Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today reads more like an old film noir than real life. It starts with a mistaken identity and murder in D.C. pivots to small town power politics, spirals into domestic violence, and ends with a town marshal gun down on his own

doorstep in Indiana. And the reason I know about this case is because I actually got a call

from Captain Smith with the Indiana State Police who's known for cracking cold cases

and who urged us to cover this story in hopes that someone somewhere can bring him answers to a question that has haunted the small town of Fremont, Indiana, for decades.

Who killed Bobby Moore?

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I'm It's July 13, 1974 in D.C., a time of epic unrest in the capital city.

Watergate just broke.

Nixon is like a month away from resigning from the presidency. And when this is happening, Metro PD homicide detective Bobby Moore

gets a call that a judge has been shot. He rushes to the hospital and finds Judge Lewis A. Sistler

dying in a bed. And some of his final words to the detective are telling

him that he had been at his father-in-law's house, and when he opened the door, there was a group of

people who shot at him as they tried to get into the house. They didn't, but they got him. And shortly

after giving that information to the detective, Lewis dies. With only

those few facts to go on, Bobby sets out investigating what is now a homicide. So he goes back to

the scene of the crime, which, as Lewis told him, was at his father-in-law's house, Samuel Haynes.

Samuel's daughter Barbara had married Lewis 23 years before, and they'd built a life together

in northern Indiana, where Lewis had been a state judge.

They'd left their three adult children and moved to D.C. for Lewis's work, because after

he retired as a judge, he went to work for a senator on Capitol Hill, and he was also a lobbyist

for the National Rifle Association. So, for a hot minute,

considering the political climate, they probably wondered if Lewis was targeted for his work.

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