up? absolutely. reporter: just to see if maybe he did this. absolutely. it actually took awhile for me to calm down at the very beginning because my mind s all over the place. and then once i wrap my mind around, okay, let me just go ahead and give them this. get this knocked out of the way, then they can actually get on with the investigation. reporter: detectives wanted to know where he was all day. roger had a good alibi. he had a solid alibi. yes. his son was with him all the time. he had left his house very early and stopped at a convenience store where he saw friends and talked to them. and then when he got to work, obviously, his co-workers, his supervisors saw him. reporter: also backing up roger s alibi was his brother rodney. he told detectives he helped roger jump start his truck early that morning and watched him and triston leave. detective steve munoz. he said that they were able to crank up the truck, get it going. and as he pulled away, he says that he d
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move, she wants to take me away from my friends here, you. i love you. she wants to separate us. reporter: rodney told police his brother had no shortage of reasons for wanting lynn dead. prosecutor john gibson. roger wanted the life insurance policy. he wanted custody of his young son. he knew that if his affair with april became apparent, that he d face consequences in the military to include prosecution and military jail. he didn t want to move to follow lynn in her career to minnesota. he wanted to stay and he wanted to party back here in el paso. reporter: and rodney said roger didn t just talk about why he wanted his wife killed. he says roger talked about how and when. he describes roger preparing the weapon, preparing extra clothes for rodney to change. reporter: rodney said the plan was for roger to call him that morning to say his battery was dead. was that the signal?
always been really interested in like anatomy and how things work. but i ve also wanted to have a bunch of questions answered about my own life about, you know, the situation with my parents mainly. and that curiosity kind of bled over into other situations. me and my mom. reporter: triston treasures the baby book his mother made for him. i get bigger and better. reporter: and he loves listening to that audiotape she made for her sister s 16th birthday. it s cool hearing her. i remember when i was 16. that was the greatest time of my life. and believe it or not, it will probably be one of the most exciting times of your life, too. i sometimes wonder if she would be happy with how my life is going or my decisions. or if she d be proud of me or whatnot. reporter: you ve overcome the odds. you re in college. you re making something of your life. it s not over yet. i ve got a long way to go. reporter: how could she not be proud of that? i m sure she is.
money than i was. so, you know, $250,000, all soldiers have that same amount on them. so reporter: you wanted sole custody of triston. no. lynn and i would have definitely been joint custody. it s something that we talked about whenever we briefly separated. reporter: you didn t want to go to a military prison for committing adultery. no. it s been a very long time since anybody was convicted of a felony for adultery in the military. reporter: he says he still doesn t understand why all his old friends turned on him, but he doesn t have a good explanation for why they all would have lied. you had a lot of people saying that you wanted to have your wife killed. and you would think i d have come up with a really good reason for it, for all those people. and i haven t. obviously, you know, maybe some of them had their individual motive. reporter: but six people? i know. reporter: that s a lot of people all lying and ganging up on you. i don t know what their reasons
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