingerprints. The cigarette butt, energy drink can, and bloodstains were all sent for DNA testing.

Speaker 22 Results could take weeks or even months. Meantime, cops had a killer on the loose.

Speaker 89 Investigators were following Ana's electronic footprints, reconstructing her last day alive.

Speaker 4 We had some camera footage that showed her leaving the college at approximately 5.07 p.m.

Speaker 4 We also got some footage from one of the schools nearby and a Taco Bell as well.

Speaker 75 She was buying food. Correct, correct.

Speaker 19 Both were en route to coming back home.

Speaker 4 She was also captured on a camera in this neighborhood, and that was at 5.49 p.m.

Speaker 43 So if you believe that she was killed pretty much right after she got out of her car, then around 6 o'clock seems a plausible time.

Speaker 46 That's correct.

Speaker 45 While the forensics were being collected, an an old-fashioned shoe leather investigation was underway.

Speaker 63 Cops were looking hard at the man in Anna's life,

Speaker 46 starting with her official boyfriend, Michael Stodnick, who had a date with Anna the night she was killed and who reported her missing.

Speaker 34 Detectives invited Stodnick downtown and grilled him about his whereabouts the night of Anna's death.

Speaker 24 And the boyfriend's alibi is,

Speaker 78 I was there at the scene of the murder.

Speaker 85 I just couldn't get in and I didn't know she was there.

Speaker 46 Right, right. Well, yes.

Speaker 21 He said he was at Grapevine Elementary getting his daughter's grades.

Speaker 61 Stodnick answered all their questions, but a couple of things left the cops wondering.

Speaker 27 During the interrogation, he asked if he should get a lawyer.

Speaker 47 And then later, he did.

Speaker 36 Anna's son, Iger, talks to you freely, doesn't hire an attorney.

Speaker 97 Her ex-husband, Bob, talks to you, doesn't hire an attorney.

Speaker 46 Her boyfriend, however, does.

Speaker 88 That makes you sit up and take notice.

Speaker 21 He does raise the question: Should I get an attorney? It's about the time we start asking for DNA.

Speaker 53 Stodnick did eventually provide a DNA sample, but that didn't put questions about him to rest

Speaker 63 because when the cops left the interrogation room, Anna's boyfriend had a private and animated conversation with himself.

Speaker 46 Strange, if not downright suspicious, it definitely didn't help his standing on the cops' hit parade of suspects.

Speaker 58 Anna's dear friends, still shell-shocked from the news of her death, were drawn into the investigation.

Speaker 42 What did you know about this guy she was going out with, Michael?

Speaker 10 When she started going out with him, she called me to say, hey,

Speaker 10 you know, I found somebody who I'm seeing. I said, oh, that's very nice.
I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 42 Did she tell you anything else about him?

Speaker 45 No.

Speaker 10 She just said that he seems to be like a nice person, and

Speaker 63 I'm happy.

Speaker 22 Jay Shree had never met Anna's boyfriend Michael, and most of Ana's other friends didn't know her ex-husband Bob.

Speaker 59 Retired ballerina Donna Ross, who had danced with the Joffrey Ballet in New York, was one of the few who knew both men.

Speaker 63 She found Bob lacking in the social graces, someone who didn't always recognize the audience he was playing to.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 108 And here you were being sort of looked down on.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 That was one of the

Speaker 46 wrong thing to say.

Speaker 7 Yeah, Bob did not feel good unless he was putting someone else down and trying to elevate himself.

Speaker 79 Tell me about Michael.

Speaker 7 Well, Michael is

Speaker 7 very

Speaker 7 low-key, very kind, very sensitive.

Speaker 42 Sounds like you approved of Michael a lot more than Bob.

Speaker 7 Oh, absolutely, yes. I mean, Michael is 20 years younger than Bob, much more handsome, much more intelligent, much more successful, much more accomplished, and much wealthier.
What's not to like?

Speaker 31 And yet,

Speaker 75 Anna and Michael did not get along perfectly, did they?

Speaker 7 Oh, no, there was lots of squabbling.

Speaker 29 It was dawning on Anna's friends how little they really knew about this enigmatic Russian woman.

Speaker 10 In this picture, you know, it's me and Anna.

Speaker 32 Jay Shri today treasures the gifts Anna gave her, like this Matroshka, the famous Russian nesting doll.

Speaker 60 But she also wonders.

Speaker 103 Explain to me how...

Speaker 82 You were among her closest friends.

Speaker 46 I mean, you called her your soul sister.

Speaker 63 I did.

Speaker 10 She was.

Speaker 89 And yet there was so much of her life that she didn't tell you anything about.

Speaker 63 Yes. She never told you anything.

Speaker 10 No, no. She was very good at dodging things.

Speaker 32 That was dawning on investigators, too.

Speaker 114 When did it become clear to you that Anna Moses had parts of her life that she wasn't sharing with anybody else?

Speaker 21 I think through the interview process with friends, family, and the people that knew her, it seemed like she had her life compartmentalized and that certain types of people she would let into this section of her life, and other types of people she would let closer and give them more detail.

Speaker 52 As her friends and the cops continued to peel back the multiple layers of the late Ana Moses's singularly opaque love life,

Speaker 66 she was starting to resemble a real-life Matroshka, beautiful, intricate, and with a lot unseen.

Speaker 29 And detectives were just beginning to tally Anna's legion of admirers around the greater Dallas area.

Speaker 32 One of those admirers, a poet, who insisted he was just good friends with Anna.

Speaker 43 Generally, when men describe a woman as their muse and they're writing poems about her, there's more going on there than just poetry.

Speaker 49 Winston Churchill referred to Russia as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Speaker 50 Texas homicide investigators looking into the murder of Russian immigrant Anna Moses were finding the same thing.

Speaker 48 Michael Stodnick, her boyfriend who put himself at the scene of the crime, told cops how he met Anna.

Speaker 21 She was on Match.com. I believe they met through Match.com.

Speaker 97 Anna's hard drive revealed he wasn't her first.

Speaker 36 On Match.com, Anna had page after page, 11 to be precise,

Speaker 29 of winks, postings by men who'd admired her photo.

Speaker 59 And it wasn't just cyberspace keeping cops busy.

Speaker 55 Lovely Anna had plenty of flesh and blood admirers, including Jerry Caspel, who'd met her years earlier.

Speaker 11 We met at Toastmasters, which is a speaking club.

Speaker 75 It's for public speaking and leadership, and

Speaker 12 she was

Speaker 11 working on her English, of course, and

Speaker 11 I kind of tried to help her.

Speaker 79 It sounds as if

Speaker 43 there was very quickly a connection between the two of you.

Speaker 11 Yeah, we got to be pretty close friends. She asked me, for example, to help her with her resume.
You said keep writing, don't forget.

Speaker 43 Jerry, who is married and works for a medical equipment company, is also a poet and songwriter.

Speaker 59 He says Anna encouraged his writing and eventually helped edit a collection of his poems.

Speaker 11 She always raved about poetry and

Speaker 11 she said,

Speaker 45 I can be your muse.

Speaker 11 And that's what struck me.

Speaker 43 Yeah, you can be my muse. What guy wouldn't want a muse?

Speaker 42 Particularly an attractive Russian one.

Speaker 45 Sure.

Speaker 11 So I called her my muse. She thought that was great.

Speaker 59 Maybe I'm very cynical here, but I do work for Dateline. Yeah.

Speaker 43 Generally, when men describe a woman as their muse and they're writing poems to her or for her or about her,

Speaker 43 there's more going on there than just poetry, or at least the man hopes there is. Yeah.

Speaker 45 Well, there wasn't.

Speaker 11 It was a deep, deep friendship. I loved her like I would love a sister.

Speaker 24 I'm going to read you an excerpt of a poem you wrote.

Speaker 51 A soft touch to heal my sad soul when it aches.

Speaker 45 Whispered words soothing my heart when it breaks.

Speaker 59 That's the kind of poem that guys write about their girlfriends.

Speaker 116 Yes, maybe it is.

Speaker 11 She inspired me to write things like that.

Speaker 72 Anna may have been merely Jerry's muse, but she was careful to conceal their relationship from her husband Bob while they were still married.

Speaker 11 She made sure I

Speaker 11 wasn't there if he was coming over or something like that.

Speaker 42 Sounds like she was trying to avoid the two of you meeting.

Speaker 11 Yeah, that's what it seemed like, and I was fine with that.

Speaker 23 Could a reasonable person, an investigator, look at the emails and texts between the two of you and conclude that maybe there was something extracurricular going on?

Speaker 113 Sure.

Speaker 67 I got it.

Speaker 59 Investigators were in the midst of their own musings about that relationship and had some questions for Jerry, like whether he had any guns.

Speaker 53 The poet told them he owned a.22 for target shooting, the same caliber as the weapon that killed Anna.

Speaker 46 And Jerry says he was learning things as well.

Speaker 11 I met some of her friends as they were preparing for the memorial. They started talking about her boyfriend.
And I said,

Speaker 11 I don't know about any boyfriend.

Speaker 12 So that was

Speaker 11 quite odd.

Speaker 85 She'd never mentioned Michael?

Speaker 43 I never, ever knew about him until the memorial.

Speaker 49 And now there was someone else on the cops' radar.

Speaker 58 Remember that neighbor, David Stafford, who noticed the police activity outside her house?

Speaker 84 He was extraordinarily helpful in providing details about Ana's love life to detectives.

Speaker 92 I'd see one guy he was around, you know, for a while, and then all of a sudden I'd see another guy maybe three four five months later uh

Speaker 92 and then um then she started dating a third guy

Speaker 92 the curious neighbor explained to us how he knew so much about anna's private life you know by sitting here i could see you know everything that went on across the street and cars driving by and and stuff like that.

Speaker 14 But he told us he wasn't that interested in the pretty Russian divorcee whose dating life he so carefully chronicled.

Speaker 105 Not his type, he said.

Speaker 92 I never asked her out, no. I mean, she's from a foreign country.
She's Russian, and her English was with a very heavy accent.

Speaker 92 And I'm just not attracted to any woman like that.

Speaker 50 After Anna's body was found, he had visitors.

Speaker 21 Ranger Macon and I went over to Mr. Stafford's house and sat down and talked with them.

Speaker 63 The neighbor told them he was on a long conference call in his home office at the time Ana was killed.

Speaker 88 Did he fill in any gaps on the timeline?

Speaker 85 Did he hear any gunshots?

Speaker 21 No, I really didn't hear any gunshots.

Speaker 97 That neighbor seemed to know quite a bit about her.

Speaker 99 Yes, he did.

Speaker 16 And we made note of that, that he knew an awful lot about her routines as far as who she was dating, who she had dated.

Speaker 58 Judy and Mankin invited the neighbor downtown for a longer conversation.

Speaker 72 At the station, David Stafford added his DNA sample to the investigator's growing collection.

Speaker 106 Yet another person of interest.

Speaker 95 For Anna, he was a friend with benefits, financial ones.

Speaker 89 Is he some kind of sugar daddy?

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Speaker 15 As homicide investigators struggled to solve the murder of Ana Moses, their list of suspects grew longer.

Speaker 21 We had people of interest during this, and there was certainly a lot of them.

Speaker 82 Anna's life proved full of men who seemed to deserve a second look.

Speaker 51 There was her son, Igor, who stood to collect $750,000 in life insurance.

Speaker 87 Her ex-husband, Bob, divorced but still in the picture.

Speaker 36 Her soulmate, Jerry the Poet, who called Anna his muse.

Speaker 26 Her boyfriend, Michael, who admitted he went by Anna's home the night of the murder, and that attentive neighbor David, who kept curiously close tabs on Anna.

Speaker 36 But wait, there's more.

Speaker 40 Her colleagues pointed detectives toward another special friend of Anna's.

Speaker 21 Coworkers indicated that she had a close relationship with Dr. Wurkowski.

Speaker 48 Dr.

Speaker 72 John Wurkowski is a vice provost at UT Dallas.

Speaker 47 Anna took one of his classes.

Speaker 74 I've knew her for about six years, but then about three years or four years ago, what she was doing coincided with something I was doing, so we worked together more.

Speaker 74 So that's how it sort of became friends. And then she liked music, I liked music.

Speaker 89 Before long, Anna and the married professor were spending time together outside of work.

Speaker 87 As the professor told it, they became even closer around 2012 when Anna's marriage hit a rough patch.

Speaker 75 The two met most mornings for tea and sympathy i would come down around 10 and um

Speaker 3 uh

Speaker 74 just see how she was doing and then she she would we would you know we might talk about music or lots of times she was trying to improve her english he would go visit her probably twice a day while she was at work you guys both married yes uh your wives be okay with that kind of mentoring relationship between you and somebody else probably visiting her twice a day and having coffee probably not.

Speaker 45 Lawman learned that later, while Anna was still married to Bob, the relationship evolved into a romance.

Speaker 27 The professor said he ended their fleeing after he concluded the 30-year age difference was simply too much, and they went back to being just friends.

Speaker 95 But clearly for Ana, this was a friendship with a benefit.

Speaker 90 For her.

Speaker 76 One more fiscal than physical.

Speaker 101 The professor was quite generous with time and his money, even after the romance was supposedly over.

Speaker 45 How much money did he give Anna?

Speaker 16 $46,000.

Speaker 82 $46,000.

Speaker 21 Yes, sir.

Speaker 102 A man is going to give $46,000 to a woman that he spends a lot of time with, works with,

Speaker 42 seems attracted to, but there's nothing going on between them.

Speaker 21 I think he's liking to pay

Speaker 21 to see the happiness that it brings to people's lives.

Speaker 76 Anna used some of the money to bring her mother from Russia for a visit and to pay Iger's college expenses, and the cash kept flowing.

Speaker 34 The professor gave her another $6,000 just days before her murder.

Speaker 22 And almost all of this, like so much in Anna's life, stayed on the down low, at least with her friends.

Speaker 42 What could you tell about Anna's relationship with John Wurkowski?

Speaker 10 They were friends, very good friends.

Speaker 59 During the investigation, it came out that John and Anna had dated for a while.

Speaker 45 Really? Yes.

Speaker 59 Surprising.

Speaker 10 Yes. Very.

Speaker 10 I didn't know that.

Speaker 76 There were secret relationships that were known apparently only to her and maybe one other person.

Speaker 46 It's like there were two Annas or four Annas. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 10 And I see where she's coming from because, you know, I know our cultures are like that. I know that people don't share things.

Speaker 17 The professor explained Anna was essentially his personal charity.

Speaker 36 The cops wondered about his motives.

Speaker 85 When a man who's interested in a woman basically bankrolls her, gives her $40-something thousand dollars, and then nothing happens, she's not interested in him, or she says you're too old, or you realize you're too old,

Speaker 42 that can make some guys pretty angry.

Speaker 23 Absolutely.

Speaker 16 Obviously, we needed to keep digging.

Speaker 42 The professor admits they dated briefly.

Speaker 114 I'm not sure what dated means, but I mean, is he some kind of sugar daddy?

Speaker 16 That's what it appears to be, that he's, you know, giving her money and maybe hopes that, you know, maybe at some point, maybe she would gain some interest in him.

Speaker 29 When they burrowed deeper into Ana's finances, investigators found about $111,000 in her bank accounts.

Speaker 65 Money cops thought her university job couldn't have provided.

Speaker 29 And the professor's generosity accounted for less than half of that.

Speaker 24 So all that money begged a lot of questions.

Speaker 63 Was somebody else giving her money?

Speaker 10 I have no idea about that. This is new to me.
If she had asked me, I would give her money. If she was in need, I would have given her money.

Speaker 59 The unaccounted for cash was just another piece in a puzzle that already featured more characters than a Hollywood caper.

Speaker 21 This is a good who-done-it case. We didn't know a lot at that time, and we had to rely on the investigation and the crime scene and evidence to point us to who did it.

Speaker 29 Where would that evidence lead?

Speaker 48 The answers would surprise even Anna's closest friends.

Speaker 79 There were all kinds of things in Anna's life that she didn't tell anybody about.

Speaker 10 She did not.

Speaker 30 The many heartbroken friends of Ana Moses crowded into her memorial service 10 days after her murder.

Speaker 14 Jerry played this song.

Speaker 32 He wrote it just for her.

Speaker 46 We don't know what we'll do without you.

Speaker 46 We could never doubt you to brighten up our day.

Speaker 79 We can't think of anything

Speaker 79 about you,

Speaker 79 Anna,

Speaker 46 that doesn't make us feel so glad you've come our way.

Speaker 30 It was time to say goodbye, except for many of her friends who were saying hello.

Speaker 29 Because many were meeting each other, even learning about each other, for the first time.

Speaker 89 There were all kinds of things in Anna's life that she didn't tell anybody about.

Speaker 10 She did not.

Speaker 43 There were relationships that were not known by her closest friends.

Speaker 65 Jerry says he didn't even know who Anna's ex-husband was until well after the service.

Speaker 99 He got up and

Speaker 11 talked about meeting her for the first time in, I think, in St. Petersburg.

Speaker 11 And he started crying. And it wasn't until maybe a day later that I talked to one of her friends, and they said that was Bob.

Speaker 65 Bob says he had a hard time holding it together.

Speaker 37 And at the memorial service, when I spoke about her, I was extremely emotional. In fact, I had to have somebody bring me a tissue because it was so upsetting to me to talk about this.

Speaker 71 Anna's son, Iger, also managed to speak, but it wasn't easy for him or for anyone.

Speaker 69 They shared their grief that day, their memories. But on another level, they were also sharing a few suspicions.

Speaker 83 Donna knew the odds.

Speaker 84 Anna was probably killed by someone close to her, and that someone could have been at that very service, putting on a show.

Speaker 7 You know, the fact that somebody cries on the stand or at a funeral or so on and so forth. Well, of course, I mean, if they've just committed a crime and

Speaker 7 yes, they could still cry.

Speaker 108 Grief does not imply innocence.

Speaker 7 No, absolutely not.

Speaker 36 In the days that followed, detectives would consider the cast of characters who had reveled in the glow of the Animosa starlight and then mourned her passing.

Speaker 68 And some began to drop off the list of suspects, including anyone she might have recently met from online dating.

Speaker 21 So Anna did have a match.com account, but she hadn't been on it or actively searching or looking, to our knowledge. And that's verified through the match.com records.

Speaker 114 So at least for match.com, she wasn't dating anybody except the boyfriend.

Speaker 99 Correct.

Speaker 73 And the first real suspect was one of the first to be cleared.

Speaker 43 Eager, the son, not terribly interested in helping law enforcement, says he doesn't want a funeral for his mother, says whoever did this should be forgiven.

Speaker 88 And he's the beneficiary of a $750,000 insurance policy.

Speaker 21 Yes, sir.

Speaker 50 But given that police believe Ana was killed around 6 p.m., Iger had a good alibi.

Speaker 45 Where was I when she was killed?

Speaker 99 In class.

Speaker 63 How far away?

Speaker 21 It's about 45-minute drive.

Speaker 82 You're convinced he was there in class?

Speaker 46 Yes.

Speaker 21 Yes, sir. We spoke to classmates.

Speaker 68 As for Iger's odd reaction at the news of his mother's death, friends told police that Iger is just that way sometimes.

Speaker 49 No one who knew him doubted Eager was devastated.

Speaker 15 And you've got a neighbor across the street who, helpfully, keeps very close tabs on Animosis.

Speaker 43 Yes.

Speaker 51 Okay, the neighbor was nearby, quite nearby, when the murder happened.

Speaker 63 The neighbor is home on the conference call.

Speaker 88 And you can prove he's on the conference call.

Speaker 45 Yes, yes, sir.

Speaker 52 So police ruled out the neighbor.

Speaker 36 But what about the boyfriend, Michael?

Speaker 84 He was supposed to have had a date with Anna that night, but detectives say he couldn't have done the murder.

Speaker 27 They confirmed he was attending an event at his daughter's school.

Speaker 21 We got the boyfriend signed in, and then he's also on video at the school, Grapevine Elementary.

Speaker 23 Too far away.

Speaker 21 Too far away.

Speaker 51 As for that strange conversation Michael had with himself,

Speaker 76 in the end, police figured it was just shock, another odd twist in a case full of them.

Speaker 63 But there were still other people who had spun through Ana's orbit and then shed shed tears at her memorial.

Speaker 27 Did one of them have a reason to turn on her?

Speaker 58 That question continued to nag at police as they narrowed the search for her killer.

Speaker 25 A surprise discovery turns this investigation inside out.

Speaker 21 There was a locked drawer, and inside the drawer was a letter in Russian.

Speaker 28 Will it lead investigators to the truth?

Speaker 16 We were pretty confident that he was going to be our guy.

Speaker 61 The Professor and the Poet.

Speaker 2 It's no sitcom title.

Speaker 48 This was deadly serious.

Speaker 77 Both were among Anna's most ardent admirers.

Speaker 66 And both were still under suspicion.

Speaker 25 You got a couple of guys who are sort of in the shadows.

Speaker 22 John the

Speaker 114 and Jerry the Poet.

Speaker 88 The Professor gives her $40,000 and gets back in return, we don't really know what.

Speaker 22 And the poet thinks of her as his muse.

Speaker 24 Have I got that about right?

Speaker 99 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 105 Did police have questions about them?

Speaker 60 Absolutely.

Speaker 25 But days later, investigators came to believe both men were nowhere near Anna's house when she was murdered, based on witnesses and, interestingly enough, the same alibi.

Speaker 14 The professor is where?

Speaker 99 On the tollway.

Speaker 75 The poet is where?

Speaker 99 On the tollway driving.

Speaker 26 Investigators had eliminated a lot of suspects, but they hadn't found their killer.

Speaker 55 They needed a break.

Speaker 68 And two weeks after the murder, they got one.

Speaker 94 A mysterious message from Anna herself.

Speaker 29 In essence, from beyond the grave.

Speaker 21 A search warrant was conducted on Animosa's office at UT Dallas, and there was a locked drawer, and inside the drawer was a letter in Russian.

Speaker 63 Straight from a Cold War spy novel.

Speaker 46 But where would it lead?

Speaker 21 We had to get an FBI agent to come translate the letter for us.

Speaker 46 You don't know whether that's going to be a great clue or just a shopping list.

Speaker 46 The note was a mixture of Russian and English.

Speaker 45 In any language, it was a bombshell.

Speaker 56 It was in her own handwriting.

Speaker 27 written apparently during divorce proceedings two years earlier.

Speaker 79 Anna was telling a lawyer about a threat from her husband Bob.

Speaker 76 A convoluted one, but a threat nonetheless.

Speaker 21 Basically, the letter translates that

Speaker 21 Bob was going to kill himself and blame Anna and write a letter to Iger blaming Anna to get Iger to hate Anna.

Speaker 88 All of this presumably is some way of convincing Anna to stay with Bob.

Speaker 21 Yes, sir.

Speaker 46 If true, it was a bizarre blackmail attempt that put a more sinister spin on Bob's claim of an amicable divorce.

Speaker 88 So that letter really kind of gave you a window into what was really happening in that marriage.

Speaker 45 Right.

Speaker 21 If you're suicidal, you're homicidal. That's a real quick switch.

Speaker 59 That gave Detective Chudi and Ranger Mankin a powerful reason to re-interview Bob.

Speaker 14 But fearing he'd lawyer up, they lured him back to the Frisco PD.

Speaker 59 by saying they had information for him on Ana's estate.

Speaker 59 Thanks for coming up, Bob. We forgot to do it.

Speaker 14 Once inside the cramped interview room, the investigators immediately changed the subject to Bob's shaky alibi for the day of the murder.

Speaker 113 Turns out his roommate could not vouch for Bob or his timeline, as Bob had said he would.

Speaker 111 I know it's been a couple weeks, but

Speaker 111 if you can remember right now, I had a hard time talking I did yesterday. It's been so distraught.

Speaker 111 I'm sorry, but

Speaker 111 that is vague. I'm not trying to be vague.
It's just I don't have details for you because there's no details.

Speaker 111 Sitting there watching TV, I didn't look at my phone and go, okay, it's two o'clock, I'm watching TV. I wasn't keeping track of time.

Speaker 53 He was selling.

Speaker 63 The cops weren't buying.

Speaker 111 But you understand this is a murder investigation. I understand, okay.
So Anna was murdered. I guess.
So when I get this, I mean, it's not like a baseball was stolen out of some store.

Speaker 111 Everyone else is bending over backwards to accommodate us, And now we're catching, I don't know, I don't know. I don't keep track of every minute or every day.
I don't.

Speaker 111 And that's why I can't tell you where

Speaker 112 I was at 2 o'clock yesterday.

Speaker 22 But in Bob's first interview at the police station, he did remember going to Twin Peaks around 7 p.m.

Speaker 63 The problem is that police think Anna was killed an hour before that.

Speaker 21 You seen on camera

Speaker 21 walking in, sitting down at the bar.

Speaker 88 Okay, so maybe if he comes in at 7 o'clock, he left home at 6.45.

Speaker 99 Yes. Yes, sir.

Speaker 76 That's still plenty of time to have been at Ana's house and commit the murder.

Speaker 63 Correct. Correct.

Speaker 15 While investigators focused on Bob's alibi and catching a killer, Bob wanted to talk about, well, just about anything else, like his guns the cops took to examine.

Speaker 111 My guns, sir, can I get those back?

Speaker 48 The cops said Bob changed the subject anytime he felt cornered.

Speaker 21 Bob never asked us one time about the killer, how the investigation was going, any leads, But he did ask about the will.

Speaker 46 Anna's will.

Speaker 15 That was the hook that brought Bob to the PD.

Speaker 46 You know, a couple of questions.

Speaker 21 We're looking to see if Anna has a new or newer will. What did the old will say to you?

Speaker 111 Well, basically, I gave my stuff to her. She gave her stuff to me.

Speaker 79 But Anna restructured her will and didn't tell him.

Speaker 21 Bob didn't even know that

Speaker 21 Eager was a beneficiary. Bob at that time thought that he was the beneficiary on the will.

Speaker 29 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.

Speaker 21 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,

Speaker 21 who's benefiting from Anna's death?

Speaker 79 Investigators were smelling the oldest of motives.

Speaker 21 It was all about the money.

Speaker 22 You think Bob Moses essentially killed his wife by mistakenly thinking that he was going to get a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

Speaker 16 It was a targeted murder. Either he was going to be the beneficiary or he could manipulate Igor to get access to that money.

Speaker 63 And now cops were eager to confront the man with a motive.

Speaker 54 They went in for the kill. We either think we're sitting across from a monster

Speaker 54 or somebody that had a lapse in judgment.

Speaker 54 Me?

Speaker 54 No.

Speaker 54 Absolutely not. Why not, Bob?

Speaker 54 Okay, I don't know what you're talking about now, but it sounds like you're accusing me of something.

Speaker 54 We're fact-finders. Okay? Good.
I hope we're finding the facts. You're making it hard for me to find the facts, Bob, because you can't tell me.

Speaker 54 I'm done talking to you guys. I'm done talking to you, okay?

Speaker 54 Because

Speaker 54 I don't know everything I did that day. You're trying to twist all this around now.

Speaker 75 With that, Bob strode out of the room.

Speaker 113 But not out of suspicion.

Speaker 26 You guys think you have your man?

Speaker 99 We were pretty confident that he was going to be our guy.

Speaker 48 On February 26th, 2015, six weeks after Ana was gunned down, Bob Moses was arrested.

Speaker 87 It was his birthday.

Speaker 45 He'd spend it behind bars facing a charge of murder.

Speaker 37 And that's where we interviewed him did you kill your wife no absolutely not i would never hurt anna

Speaker 118 bob moses goes on trial facing a prosecution witness who claims he terrified anna he said can i come to your house i am afraid you will kill me tonight

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Speaker 51 It was October, but it felt like summer as the Texas sun shone over the Collin County Courthouse, almost two years after Ana Moses was murdered.

Speaker 117 All right.

Speaker 26 Inside the courtroom, Bob Moses, the man who brought Ana to America and who loved and cared for her and her son, was charged with her murder.

Speaker 117 Anna

Speaker 20 was a sweet woman, and you're going to see that.

Speaker 89 Prosecutor Cynthia Walker began to lay out her case for the jury.

Speaker 20 Anna had been shot six times.

Speaker 99 Two in the chest, one in the throat, three in the back.

Speaker 55 Telling them the evidence would point to Anna's ex-husband.

Speaker 20 And the killer in this room is Robert Moses, and there will be no doubt in your mind.

Speaker 87 Walker was promising a strong case, but what's a prosecutor to do about all those men in Ana's life?

Speaker 58 She knew the defense would try to cast them as alternative suspects.

Speaker 54 No shortage of potential persons of interest here.

Speaker 20 Anybody who's going to be in a circumstantial case where there aren't any witnesses, you start looking at people and you say, who are the people closest to her?

Speaker 20 You know, boyfriends, friends, anybody who's had any sort of relations with her.

Speaker 14 So in an unusual move, Walker decided to preempt the defense and call those men as her own witnesses.

Speaker 113 witnesses.

Speaker 105 She began with Anna's boyfriend, Michael Stodnick, who said he was intrigued by Anna the day they met.

Speaker 121 She was an amazing woman. She was incredibly intelligent, very well-spoken, extremely kind, and just someone I knew I wanted to get to know right away.

Speaker 22 The prosecutor showed Michael a photo of Anna.

Speaker 20 This is how you want to remember Anna. Is that correct?

Speaker 61 Is she a beautiful woman? She is.

Speaker 105 And she asked him straight out.

Speaker 20 Did you kill Anna?

Speaker 121 No, I did not.

Speaker 25 She asked the same of the others.

Speaker 89 The neighbor across the street.

Speaker 118 Did you kill Anna?

Speaker 67 No.

Speaker 45 The poet.

Speaker 57 Did you have anything to do with Anna's death?

Speaker 45 No.

Speaker 76 The professor.

Speaker 20 Did she have anything to do with Anna's death?

Speaker 35 No.

Speaker 88 Everybody can be alibied, not just by their own words, but by subsequent investigation.

Speaker 23 Except Bob Moses.

Speaker 20 Except Bob Moses. He was very general, very vague.

Speaker 17 With the Frisco PD detective on the stand, Walker played Bob's interviews with police.

Speaker 122 What did you do from the time you woke up to

Speaker 117 me and I probably took the dog for a walk?

Speaker 36 Remember, Bob said he'd been at home most of the day and into the evening.

Speaker 48 But on the stand, Bob's housemates all said they couldn't vouch for him.

Speaker 20 Do you ever remember seeing Bob Moses in the house?

Speaker 37 I would say no. I was rarely in the house.

Speaker 20 So on the January 13th, you don't remember him?

Speaker 100 I don't remember seeing him at all.

Speaker 77 The prosecutor said Bob's whereabouts couldn't be confirmed until he appeared on that restaurant video at 7 p.m.

Speaker 36 The Texas Ranger told the jury Ana was killed an hour earlier.

Speaker 100 I knew that she had left work or office around 5.

Speaker 29 He mapped out her final trip using videos from the security cameras on her route. including that video from a neighbor's camera right near Ana's home.

Speaker 121 She was captured one more time as she was traveling north on Charleston.

Speaker 29 Even though the timestamp says 6.59 p.m., police determined it was actually 5.49 when Anna's car drove by.

Speaker 20 Did you have an idea of when Ana was, when you believe about the time she was killed?

Speaker 4 Based on the fact that she's checked her mail,

Speaker 100 because the mail is strewn underneath her, it's loose. I believe it's soon after she arrives there

Speaker 100 inside of the garage.

Speaker 70 The police theory.

Speaker 107 At about 6 p.m., Bob shot Anna seven times.

Speaker 95 Six bullets found their mark.

Speaker 81 He then spread four other shell casings on the garage floor, took Anna's car, parked it a few blocks away, and tossed in the cigarette butt and the can of Red Bull.

Speaker 97 In a weird way, you ended up with too much evidence.

Speaker 115 I mean, there's all this stuff that is there at the actual scene of the murder and then later in the car.

Speaker 20 That didn't make any sense. That's right.
It made it feel more like this was designed to sort of throw off the investigation, put something else out there to say it could be somebody else.

Speaker 27 But Cynthia Walker said it wasn't somebody else.

Speaker 14 She told the jury Bob had been nursing a long, simmering, murderous rage that bubbled to the surface on January 13th, 2015,

Speaker 105 and that Anna may have seen it coming.

Speaker 29 The evidence came from one of Anna's Russian friends.

Speaker 118 I think we become good friends just from beginning.

Speaker 46 She dispelled the notion that Bob and Anna's relationship had been amicable and told the jury about a harrowing night about two years before the murder.

Speaker 20 In the winter, December of 2012, did you receive a phone call from Anna one day? Yes.

Speaker 59 Anna and Bob were still married.

Speaker 75 Anna said she had locked herself in the bedroom.

Speaker 20 Did she appear to be upset and crying? Yes.

Speaker 118 She told me that and she called police and she said, can I come to your house? I am afraid you will kill me tonight.

Speaker 27 So far, the case was all circumstantial, but the state was about to present evidence it said pointed directly at Bob Moses and only Bob Moses.

Speaker 76 When investigators first interviewed Bob, the day after Ana's murder, they saw something.

Speaker 4 Noticed that he had a cut or that he had a bandage that was covering a wound on his right hand.

Speaker 59 Investigators remembered that bandage when they saw those bloodstains inside Anna's car.

Speaker 100 And observed what appeared to be a red, crimson stain on the seat back of her car.

Speaker 75 Bloodstains on the right side of the driver's seat and a wound on Bob's right hand.

Speaker 20 Is this another stain that I'm circling right now?

Speaker 10 Yes, it is.

Speaker 43 And when this DNA analyst testified, the prosecution thought it was game-set match.

Speaker 14 She told the jury those stains were a mixture of DNA, Anna's.

Speaker 75 Of course, it was her car.

Speaker 46 But the other person,

Speaker 59 he was sitting at the defense table.

Speaker 7 Obtaining that mixture profile was 1.226 tillion times more likely if the DNA came from Anna Moses and Robert Moses than if the DNA came from two unrelated unknown individuals.

Speaker 52 Translation?

Speaker 36 It was Bob Moses' blood.

Speaker 48 And in that second interview with police, he had no explanation for it. Is there any reason why

Speaker 117 your blood would be inside of her car?

Speaker 117 Not that I can think of now.

Speaker 51 The prosecutor told the jury that what pushed Bob over the edge on that January night were some of the oldest reasons in the book of murder.

Speaker 101 Not just money, but jealousy and envy.

Speaker 20 She lives in this beautiful house. She's dating this nice, wonderful man.
And then you have Robert Moses, who's in debt, who's having to live in a house with other men in a small bedroom.

Speaker 20 Who benefited from her death? Right after her murder, the defendant moved into her house. He is going through her finances.
He is trying to

Speaker 20 get into her bank accounts, her emails, trying to determine what her finances are. The evidence

Speaker 20 points beyond a reasonable doubt to the man, the killer, who is looking at us right now. Robin Mrs.

Speaker 26 Now the defense was ready to pounce.

Speaker 84 Two attorneys, both of them former prosecutors, were about to try to rip the state's case to shreds.

Speaker 66 And they would be asking the jury to consider this simple question:

Speaker 32 who ate the quesadilla?

Speaker 31 The defense brought to you by Taco Bell.

Speaker 24 Bob's attorneys say a fast food rapper at the scene calls into question the prosecution timeline.

Speaker 116 If she ate the quesadillas, she'd have to be killed a couple hours later. If the killing happens two hours later, well then Bob Moses, he's sitting in the Twin Peaks on video.

Speaker 15 Bob Moses insisted all along that he was innocent.

Speaker 76 He had not killed his ex-wife.

Speaker 46 Were you violent toward your wife?

Speaker 54 Did you ever hit her?

Speaker 37 I would never hurt on. I would never hurt any woman, okay?

Speaker 53 And in a North Texas courtroom, defense attorneys Toby Shook and Cody Skipper argued the state got it wrong.

Speaker 120 The only side that's going to be left standing at the end of this is going to be this one right here.

Speaker 62 Skipper said Bob wasn't an angry ex who killed Ana for money.

Speaker 71 He was the victim of an inept investigation.

Speaker 31 Police were sloppy, the defense suggested, and missed big clues.

Speaker 79 Remember, cops concluded this wasn't a robbery, but the credit card Ana used at Taco Bell wasn't in her purse.

Speaker 122 I'm pulling out the wallet so the record's cleared.

Speaker 120 Point me to where you indicated that Ana Moses had a missing credit card.

Speaker 121 You probably aren't going to find it.

Speaker 123 Give me a page in where that's mentioned.

Speaker 93 Don't have it.

Speaker 38 A paragraph.

Speaker 80 Don't have it.

Speaker 110 Her credit card was missing from the purse. And there's no one who knew that in this entire investigative team.
until they were asked on the witness stand.

Speaker 59 It was shoddy police work, he told the jury, as was the theory that all the unexplained evidence was planted by Bob to throw off the cops.

Speaker 22 What do you make of the extra bullet casings at the crime scene?

Speaker 116 They never sent any detectives across the street to see if any projectiles had struck a fence, a car, a house.

Speaker 108 You mean out the open door of the direction?

Speaker 67 Out the open door.

Speaker 116 The shooting could have happened while that door was open, and the projectiles could have gone out and struck something, but they admitted they never bothered to look

Speaker 63 and that can of red bull police said it was a red herring but the defense said it was another red hot clue with no follow-up they tested for dna it comes back to an unidentified male uh not bob moses not any of the other suspects they listed and certainly not anna moses shook argued dna on the can could have led investigators to a whole new suspect but he said police focused only on Ana's ex.

Speaker 116 They had, in this case, classic tunnel vision. Bob Moses was a suspect after the first day.

Speaker 116 And anything else that came up, they didn't pay attention to.

Speaker 80 The defense also tried to knock down the testimony of the friend who said Anna was afraid of Bob.

Speaker 118 And she said, can I come to your house? I am afraid you will kill me tonight.

Speaker 36 Bob's lawyers pointed out that call was two years before the murder.

Speaker 47 And after the divorce, Anna and Bob remained on good terms.

Speaker 122 You knew Bob was coming over to the house and still fixing things, repairs, and picking up equals.

Speaker 20 Yes.

Speaker 120 She wasn't telling you when Bob comes and fixes the water pipe that's leaking,

Speaker 122 you know, she's afraid of him, was she?

Speaker 90 No.

Speaker 71 Then the defense tried to blow up the prosecution's timeline, saying that video from Anna's neighbor was hardly definitive.

Speaker 110 The only thing you can tell this jury about that car is that it's a stand, right?

Speaker 86 Yes, sir.

Speaker 113 Make, model, color, you have any information on that?

Speaker 79 No, sir.

Speaker 25 So maybe that wasn't Anna driving by that camera just before 6 p.m.

Speaker 93 The defense reminded the jury of the last proven stop Anna had made that day when she pulled up to that Taco Bell drive-through at 5.37 p.m.

Speaker 52 And they asked

Speaker 72 who ate that quesadilla.

Speaker 116 Just the packages found in the trash next to her body.

Speaker 24 So she ate it or the killer ate it? She ate it or the killer ate it.

Speaker 75 The defense called their own forensic expert.

Speaker 7 It's my opinion that if she had eaten the quesadilla, chicken quesadilla, 10 minutes prior to dying, that I would still be able to see chicken and other identifiable parts of that quesadilla in her stomach.

Speaker 75 But there was no Mexican food in Ana's stomach.

Speaker 116 If she ate the quesadillas, she wasn't killed at 5.55 p.m. She'd have to be killed a couple hours later at a minimum.

Speaker 89 And if the state's timeline was off, then Bob Moses was in the clear.

Speaker 116 If the killing happens two hours later, well, then Bob Moses, he's sitting in the Twin Peaks on video, okay? We know where he is. We're not sure where all these other people are.

Speaker 56 If the timeline's wrong, said the defense, the alibis of all the other potential suspects fall apart.

Speaker 9 The telltale quesadilla was never found.

Speaker 93 If the killer ate it, presumably his or her DNA might be all over that wrapper.

Speaker 110 Yeah, you could have skin sill DNA on that, you could have touch DNA, and you could have fingerprinting on that.

Speaker 15 Skipper asked the lead detective about that.

Speaker 122 You didn't submit that Taco Bell trash

Speaker 122 for touch DNA, correct?

Speaker 122 You didn't submit it for latent prints, correct?

Speaker 8 The defense portrayed Bob as the victim of half-baked police work.

Speaker 47 But there was another victim the jury was about to hear from, someone who had not only lost his mother, but could now lose his father, too.

Speaker 85 In a hushed courtroom, the defense called their star witness to the stand.

Speaker 125 My name is Iger Moses.

Speaker 46 Iger told the jury how he felt about his mother.

Speaker 116 Iger, you loved your mother greatly, didn't you?

Speaker 90 Yes.

Speaker 69 Miss her?

Speaker 90 Yeah.

Speaker 48 And Igor said he had no doubt his father was innocent.

Speaker 125 I do not believe my father killed my mother.

Speaker 48 It turned out Eager was Bob's biggest supporter.

Speaker 26 He said there was only one reason his dad had returned to living in Ana's house.

Speaker 125 Following my mother's death, my grandmother and I both asked my dad to move back into the house.

Speaker 72 And Eager said his dad's actions had nothing to do with greed.

Speaker 116 Was he trying to get the money from you, asking you to give him money from the account that

Speaker 116 he could have?

Speaker 52 No.

Speaker 112 Eager even tried to discredit the state's strongest evidence against his father.

Speaker 59 Bob's blood in Ana's car.

Speaker 113 Is that the car we were talking about?

Speaker 125 Yes, that is my mom's car.

Speaker 29 His dad, he said, had often driven that car, and that bloodstain on the driver's seat was hardly fresh.

Speaker 125 Yeah, that one's been there for quite a long time.

Speaker 120 Do you know how long?

Speaker 125 I mean, since high school, I would imagine.

Speaker 76 There's no way to tell how long his blood was in that car.

Speaker 79 No, no.

Speaker 75 No, they can't.

Speaker 116 They couldn't age the DNA.

Speaker 99 They don't know when the blood was put there.

Speaker 116 The DNA folks could not tell them how old that blood was.

Speaker 36 Even more important, there was no evidence putting Bob in the garage where Anna was murdered.

Speaker 33 Bob's guns were tested.

Speaker 28 None fired the fatal shots.

Speaker 57 And the murder weapon was never found.

Speaker 77 No witnesses, no DNA or prints or security video at the crime scene.

Speaker 75 There's nothing tying him to her body.

Speaker 97 No.

Speaker 31 Shook offered that to the jury.

Speaker 123 Why didn't you find the blood anywhere in that garage?

Speaker 120 Why didn't you find it on her clothing?

Speaker 79 His blood.

Speaker 112 It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 77 This case, said the defense, was far from a slam dunk.

Speaker 116 You don't have answers at the end of this case.

Speaker 123 All you have are questions.

Speaker 26 And the final question was,

Speaker 31 Who would the jury believe?

Speaker 61 The answer. Then go

Speaker 22 And the emotional fallout.

Speaker 10 All our friends were crying. We didn't know what to do to stop the crime.

Speaker 38 The jury had heard the whole tangled tale.

Speaker 46 of friends, lovers, a son, an ex-husband, and the woman they all said they loved and adored.

Speaker 31 Jurors sat through seven days of testimony and heard more than 40 witnesses, all to answer the question, did Bob Moses murder his ex-wife Ana in a jealous rage?

Speaker 22 Lawyers made their final appeals.

Speaker 45 The defense said the state's whole case was weak, based on poor police work.

Speaker 53 This investigation

Speaker 19 What you rely on

Speaker 99 made your decision.

Speaker 113 It's any complete. It's inconclusive.

Speaker 123 Don't let the fact that Anna Moses, an innocent woman, was murdered, and I've got to bring someone to justice for her.

Speaker 123 Don't let them guilt you into that.

Speaker 43 Prosecutor Cindy Walker wasn't having any of it.

Speaker 20 Ladies and gentlemen, the only guilt, no one's guilty of me of anything, the only guilt that belongs anywhere is that man right there, Robert Moses. Everything points to him.
It points nowhere else.

Speaker 46 The prosecutor didn't want jurors to lose sight of why they were there.

Speaker 30 So she made sure a photo of of Anna was always on display.

Speaker 117 This is Anna.

Speaker 20 She was a beautiful woman.

Speaker 105 Now it was up to those six men and six women to decide if Bob Moses stalked and shot his ex-wife in her garage that January night.

Speaker 14 They deliberated for eight hours that first day and went home for the night. The next day, After their morning coffee, they told the judge they were ready.

Speaker 74 Madam Floorperson, I understand the jury's reached a verdict. Is that correct?

Speaker 74 If you would please hand that to the bailiff.

Speaker 33 Defendant, go ahead and rise.

Speaker 4 State of Texas versus Robert Arthur Moses.

Speaker 74 We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder as charged in the indictment.

Speaker 25 Bob Moses got life in prison.

Speaker 9 In the back of the courtroom, Ana's friends thanked prosecutors and police.

Speaker 20 I was happy that

Speaker 20 I could bring them a little bit of justice.

Speaker 36 At the defense table, Bob was left alone alone with his thoughts.

Speaker 70 Eager, who'd supported his father during the entire case, was not in the courtroom.

Speaker 32 Donna thinks the jury got it right.

Speaker 7 It's very sad that Bob would not only ruin and destroy Ana's life, he's also destroyed his own.

Speaker 25 Jay Shree says the verdict was a relief for Anna's inner circle.

Speaker 10 All her friends were crying. All her friends were crying.
I mean, we didn't know what to do to stop the crime.

Speaker 65 As for Bob, he said he was going to continue to fight.

Speaker 37 I'm appealing because I think it's, you know, obviously the verdict is 100% wrong.

Speaker 68 Bob chose not to testify at his trial.

Speaker 32 So we took this opportunity to ask him some questions in jail that he did not face in court.

Speaker 46 How could your blood get in her car?

Speaker 37 Because

Speaker 79 I was over there working around the house.

Speaker 37 There are small little stains, okay, that could have been there for could have been there a week, a month, it could have been there six months who'd want to kill her i don't know i have no idea it doesn't make any sense to me at all if you look at all the actual evidence that's out there okay first of all they said that it wasn't a robbery okay

Speaker 37 but if you go through what happened in court you will find out that they completely missed that Okay, I didn't do this and the person that did is still out there.

Speaker 37 And the Frisco Police Department have given people a false sense of security over this.

Speaker 72 In 2018, his appeal was denied and Bob Moses remains in prison.

Speaker 65 The day after the verdict, Jay Shri went to Ana's favorite restaurant.

Speaker 10 I went and sat there and had my breakfast right there at the table where I met her last. So just feeling her presence and in a way saying, okay, there is a closure now.

Speaker 10 I believe in life after death, and so I'm hoping to see her sometime.

Speaker 63 Donna remembers the little moments, like Anna's Russian accent and her trouble with the pesky nuances of American English.

Speaker 7 She used to say, then this afternoon I go store. And I'd say, but Anna, go to the store.
Oh, it's not necessary. Why? To the? It's so silly.
It's not necessary. I go store.

Speaker 46 And Anna will continue posthumously in the role of muse to Jerry the poet.

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