lynn s. and then i remember lynn telling me that roger had told her that rodney was going around calling her names, you know. calling her vulgar names that she s the reason that he got kicked out, that she s the reason that all these things happened and stuff. reporter: did you see that as a motive? i never thought that that in itself would have been a motive to kill her or that he would have been that angry just because of that to kill her. reporter: why in the world would rodney want lynn dead? i don t think rodney wanted lynn dead. here was a person that was willing to help us in the investigation. and he was very cooperative initially and throughout. reporter: the search for suspects continued. lynn s neighborhood turned up nothing. same with fort bliss. lynn had no enemies there. you couldn t imagine that it could ve happened. it seemed unreal.
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?
closing statements, who is he crying for? referring to you. he said, he s crying for himself. no. i was crying for my wife and my unborn child is what i was crying for. it had nothing to do with me. reporter: why should we believe you? because i didn t do it. because i loved my wife. reporter: he told us he may have been a terrible husband, but he never wanted lynn dead. was life easier without her in the picture? no. absolutely not. that s why we actually got back together. we separated. i was like, okay, well, i ll move back into the barracks. but that s why we got back together. because life wasn t easier without her. life was better with her. always has. reporter: but remember, the prosecution said there was a long list of motives. all right. let s run through the motives of why the prosecution said you wanted your wife dead. first was that you wanted the $250,000 life insurance policy. oh, no. it doesn t make much sense, because lynn was making more
welcome back. detectives investigating the murder of lynn shockner were leaning on nick harvey when he started talking, giving them key details, including the name of the man who hired him to kill. but why would either of these two men want lynn dead? police were about to look at some phone records and discover yet another person who appeared to be involved in this sinister plot. here again is keith morrison. reporter: the plan had been as simple as it was ugly. nick harvey, in exchange for just $5,000 was to kill a long beach housewife named lynn schockner, stage it like a burglary, and then get away clean. instead, nick was in jail, facing murder charges, and detectives were prying apart a conspiracy. nick had already told them he d been hired by a man named
welcome back. detectives investigating the murder of lynn were leaning on nick harvey when he started talking giving them some key details including the name of the man who hired him to kill. but why would either of these two men want lynn dead? police were about to take a look at some phone records and discover yet another person who appeared to be involved in this sinister plot. here again is keith morrison. the plan had been as simple as it was ugly. nick harvey, in exchange for just $5,000, was to kill a long beach housewife named lynn schockner, stage it like a burglary and get away clean. instead, nick was in jail facing murder charges and detectives were prying apart a conspiracy. nick had already told them he d been hired by a man named frank jaramillo, who went by el cubano. he wanted the job done, wanted the burglary staged.