THE crucial evidence that led to a killer fiancé's arrest after a mother and daughter were found brutally murdered in their home has been revealed.
Angelique Goyena, 35, and her mother Vonda Goyena, 74, were found stabbed to death in their Virginia home in 2007, but it wasn't until years later that their killer's new fiancée helped catch him.
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Detectives struggled to find any evidence that would lead to a suspect, as everyone who had access to the apartment had provided an alibi, including Angelique's fiance David Wayne Hoshaw.
Things became even stranger two weeks after the murders, when police received a letter from Chicago.
In the letter, an anonymous person claimed they were the killer, and that they had killed the mother and daughter because Angelique rejected his romantic advances.
A second letter was then sent to police in Virginia, this time it came from Michigan.
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While Hoshaw had told police that at the time of the murders he had been about 80 miles away at a Boy Scouts event with his son from a former relationship, police soon started finding inconsistencies in his story.
Norfolk detective Rick Malbon told ABC's 20/20: "We looked at everything that David Hoshaw did, or a lot of things that he did before the homicide and after the homicide."
During their investigation, it was revealed that Angel's fiancé, David Wayne Hoshaw, was seeing another woman and after her death, he quickly relocated to Michigan to be with her and even skipped the funeral.
From cell phone records and credit card receipts, authorities figured out that Hoshaw had been near the post offices on the dates in which the letters were mailed.
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As reported by 13news, on June 18, 2009, then-37-year-old Hoshaw was arrested in Michigan on murder charges.
After the grand jury indictment, Hoshaw was arrested and interrogated by Malbon.
During that time, he continued to deny the allegations, but when he was given time alone with his then-fianceé, Amanda, he confessed to her and said that he did it because he wanted to leave her, according to ABC News.
On October 5, 2010, he pleaded guilty to capital murder and first-degree murder charges and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, according to The Virginian Pilot.
"For the sake of my family, I am pleading guilty to this crime," Hoshaw said during his sentencing.
The Goyena case will now be the subject of a 20/20 episode, scheduled to premiere on February 17, 2023..
