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>> when you have gunshot residue in a location and in a quantity that is absolutely consistent with her firing a semiautomatic weapon, one of the possibilities is that she fired a gun. you cant discount that. >> reporter: the deeper moffat and taliaferro got into the case, the more it seemed to them heidys fatal wound was self-inflicted. they believe the head wound, a contact wound, ruled out homicide. >> a contact gunshot wound to the right temple are the most common site of self-inflicted guns...

His sister colette. but one detail in particular kept gnawing at her. it had to do with the diagrams used by the state depicting the area where heidys body was found. >> i remember thinking, well, thats strange. thats -- that couldnt be right. >> reporter: post-verdict, colette shared her concerns with conrads new attorneys, mark moffat and ann taliaferro. they decided to visit the truman home to see for themselves if the states diagrams were accurate. we later made that same trip with moffat wh...

>> when you have gunshot residue in a location and in a quantity that is absolutely consistent with her firing a semiautomatic weapon, one of the possibilities is that she fired a gun. you cant discount that. >> reporter: the deeper moffat and taliaferro got into the case, the more it seemed to them heidys fatal wound was self-inflicted. they believe the head wound, a contact wound, ruled out homicide. >> a contact gunshot wound to the right temple are the most common site of self-inflicted guns...

His sister colette. but one detail in particular kept gnawing at her. it had to do with the diagrams used by the state depicting the area where heidys body was found. >> i remember thinking, well, thats strange. thats -- that couldnt be right. >> reporter: post-verdict, colette shared her concerns with conrads new attorneys, mark moffat and ann taliaferro. they decided to visit the truman home to see for themselves if the states diagrams were accurate. we later made that same trip with moffat wh...

Question as to whether conrad had washed his hands before they were tested. so those results were meaningless. >> thats probably why they didnt test in first place. >> reporter: as for heidys swabs, there was no residue on her left hand. but there was on her right hand. and significantly, heidy was right-handed. >> when you have gunshot residue in a location and in a quantity that is absolutely consistent with her firing a semiautomatic weapon, one of the possibilities is that she fired a gun. y...

While conrad truman sat in a utah state prison marking time, his sister colette searched endlessly for ways to get him out. was there a time when you or anybody else in your family thought maybe we dont know him as well as we thought we did? >> no. >> reporter: he couldnt have killed her? >> not possible. >> reporter: so much about conrad trumans trial bothered his sister colette. but one detail in particular kept gnawing at her. it had to do with the diagrams used by the state depicting the are...

>> when you have gunshot residue in a location and in a quantity that is absolutely consistent with her firing a semiautomatic weapon, one of the possibilities is that she fired a gun. you cant discount that. >> the deeper moffat and taliaferro got into the case, the more it seemed to them heidys fatal wound was self-inflicted. they believe the head wound, a contact wound, ruled out homicide. >> a contact gunshot wound to the right temple are the most common site of self-inflicted gunshot wound ...

But one detail in particular kept gnawing at her. it had to do with the diagrams used by the state depicting the area where heidys body was found. >> i remember thinking, well, thats strange. thats -- that couldnt be right. >> post-verdict, colette shared her concerns with conrads new attorneys, mark moffat and ann taliaferro. they decided to visit the truman home to see for themselves if the states diagrams were accurate. we later made that same trip with moffat who showed us what they discover...

Conrads hands were negative for residue, but there was a question as to whether conrad had washed his hands before they were tested. so those results were meaningless. >> thats probably why they didnt test in first place. >> reporter: as for heidys swabs, there was no residue on her left hand. but there was on her right hand. and significantly, heidy was right-handed. >> when you have gunshot residue in a location and in a quantity that is absolutely consistent with her firing a semiautomatic we...

With moffat who showed us what they discovered. this is the area in question, and its pretty small. >> it is. its really small. we immediately started measuring, and we knew right away that there was a big problem with their diagrams and the measurements. >> reporter: the problem? all those measurements were off. >> instead of 139 inches, somebody took the figure 139 and interpreted it to be 13.9 feet. 33 inches became 3.3 feet. and on and on and on. >> reporter: according to moffat, those flawe...