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A popular and
fun-loving college student.

Mindy was a very
bubbly person.

She always seemed to be happy.

She had a light in her eyes,
and she accepted everyone.

Is found savagely
murdered in her apartment.

There was a belt
wrapped around her neck,

and appeared to be
a broken off-knife

still stuck in her throat.

Police
need to determine,

was this a sinister obsession?

He had called and
left numerous messages

on her cell phone.

Just really a strange
type of relationship.

A crucial
piece of evidence.

There was some material
under the fingernails

of her left hand.

Shines a light
on a dangerous predator

no one saw coming.

I was very shocked,
I think everybody was.

He was not the man
we thought he was.

I don't think I would ever
expect that outcome at all.

I remember trying to
call Mindy a few times,

and she wasn't answering,

so me and my friend Danielle
drove, and parked in front

of her apartment
across the street.

I ran inside, and
knocked on the door,

and there was no answer,
but it wasn't locked,

and so I opened the
door and I stepped in,

and about two steps in, I
saw something on the ground,

right in front of my feet.

It was Mindy,

and then I noticed
something around her neck.

Horrified,
Mindy's friend rushes outside

to call 9 1 1.

About 10 minutes
before 9:00 that night,

dispatch called me at my house,

and said that they got a
hysterical caller on the phone.

I got the address, and it
was one block from my house.

When I have arrived,
both Danielle

and Toni were very
distraught, very upset.

The apartment was
located on the second floor

of the building.

As I entered, I could
smell a very strong order,

like an ammonia disinfectant.

The body of the victim was

laying across the entry hallway.

And it appeared her throat
had been half cut open.

Detectives
begin their investigation,

and identify the victim

as 22-year-old college
senior, Mindy Morgenstern.

I knew Mindy.

She was a student
at the college.

I had seen her at a
lot of their events,

and to see that it was her,

I was really surprised,
and quite shocked.

There was a belt
wrapped around her neck,

and appeared to be a

broken off knife, still
stuck in her throat.

It appeared that the belt
was applied to the neck

prior to the neck being cut.

Investigators
find an empty bottle

of disinfectant beside the body.

Somebody had poured the
disinfectant over her body,

possibly trying to destroy
any type of evidence.

The killer
tried to cover their tracks,

but investigators find
something they missed.

There was some material
under the fingernails

of her left hand,
where possibly,

Mindy had scratched
her assailant.

We felt that this was gonna
be a DNA forensic type case,

based on the materials
that were found

under Mindy's fingernails.

And to preserve that,
the hands are placed

in bags for autopsy.

She had a purse
around her right arm.

Her wallet was laying
just outside of the purse.

It didn't appear that
they'd been gone through,

or anything removed from them.

There was clean
laundry around the body

in a laundry basket.

It almost appeared as
if she was attacked

as she was going in the
door with that laundry.

It did not look like the
apartment had been ransacked,

or gone through, so it didn't
appear that theft was a motive

in this killing.

There was no sign of any
forced entry into the apartment.

It told us that the person
was either in her apartment,

or followed her in.

Her cell phone was located,
and the first missed call

on that phone was at 12:47 PM

on September 13th.

That gave us some indication

as to what time the
attack may have occurred.

By 10:00
PM, more than nine hours

after the first missed call,

detectives have little
to go on as they work

into the night at
the crime scene.

When we first left the
scene the following morning,

we had no clear indication
of who may have done this.

Police
reach Mindy's sister

to inform her of the murder,

and she delivers the
tragic news to her parents.

Front doorbell rang,
and I said, "Who's there?"

And Rebecca, our daughter,
she said, "It's me, Dad.

I've got some bad news."

And then Rebecca
said to me that,

"Mom, Mindy is dead."

It was just like
somebody taking a knife,

and just sticking it
right into your heart.

I just wanted to try to just
say, "No, this isn't real.

This didn't happen."

I didn't want it to be true.

She had such a
loving, loving heart,

and I loved her very much.

Born in Bogota,
Colombia on April 29th, 1984,

Mindy was adopted as a baby
by Valley City farmers,

Larry and Eunice Morgenstern.

The first time I saw Mindy,
she had the biggest, darkest,

most beautiful eyes
that I had ever seen.

It was pretty, pretty, very
amazing to see this little,

little character in a
basket that she brought home

to be part of our family.

Mindy
was the youngest

of four Morgenstern children,

three of them adopted
by Larry and Eunice.

Mindy was very much a
tomboy, and as she grew up,

she got so beautiful.

She didn't really realize
that she would be looked upon

as somebody that would
turn boys' heads.

After high
school, Mindy moved

to Valley City, and dove
headlong into college life.

She just seemed to
enjoy all the friends

that she had there.

Mindy was a very friendly,
outgoing, bubbly person.

She just always
seemed to be happy.

She had a light in her eyes,
and she accepted everyone.

Mindy's
future was looking bright,

until the stunning attack that
cut her down in her prime.

It was very difficult

to see Mindy's body

in the condition that it
was in when we found her.

I wanted to find
out who did this,

because she was loved by a lot
of people in our community.

Back
at the crime scene,

Mindy's two friends tell
detectives they weren't

the only ones to
see Mindy's body.

When Toni found Mindy at
the scene, she screamed,

which alerted a man in
a neighboring apartment

to come out to see
what was wrong.

He was there when I first
entered the apartment complex,

and they showed me
where Mindy was located.

He told investigators
that he checked for pulse,

using the back of his hand,
to not leave any fingerprints

on the victim.

It was a little odd, because
people don't describe things

like that, like using
the back of their hand

so they don't leave
fingerprints, and
things like that.

If he was there to help,
I couldn't understand

why he'd be worried about
something like that.

Police identify
the man as Robert Lynds,

and soon notice a
telling detail about him.

He had scratches on his
hands that would correspond

to someone trying to get
your hands off of them

when they were being attacked.

Had
Mindy scratched Robert

as she fought for her life?

Robert Lynds having
those scratches,

being in the same building,

he certainly needed
to be looked at.

A lot of times, a person at
the crime scene is the person

that committed the crime,

and any evidence
of them is found,

they have an excuse for
saying why it was there.

Coming up,

detectives uncover
a world of secrets.

It turned out upon
checking his background,

that he had a felony record.

And as they
zero in on a killer.

I was absolutely certain
we had the right guy.

A stunning setback
turns the case on its head.

I just thought it's
all over with now.

They're gonna let him go.

This case was a
shock to everybody.

When we found out
who the person was,

it was just, wow.

Police,
investigating the murder

of 22-year-old college
student Mindy Morgenstern

have just identified
their first suspect,

her neighbor, Robert Lynds.

When officers
met Robert Lynds,

they noticed some
scratches on his hands.

And he also used
the back of his hand

to see if she was
deceased or not.

His concern was he didn't
want to leave any fingerprints

or DNA in the apartment,

because he had nothing
to do with the incident.

Suspicions aroused,
police bring Robert Lynds

into the station
for an interview.

All he knew about her is
that she was a pretty girl,

and that she lived in
the apartment building.

When investigators
dig into Robert's history,

they find something troubling.

It turned out upon
checking his background

that he had a felony record.

Robert Lynds was in
the criminal system
out in California.

He's street smart, and
he knew not to leave

fingerprints at a crime scene.

Detectives
ask Robert how he got

the scratches on his hands.

He claimed he worked at
a place where they built

steel buildings,
and stuff like that,

and he got the bruises on
his hands from his job.

Police
cut to the chase,

and ask Robert where he was
on the day Mindy was murdered.

Robert Lynds told
investigators that he had been

at at work that day from
seven in the morning,

and he didn't arrive home his
apartment until about 5:30.

We talked to his employer.

He did work all day.

He did work with steel,

so it's very easy for
him to cut his hands.

So there was really nothing
to put him at that apartment

at the time the crime occurred.

Still,
police aren't ready

to rule out Robert just yet.

We asked him to provide DNA
sample, which she agreed to.

While they
await DNA test results,

police canvas Mindy's neighbors.

We were looking for
anybody that might have seen

something, heard something, so
we can get a better timeline

as far as when this
might've happened.

While
going door to door,

investigators are pleased
to see a familiar face.

As I was collecting statements
outside, I saw Moe Gibbs.

He had been living in
the apartment building

with his wife,
and step-daughter.

Moe works at the
Barnes County Jail,

and due to the fact that he
was a correctional officer,

I would run into him quite
often while he was working,

and I also knew Mo
because we played

on the co-ed softball
tournament together.

A guy in his position
probably would be

an excellent witness if he
had seen or heard anything.

Moe Gibbs said
that he knew Mindy

as a person that
lived in the building.

He had seen her come and go.

The investigator
asked Moe if he noticed

anything unusual that afternoon.

Moe had said that he went

with his wife and
step-daughter for lunch,

then came back to the
apartment at about 12:45,

and started packing
and loading boxes,

as he and his wife
were going to be moving

out of the apartment.

He mentioned that when he
went into the apartment complex,

he could smell a
strong, distinct order
of a disinfectant.

Other than that,

he claimed that he didn't
hear or see anything.

So we were working
with a timeline

between the first
missed call at 12:47 PM,

and the disinfectant being
smelled shortly after 1:00 PM.

So we figured she
probably was deceased

prior to one o'clock
in the afternoon.

To rule them out,
police collect DNA samples

from Moe and the other
building residents.

All the DNA samples
taken during our interviews

were sent to the
state crime lab.

In
search of new leads,

detectives turn to
Mindy's loved ones.

I just didn't think
there was anybody

that would wanna do
anything like that to her.

Investigators
push Mindy's parents

to think hard about anyone

who might've had a
problem with her.

Mindy's mother mentioned that
Tony had had this boyfriend

that wasn't such a nice person.

His name was James.

I was dating James
Robinson at the time,

and he was doing
some bad things,

and I was taking
the brunt of it,

and Mindy didn't really care
for him, because she had known

that there was times
that it got pretty scary.

Mindy did bring
him up at one time,

something about him being
on drugs or something.

Mindy was trying to get
Toni to quit seeing James,

and that may give
him some reason

to hold a grudge against Mindy.

This James Robinson, it
didn't look like he wanted

his girlfriend, Toni, to
be friends with Mindy.

She did, you know,

obviously like a
friend does, "Get out."

you know, "You need to leave.

He's not a good guy.

This isn't a good relationship."

In trying
to help her friend,

had Mindy made a deadly enemy?

Seemed like the attack
was personal in nature.

It made me think that

maybe this guy had something
to do with her death.

Investigators
are hunting for the killer

of popular college
student, Mindy Morgenstern.

They now suspect James Robinson,
who may have held a grudge

against Mindy for trying to turn

his girlfriend Toni against him.

So James was called
in to do an interview,

to see what we could
glean from him.

Police asked James
if he has a criminal record.

James said that
he had, in the past,

had trouble with illegal drugs.

He had been charged,

but he was trying to stay
out of that lifestyle.

As James talks,

detectives notice suspicious
cuts on his hands.

Police press
James on his whereabouts

at the time of the murder.

James told investigators
that he went to do community

service from these
previous charges.

He then went to
a friend's house,

and went back home
sometime 5:00 or later.

We checked, and it was
verified that he had been

at those locations that day.

Even though
James' alibi checks out,

investigators
collect a DNA sample

in order to officially
rule him out.

As they review evidence
from the crime scene,

autopsy results arrive.

The autopsy of Mindy's body
indicated that she had died

from asphyxiation, and due
to the cuts to her neck.

There was no indication

that Mindy had been
sexually assaulted.

Still
awaiting results on DNA

collected from Mindy's
fingernails, detectives turned

to her coworkers for new leads.

Mindy had been
working at a restaurant

in Valley City as a waitstaff.

It was important to
interview Mindy's coworkers,

and see if they knew
of anyone unusual

in the restaurant that
stood out to them.

There was a man that
lived in a motor home

across the street
from the restaurant.

Mindy told coworkers,

that he made her
feel really uneasy,

and he's always in
there bothering them.

So hearing that information,
we decided to interview him.

Mr. Wolters didn't have
any ties to the area,

just kind of odd character.

He really didn't
have a good alibi

for when Mindy was murdered.

Just as
with previous suspects,

detectives spot a
potentially damning clue.

He claimed he never bothered
anybody in the restaurant

where Mindy worked, claimed
he didn't know who she was.

But
Mindy's coworkers tell
a different story.

They all said that he
was in there quite often.

Mr. Wolters would have seen her,

coming and going at least.

Would that give him a
reason to follow her?

We really didn't
know at that point.

Red flags were
waving, of course,

but I was real careful not
to jump to any conclusions

too early on in
the investigation.

Detectives collect
Ralph's DNA and let him go,

but they're not ready
to clear him just yet.

We keep him on the list.

We're hoping DNA samples,
if he was involved,

would eventually
tie him into it.

Two days
after the murder, the wait

for answers starts to take
a toll on Mindy's family.

That was a hard part, not
knowing what was going on,

and what happened, and why.

It was like living some place

in another world,

and you just wanted answers.

Three days
into the investigation,

detectives catch a
break when they find

disturbing voicemails
left on Mindy's phone

after she was dead.

Detectives search
the number, and discover

that it belongs to a
man named Rodney Kuznia.

After Mindy had passed
away, he had called,

and left numerous messages
on her cell phone.

Investigators
rush to find out

who Rodney Kuznia is,
and why he called Mindy

after her murder.

Mindy's friends had told
us about a previous boyfriend

by the name of Kyle Kuznia.

They had been very serious,

and they had broken
up the prior year.

Mindy's phone indicated
a lot of calls

between she and
Kyle's father, Rodney.

We thought this
was really odd,

because why would an
ex-boyfriend's father be

so interested in Mindy?

There was some indication
from Mindy's friends

that Mindy had told
Rodney to quit calling.

It's
been three days

since 22-year-old Mindy
Morgenstern was found

brutally murdered
in her apartment.

Police have a new suspect,
an ex-boyfriend's father,

who left suspicious voicemails
for Mindy after her death.

It just was really odd

why Mindy's
ex-boyfriend's father

was leaving these messages,

why he was so
infatuated with her,

and obviously he had
feelings for her.

Eager to learn
more about Mindy's communication

with Rodney, detectives start
by questioning his son, Kyle.

Kyle was Mindy's ex-boyfriend,

and Mindy, I think, still
had feelings for Kyle.

It was found that Kyle had
broken off his relationship

with her a year before,

and was planning to get
married to someone else,

and had really had

very little contact with Mindy

since that time that
they had broken up.

After verifying
that Kyle was working

out of town on the
day of the murder,

detectives turn their questions

to his father's
relationship with Mindy.

It was actually ruining his
relationship with his father,

because Rodney was so
involved with Mindy still.

Rod Kuznia had an
almost unhealthy amount

of contact with Mindy,
and then that continued

even after Kyle
and Mindy broke up.

The calls were very frequent,
like, multiple times daily,

and it really made us wonder,

did Mindy want him
to quit calling her?

Did that make him angry?

Detectives
bring Rodney Kuznia

in for an interview.

He was at least in his
50s, and we weren't sure

what it was that he
wanted out of Mindy.

Detectives press
Rodney about the messages

he left after hearing
of Mindy's death.

It was just really

a strange type of relationship

between a man that was her
boyfriend's father and her.

Detectives press
Rodney on his whereabouts

at the time of the murder.

Rod Kuznia indicated that
he was working on his farm

with his two sons from
seven in the morning,

till early in the evening.

We checked and
verified that yes,

he had been at work that day.

Detectives
collect DNA from Rodney,

but with nothing
concrete against him,
they must let him go.

We still thought that it
was such an odd relationship,

that we've certainly
wouldn't close the book

on looking at
Rodney any further.

The
pressure to find

Mindy's killer only increases,

as the community
becomes gripped by fear.

It was super scary, because
you didn't know who it was.

It could have been anybody.

You were scared to
go out by yourself.

You were scared to do anything.

It wasn't safe, little
Valley City anymore.

Six days
after the murder,

Mindy's funeral draws
hundreds of mourners.

We had the funeral at a

high school gym, because

we didn't think that
everybody could fit

into the church
while there was over

500 people at the funeral,
and the police told us

they would have some
undercover agents watching,

because they didn't know
for sure if this person was,

you know, after
her, or after us.

And you get kind of paranoid
of anything like that happening

until they finally
catch the right person.

The day
after Mindy's funeral,

investigators receive surprising
news from the crime lab.

The state crime lab called,

and said that we
have a positive match

of the DNA.

The DNA extracted from
under the fingernails

of Mindy matched an unsolved
brutal sexual assault

in Fargo two years previously.

And when we found
out who the person was,

it was just kind of silence.

The news was a shock.

One
week after the murder

of 22-year-old
Mindy Morgenstern,

detectives received
DNA test results

that turned the
case on its head.

The DNA from every
one of the suspects,

Kuznia, Wolters, Lynds, and
the others all came back

as not a match to the DNA found

under Mindy's fingernails.

I asked, "Who is it?"

They told me it was Moe Gibbs.

When they got the
match, it was just, wow.

The DNA match of Moe Gibbs
is really unexpected for us.

I knew him personally.

He was a correctional officer,

and it really caught me
off guard that somebody

in the law enforcement
community would have done

something like this.

When
detectives look deep

into Moe's background, they
discover a hidden past.

Moe Gibbs was not the
man we thought he was.

When we started digging
into his background,

we had found out that he'd
actually changed his name.

We found out that he was
involved in a drive-by shooting,

and he had served
five years in prison.

Also, his DNA matched
this reported rape in Fargo

from two years previously.

Given Moe's
violent criminal past,

detectives come
up with a strategy

to lure him into the station.

We had called Moe, and asked
him if he would be willing

to come in, just to
eliminate him as a suspect.

We were playing on his
friendship with law enforcement.

The idea was to get them
in, lock him in to a story,

and then immediately
give them a polygraph.

Moe Gibbs, who lived
in the apartment building

that Mindy lived in, and
he said that he had seen

her around, but he really
didn't know her at all.

Moe said that he had
worked at the jail

the previous night,
had gotten home

about seven in the morning,
and then he started packing

and loading boxes
out of the apartment.

Scratches were
observed on Moe's hands,

and Moe stated that
he got those scratches

from moving boxes.

The polygraph operator
asked him if he'd ever been

in Mindy's room, or
in her apartment.

He stated that she
was trying to carry

a laundry basket,
and some other things

all at the same time, and
he assisted her in carrying

that laundry to her apartment.

I'm thinking that he
wanted to have an excuse

for having evidence
in that apartment.

With
Moe's story in place,

the polygraph can begin.

At the conclusion of
the polygraph examination,

the examiner felt that there was

some indication of deception.

At that point, we didn't think

that he was really gonna
ever admit to anything,

at least that day.

He was arrested immediately
after that interview,

and charged with murder.

News of Moe's
arrest opens a floodgate

of shocking accusations.

A number of female
inmates in the jail

where Moe Gibbs worked
came forward and said.

'He's been doing sexual
stuff to us in the jail

for weeks or months."

Moe is
charged with six felonies

for the sexual assaults,

and one count of
first degree murder.

It was a very,
very much a shock

when they revealed
who was arrested.

I was very surprised,
and very shocked,

due to the fact I
knew him personally,

but it was a great
feeling to get the person

who had done this
horrific crime.

We went to trial in Minot,
North Dakota, provided evidence

to the jury there about the
DNA under her fingernails,

the scratches on his hand.

Despite the
evidence against him,

Moe's lawyers mount
a strong defense.

Their argument
was the DNA found

in Mindy's fingernails
was probably touched DNA

that she got from door knobs

that Moe Gibbs
had been touching.

I went into the jury
deliberations believing strongly

that we'd proved our case
beyond a reasonable doubt.

On July 12th,
2007, the jury returns

to the courtroom with news that
takes everyone by surprise.

The jury deliberated
for a fair period of time,

and came back as a hung jury,

and could not reach a decision.

We were so sure

he was gonna go down,

but they just got him off.

You kind of went home
and you were thinking,

what are we gonna do now?

Corrections
officer Moe Gibbs has just been

tried for the murder of
22-year-old Mindy Morgenstern,

but when the verdict
comes back a hung jury,

Mindy's loved ones are
left fearing the worst.

I was very shocked.

I think everybody was.

I don't think I would ever
expect that outcome at all.

When we heard it was a
hung jury, I just thought

it's all over with now.

They're gonna let him go.

Was it possible
that Moe had not killed

Mindy after all, or was a
murderer about to go free?

When a hung jury
like that happens,

it's extremely disappointing
and hard to understand

for people, because it's
just a temporary setback.

I was absolutely certain
we had the right guy.

In the Minot
trial, the defense,

the one thing they really hung

their hat on was that trying
to say it was just touched DNA.

We felt it was
obvious that to get DNA

under your fingernails,
it wasn't from touching

any kind of doorknob.

So we wanted to
totally rule that out,

and we're able to find another
expert to help us do that.

On
October 22nd, 2007,

more than a year
after Mindy's murder,

Moe Gibbs goes on trial
for the second time.

The expert described
this as a vigorous assault.

The amount of DNA was not
from touching a doorknob

or a laundry basket.

The prosecution lays
out further evidence,

carefully building
the case against Moe.

Moe Gibb's phone was
seized after his arrest,

and there were never times
when he went for an hour

or more that he was not texting,

or doing something
with his phone.

He got off at seven in
the morning from his shift,

and he was continually either
emailing or texting people

until he had to go pick up
his fiance to go to lunch.

He dropped her back
off from 12:30 or 1:00,

and that's when we
believe he came back

to the apartment building.

Mindy's last missed call
was at 12:47 that day,

and for the next two hours,

Moe Gibbs was doing
something else

other than sending
texts or sending emails.

With DNA

and other evidence
placing Moe at the scene,

the prosecution lays out
their theory of the murder.

I believe that Mindy
was carrying clothes

into her apartment, and Moe
Gibbs was in the hallway,

and got her in there, and
pushed her on the floor,

and attempted to rape her.

I think Mindy fought back,

and things went
drastically wrong.

I think what happened
was he tried strangling her

with a belt, and it wasn't
going as he wanted it to.

She wasn't dying fast enough,

so he got a knife,
and he stabbed her,

and then when he got done,
he finds a cleaning solution,

dumps it on her body,

and then he gets the
heck out of there.

Then he starts back with
the texting and emailing,

and went on with his life.

As Moe's second
murder trial concludes,

prosecutors have one
final card to play.

There was a
cellmate of Moe Gibbs

while he was awaiting trial
that had told investigators

that Moe had admitted
to killing Mindy.

Gibbs had told them
that he'd done it,

and do it again if he
had the opportunity.

As the jury
deliberates for a second time,

Mindy's loved ones
nervously await the outcome.

And I was wondering
what's going on?

I wanted to know things.

I wanted to hear what was
coming out of their mouths.

On
November 16th, 2007,

after deliberating
for over 27 hours,

the jury returns
with the verdict.

We the
jury do find the defendant,

Moe M. Gibbs, guilty
of the crime of murder.

For killing
Mindy Morgenstern,

Moe Gibbs is sentenced
to life without parole.

He got a 12-year sentence
on the unsolved rape,

and 15 years on the jail sexual
assaults that had happened.

It was a relief that they
finally caught the person,

that he wasn't gonna
be out there to do it

to somebody else again.

The fact that Moe Gibbs
is gonna be in prison,

it was finally over with,
we could finally go on,

and just try to
get through life,

the rest of the
time that we had.

Moe got what he deserved.

Because of Mindy's
actions, and her strength,

we were able to get
the DNA that we needed,

and that DNA helped
us solve this case.

Though
justice is served,

nothing can dull the
pain of Mindy's loss.

Oh, I miss Mindy
so much every day.

You never get over it,

but you go on, and
you pray for that time

when you can see her again,
up there in the heavens.

That's where I know she's at.

I like to remember her smile.

I have a picture of
her on my refrigerator,

and the light just
radiates from her face,

and she's so happy,

and that's the way I
like to remember her.