better off now? oh, yeah. oh, yeah. a lot better. i know, it s weird to think that, after all of this and but we are. we re closer. and we know each other, better. and we ve seen each other at our lowest but we are closer, and we re all stronger, as a family. two and a half years after the bombing, connie was up and walking, unassisted. on this night, heading to the podium to receive the citizens of courage award from the san diego county d. a. s office. hey, i can walk. yes! for having the guts to face her husband. her attempted killer. in court. when you went into court and stared him down, what was larry thinking? you tell me. i think he just, still, thought that i didn t think he did it. i sort of get the feeling that, maybe, larry thought that you were the kind of person who wouldn t have the strength to testify against him.
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 his wifi internet access, is responsible for the computer searches that were found in the investigation? i believe so. and in truth, when cops arrested larry, they knew there was no physical proof connecting him to those internet searches and so they continued to dig. larry had a lot of stuff in his wallet, a lot of pocket trash, business cards, pieces
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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 after that text larry was in pennsylvania trying to patch things up with lee ann when the cell phone bomb was discovered in the hoagland neighborhood. i m telling matt, matt, we got him with a girlfriend in pittsburgh. we ve got all this stuff going on. because this is all that we re finding, love cards in the business. so all this is building in one day. so you ve got this whole package right there, right in a nutshell. that s what says hook him. larry was arrested that night, but at that point the
of paper, receipts. i wouldn t want to sit on his wallet, let s put it that way. while going through that wallet, beals found this phone number written on a little slip of paper. i said, holy cow, this first number is the bomb phone number. i keep going through the contents of the wallet and here s the second number. that s right. larry hoagland had, in his wallet, the numbers of both cell phones used as detonators on the first bomb, the one that didn t explode. that s an unbelievable piece of luck. i d like to call it investigative genius, but, yeah, it was fantastic. really good to find that. and that tied larry to the unexploded bomb. exactly. if you re thinking it would be hard to explain away that evidence, then you don t know larry hoagland. how did those numbers get into your wallet? jerry gave them to me. that man gave them to me. that s why i say he had everything to do with this. he gave you those phone numbers and said this is how