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The Anna Moses Murder: Blood and Betrayal in Frisco
The suburbs of Frisco, Texas became the backdrop for a chilling murder when Anna Moses, a Russian-born analyst at the University of Texas Dallas, was found shot six times in her garage after failing to show up for work in January 2015. What first appeared to be a robbery gone wrong revealed itself as something far more deliberate.
Anna's divorce from Robert "Bob" Moses two years prior had seemingly set her free. She maintained her home, excelled in her career, and was building meaningful connections—romantic and otherwise—at her workplace. But when police discovered a locked letter written in both Russian and English detailing threats made by her ex-husband, the investigation took a dramatic turn.
What makes this case particularly fascinating is the constellation of relationships surrounding Anna. From the professor who had given her $46,000 to multiple male admirers who were shocked to learn about each other at her memorial service, Anna lived a compartmentalized life that became fully exposed only in death. Meanwhile, her 20-year-old son Igor's unusually calm reaction to his mother's murder raised eyebrows, especially when he later became the star witness defending his adoptive father at trial.
The physical evidence painted a compelling picture: Bob's fresh hand injury, his blood mixed with Anna's in her recovered vehicle, and his unexpected inquiries about her will and insurance policy. But nothing in this case was straightforward. The mysterious missing Taco Bell quesadilla became a central point of contention, potentially disrupting the prosecution's timeline and Bob's guilt.
Despite maintaining his innocence and a vigorous defense, Robert Moses was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Was justice served, or did investigators miss something crucial in their focus on the scorned ex-husband? Listen as we unravel this Texas tragedy where blood ties, financial motives, and broken hearts converge in unexpected ways.
What cases from your community have stayed with you? Join the conversation and follow us for more deep dives into Texas true crime stories that rarely make national headlines but reveal profound truths about human relationships.
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Welcome all of you on in true crime lovers. I'm Brandi.
Speaker 2:And I'm Chris.
Speaker 1:And this is Texas Wine and True Crime. Thank you for being here, friends, for this week's episode, the Murder of Anna Moses Hi Chris.
Speaker 2:Hey Brandy.
Speaker 1:We are getting on the road next week and heading to Mason, texas, for our live show on April the 5th. We will be there from noon to 2.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, it's great stuff. Thank you again just for being our Winery of the Month, for having us come on April the 5th and do a live show. We can't wait to see everyone in Mason. If you've never been to Mason Texas, you need to go in Mason. If you've never been to Mason Texas, you need to go Again. Robert Clay Vineyards tell them your friends at Texas Wine and True Crime sent you. But thank you again, guys, and we can't wait to see you next week, or actually actually this week Sorry, this week.
Speaker 2:I was going to say I want people to visit them too, but I do kind of like the fact that not a lot of people go to Mason, and so to me it's I don't want to say accessible, because Fredericksburg is super accessible and we love them down there too, but it's always like busy and it's kind of nice. Mason is just a little bit more of a laid back feel in my opinion.
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Speaker 1:Yes, and stay and visit and then go make your way to Fredericksburg. You can really kind of hit it all in one day. So really excited to be back down there. And then, the last but not least, Chris, April the 3rd just in a few days, I'm going to be at Henry's Majestic with my friends that are special guests True Crime Bra. It's going to join me to talk about the Missy Beavers case. So come to this show, friends. It has been a wonderful, wonderful pleasure to be at Henry's. This is going to be our last show in April. Live there. We will probably make some sort of appearance, I'm sure, Chris, at some point, but we're going to be closing our show there on April the 3rd, so come see us make a reservation. We're going to have True Crime Broads talking about the Missy Beavers case. I know that case just sits on people's minds here in Texas. So come see us at Henry's on Thursday April 3rd.
Speaker 2:Yes. Not our last live show ever.
Speaker 1:No Last live show there. Yes, and so grateful and thankful it's been such a. It's a great. We've had a great run there. It's been absolutely fantastic. But we will be back there, don't. I'm sure this will not be our last show at Henry's, but officially, currently it is so April 3rd. Don't miss it. Come see us out there. All right, chris, are you ready to jump into this week's case?
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Okay, friends, it's time to sip some wine and talk some crime. So this week we are discussing the murder of Anna Moses, who was living in Frisco, texas, at the time of her death. So Anna was found at her home in January of 2015 when she did not show up for work. Officers went to Anna's house in Frisco to do a welfare check and Chris that's when they found her dead inside of her garage. Now Anna Moses is actually a Russian native whose family had moved to Florida to basically just pursue the American dream. So she went to school there. She started college there.
Speaker 2:Grew up just as a, as I say, as as an American, of course, Right. Yeah, I mean she's she was grown in Russia, right? How old was she?
Speaker 1:When she came to Florida I would say maybe like mid-teens she ended up going to college in Florida, st Petersburg. This is actually where she meets her first husband. Well, I'm sorry, that would be her second husband. She was actually married and had a son and then divorced in her late 20s. And so that's when she meets Robert, who ends up being a tourist and he's invited to basically visit the college and he ends up in her English class. So that's when he meets her. So she meets Robert, because that's how she's going to end up in Frisco. So she meets Robert, and this I think was around 1998.
Speaker 1:And at the time she had a young son. She had been divorced from the father and the son's name is Igor. But when Robert and her got married, you know, he adopted Igor. So he raised him most of his life, I believe, until this, probably even after this happened, because I'm going to talk about the trial, because Igor ends up testifying in in the case of his in his mother's case, testifying in in the case of his in his mother's case but he suffered with childhood cancer when he was I I think he was probably around eight or nine years old and maybe maybe a tad older but but very young. And robert really. Chris was the one who got him through this for a father figure you know from, from someone who needed a dad at this time and he even gets a little choked up talking about this um in in the trial, in the case, as we kind of go through this, you can tell this kid really loved him and I think that's really the hardest part about this case is that he was very close to Robert but he loved his mom too.
Speaker 1:But they meet in Florida. She has a son. They end up moving to Frisco. They end up getting married just a few months actually when they arrived. But friends describe her as and, by the way, he's 19 years older than Anna. Robert is.
Speaker 1:So there's, a significant gap in age difference. So that was kind of the first things. When friends started to meet him and people got to know him, they were a little unsure about the fact that he was just he's almost 20 years older than she is. So, you know, could they and what they have in common?
Speaker 2:we actually? Yeah, I'll say we know some um people that made that similar move too at one point, and it was difficult well, and I think it's probably more.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know, now you have like right, it's the whole like cougar thing, like divorce, and then you go out with somebody younger, but I think for her you know she was pretty established in the US.
Speaker 2:I don't think there's male cougars.
Speaker 1:No, there's not male cougars. There's male young 20-somethings who are dating women in their forties right, so it's kind of the new. Thing.
Speaker 2:Thinking of the 19 year gap and just, yeah, that's a. That's hard. That's a totally different mindset between the twenties and somebody that's in their forties.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:You know, so.
Speaker 1:So they describe her friends describe her as worldly and sophisticated so these were actually two words used for her. She had created a stable life by she actually worked at UTD right in Dallas. So she worked as an analyst at the University of Texas, at Dallas's strategy department. She was making very good friends with a lot of the professors. She had a stable I would say she had a very stable community. But I think the differences between her right. You're 19 years younger than your husband and you're starting to meet new people. You're starting to have different interests, you're starting to kind of find yourself, I think, a little more. And it just wasn't working out. So she actually wanted a divorce. So she and Robert divorced in March of 2013. And because of her job, because of the independence she had grown, because of the friends she was making, she was able to maintain the house by herself. So he ends up moving out. She is in the house and, from what we know now, was really building a pretty happy life and she was excited about her future.
Speaker 1:Anna had plans to meet her boyfriend the night this happened, so Michael Stodnik is his name. I saw him in an interview the night before she's found, so she's found the next day but he is supposed to be taking her out on a date. So he shows up at her home to pick her up. There just isn't a response from her she had. He was calling her, trying to get ahold of her. I think maybe he at the time he thought maybe she fell asleep, maybe she doesn't feel well. I, I, you know. I don't think his instinct necessarily was to call the police immediately when she didn't respond to his calls and texts.
Speaker 1:But the next day he got a little worried.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I think too that even so, like if you were just dating somebody, how serious were they? And then also too, like is that a normal response? Like what if you were just like first or second date? Then you go to pick somebody up, they don't answer the door. You might think they're just kind of ditching you too, you know so.
Speaker 1:Well, she worked with him, so they were friends before they started dating.
Speaker 1:I'm saying the average, you know, like I said, as far as him calling the police and being that concerned, because which is a good thing, you know- yeah Well, the next day, when she didn't show up for work, that's when things got a little concerning, because friends and coworkers, they could not reach her, nobody could reach her. That's when Michael talked to them right, these are his colleagues as well, and this is when he decides to call the police and he asked them to perform a welfare check because their friend is missing, and really missing, since the night before. So, police, do this welfare check. But there's no reason for them to go inside. They didn't see anything abnormal, just looking in. They noticed that the lights were out. This is something else that Michael tells police is that the house looked dark, and so he thought that was a little unusual um, it's gotta be a scary call too to go for a son to uh have to go check on that.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and the doors. You know the doors were locked. Um, really, they had no well, and her son, chris, is actually. He's living on campus, so he's actually a student at UTD at this time, but he does go to his mother's house, but he does live on campus, so they think she was home alone when this happened. But when they do this welfare check, there's really no reason for them to go inside. The doors are locked, there's nothing broken in that doesn't look like any windows have been broken, so they're just not going to break down the door unless there's kind of imminent danger and nobody had called and said there's someone inside and we think they might be in danger. They were really just trying to figure out is she there? Is she not there?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So the responding officer, once he realizes that everything's locked, he doesn't see anything abnormal. He actually asked his colleagues to go and find Anna's 20-year-old son, igor, to help gain access to the home. So because and they found him, I mean he was at the school, he was attending classes that day and they find him, escort him to the house, they ask him to wait in the police vehicle while they use his keys to gain entrance to the house. They ask him to wait in the police vehicle while they use his keys to gain entrance into the home. So there was no car in the garage. So they get in and they're looking around. The house was neat, clean. There wasn't anything really out of the ordinary. But that is when they went into the garage. There was no car in the garage, but they did find Anna lying on the garage floor. She was deceased. When they found her Nobody else was inside the home.
Speaker 1:They went in clearly to make sure there's nothing nobody in there. But they immediately exit the home and they wait on investigators to show up and observe the scene. So a couple of things found by her body they well, let me. Let me kind of go through what's found and then what's not found. And then just the fact her car is missing. Okay, so you would immediately think robbery possibly. Her purse is still sitting there.
Speaker 1:She had got the mail. Yeah, she had gotten her mail from that day. So that has been confirmed, that she did get the mail from that day. There were other bloggings that were just left scattered around her body, but her purse had $300 in it. So they quickly I don't want to say quickly, but if the car hadn't been gone I think it would have been even quicker for them to assume this was not a robbery. But they end up ruling out robbery as the motive, but because of what was found on her. Now, maybe they took the car just to get away, but a part of this is the fact that they thought this could have been a robbery. But who leaves money $300 in a purse if you're stealing from someone?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, there's no doubt all of her personal belongings were there and it just kind of definitely doesn't have the makings of someone coming in there trying to mug her or anything like that and it going wrong.
Speaker 1:Well, and you know she was clearly in the well. First of all, she was still wearing her coat, she had her scarf on. She was clearly attacked right there, yeah, right when she arrived, right when she arrives, right. So she gets her stuff and she's exiting her vehicle. So that made them feel and think that whoever did this was waiting on her on some level, was waiting on her to do this. So multiple shell casings are found at the scene. They end up belonging to a .22 caliber. But whoever did this, chris, they shoot her six times, okay. But they actually found seven spent shell casings, and the seventh one did not penetrate her body. It was actually found wrapped up in the jacket and the scarf. So what? Whether it, I don't know, I don't. I mean, I'm not a gun person, you are more than me. Whether it fell out, I don't know, but it didn't penetrate her.
Speaker 1:But there was a total of 11 shell casings, but there were no other holes in the walls.
Speaker 2:When you want to. I mean those 22s don't give off a very loud, loud report. But you know, did they wrap? It in something too like a cloth or a pillow, and some something could have been.
Speaker 1:Well, which would make sense because nobody heard anything, which police thought was a little unusual. But they find 11 casings and so they were really trying to figure out why are there 11 casings? She's been shot, you know, we know she was hit six times. But also in that autopsy report, chris, she was covered in bruises consistent with defensive wounds or a fall.
Speaker 2:So she put up a fight and um which is kind of amazing considering how many times she was shot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think police were just really confused on why so many shell casings found at the scene, but then there's no other holes to go with the. You know the five unaccounted for, you know dislodged bullets from the gun. So they're really just trying to figure out how they ended up there. So, as we know grief, everyone grieves differently. So they have this bad news now Remember, her son is in the car, okay, at this time and they go back back to the car what's his demeanor while this is going on?
Speaker 1:so he's in the car waiting, and then they go and talk to him and basically tell him that they have found his mother deceased in the garage. And he asked them is she in one piece?
Speaker 2:that's an odd response or odd question.
Speaker 1:I wonder what their response was um, I think their reaction was well. First of all, they thought this was a strange reaction from a young man who had just lost his mother right, who had just been told his mother is dead. He also tells them, chris, that he has class later.
Speaker 2:Um, like that's super important. Well, they, they.
Speaker 1:He says that, yeah, so he says this, as they're basically telling him they need to bring him in for questioning and have some questions for him, right? And then he says, well, you know, just so you know, I've got class later and they respond to him like, well, I think you'll be excused from that based on the circumstances we're dealing with. So and, by the way, there is police video body cam of this conversation with with Igor and and I've seen it so he was very relaxed and, like I said, not everybody reacts differently, but oh yeah, I mean, police were a little suspicious, they were a little suspicious of his reaction. Um, he ends up okay, he goes to the police station, gets questioned, has a conversation, but then he's released right there.
Speaker 1:There's nothing to hold him. So he goes and he actually sees friends that night. He goes and he actually plays video games and makes a comment that whoever did this should be forgiven. Did this should be forgiven? Now her friends will come out and say that Igor had become very religious around this point. So they thought maybe that's why he made the comment about forgiveness, which could be, but here's what we know also.
Speaker 2:Or he could have just had a very poor relationship with his mother.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know, I don't know he will become the defense's star witness, chris, in favor of Robert. That we do know. So whether that relationship and it's not that I don't think he loved his mother, I think he did and but again he's I don't know His reaction was not what police thought his reaction should be. So he was definitely high on their radar, especially when they find out he is the sole beneficiary to her 750 000 life insurance policy that she carried on her life. But they, life, but they, he has an alibi. I mean, he's at school. So you know, once they start looking into this a little bit, they try to figure out could he have left school and done this and then gone back to school? So we'll get back to Igor in a minute, but he is definitely hot number one suspect after they find Anna.
Speaker 1:So police start to uncover the fact that Anna was single. She had many admirers in her I'm going to say repertoire, because she led a very quiet private life. But she had multiple men in her life since her divorce and her ex-husband, robert Bob Moses, was clearly distraught when he was told that Anna had been murdered. Okay, so you've got multiple men in her life. Police. Go to Robert the next day, okay, and tell him about Anna. He is clearly upset. But now you're going to be looking at second suspect, second person of interest, which is possibly the ex husband.
Speaker 2:And they've been divorced for like two years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not very long two years. But the current boyfriend so he is the one that called in the initial welfare check was questioned and he asked should I lawyer up? And I think this whole I just want to kind of preface this with how many people were actually questioned? That knew Anna? They were all a little quirky. People were actually questioned that knew Anna, they were all a little quirky. I would say none of them actually gave like police, never felt like any of them were like super solid people who were actually. They all just had weird reactions to some of these questions.
Speaker 1:Okay so, but Bob Moses? Bob Moses was clearly distraught, um, but again ex-husband and going to be on top of the radar. So the current boyfriend, who did that initial welfare check? He asked if he needs to lawyer up. Who did that initial welfare check? He asked if he needs to lawyer up. He starts asking questions and because of all these strange vibes that they're getting from all these men, eventually it's really hard for them to zero in on one of these guys. So it wasn't until her memorial, which was in like within a week to 10 days of her being dead. This is when her ex Robert Bob Moses is at her memorial. Other men are there. Police are wondering, could the killer be there? And they all were kind of finding out about each other at this memorial.
Speaker 2:That good there was yeah.
Speaker 1:So we're gonna find out that she ended up was romantically involved with a professor. They ended up breaking it off, but he continued to give her money, um, to help her, because he was a nice guy. I mean, I've seen an interview with him. That's basically what he says he did. Chris police say he ended up giving her $46,000.
Speaker 2:It's a pretty nice guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, over the time that they knew each other, um, she had a friend who would come over to her house and read poetry with her talk, have really in-depth conversations.
Speaker 2:He had no idea she had a boyfriend, so she is kind of keeping some of this private I'm getting an interesting gist, though, from all this too, but as we go along, uh, that I mean clearly she has ties, like I said, to a lot of different men, which is kind of like you almost wonder, and most of them all work with her. Well, yeah, you also wonder too. I mean, she obviously kept it quiet, but you wonder if her son was witnessing some of this too. Because I mean, just kind of getting back to his attitude about the whole thing, I know, Was he getting fed up with it as well?
Speaker 2:I mean, that could be hard for, especially at that age. And then you know seeing a bunch of men coming over and seeing your mom I don't know, because she's still pretty young.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and not only that. He Chris after the trial, and then this is all over. He takes the money and goes, builds a new life. I don't think there's much we hear about him or from him after this.
Speaker 1:I think that whether he still continues to have a relationship with Bob Moses I don't know, but I do know that he was the star witness in his father's defense for the murder of his mother, and so I don't think we'll ever know really what was going through his head or what he saw or what he was feeling. But people felt sorry for him and, and I think you know, he lost his mom and they and they were close and you know, but he did have a good relationship with his, with his dad who had adopted him. So you know, it's just, it's a hard. It's hard, you know, and then you're put in the middle of it, then you've got to go to trial and you've lost one parent, you're about to lose another, so you want to save him, right, and I think maybe that's just where he was coming from. But there was over a hundred thousand dollars found in her bank account and police thought you know she didn't make that kind of money from her job.
Speaker 2:Well, and you have to think too, like how many people just have that in their bank account.
Speaker 1:I know. So, was anybody else giving her money that they weren't aware of?
Speaker 2:Given that career, Because I mean, I know professors do.
Speaker 1:Well, she wasn't a professor, she was an analyst. She works in the office.
Speaker 2:No, I know, I'm just saying. But even a professor, to give her $46,000, that's a pretty fair amount after taxes, that this professor is giving out of his salary too. So you know, it's a little interesting.
Speaker 1:So investigators spoke with Bob Moses on the day after Anna's body was discovered and during that interview, police noticed a fresh cut on his right hand. It was so obvious because it was literally soaking through the bandage. He had an excuse on where the cut had come from, but then, days after the memorial, they bring Bob Moses back in again for questioning, because by this time they have issued a warrant to enter Anna's office at UTD to try and uncover any evidence they can find pointing them in one direction or another. And, chris, they find a bombshell.
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Speaker 1:Okay, chris. So in a locked desk in her office was a handwritten letter by Anna that was written both in Russian and English. So once they were able to translate the letter, which had been dated two years prior, around the time of the divorce, she was accusing Bob Moses of not only making threats to her but making threats to hurt himself and accusing Anna of his demise. So she was basically writing that he had threatened to take his life and was going to write letters to Igor, to other family members, to make them think that Anna had just pushed him to the brink. He clearly did not want this divorce and wanted Anna to stay in the marriage. But threatening and coercing are clearly not working in his favor because she did not stay in the marriage. But she writes this letter and puts it in a locked desk.
Speaker 2:That is weird, I think this woman knew she was afraid of him.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I guess you could think of that in some way. But if that was the case too, I mean to me, what point is writing a letter and locking, locking a desk and then run the risk of somebody never finding that letter, versus just being communicating with somebody you know, like, does she not want to raise a sting and have them tell her just to go? You just need to go to the police this and that. But I don't know, it's just kind of. You know, if I'm ever dead, you know, it's kind of like what I always say All the true crime you watch. If I'm ever dead, you know, it's kind of like what I always say all the true crime you watch. If I'm ever dead, go find you first. So I mean I don't know, but I mean I don't say that, I say it jokingly, of course, but you know what I mean. Like, if you really They'll find me first.
Speaker 1:I assure you, they'll find me first.
Speaker 2:I just feel like that would be something you'd want to kind of lay on somebody's ears, versus just writing a note and locking it away and hoping because you know what if somebody never goes through that desk.
Speaker 1:So who knows?
Speaker 2:I think it's almost like a diary or something like that.
Speaker 1:Well, I think she knows that somebody would have eventually found it right. Let's say there wasn't a warrant for her office, but now she's deceased and they're going to clean out her desk because someone else is going to be using it at some point. Somebody is eventually going to find that letter and I think maybe she didn't want the wrong hands getting on it when she, you know, um my letter will be on the coffee table, just so you know it was, but it was probably more of, like you said, like a diary, like a letter about what she was dealing with and kind of just getting it out on paper.
Speaker 1:But they thought it was very interesting that she wrote it in Russian, so most people wouldn't be able to tell what it said Even more difficult to interpret.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Right, but I think that was purposely done. I don't think that was accident. I think she purposely did it that way.
Speaker 2:That's why it's the whole notion of leaving your death will, or whatever you know, to look for. But yeah, it is very, very Just the premonition of maybe something happening.
Speaker 1:So after this letter's found they bring Bob Moses back to the police station for further questioning and his alibi so let me tell you about his alibi was that he had went to Twin Peaks we know that place to have a beer during the time of the murder, but police believed he actually could have killed her and then went to Twin Peaks. So during this conversation Bob Moses basically asking them about her will. So he is saying you know Anna had a will, you know Igor needs help. Basically saying, like you know, I need to find out for the family's sake if there's money to help out. So they think this is strange her family right I'm sorry her family in florida?
Speaker 1:no, no, like her, her son okay yeah, and the grandmother was um, um, there was. The grandmother was actually living with igor at the house at the time. They end up moving back in after she died. Bob Moses ends up moving back into the house after her death. Igor will get on the stand in the trial and say that he asked him to move back into the house just so he could be there to help and support. But what Bob Moses did not know, chris, is that Anna had updated her will, making her son the sole beneficiary of that $750,000 life insurance policy. Bob Moses had no idea.
Speaker 2:Well, why would he think he'd still be on it?
Speaker 1:Because most people do, because nobody verbally said and told him that he wasn't. And some people think people are dumb asses. Maybe he think Anna Moses wasn't going to be thinking about that and maybe that she would have just left him on there, since he was the caretaker of Igor I mean, even though Igor is now of age but he wasn't when Anna Moses had this life insurance policy originally. So Bob Moses would have been the beneficiary and then be able to give Igor money. But she changed it. And not only did she change it, but she didn't say a word to anyone that she had changed it. So they're pressing him for answers, asking him if he wanted her dead. Did he just want the money? He denies being involved. He gets upset. He wants to leave the interrogation room. So they let him leave. But six weeks after Anna was found dead, bob Moses was arrested on his birthday for the murder of Anna Moses. So Bob Moses, chris, goes on trial in Collin County.
Speaker 1:Multiple witnesses took the stand, including her son, igor, who defended his dad, bob Moses, and did not believe he would have killed his mother. Like I said earlier, you could just tell he had a soft spot in his heart. You know um, he, he essentially raised him and helped him through his his scariest time of of dealing with cancer as a child. But he was the star witness for the defense and I think there was a lot of hurt coming from anna's side of the friends, the family, um that he would have defended his father. But again, I come from a place of you've lost one parent, maybe Igor and his mom. There were some issues or maybe he had certain feelings about his mother and he was willing and again, like Anna's friends had said, he had started to become very religious and maybe a piece of him felt like the right thing to do was to get on the stand and defend his dad, because that's basically what he tried to do.
Speaker 1:Okay, another witness had told the jury that Anna feared Bob Moses, so she testified that Anna had called her one night and asked if she could come over because she thought he might hurt her Prosecution. By the way, his defense attorney was Toby Shook, and Toby Shook is a fantastic, a fantastic defense lawyer, um, here in the Dallas, fort Worth area. And he I mean, if there was anybody you want to defend you as Toby Shook, and and he tried, he basically they positioned it as a robbery um, yeah, because I'm, I'm, you know, as we have been reading about this and everything too, it's like a lot of this is just circumstantial evidence right, because there's no murder weapon ever found correct that's right yeah, that is, um it's.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's strange that they even went that far with it. Didn't thought that they would, you know, ever have a positive outcome with this, you know so.
Speaker 1:Well, the defense just said there's nothing directly linking Bob Moses to her death right. Well, that's what I mean. There's nothing.
Speaker 2:They didn't find it with anything, right, it's just like okay, I don't mean, it's just that they would even have this go to a grand jury and I just wonder. It's Collin County, a smaller town, you know, and so maybe they it's. I just get the feeling this happened in a different, a bigger town or something like that.
Speaker 1:Like, just because they Well, this wasn't a grand jury, this was the jury in the actual trial.
Speaker 2:I mean to even have him, to arrest him and everything, and then even take him to court and try him for it. It's just like I don't know, just not having the gun and not knowing having that sort of circumstantial evidence.
Speaker 1:Well, the alibi was that he was home all day but that he had gone to Twin Peaks and had a beer, basically during the murder, right? So he couldn't have actually done it, because he is seen on film, right? He's seen on video at Twin Peaks.
Speaker 1:So, but his roommates. They couldn't vouch for him. I mean, they didn't remember seeing him at the house that day. There just wasn't any kind of solid alibi to say where. You know where he actually was. And what the prosecution did was that they called every man that was in her life at the time onto the stand and ask them the question you know what was your relationship relationship with, like with her? You know how did you feel about her? You know, did you want her dead? Did you kill her? And by eliminating them, her purpose was by eliminating them, by putting them on the stand, asking these questions about her. The only person left was Bob Moses, and that's really the way the prosecution went about it.
Speaker 2:They felt like they had a strong case. I just was kind of pointing out that seems to me like in this sort of thing you'd want to have a little more evidence is all I would say.
Speaker 1:Well, sometimes circumstantial evidence is enough.
Speaker 1:And now that they find this letter right. So that's another thing. And then they have the cut on his hand. So there are multiple things I think that would have. And and, by the way, his blood is actually found in her vehicle. So he says the blood is from a cut because he used to do house work. Even after their divorce he would go over there and do work at the house and then sometimes be in her vehicle. In fact Igor testifies to this at the trial, that he that blood stain was probably there for a year, you know, or six months or something. But they didn't believe that they. They said it was fresh blood, it was mixed in with her blood, Right. So that, I think, was the biggest piece of evidence, was that, you know, they end up finding the vehicle and then they end up finding his blood in the vehicle. So there were just, there was just too much in the shell casings. Ok, so the shell casings they end up saying that they were actually just thrown around on the ground to throw off the investigation, but that Bob had planned this and waited for Anna to come home.
Speaker 1:And the motive Money. The motive was that he thought he was still on the life insurance. The motive was the fact that this guy was 20 years older than this beautiful, young, vibrant woman who was living her best life and she was done with him and he didn't like that. He couldn't move on. He was not financially okay. He was living with roommates. I think he was just jealous. I think he was jealous. I think he probably stalked her. I think he probably knew more about her life than she probably knew. That he knew. I think that a piece of her probably felt that she had gotten rid of him but that Igor and him still had a relationship that were creepy, and I think she kind of felt that she made multiple calls to friends about thinking that somebody was following her somebody was watching her.
Speaker 2:Maybe she had all that money, which is really fishy.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's like super fishy yeah they couldn't explain where all that money came from.
Speaker 2:Because also too, I mean just for you to accept all that money, I mean that's a you know you're kind of in violation of some probably a tax code or two and not reporting it. And you know there's like I mean, so who knows, and maybe he knew about that um and found out about it, or you know, I mean that that's to me is the weirdest part of this whole thing. I don't know. I mean certainly it's a tragedy and everything too, but it's just like to have that much amount of money, not have a career.
Speaker 2:That I mean we know some's accounted for from one person, but even for one person to number one, have access to that much cash and then fork that much cash over and to still have cause. He's giving her money to help her out, but to still have $100,000 in your account it's a lot of money. It's more than a lot of money just to have sitting. If you open up your account tomorrow and you saw a hundred grand, you might freak out A shit ton of money just to have to go.
Speaker 1:I'd go get a massage.
Speaker 2:Go dork around with. So I just think that's peculiar, but we can certainly press on.
Speaker 1:So I want to talk about the quesadilla. So we know she, Chris. She went to Taco Bell. They have video of her. So the debt, the time of death, is around 5, 55 PM. Okay, and the way that they've kind of come up with this calculation is based on her car being seen by TV CC footage right Video surveillance from the Taco Bell on her way home where her car is seen. Okay, so they had a good time of when she would have arrived home, Okay. Now, if she's killed a few hours later than the 5.55, the defense said Bob Moses is sitting at that bar at seven so he could not have killed her, which is correct. He was there at 7 o'clock but there was no quesadilla found in her stomach. But the quesadilla wrapper was found with no quesadilla. So police never confiscated the wrapper and tested the wrapper for fingerprints, for any kind of DNA that would have been transferred. So whoever did this? Ate the food? Assumably ate the food.
Speaker 2:That's hardcore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So this is this was the piece that that the defense said. Listen, this is this is where things come into question. And if we are questioning the fact that you know, if she ate the quesadilla, then she wasn't killed at 5.55 pm, because she would have had to been killed hours later and Abad Moses was sitting at that bar. So they think that somebody, whoever had done this, was the one who possibly had eaten that quesadilla, and so the men's alibi. So Toby Shook's, the defense attorney's, point was those men and their alibis that you have just set up on this stand, they're all out the window because the timelines don't add up. They had the wrapper. They never tested it for evidence. So, chris, this was their biggest point was this quesadilla which, unfortunately, we just don't really know anything about.
Speaker 2:What's good advertising for Taco Bell too.
Speaker 1:It was good advertising for Taco Bell, but yeah. So lots of questions about whether she even ate the quesadilla, whether she was bringing. I personally think she did not eat that. I think she brought it home.
Speaker 2:I think she was going into her house because the cc camera picks her up right before taco bell, they would be able to in the autopsy to see the digestion correct well, yes, that's what, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:So the timeline, the defense is saying if she ate that quesadilla, yep, then she wasn't killed at 5.55.
Speaker 1:And if she wasn't killed at 5.55 and she was killed hours later, well, Bob Moses is innocent, he couldn't have done this and that's what the defense led with. But it wasn't enough. Igor took takes the stand. He basically says that he loved his dad, that his father would have never done this and when Bob Moses was asking the police about the will, Igor took this when he took the stand.
Speaker 1:He says that he was asking for himself, that he was asking for Igor. He wasn't asking it because he wanted the money, he wanted his son to have some of the money, and that he had asked him to move back into the house after his mother passed away. Because the whole thing was Bob Moses moves back in, moves back in, takes over the house when Anna's dead and Igor says well, no, not really, I actually asked him to come and live there, Chris, the jury didn't buy it. A Collin County jury found Robert Moses guilty of the murder of Anna Moses. He was 63 years old at the time and he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. He maintains his innocence and believes Anna was robbed, since the debit card Chris she used to purchase that Taco Bell quesadilla on the way home that evening was never found.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bye.