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>> reporter: by then, conrad said he realized heidy had been shot in the head. when you went to heidy, did you see a gun? >> no. >> reporter: he remembered the pop he had heard and wondered if a stray bullet might have come through the bathroom window and hit heidy. >> i was trying to think of the noise and how it wasnt very lou and, you know, maybe someone could have shot something at the house. >> reporter: it seemed farfetched but he said neighborhood vandals had recently been shooting the ba...

>> right away crook went to check one of those theories, a stray bullet perhaps coming through the bathroom window. >> the window was closed but theres no bullet hole. >> nothing to indicate that anybody fired a shot. >> thats correct. >> crook returned to the kitchen, and thats when he discovered a gun lying on the kitchen floor. what did you think had happened? >> honestly, i didnt know. >> was this an accident? an attempted suicide? or something far more sinister? at least for now, those answ...

That september night back in 2012. >> we got a call of a gunshot wound or some sort of injury. >> sergeant bill crook went to the truman home. >> so we all kind of rushed to our cars and headed that direction with lights and sirens. >> on the other end of the phone was conrad, kneeling on his kitchen floor covered in blood and consumed by panic. >> it was devastating. it was a nightmare. you cant even explain it. >> with one hand he held the phone. with the other, his bleeding wife. >> it was so...

Bullet might have come through the bathroom window and hit heidi. >> i was trying to think of the noise, how it wasnt very loud and maybe someone could have shot something at the house. >> it seemed farfetched, but he said neighborhood vandals had recently been shooting the back of his house with paint balls. >> i was utterly confused. >> within minutes sargeant crook arrived. conrad now had moved to the doorway of the home to waive crook down. >> he had blood on his hands and he was screaming a...

>> im asking him, whats going on here? she was in the bathroom. i dont know what happened. everything was different answers, different theories. different little things. >> right away crook went to check one of those theories, a stray bullet perhaps coming through the bathroom window. >> the window ease closed. >> nothing to indicate -- >> he went to the kitchen and he discovered a gun. >> what did you think happened? >> honestly, i didnt know. >> was this an accident, an attempted suicide, or s...

Bathroom window. which at first seemed like an impossible idea. >> each time they used the bathroom, they chipped away at the mortar holding the bricks together blocking the window. then they would replace the loose bricks until one day the hole was big enough and they made a break for it. >> from the moment that i dropped down a out of that bathroom window and hit the sand below, i knew that it was bad. >> they sprinted for a mosque. the one place where they thought theyd be safe. >> right befo...

>> reporter: by then, conrad said he realized heidy had been shot in the head. when you went to heidy, did you see a gun? >> no. >> reporter: he remembered the pop he had heard and wondered if a stray bullet might have come through the bathroom window and hit heidy. >> i was trying to think of the noise and how it wasnt very lou and, you know, maybe someone could have shot something at the house. >> reporter: it seemed farfetched but he said neighborhood vandals had recently been shooting the ba...

Doing? >> hes screaming and hes yelling. >> reporter: and, as these police photos make clear, covered in blood. >> im asking him, like, conrad, whats going on? what happened here? he said, she was in the bathroom, you know, and just, i dont know what happened. everything was just different answers and different theories, different little things. >> reporter: right away crook went to check one of those theories, a stray bullet perhaps coming through the bathroom window. >> the window was closed b...

I felt this was an important part of the story that i could tell, about a dangerous stalking situation. and if theres any information that i could offer up, i wanted to do so. keith morrison: and as she began, it was clear she was here to join the defenses campaign against victim mark stovers character. would you agree that mark stover was dogged in pursuit of his prey? yes, i would. keith morrison: the defense claimed michiel oakes knew linda opdycke had been stalked by her ex-husband. and that...

>> mm-hmm. yes. >> she had just told me that shawn was getting violent. >> he broke into her apartment one night, came in through the bathroom window, threw her head up against the tile floor. >> reporter: brookes family didnt know about any of this. the relationship, the alleged violence. it wasnt until after her death that her family finally learned brookes secret. >> did that just give you chills when you found that -- >> yeah, it was -- >> -- manila envelope? >> it was horrible. >> reporter:...