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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 was arrested. while connie was still in the hospital. he said, i want you to know i have been having an affair, before it gets out. and then, he said, and since since the accident, i ve been dedicated to you. and then, he said i
believe that was the case here. neither did detectives. when you first meet larry, was he a suspect? no, he was not. he was the victim s husband. we didn t really focus on larry that much. so eric stellmacher, the former bomb squad commander, remained on everyone s radar screen. he was constantly by larry s side at the hospital and still wanting to pitch in on the investigation. i called the investigator friend of mine and said, hey, you know, can i come in and talk with you. detectives thought the time had come to bring in stellmacher for questioning, but before they could speak with him, they received another phone tip, one which would send this investigation in a whole new direction. a new direction, a new suspect and finally an arrest. you ve got this whole package right there, so it s all right in a nutshell. that s what says, hook him.
and even had someone in mind. but connie told them she was at a loss. now investigators were about to get a tip that would turn the case and connie s world upside down. here again is josh mankiewicz with deadly intent. detectives trying to figure out who would want to kill mild mannered connie hoagland were hitting nothing but dead ends until they got a call from the business partner of connie s husband, larry. i says, hey, i found bombmaking instructional videos and internet searches on our office computer. and i didn t make the searches. it seems larry had been looking for some unusual things on the internet. we looked at the stuff that he had looked at, and then it was like, wow, this is the exact same bomb that we found. but they found more than just a list of incriminating websites. during the search we find love letters between him, larry hoagland s hand, and a woman by
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 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. 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