and standard police procedure is to say after that, so how s your marriage, how s everything in your marriage? i said everything s fine. but in her heart, she knew that wasn t quite true. after 25 years of marriage, larry seemed to have grown tired of her. the last few years weren t that good, but i thought we were still committed and just hanging on to the commitment of that time. did he act like he didn t care about you any more? yes. that has to be heartbreaking. yeah, it was. you ever think about leaving larry? it never crossed my mind. in the church, divorce is really frowned upon. if you can work it out, work it out. how was larry at the hospital? pretty stand-offish, which was normal for us at that time. the truth is there are a lot of bored husbands out there in suburbia, but few ever go on to try to assassinate their wives. and connie certainly didn t
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 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 thi
consider a punishment, harsher than a life in prison. which is, in fact, the sentence larry received. life, plus 13 years. do you guys feel like you are 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,
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 hoagland family had no idea he was even being investigated. so when jaclyn got a 2:00 a. m. call from her sister jill with news about their dad, she was blindsided. my sister said he s been arrested. he s in jail and i couldn t believe it. and i think the first thing out of my mouth was there s no way he did this. there s no way. they have the wrong guy. the evidence against larry was circumstantial. no fingerprints, no dna, nothing to physically connect him to either bomb. and that made investigators take another look at eric stellmacher who was asked to come down to his old fire station for an interview. this was not going to be a friendly chat with his old work