INSTEAD of filing for divorce, cowardly Larry Hoagland tried to get out of his marriage by duct-taping a pipe bomb under his wife’s pickup truck!
Then, using a cell phone rigged to detonate the bomb, Larry dialed the number 18 times. But the bomb never went off – it was a dud.
Undeterred, Larry then tried to poison her coffee, but that didn’t work either.
Finally, lowly Larry rigged another pipe bomb – and this one did explode, leaving 54-year-old Connie Hoagland lying in a pool of blood outside the San Diego residential child care center where she worked. Her feet and lower legs had been shattered in the horrific blast.
The mother of three struggled to survive, enduring seven grueling surgeries – including one in which they inserted a titanium rod into her leg – and 35 days in the hospital. At one point, she nearly lost her life after suffering an embolism.