hoagland was booked into san diego county s curiously named george bailey detention facility. a different george bailey, you may recall, was jimmy stewart s character in it s a wonderful life. which actually described larry hoagland s life at one point. good friends, a loving family, the respect of his community. by the time i sat down across from larry, much of that had evaporated. he stood accused of trying to kill his wife with a pipe bomb. and his first words to me were that police had the wrong man. i did not try to kill my wife. i m adamant about this. the only thing larry said was true was that he did have an affair. i was cheating on my wife. i
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 different surgeries to save her right foot and left leg, and yet somehow, still alive. i remember coming out to the
responsible for this. and i m not him. i got to ask you, i mean, did you think about just getting divorced? yes. i mean, if you had just gotten divorced, none of this would ve happened. you wouldn t be in there. i wouldn t be here, talking to you. you would be in pennsylvania with your girlfriend and your wife would be angry at you. which which would not be been would not have been the right thing to do, to leave my family, in hindsight, yes. but it beats murder. our interview finally ended and as he was being led away, larry conceded to his guard that we weren t buying his story. they think i am a lying scumbag. while larry admitted to being a liar, he never admitted to the bombing attempts. and even connie didn t believe her husband of 25 years would try to kill her. not until larry called her, shortly after he
you had to declare bankruptcy? i didn t want to declare bankruptcy but larry said, no, we need to do this. so i just went ahead with it. you went along? yep. yeah. i trusted him. i thought he maybe knew better than i knew. and detectives learned, while larry was deceiving connie and bleeding his own family dry, he was also playing lee ann, telling her the timing wasn t right for them to get married, because he couldn t afford to go through with his divorce. as proof, larry even sent lee ann this secretly recorded meeting with his lawyer. spousal support at $900. and child support at? $1,000. 1900 total. why is that so high? why is it so high? that s the guideline figure. lee ann s response to this video? text after text basically telling larry to put up or shut up. i have heard it all so many times, she wrote. i am tired of it all. if you love me like you say, we still wouldn t be doing this. i am ready to move on. two weeks
and you tried to kill her. alimony was nothing. you know, and i tell you all these things because it s the truth. i m not going to stand behind and start explaining to you details after details. i just have to tell you that it s the truth. and that s all there is to it. briefly tell me and i always say briefly because i don t know how much time we have. who framed you and why would they do that? larry wasn t able to explain it briefly, so i ll do it for him. his story goes like this. larry claimed there were a number of transients who park their motor homes in the industrial park around his photo studio. and that he, larry, living out his christian faith, let those transients piggyback off his wifi at night, and that one of those transients, a guy named jerry, did the bombmaking internet searches. not larry. you believe that jerry, with