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that was very odd. >> something else was odd. roger had been calling lynn at home throughout the day. no answer. late that afternoon, he came home from work with tristan, and it was all too clear why lynn hadn't answered the phone. >> 9-1-1. >> oh, i just got home. my wife is dead. >> lynn armstrong reister, mother, soldier, beloved commander, was in her bedroom, lying dead in a pool of blood. >> coming up, where will investigators start? >> it could be a neighboring, it could be --, could be anybody. >> we have a killer on the loose. >> yes, he's out there. >> when dateline continues. roger reister, and his little but with my moderate- to-severe eczema, it can be tough. my skin was so uncomfortable. the itching was so bad.
back. and i finally said, but my understanding is your pregnant. >> april denied she was pregnant, insisting the affair was over. >> so, you both left april's not really knowing for sure if she was or wasn't pregnant? >> yeah, but then, of course, later we found out that she was actually pregnant. >> and telling people the father was roger. a lot of women would have cashed in the marriage at this point, but not lynn. she let rage roger come home. >> does lynn still want to make things work with roger despite this bombshell? >> she does. >> why? >> i think, probably because of triston. i think that it was important to lynn that her family stay together, and that triston be raised with a mother and father, and that she would work it out. >> and they were working on things. >> she was, yes. >> marriage counseling? >> they did try marriage, counseling yes. >> then move back in together? >> yes.
might have disciplined, or sex offenders in the area. >> you had a wide net you needed to throw out? >> it was a wide investigation at the time, yes. >> and the numbers were very scared. they thought, who did this? >> in those first few hours, the leads would poor in. police had to move fast. len had inspired loyalty in her life, now in death the detectives could not let her down. >> on base, a giant military family is hit hard by murder, but in lynn's own family, -- had there been signs of trouble? >> coming up. >> an army commander being murdered was unheard of. >> a lot of names going around, calling her names, vulgar names. >> you have a little bit of animosity towards lynn. >> when dateline, continues. to manage diabetes.
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
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
there was roger. >> 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, that i didn't know any of them. as well as a young lady. and they were cuddled up, and roger had a look of sheer terror on his face, when he saw me walk in, and realized why was. because, we knew each other. he stopped and he came in a hug, instead i didn't know you are back. >> a, a lamb. >> the young woman's name was april, she was 19 years old. >> what exactly was going on and with between roger and this young lady? they look like a couple? >> they did. meghan decided it wasn't her place to tell in. over in saudi arabia, lynn knew something was up. roger never seem to answer the phone. >> he, roger it's limb again. i don't know where you're at, i've been trying to get a hold of you for over 24 hours. >> word had traveled halfway
globe-trotting army captain made a decision. she put in for a transfer to teach rotc in minnesota. good for her career, good for her family, and no travel. >> was she doing it all to be with triston more? was that part of it? >> yeah, that would be part of it. yes, she wanted it to be more relaxing. >> she was going to be a teacher, it was something that she was really looking forward to. >> just days before moving time, lynn was saying goodbye to fort bliss. >> lynn was having a going away party? >> anytime a commander resigns of command, the unit will put together and by her a going away gift. usually a plaque, or something to commemorate the accomplishments of the unit. >> meghan didn't go, but her husband did. >> my husband came home, and i asked how it went. you know, to see like gift? and he said, you know, she never showed. and
there was no sign that this was a burglary or a robbery. but, once we did the walk through, and looked at it, and without the help of roger. he was explaining what he'd seen when he went in. >> with police and neighbors converging on the scene, the news got out quickly. linda's friend debbie moore, couldn't believe it. >> my husband and i were watching tv, and he was flipping through the channels on the remote control, and the channel flip by, and it was her house, and i yelled and said, wait, wait. and so you flip it back, and about that time it came up that a woman had been found murdered in her home. >> 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, said we have to go over there, i have to go over >> there. 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? >> he was grasping his son, he would not let go of, him and i
candidate for the army? >> she was, in my opinion. she didn't let stress get her too much. i think she was probably one of the best commanders i ever worked under. >> lynn grew up with a brother and two younger sisters in the military town of pensacola, florida. while she was away at school, she sent her sister some advice on tape for her 16th birthday. >> don't argue, avoid arguments just be happy. don't let anybody spoil that for you, and you will find it in your heart. anyway, i hope that helps. >> she graduated, with an officers commission from norwich university in vermont, one of the oldest military colleges in the country, and then began the globe-trotting life of a soldier. >> i met lin over in germany. debbie and lynn were both stationed over there, they met at a birthday party through mutual friends. >> i snapped a picture of the four them sitting at the table. >> young women, serving their country, savoring alive overseas. and being surrounded by guys in uniform, sometimes love entered the picture. it certainly did for lynn. >> how did lin and roger meet?