wanted so bad to fix it for him, and i understood that this four and a half year old boy will never know how great his mom was, how much she loved him. did your heart go out to this little boy? yes, it still does. but the detectives have to put emotions aside, and drill down to the fact. roger was not home at the time of the murder, and neighbors weren t reporting any suspicious activity. so detectives wanted to know, if anyone held a grudge against lynn, they quickly learned at least one person may have, roger s brother rodney. things started to go south with rodney pretty quickly after there was times where he would lay around all day long. rodney idolized his big brother, but he was something of a disappointment to roger and lynn. well, he wasn t working, he was basically living off us, stuff like that. she would go to get milk out
talked about how and when. he describes roger preparing the weapon, preparing extra close for, rodney to change. ronny said the plan was for roger to call him that morning, to say that his battery was dead. is that the signal? that was the signal. and that s what s ronnie tells us. when i went to the house, i knew that was the day he was going to kill in. the prosecutor threw the book at both brothers. our decision was made to go ahead and sue capital murder charges against both roger and rodney reister,. and that could mean the death penalty? it could. as the daily of the trial got closer, rodney s misguided loyalty got the better of him. he refused to testify against his older brother. i think rodney had a degree of loyalty and love for his older brother, such that he
mentally strong, to be able to go toe to toe with some of the men. ellen and roger had chosen a soldier s life, and that meant a marriage full of separations. roger even miss the birth of his son tristan. it was unbelievable, as soon as i came back i stepped off the bus and she held him and said, this is your son. it was really a great moment, it really was. i just held her and held him at the same time. they see a good? that he was. he would bring him up to visit and, you know, they would play, and he seemed very happy being a dad. when triston was for, the family was stationed at fort bliss in el paso, texas, and it was lin who got called away. lynn found out she had to deploy to saudi arabia. you are going with her?
fact killed her. case closed? not even close. we had to answer the question of why did ronny rodney kill her, why did he get involved in something so heinous and so horrible? so violent.. i detectives continue to press, they never thought the spat between rodney and lynn was a good motive for murder. that to be something else. rodney finally broke down, he admitted there was. he did it because roger asked him to do it. he said big brother roger was behind it all. does everyone s jaws drop at this statement? absolutely. roger was arrested and charged with murder. there was such a big shock with his friends and their mutual friends, because they
anything happened. roger, agreed to centrist into one of the sisters instead. i know is that 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 does know anything about me. we spoke to tristan when it was 19 years old. he said he had a good group of friends but it had been a difficult road. very clearly doesn t know anything of gone through. and ufc doesn t that as or stand that most of would ve gone through is because of his decision. he keeps saying that you had this great upbringing and that gives him peace, essentially but life is not so easy. it wasn t. it was a very difficult place to grow up in. just, general, the very fact that i lost my parents is one thing that has traumatized me. political live with my aunt, who is in effect a stranger to