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probably one of the few white tight ends that's really a brother. >> for six seasons russ frances was a main stay. from 1982 to 1987, he caught passes on the field and caught attention as a free wheeling adrenalin junky. although he had had hobbies and passions that his fellow players questioned, his dedication to the red and gold was exemplified in 1986 when the 49ers squared off against washington and the

secretary of defense, defensive end, dexter manley. >> manley vowed he was going to knock out joe montana. and anybody going after joe montana, bill walsh was going to counsel that guy. >> now, if he hadn't have said it at the beginning of the week, we might not have had all week to think about it. but bill walsh took that as a way to vote mate the players and also to stop the threat. he came up to me and said we're going to put you outside in motion and i took it as a serious assignment and that's what i did three times during the game. it's a full contact sport. he comes up years later and attacks o s accuses him had ofg

someone who paid to keep him out of the game. you say before the game you're going to put one of our players out, you don't think somebody's going to come and hit you. so, that's the way that team hung together and dexter had to pay his dues and he did. and if he just keeps liz mouth shut, but he keeps popping off. and history is going to measure him accordingly. >> dexter was quoted as saying that walsh had had a bounty on his head. he had an answer for the threat of he's going to knock out joe montana. he said dexter didn't get near joe montana that day. bill wulsh, a mentor, our friend and not just for winning championships, but for his elegant way of winning championships. did it with grace, and true leadership. yes, he knocked him out but the

message is swift and painful. both intended and both accomplishing the same goal. no more problem with dexter manley. >> he was a different guy. guys would get together and talk about football or be in the town and a football play, he'd rather be riding his motorcycle or things that were considered to be not conducive to being a football player but they said they could count on me and they had had their back and i had mine. >> the one thing that remains constant is russ can be counted on by those close to him and those that have just made his acquaintance. russ frances once again proved that to be true. on the island of awahoo are

known as the ohana 9er. and they win and lose as one. in march 2015, they lost a dear friend. only to gain another. as russ frances decided to pay his respects to fellow had hawaiian and life-long faithful. >> we wanted to give you a very special presentation. it comes all the way from the heart of john and denise of the 49ers organization. you may have heard of them before. but really, the sudden loss of a dear friend and somebody who was so dear to the 49er faithful and i mean that in a large sense in hawaii and specifically here.

we want you to have this and thank all of you for everything you do for us. >> that was so awesome. jeff was a huge 49er fan and i was a huge honor that the 49ers gave him that jersey. it's totally priceless. >> for him to come out and dedicate tat jersey from the 9ers organization and have him do it, that was special. >> it's touching. very touching. it shows compassion. it's an extension of the 49ers. it's them helping us mourn our loss because to me it's a big loss. >> there have been now a lot of players from hawaii that have played the national football league. that group of fans are faithful to those players. they shake their hand, they walk across the restaurant and thank them for all their hard work on the field. years after they've played.

but the one group that truly stands out in the state of hawaii island to island town to town on the beaches, in the restaurants, in the business boardroom are the san francisco 49ers and it's that love and connection that you know, no matter what happens they're faithful to your cause. they're faithful to you as a friend. they're faithful to you every day of the year, not just every once in a while. don't have to worry about them. don't have to look and check. that's the san francisco 49ers and the rest of the world is paying attention to that, believe me.

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when i think about super bowl ro19 and i remember that ge as if it were 15 minutes ago. going through chaos, if you will and big waves, there was a calm in the center of that super bowl experience for me that bought all of those things together that nothing was going to destroy my harmony in focus on being part of that game. after bill walsh woke me up because i'd fallen asleep in the locker room, i was that calm before the game. he said are you going to be ready to play? i was ready. the reason i was ready because i knew every single player, every

coach and every single san francisco 49er fan that was in that stadium was ready and having been a new england patriot, you better believe i was ready to win a game against don shulau. it could not have been a better game plan, a better execution by the players. my right tackle said to me two minutes left. how does it feel to win your first super bowl. i said it's 2:00 left. i knew nothing was going to happen but i wasn't going to slow down at all, nor was anybody else. >> 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, she's the reason he got kicked out and the reason all

these things happened. >> did you see that as a motive? >> i never thought that in itself would have been a motive, he would have been angry just because of that to kill her. >> 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. he was very cooperative initially and throughout. >> the search for suspects continued. lynn's neighborhood turned up nothing, the same with fort bliss. lynn had no enemies there. >> you couldn't have imagined it could have happened. it seemed unreal, an army commander being murdered. >> then one name cropped up. rodney mentioned it to police. >> we asked him who else would have wanted to do this to lynn? did she have any enemies. rodney tells us there's this one girl, her name is april and this girl has a crush on my brother.

so he mentions her. that's important. coming up, crush? this was way more than that. >> i was kind of playing detective for her. >> a bold confrontation with the other woman. >> we knock on the door and she opens it. i said, my understanding is you're pregnant. tomorrow.

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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. >> it was about nine months before the murder. lynn's assistant, megan, had just gotten back from saudi arabia and lynn was still there with a week and half to go. >> roger was sitting in a booth with several other people. 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 who i was, because, you know, we knew each

other. he stopped and he gave me a hug and i didn't know you were back. well, i am. >> the young woman's name was april. she was 19 years old. >> what exactly was going on between roger and this young lady? they looked like a couple? >> they did. >> megan decided it wasn't her place to tell lynn. but over in saudi arabia, lynn knew something was up. roger never seemed to answer the phone. >> hey, roger, it's lynn again. i don't know where you're at. i'll try -- i'm trying to get ahold of you for 24 hours. >> word traveled halfway around the world roger had been having parties at their home drinking with people as young as 18, acting like a teenager himself. lynn left him this voice mail. before she got home her flight to texas. you need to stop hanging out

with these guys. i've never let you down, roger. >> april was in the bar that night. yes. >> how was he acting around april? >> they were in the bar and doing flips and turns and things he never danced with lynn. >> he's doing this in front of lynn?

>> oh, yes. oh yes. she was so angry and what made it worse was he was so disrespectful. she'd start talking to him and every time she started walking towards him he'd go away. >> sounds like lynn was trying to be the grownup and roger reverted back to the good old days. >> oh, yeah. yeah, yeah. >> detectives noted that night at the country bar ended badly and a messy argument broke out between roger and lynn and roger moved to the barracks. after that, lynn asked her for help. >> i was playing detective. i was outside the barracks and april ended up coming there and hanging out at the barracks. >> this wasn't just a crush, this was a full on affair. then it got worse, lynn heard a rumor april was pregnant with roger's baby. >> i told her, i said, i know where april lives. i said, lynn, why don't we go over there?

why don't we go talk with april. >> that's gutsy. >> yeah. well, we were older. i knew lynn wasn't going to lose it. >> what was it like when you knock on the door. >> we knock on the door and she opens it. a little bit surprised. and like i said, lynn was very nice. and we started to talk to her about the relationship and she said, yes, it was over now and lynn was back and then she said, i understand that you are pregnant. >> april denied she was pregnant insisting the affair was over. >> you both left april's not really knowing for sure if she was or wasn't pregnant? >> if it -- yeah, 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 roger come home.

>> did lynn still want to make things work with roger despite this bombshell? why? >> i think probably because of tristan. i think it was important to lynn her family stay together and tristan be raised with a mother and father and she would work it out. >> they were working on things. >> she was, yes. >> marriage counseling? >> they did try marriage counseling, yes. >> they moved back in together? >> yes. >> police heard after roger reconciled with lynn her car was vandalized. april was never charged but at the time lynn and roger told police they thought she did it. >> this is very complex, this april situation? >> yes. >> the police had to put this woman scorned on the list of possible suspects. >> roger had pushed april aside to the point he was telling everybody, that's not -- denying that was his baby april was carrying.

>> you want to get a woman angry that's a pretty good way to do it. >> absolutely. >> as detectives were sorting through this tangled love triangle they got news of a break in the case. the forensic lab came back with something, a trace of the killer on lynn's arm. coming up -- >> this is the smoking gun? ? >> it is. >> a telltale palm print. whose could it be? who was behind this killing. >> d

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saving the environment never sounded so great. a troubled marriage, a doomed fair, a pregnant mistress, detectives did the math and suddenly, april and roger were each look like possible suspects. but then results came in on a clue at the crime scene, a bloody palm print on lynn reister's palm. >> did roger give his palm print. >> roger did. >> was he a match? >> no. >> did april give her palm print? >> are yes. >> was she is a match? >> no. >> she was not a match. then they checked the print of

someone lynn reister once tried to help, her brother-in-law, rodney. >> he was a match and those prints belonged to him in blood on lynn's arm. >> this is the smoking gun? >> it is. >> roger was brought back to police headquarters by detective steve munoz. >> he is a person, nothing phased him, whatever you want, i'll talk to you, i'll give you whatever you need. >> when rodney sat down with detective, he was confronted with the print evidence and he denied everything. >> as we talked to him and broke down those denials, he became very emotional. rodney cried a bunch of times during the interview, and he revealed that he had in fact killed lynn. >> case closed? >> not even close. we had to answer the question of why did rodney kill her? why did rodney get involved in something so heinous and so horrible, so violent? >> detectives continued to press. they never thought the spat between rodney and lynn was a good motive for murder. there had 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? >> yes. >> at this statement? >> absolutely. >> roger was arrested and charged with murder. >> there was such -- this big shock with his friends and their mutual friends because they thought, no, no, because he looked like this perfect husband, perfect father. >> according to rodney, roger suggested, then begged, then bullied him into killing lynn. he offered money. he'd pay off rodney's bills and then some, but mostly he offered love. >> then roger is feeding all these things into his head about she wants to move, she wants to take me away from my friends here, you.

i love you, she wants to separate us. >> 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 this 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. >> 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. >> rodney said the plan was for roger to call him that morning to say his battery was dead. >> was that the signal? >> that was the signal. that's what rodney tells us. when we -- when i went to the house i knew that was the day i was going to have to kill lynn. >> the prosecutor threw the book

at both brothers. >> a decision was made to go ahead and pursue capital murder charges against both roger and rodney reister. >> that could mean the death penalty? >> it could mean the death penalty. >> as the day of roger's trial got closer, rodney's misguided loyalty got the better of him and he refused to testify against his older brother. >> i think rodney had a degree of loyalty and love for his brother such that he couldn't get up on the stand and testify against him. >> so a jury would not hear from the younger brother or see his confession. the prosecution was forced to drop the murder charge against roger. but that was not the end of the case. remember that pack of young people roger was running with? >> many of them were high school kids in that area and many of the people were junior in rank, other soldiers at the base. so roger surrounded himself with people he knew would look up to him. >> but they turned on him after

lynn was killed. one by one, six members of roger's circle told police they knew roger wanted his wife dead because he had talked to them about it. two of them even told police roger had tried to hire them for the murder. >> roger reister basically told anybody who would listen that he wanted his wife dead. >> so the prosecutor charged roger with solicitation for murder and put him on trial for that. one of roger's minion, a young soldier named patrick mueller was a key witness. >> he was granted immunity and gave a statement explaining that he, too, had been solicited by roger to kill lynn reister. >> he asked me if i would kill captain reister, ma'am. >> what did you tell him? >> yes, i would. >> where were you supposed to stab her? >> mentioned something about in the throat so she could not scream. >> mueller said he went to the house one night but chickened out when he spotted a neighbor. another young man testified how

roger tried to hire him. he told me he wanted his wife pretty much killed and x amount of dollars and i said, well, you know, i don't know. >> roger's former mistress, april, now cleared of any suspicion, testified that roger talked to her about tampering with lynn's brakes. lynn's friend, debbie, doesn't understand why one of these young people didn't blow the whistle before lynn was killed. >> i was so angry, because i thought, why didn't one of them mention it to me? why wouldn't that comment not been told to me? because i think if one of them had told me that and i would have went back to lynn with that right away -- >> with all those witnesses, the prosecution thought they had a strong case, but roger reister had plenty to say about those witnesses and about his brother, rodney. >> did you ask your brother, rodney, to kill lynn?

coming up -- >> i loved my wife. we were trying to build a future together. >> roger tells his story. will a jury believe it? >> and his son has a story to tell, too. tristan, lynn's living legacy, all grown up. we'll have your work week

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to take your wife, the mother of your child, and the fact that she was carrying his

unborn child, i don't even have words of how sick, what a monster. >> roger reister didn't look like a monster when he went on trial for criminal solicitation. lots of witnesses said he talked about killing his wife to any who would listen. well, now, 12 jurors were listening. it took them all of three hours to find him guilty. >> when you hear guilty -- my legs went out from underneath me. my lawyers actually had my arms. >> roger was sentenced to life in prison. he spoke to us from behind glass at a texas state prison. >> the prosecutor said in his 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 who i was crying for. it had nothing to do with me. >> why should we believe you? >> because i didn't do it. because i loved my wife. >> 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, i'll move back to the barracks but that is why we got back together because life was not easier without her. it was easier, and it always has. >> 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 want your wife dead, first, you wanted to the $250,000 life insurance policy. >> oh, no. it doesn't make much sense because lynn was making more money than i was, so $250,000, all soldiers have that same amount on them. >> you wanted sole custody of tristan. >> no. lynn and i would have definitely been joint custody, something we talked about when we briefly separated. >> you didn't want to go to a military prison for committing adultery. >> no.

it's been a very long time since anybody was convicted of a felony for adultery in the military. >> he says he still doesn't understand why all his old friends turned on him but he doesn't have a good explanation for why they all would have lied. >> you had a lot of people saying that you wanted to have your wife killed. >> and you would think i would have come up with a really good reason for it for all those people and i haven't. obviously, you know, maybe some of them had their individual motive. >> six people. >> i know. >> that's a lot of people, all lying and ganging up on you. >> i don't know what their reasons are, you'd be surprised what people will say. >> the year after roger's trial, his brother, rodney, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life. roger still says rodney acted alone. >> one of the things that's hard to wrap your head around is that rodney had this love for you. he looked up to you.

and for rodney to turn on you and say that my brother asked me to kill his wife, and i did it out of love for him, why in the world would he make that up? >> maybe to save his own life. i heard that they were trying to give him the death penalty. the only thing he could have done to even save his own life was to say something like that, maybe get a little bit of sympathy as far as why. >> but this was a man who loved you? >> if he had loved me he wouldn't have killed my wife. >> you do seem, though, like you're playing the part of victim a little bit by saying this person made this up, this person made this up, poor me, all these people are lying. >> well, i'm an innocent man sitting in jail, so, yeah, i do kind of feel like a victim, yes. >> he says that he's the victim in this, that all these people lied and now he's behind bars because of the lies. >> all these people lied? hmm. i don't even know what to say to that. >> debbie says lynn's profound

loyalty may have been her undoing, and that lynn would want other people to learn from that. >> sometimes you don't keep fighting to keep that marriage together. that maybe there is a time that it's better just to say, you know, it's over and walk away. >> even now, this case can bring detective chavarria to tears. >> can you explain it? why you have this emotion? can you put it into words? >> it's hard. it's hard. she was pregnant. of course, you have tristan and tristan lost everything. >> what hits you the hardest? >> she was trying to keep her family together. i don't think she knew what kind of man she was married to. >> 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. >> lynn stated in her will that tristan should go to her mother if anything happened. roger agreed to send tristan to one of lynn's sisters instead. >> i know he's at a good home. that's probably one of the good things i did before i got locked up was make sure he went to that family in particular. >> he doesn't know anything about me. >> tristan is now 20 years old. he's getting himself through college. he has a good group of friends but it's been a lonely and difficult road. >> he very clearly doesn't know anything i've gone through, you know. he obviously doesn't understand that most of what i've gone through is because of his decision. >> he keeps saying that you had this great upbringing and that gives him peace essentially but your life was not so easy?

>> it wasn't. it was a very difficult place to grow up in, just in general, the very fact that i lost my parents is one thing that's traumatizing, but then to go live with my aunt who is in effect a stranger to me as a kid, is -- it was a lot. >> still, his difficult life has pointed him in an interesting direction. >> you want to be a crime scene investigator? >> yes, i do. >> is this 100% from your own experience? or is there something else? >> believe it or not, i've always been interested in anatomy and how things work, but i've always wanted to have a bunch of questions answered about my own life, about the situation with my parents, mainly. and that curiosity kind of bled over to other situations. >> me and my mom. >> tristan treasures the baby book his mother made for him.

>> i get bigger and better. >> he loves listening for that audiotape she made for her sister's 16th birthday. >> it's cool hearing her. >> i remember when i was 16. that was the greatest time of my life. and believe it or not, it'll probably be one of the most exciting times of your life, too. >> i sometimes wonder if she would be happy with how my life is going and my decisions or if she'd be proud of me or what not. >> you've overcome the odds, you're in college, you're making something of your life. >> it's not over yet. i have a long way to go. >> how could she not be proud of that. >> i'm sure she is, it's just -- i wish i knew for sure. >> i miss you so much. i miss all of you. i hope you guys miss me a little bit. >> that's all for now. i'm lester holt. thanks for joining us. several parts of the bay area

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