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 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.
myself when i heard the explosion was oh, my goodness, what was that? teddy williams is the owner of the day care home. so i ran out the gate. i come to this point and i stopped because connie s car is rolling at full speed and smacked into my van. i ran around her truck, and this is where i found connie, right here, on her side, in the street. connie hoagland was her best friend. connie was laying on her side, curled up in a ball. i rolled her over. there was glass, there was shrapnel, there was shards of metal everywhere. everywhere. teddy knew all the hoagland family s cell phone numbers and she was the one who broke the news. i was driving, and she said that there was an explosion and my mom s truck blew up. so i immediately pulled over,
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 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. and 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 an 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
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. it s fineeeeeeee! ugh! advil dual action fights pain two ways. advil targets pain at the source, acetaminophen blocks pain signals. advil dual action. eww, bacteria. spreading throughout your home. help stop the spread with microban24. it keeps killing 99.99% of bacteria for up to 24 hours.