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CEDAR RAPIDS — Andrew Shaw, during his first interview with investigators, denied hiring two men to kill Chris Bagley in 2018 and minimized his relationship with the two men.

Shaw, charged with first-degree murder, admitted to asking a few people to assault Bagley, who assaulted and robbed him, but he never asked Drew Wagner or Johnny Blahnik Church — formerly known as Drew Blahnik — to do it.

He didn’t know much about what happened to Bagley, only what he had heard from other people, Shaw said during a video recorded interview on March 26, 2019, with Linn County Sheriff’s Maj. Dave Beuter and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

The video was played during Shaw’s trial Thursday in L

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