murdered in her home. reporter: did you know right away? i knew it was lynn. yeah, because i knew the house. then they said it was military. and i remember it almost made me sick. i was on the floor. and then i kind of got myself together. i said, we have to go over there. i have to go over there. reporter: roger was already talking to detectives and clearly shaken. police were sympathetic, but they knew he had to be carefully scrutinized. what s your first impression of roger reister? he was grasping his son, wouldn t let go of him. and i thought that maybe i saw some fear. he was scared about what had occurred, it seemed to me at the time. reporter: are you looking for anything in roger reister s eyes or his mannerisms or what he s saying? are you immediately sizing him
and triston lost everything. reporter: what hits you the hardest? she was trying to keep her family together. and i don t think she knew what kind of man she was married to. reporter: do you think about your wife s last moments and your unborn child s last moments? how horrific they were? no. i try not to think about that at all. it s not how you really want to do your time in here. reporter: lynn stated in her will that triston should go to her mother if anything happened. roger agreed to send triston to one of lynn s sisters instead. i know he s with a good home. that s probably one of the good things that i did before i got locked up was make sure that he went to that family in particular. he doesn t know anything about me. reporter: we spoke to tristan when he was 19 years old. he said he had a good group of
like that. she would go to get milk out of the refrigerator for triston, and the milk would be gone because rodney had drank it all and didn t bother to replace it. and yeah, it was becoming not a very good relationship. reporter: lynn didn t want him to stay? i think lynn was ready to have her house back. you know, it s very difficult when you have another adult living in the home. i think they talked and they ended up roger ended up telling rodney it was time to go, that you needed to leave. you ve been here long enough. we ve tried to help you. you know, you re not really helping yourself, so you need to go. lynn and i came to that decision together. but it was just one of those things that just had to be done. he held that against her. mine and his relationship continued on. but i could tell he had a little bit of animosity, you know, towards lynn, even after that. reporter: a closer look at rodney showed a young man with a dodgy past. he d done time in florida for crim
lynn was a wonderful person. she had a smile that just lit up the room. reporter: as a military wife, when i heard that roger was enlisted and lynn was an officer, that s a no-no in the military. yeah. back then it wasn t as critical as it became a couple years later. he was a charmer and she [ laughter ] she fell in love. reporter: and they got married. debbie liked the fact that he was an elvis fan. and i was, like, amazed. i was like, really? you re into elvis presley, too? i was kind of surprised by that, yeah. so, yeah. he was a lot of fun. yeah. reporter: roger admired lynn s devotion to her country and her strength. you have to be mentally strong. with the military, especially with the women in the military, you have to be, you know, mentally strong. be able to go toe-to-toe with some of the men. reporter: lynn and roger had chosen a soldier s life, and that meant a marriage full of separations. roger even missed the birth of his son triston. it was unbelieva
pan cre80 cancer. two people remain missing after a wildfire destroyed nearly a thousand homes in boulder county. law enforcement officials announced that one other missing person had been found, quote, alive and well. now back to dateline. it was a lead that would take the lynn reister murder investigation in a new direction. roger reister s brother had mentioned a young woman who had a crush on roger. detectives quickly learned this crush was an open secret around town. we went to the village inn, and i walked in the door and there was roger. reporter: it was about nine months before the murder. lynn s assistant megan had just gotten back from saudi arabia. lynn was still there, with a week and a half to go. roger was sitting in a booth with several other people. i didn t know any of them.