eyes is to take a polygraph. right after it was finished, they said, well, you passed. stellmacher was nothing more than the right guy in the wrong place. everything came up clean. he was just coincidence. luke and beals were now convinced larry was the bomber and that he was in it alone, but larry hoagland, the husband, father of three and man of god, had a ready explanation when he sat down with me. he d been framed. i did not try to kill my wife. there is somebody out there who is responsible for this. there s a maniac out there. larry hoagland tells his side of the story and even he admits it sounds crazy. is it? coming up if i was a guy out there watching dateline, i wouldn t believe this. i would be the first person to say, oh, this guy is full of baloney. when dateline continues.
this guy used to have your job before you. exactly. he s the one that appointed me before i left. everybody here knows him, trusts him, likes him. yep. and he s a friend of the family and he d know how to make that device. exactly. stellmacher had a tip offering up a potential suspect, connie hoagland s ex-son-in-law who stellmacher claimed may have had it in for the family. that was absolutely a lead we needed to follow up on immediately. because he s the only person you could think of that didn t like connie and larry. exactly. or so we were told and led to believe. so beals hit the road bound for vegas and a meeting with connie s son-in-law. he didn t have a negative
luke and beals paid them a visit. then they asked if she had any enemies, if anyone would want to hurt her, if we could think of anybody. and i couldn t think of anybody. there wasn t anybody. i m guessing that the only thing stranger than hearing that your mom s been the victim of an explosion is hearing that it was not an accident and that it was directed at her specifically. i said, what? i couldn t i didn t believe it. i didn t keep the understand it. and i just started crying, because i didn t know who could do that, who on would want to do that. cgtn what made a strange case all the more baffling occurred four days after the bombing, when a large fed-ex box was delivered to this san diego area high school addressed to one of their students. his name? jonathan hoagland. that got san diego s bomb squad scrambling. and it got the town s attention. coming up connie hoagland, wife, mother
ordered for a high school dance. something that he was in charge of getting and he didn t remember it. but it shows the state of mind at the time. it was pretty rough, school was closed down, bomb squad coming out, everything. while this particular event turned out to be a bust in terms of finding any workable evidence, luke and beals believed the bomber had to be somebody who knew the hoaglands. knew where they worked, where they lived, knew their routines and had access to their cars. the only problem was that connie, a devout christian and mother of three, had no known enemies. but luke and beals had one witness who might be able to shed some light on that part of their investigation. a witness they had yet to question. connie hoagland. always i had a sense that she was going to live. i don t know why, but i always knew that she was going to live. i just didn t know how. sedated and in icu, after having gone through seven