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