Transcripts For WCAU Dateline NBC 20160530

The first suspect, as usual, the husband. This one had a rock solid alibi. It would have been very difficult for him to have committed this murder. Did this soldier have enemies off the battlefielbattlefield . Her brotherinlaw had a grudge. Rodney was going around calling her names, vulgar names. Her husband had a girlfriend. Roger was sitting with a young lady and they were cuddled up. We found outside she was pregnant. Who killed the commander in a place where loyalty is prized above all, one clue. That palm print, a key part of the case. Would reveal a breathtaking betr betrayal. I dont have the words. What a monster. Im lester holt. This is dateline. Heres Andrea Canning with deadly devotion. In the hot and dangerous middle east she held her own in the company of men, a captain and a commander, whose devotion never wavered. She inspired people. Thats maybe why she made such great commander. She inspired her troops. She inspired those that worked for her to want to do well. She was captain Lynn Armstrong reister. Army veteran debbie moore was one of her best friends. Lynn was very intelligent. She knew how to bring out the best of people. I loved her. She was someone to be inspired by. She inspired people. She had big role in the military. Very big. She was in charge of the air Defense Artillery in saudi arabia. When we were in saudia they had the patriot missiles, she would be the one to make the decision what was coming in if it needed to be taken out of the sky. Captain reister earned loyalty from men and women. That loyalty cut both ways according to her assistant, megan ayers. Did she take good care of her soldiers . Absolutely. She did welfare checks where she would visit with families. She would meet with the different wives and things like that. Was she the perfect candidate for the army . She, in my opinion. She didnt let stress get to her too much. I think she was probably one of the best commanders i ever worked under. Lynn grew up with a brother and two younger sisters in the military town of pens coha, florida. While she was away at school, she sent her sister some advice on tape for her 16th birthday. Dont argue, avoid arguments and be happy. Dont let any spoil that for you and youll be happy and find that in your heart. Anyway, i hope that helps. She graduated with an Officers Commission from norwich university,in vermont, one of the oldest Military College is in the country and then began the globe trotting life of a soldier. I met lynn over in germany. Debbie and lynn were both stationed over there. They met at a Birthday Party through mutual friends. I snapped a picture of the four of them sitting at the table. Young women serving their country saving life overseas being surrounded by guys in uniform, sometimes love entered the picture. It certainly did for lynn. How did lynn and roger meet . They met over in germany at the k club. Is that an army club. That is an army club. We would go there on saturday nights because they had country music. They hit it off at once and the romance blossomed. Lynn was a wonderful person. She had a smile that lit up the room. As a military wife when i heard roger was enlisted and lynn was an officer, thats a no no in this military. Back then it wasnt as critical as it became a couple years later. He was a charmer and she fell in love. And they got married. Debbie liked the fact that he was an elvis fan. I was amazed, really . Youre into elvis presley, too . I was kind of surprised by that, yeah. He was a lot of fun. Roger admired lynns devotion to her country and her strength. You have to be mentally strong, with the military, especially women in the military, you have to be mentally strong and goto to toe with some of the men. Lynn and roger had chosen a soldiers life. That meant a marriage full of separati separations. Roger even missed the birth of his son, tristan. It was unbelievable. As soon as i came back, i stepped off the bus and she held him and said, this is your son. That was a it was really a great moment, it really was. I held her and him at the same time. Was he a good dad . He was. He would bring him up to visit and they would play and he seemed very happy being a dad. When tristan was 4, the family was stationed at fort bliss in el paso, texas. I was lynn that got called away. Lynn found out she had to deploy to saudi arabia . Uhhuh. You were going with her . Yes, maam. Was she okay with that . She had to leave tristan behind. This was her first deployment without him, right . To the best of my knowledge, yes. I remember her telling us it was hard, she was having a hard time with it, she was sad and she just telling him shed come home. It wont be that long. It was how long was the deployment . It was about six months. And then she did get home but her old life was about to change. About four months after she got back, roger convince lynn to let his 24yearold brother, rodney, come live with them. Rodney had gotten into some trouble while his brother was serving his country. Maybe roger and lynn could set him straight. He was on probation in florida and for him to be able to leave the state, she had to write this letter, you know, y saying how she would take on that responsibility. Roger asked her to do that so she did. Right about the same time, lynn found out she was pregnant again. The tug of motherhood was getting stronger, so this globe trotting army captain made a decision, she put in for a transfer to teach rotc in minnesota. Good for her career, good for her family, and no travel. Was she doing it all to be with tristan more, was that part of it . Yeah. That would be part of it. She wanted to its more re x relaxing. She was going to be a teacher, something she was really looking forward to. Just days before moving time, lynn was saying goodbye to fort bliss. Lin was having a Going Away Party . Any time a commander resigns a command the unit puts together and buy her going away gift, usually a plaque or something to commemorate the accomplishments of the unit. Megan didnt go but her husband did. My husband came home and i asked how how it went, did she like the gift . He said, you know, she never showed. That was very odd. Something else was odd. Roger had been calling lynn at home throughout the day. No answer. Late that afternoon, he came home from work with tristan and it was all too clear why lynn hasnt answered the phone. 911. Yeah. Um, i just got home. My wife is dead. Lynn armstrong reister, mother, soldier, beloved commander, was in her bedroom, lying dead in a pool of blood. When we return my first instinct was grab tristan and run out of the house. It almost made me sick. I was on the floor. Where will investigators start . 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Looking at the scene and trying to imagine her maybe fighting for her life or pleading for her life, or or how scared she might have been. Any signs of robbery . Were things taken . No. We actually did a scan and we could see valuables. There was no signs that this was a burglary or robbery. Once we did the walkthrough and looked at with the referenhe roger because he was ec explaining what he had seen when he went in. With police and neighbors converging on the scene, the news got out quickly. Lynns friend, debbie moore couldnt believe it. My husband and i were wat watching tv and he was flipping through the channels over the remote control. The channel flipped by and it was her house, i yelled, wait, wait, wait. What is it . Isnt that lynns house . He flipped it back. It came about that time a woman had been found murdered in her home. Did you know right away . I knew it was lynn, yeah, because i knew the house and then they said it was military. I remember it almost made me sick, i was on the floor. And then i got myself together, i said, we have to go over there, i have to go over there. Roger was already talking to detectives and clearly shaken. Police were sympathetic but they knew he had to be carefully scrutinized. Whats your First Impression of roger reister . He was grasping and his son wouldnt let go of him. I thought maybe i saw some fear. He was scared about what had occurred, it seemed to me at the time. Are you looking for anything in roger reisters eyes or his mannerisms or what hes saying . Are you immediatelicizing him up . Absolutely. To see if maybe he did this . Absolutely. It actually took a while for me to calm down at the very beginning because my minds all over the place. Once i wrapped my mind around, okay, let me give them this, get this knocked out of the way, then they can get on with the investigation. Detectives wanted to know where he was all day. Roger had a good alibi. He had a solid alibi, yes, his son was with him all the time. He had left his house very early and stopped at a Convenience Store where he saw friends and talked to them. When he got to work, obviously his coworkers, supervisors saw him. Also backing up rogers alibi was his brother, rodney. He told detectives he helped roger jumpstart his truck early that morning and watched him and tristan leave. Detective steve munios. He said they were able to crank up the truck, get it going. As he pulled away he says he did see roger also pull out from the driveway. Later, rodney visited roger at the base. He told police his older brother looked worry whied when he call lynn and got no answer. Hey, you there . 10 25 a. M. Hey, lynn, this is roger. Give me a call as soon as you get in. I need you to come pick up tristan. Then he leaves work. We knew it would have been very difficult for him to have committed this murder. So who did it . As the investigation got under way, the detective thought the possibilities were endless. It could be anybody. It could be a neighbor, it could be a lover. She was a captain. She was a supervisor. We thought about her troops and her subordinates and maybe somebody that she might have disciplined or sex offenders in the area. You had a wide net you needed to throw out. It was a wide investigation at the time, yes. You had a killer on the use. Yes. And the neighbors were very scared. Whos out there . Who did this . In those first few hours the leads would pour in and the police had to move fast. Lynn reister had inspired loyalty in her life, now, in death, the detectives could not let her down. Coming up. And Army Commander being murdered. On the base, a giant military family is hit hard by murder. But in lynns own family, had there been signs of trouble . Rodney was going around calling her sounds of birds whistling music introducing new ky touch gel creme. For massage and intimacy. Every touch, gently intensified. A little touch is all it takes. Ky touch. The news of lynn reisters murder spread through el paso and it was devastating to those who served with her at the army base. Did this crime send shock waves through fort bliss . It certainly did. It was heartbreaking. It was harrowing when it first happened, we had no idea and it was scary. The Fort Bliss Community p k packed the Memorial Service to say goodbye to the captain and the baby she was carrying who never got a chance. Tell us about the funeral. The wake was extremely difficult. She was buried in her army dress uniform. They in order to do the open casket, they had to cover the throat. So they used her air Defense Artillery ascot to it connects on the back and so that they would be able to do the open casket. Lynns mother asked me to go and buy a baby blanket. It was a little boy. I went and bought a little baby blanket. For the memorial when they laid lynn out in her uniform the point was there, not just one person had died in this attempt, two had died. 4yearold tristan was there with his family and his mothers friends, barely comprehending the tragic rupture in his life. Do you remember how you felt towards him . I do. I just, i felt sorrow. I wanted so bad to fix it for him. I understood that this little 4 1 2yearold boy will never know how great his mom was, how much she loved him. Did your heart just go out to this little boy . Yes. And still does. But the detectives had to put emotion aside and drill down to the facts. Roger wasnt home at the time of the murder and neighbors werent reporting any suspicious activity. So detectives wanted to know if any held a grudge against lynn. They quickly learned at least one person may have, rogers brother, rodney. Things started to go south with rodney pretty quickly after he moved in . Yes. There were times he would lay around all day long. Rodney idolized his big brother but he was something of a disappointment to roger and lynn. Well, he just wasnt he wasnt working, he was basically living off of us, stuff like that. She would go to get milk out of the refrigerator for tristan and the milk would be gone because rodney had drank it all an didnt bother to replace it. Yeah. It was becoming not a very good relationship. Lynn didnt want him to stay . I think lynn was ready to have her house back. Its very difficult when you have another adult living in the home. I think they talked and they ended up roger ended up telling rodney, it was time to go, you need to leave. Youve been here long enough, we tried to help you, youre not really helping yourself so you need to go. Lynn and i came to that decision together. It was one of those things that just had to be done and he held that against her. Mine and his relationship continued on but i could tell he had a little bit of animosity towards lynn even after that. A closer look at rodney sh showed a young man with a dodgy past. He had done time in florida for crimes like petty theft, forgery, grand theft auto, nothing violent but, still, he was no fan of lynns. And then i remember lynn telling me that roger had told her that rodney was going around calling her names. You know, calling her vulgar na names, shes the reason he got kicked out and the reason all these things happened. Did you see that as a motive . I never thought that in itself would have been a p plotive, he would have been angry just because of that to kill her. Why in the world would rodney want lynn dead . I dont think rodney wanted lynn dead. Here was a person that was willing to help us in the investigation. He was very cooperative initially and throughout. The search for suspects continued. Lynns neighborhood turned up nothing, the same with fort bliss. Lynn had no enemies there. You couldnt have madge eimat could have happened. 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Because i have used head and shoulders for 20 years. Used regularly, it removes up to 100 of flakes keeping you protected live flake free for life it was a lead that would take the lynn reister Murder Investigation in a new direction. Roger reisters brother had mentioned a young woman who had a crush on roger. Detectives quickly learned this crush was an open secret around town. We went to the industrivilla and i walked in the door and there was roger. It was about nine months before the murder. Lynns assistant, megan, had just gotten back from saudi arabia and lynn was still there with a week and half to go. Roger was sitting in a booth with several other people. Didnt know any of them as well as a young lady. And they were cuddled up and roger had a look of sheer terror on his face when he saw me walk in and realized who i was, because, you know, we knew each other. He stopped and he gave me a hug and i didnt know you were back. Well, i am. The young womans name was april. She was 19 years old. What exactly was going on between roger and this young lady . They looked like a couple . They did. Megan decided it wasnt her place to tell lynn. But over in saudi arabia, lynn knew something was up. Roger never seemed to answer the phone. Hey, roger, its lynn again. I dont know where youre at. Ill try a im trying to get a ahold of you for 24 hours. Word traveled halfway around the world roger had been april was in the bar that night. Yes. How was he acting around april . They were in the bar and doing flips and turns and things he never danced with with lynn. Hes doing this in front of lynn . Oh, yes. Oh yes. She was so angry and what made it worse was he was so d disrespe disrespectful. Shed Start Talking to him and every time she started walking towards him hed go away. Sounds like lynn was trying to be the grownup and roger reverted back to the good old days. Yeah. Detectives noted that night at the country bar ended badly and a messy argument broke out between roger and lynn and roger moved to the barracks. After that, lynn asked her for help. I was playing detective. I was outside the barracks and april ended up coming there and hanging out at the barracks. This wasnt just a crush, this was a full on affair. Then it got worse, lynn heard a rumor april was pregnant with rogers baby. I told her, i said, i know where april lives. I said, lynn, why dont we go over there . Why dont we go talk with april. Thats gutsy. Yeah. Well, we were older. I knew lynn wasnt going to lose it. What was it like when you knock on the door. We knock on the door and she opens it. A little bit surprised. Lynn was very nice. We sat down and started talking to her about her relationship and she tried to say that, you know, yes, she had, that it was over now that lynn was back. I finally said, my understanding is youre pregnant. April denied she was pregnant insisting the affair was over. You both left aprils not really knowing for sure if she was or wasnt pregnant . If it yeah, then, of course, later we found out that she was actually pregnant. And telling people the father was roger. A lot of women would have cashed in the marriage at this point, but not lynn. She let roger come home. Did lynn still want to make things work with roger despite this bombshell . Why . I think probably because of tristan. I think it was important to lynn her family Stay Together and tristan be raised with a mother and father and she would work it out. They were working on things. She was, yes. Marriage counseling . They did try marriage counseling, yes. They moved back in together . Yes. Police heard after roger reconciled with lynn her car was vandalized. April was never charged but at the time lynn and roger told police they thought she did it. This is very complex, this april situation . Yes. The police had to put this woman scorned on the list of possible suspects. Roger had pushed april aside to the point he was telling everybody, thats not denying that was his baby april was car carrying. You want to get a woman angry thats a pretty good way to do it. Absolutely. As detectives were sorting through this tangled love triangle they got news of a break in the case. The phonetic lab came back with something. A trace of the killer on lynn reisters arm. Coming up this is the smoking gun . It is. A telltale palm print. Whose could it be . Who was behind this killing . Does everyones jaws drop . Yes. When dateline continues. A troubled marriage, a doomed fair, a pregnant mistress, detectives did the math and suddenly, april and roger were each look like possible suspects. But then results came in on a clue at the crime scene, a bloody palm print on lynn reisters palm. Did roger give his palm print. Was he a match . Did april give his palm print. Was she a match . She was not a match. Then they checked the print of someone lynn reister once tried to help, her brotherinlaw, rodney. He was a match and those prints belonged to him in blood on lynns arm. This is the smoking gun . It is. Roger was brought back to Police Headquarters by detective steve munoz. He is a person, nothing phased him, whatever you want, ill talk to you, ill give you whatever you need. When rodney sat down with detective, he was confronted with the print evidence and he denied everything. As we talked to him and broke down those denials, he became very emotional. Rodney cried a bunch of times during the interview and he revealed that he had in fact killed lynn. Case closed . Not even close. We had to answer the question of why did rodney kill her . Why did rodney get involved in something so heinous and so horrible, so violent . Detectives continued to press. They never thought the spat between rodney and lynn was a good motive for murder. There had to be Something Else. Rodney finally broke down. He admitted there was. He did it because roger asked him to do it. He said big Brother Roger was behind it all. Does everyones jaws drop . Yes. At this statement . Absolutely. Roger was arrested and charged with murder. There was such this big shock with his friends and their mutual friends because they thought, no, no, because he looked like this perfect husband, perfect father. According to rodney, roger suggested, then begged, then bullied him into killing lynn. He offered money. Hed pay off rodneys bills and then some, but mostly he offered love. Then roger is feeding all these things into his head about she want to move, she wants to take me away from my friends here, you. I love you, she wants to separate us. Rodney told police his brother had no shortage of reasons for wanting lynn dead. Prosecutor, john gibson. Roger wanted the Life Insurance policy, he wanted custody of his young son. He knew that if his affair with april became apparent that hed face consequences in this military, to include prosecution and military jail. He didnt want to move to follow lynn in her career to minnesota. He wanted to stay and he wanted to party back here in el paso. And rodney said roger didnt just talk about why he wanted his wife killed, he says roger talked about how and when. He describes roger preparing the weapon, preparing extra clothes for rodney to change. Rodney said the plan was for roger to call him that morning to say his battery was dead. Was that the signal . That was the signal. Thats what rodney tells us. When we when i went to the house i knew that was the day i was going to have to kill lynn. The prosecutor threw the book at both brothers. A decision was made to go ahead and pursue capital murder charges against both roger and rodney reister. That could mean the Death Penalty . It could mean the Death Penalty. As the day of rogers trial got closer, rodneys misguided loyalty got the better of him and he refused to testify against his older brother. I think rodney had a degree of loyalty and love for his brother such that he couldnt get up on the stand and testify against him. So a jury would not hear from the younger brother or see his confession. The prosecution was forced to drop the murder charge against roger. But that was not the end of the case. Remember that pack of young people roger was running with . Many of them were High School Kids in that area and many of the people were junior in rank, other soldiers at the base. So roger surrounded himself with people he knew would look up to him. But they turned on him after lynn was killed. One by one, six members of rogers circle told police they knew roger wanted his wife dead because he had talked to them about it. Two of them even told police roger had tried to hire them for the murder. Roger reister basically told anybody who would listen that he wanted his wife dead. So the prosecutor charged roger with solicitation for murder and put him on trial for that. One of rogers minion, a young soldier named Patrick Mueller was a key witness. He was granted immunity and gave a statement explaining that he, too, had been solicited by roger to kill lynn reister. He asked me if i would kill captain reister, maam. What did you tell him . Yes, i would. Where were you supposed to stab her . Mentioned something about in the throat so she could not scream. Mueller said he went to the house one night but chickened out when he spotted a neighbor. Another young man testified how roger tried to hire him. He told me he wanted his wife pretty much killed and x amount of dollars and i said, well, you know, i dont know. Rogers former mistress, april, now cleared of any suspicion, testified that roger talked to her about tampering with lynns brakes. Lynns friend, debbie, doesnt understand why one of these young people didnt blow the whistle before lynn was killed. I was so angry, because i thought, why didnt one of them mention it to me . Why wouldnt that comment not been told to me . Because i think if one of them had told me that and i would have went back to lynn with that right away with all those witnesses, the prosecution thought they had a strong case, but roger reister had plenty to say about those witnesses and about his brother, rodney. Did you ask your brother, rodney, to kill lynn . Coming up i loved my wife. We were trying to build a future together. Roger tells his story. Will a jury believe it . And his son has a story to tell, too. sounds of birds whistling music introducing new ky touch gel creme. For massage and intimacy. Every touch, gently intensified. A little touch is all it takes. Ky touch. To take your wife, the mother of your child, and the fact that she was carrying his unborn child, i dont even have words of how sick, what a monster. Roger reister didnt look like a monster when he went on trial for criminal solicitation. Lots of witnesses said he talked about killing his wife to any who would listen. Well, now, 12 jurors were li listening. It took them all of three hours to find him guilty. When you hear guilty my legs went out from underneath me. My lawyers actually had my arms. Roger was sentenced to life in prison. He spoke to us from behind glass at a texas state prison. The prosecutor said in his closing statements, who is he crying for . Referring to you. He said, hes crying for himself. No. I was crying for my wife and my unborn child is who i was crying for. It had nothing to do with me. Why should we believe you . Because i didnt do it. Because i loved my wife. He told us he may have been a terrible husband but he never wanted lynn dead. Was life easier without her in the picture . No. Absolutely not. Thats why we actually got back together. We separated, i was like, okay, ill move back to the barracks that. Thats why we got back together. Life wasnt easier without her. Life was better with her, always has. Remember, the prosecution said there was a long list of moti motives. All right. Lets run through the motives of why the prosecution said you want your wife dead, first, you wanted to the 250,0 250,000 lif insurance policy. Oh, no. It doesnt make much sense because lynn was making more money than i was, so 250,0 250, all soldiers have that same amount on them. You wanted sole custody of tristan. No. Lynn and i would have definitely been joint custody, something we talked about when we briefly separated. You didnt want to go to a military prison for committing adultery. No. Its been a very long time since anybody was convicted of a felony for adultery in the military. He says he still doesnt understand why all his old friends turned on him but he doesnt have a good explanation for why they all would have lied. You had a lot of people s saying that you wanted to have your wife killed. And you would think i would have come up with a really good reason for it for all those people and i havent. Obviously, you know, maybe some of them had their individual motive. Six people. I know. Thats a lot of people, all lying and ganging up on you. I dont know what their reasons are, youd be surprised what people will say. The year after rogers trial, his brother, rodney, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life. Roger still says rodney acted alone. One of the things thats hard to wrap your head around is that rodney had this love for you. He looked up to you. And for rodney to turn on you and say that my brother asked me to kill his wife, and i did it out of love for him, why in the world would he make that up . Maybe to save his own life. I heard that they were trying to give him the Death Penalty. The only thing he could have done to even save his own life was to Say Something like that, maybe get a little bit of far a but this was a man who loved you . If he had loved me he wouldnt have killed my wife. You do seem, though, like youre playing the part of victim a little bit by saying this person made this up, this person made this up, poor me, all these people are lying. Well, im an innocent man sitting in jail, so, yeah, i do kind of feel like a victim, yes. He says that hes the victim in this, that all these people lied and now hes behind bars because of the lies. All these people lied . Hmm. I dont even know what to say to that. Debbie says lynns profound loyalty may have been her un undoing, and that lynn would want other people to learn from that. Sometimes you dont keep fighting to keep that marriage together. That maybe there is a time that its better just to say, you know, its over and walk away. Even now, this case can bring detective to tears. Can you explain it . Why you have this emotion . Can you put it into words . Its hard. Its hard. She was pregnant. Of course, you have tristan and tristan lost everything. What hits you the hardest . She was trying to keep her family together. I dont think she knew what kind of man she was married to. Do you think about your wifes last moments and your unborn childs last moments, how horrific they were . No. I try not to think about that at all. Its not how you really want to do your time in here. Lynn stated in her will that tristan should go to her mother if anything happened. Roger agreed to send tristan to one of lynns sisters instead. I know hes at a good home. Thats probably one of the good things i did before i got locked up was make sure he went to that family in particular. He doesnt know anything about me. Tristan is now 19 years old. Hes getting himself through college. He has a good group of friends but its been a lonely and difficult road. He very clearly doesnt know anything ive gone through, you know. He obviously doesnt understand that most of what ive gone through is because of his decision. He keeps saying that you had this great upbringing and that gives him peace essentially but your life was not so easy . It wasnt. It was a very difficult place to grow up in, just in general, the very fact that i lost my parents is one thing thats traumati traumatizing, but then to go live with my aunt who is in effect a stranger to me as a kid, is it was a lot. Still, his difficult life has pointed him in an interesting direction. You want to be a crime scene investigator . Yes, i do. Is this 100 from your own experience . Or is there Something Else . Believe it or not, ive always been interested in anatomy and how things work, but ive always wanted to have a bunch of questions answered about my own life, about the situation with my parents, ma mainly. And that curiosity kind of bled over to other situations. Me and my mom. Tristan treasures the baby book his mother made for him. I get bigger and better. He loves listening for that audiotape she made for her sisters 16th birthday. Its cool hearing her. I remember when i was 16. That was the greatest time of my life. And believe it or not, itll probably be one of the most exciting times of your life, too. I sometimes wonder if she would be happy with how my life is going and my decisions or if shed be proud of me or what not. Youve overcome the odds, youre in college, youre making something of your life. Its not over yet. I have a long way to go. How could she not be proud of that. Im sure she is, its just i wish i knew for sure. I miss you so much. I miss all of you. I hope you guys miss me a little bit. Thats all for now. I im lester holt. Thanks for joining us