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Exactly happened behind those closed doors on crested owl court. the prosecutors would have to convince other jury that ryan widmer had killed his wife. its got to be hugely frustrating. you got a guilty verdict and youve got to do it over again. >> on the other hand, we knew how a jury would react to our evidence. >> on the other side of the coin, the defense has seen your case. >> they certainly have. >> and they can now to counter punch. >> and we cant change it very much. >> ryan widmer tria...

Guilty of murder, only to have the verdict thrown out, it would start all over again. this time, a new defense team would take over ryans case. defense lawyers jay clark and lindsay gutierrez worried that even though they were starting the trial with a clean slate of jurors, the verdict from the first trial would still hang over the accused. >> hes still innocent until proven guilty. everyone thinks and knows he was proven guilty. >> across the courtroom, the prosecution team was the same. and i...

Puzzle. both a confession and a motive. and jay clark, the defense attorney, would now have to worry overtime about the states new bombshell of a witness. did you guys know what they had up their leave? >> literally no. >> because the new witness feared for her life, saying ryan widmer had threatened her, her identity would not be disclosed to the defense team until the beginning of the trial. and trial three would begin with virtually everyone holding their breath. who was this person and what ...

And says she was unnerved when he gave her a veiled threat. >> i promised him i would never tell anybody. he said, i hope not, i dont want you to be where sarah is at. >> but she also said she thought the jury, like the first one, would have convicted ryan. and when they didnt, she contacted the authorities after seeing pictures of sarahs mother. >> i saw the sadness and the pain and the hurt in her moms face, and im a mom and i couldnt do that to them anymore. they needed to know the truth. c...

Another stunning development. a new sarah enters ryans life. coming up -- >> he just was telling me how much he loved sarah and he could never, ever love another woman as much as he loved her. i think i started crying, because i just felt so bad for him. >> do you love ryan? >> i love him. yeah. >> just who is she? later, ryan tells all. >> shes awesome. so loving, caring. there are similarities i see in sarah, my wife, as i see with sarah now. >> you guys kept it secret? >> oh, yeah. because i ...

Decade you become familiar with the signs of the drowning like the froth about the victims nose and mouth. >> your mind starts running immediately about possibilities. they initially tell me i have a 24-year-old drowning victim that died in the tub. im thinking that we will find evidence of something. drugs. evidence of an overdose or something. as he pulled up the victim was already loaded in the back of the ambulance. the arriving police officer was still inside the house. and he gave the dete...

24-year-old woman just does not die alone in a bathtub. >> did you see any evidence that sarah suffered a seizure that caused her death by drowning? >> no. >> sarahs body dry to the touch, the officers and emts testified. and the bathroom where her husband lifted her soaking body out of the tub was also not wet. >> towels, a rug, magazines, all appeared to be dry. >> the juror would again hear the 911 call that to the prosecutions ears, sounded odd. >> she was face down in the bathtub. >> the me...

Something has happened to sarah. >> emts were rushing sarah to the hospital. by then they worked on her for 45 minutes. but hadnt gotten a response. minutes later, jill was with her son waiting anxiously together in a room off emergency. >> finally, a woman came in and then we said is she gone? and she said yes. and he just dropped down to his knees and was just bawling and sobbing into the chair. >> reporter: sarah widmer, 24 years old, the bride of less than four months, was dead. her husband ...

Convince other jury that ryan widmer had killed his wife. its got to be hugely frustrated, you got a guilty verdict, youve got to do it over again. >> on the other hand, we knew how a jury would react to our evidence. >> on the other side of the choice, the defense has seen your case. >> and we cant change it very much. >> ryan widmer trial, take two. a new jury makes a dramatic return to the scene of the drowning. and later, ryan widmer tells his own story. >> im going to fight this until its m...

Minute. her son on trial for murder. >> i see my scared baby is what i see. i mean, he was scared to death. >> but the prosecutions message for the jury was blunt. there had been a violent confrontation in the widmer house that night. >> ryan widmer purposely killed sarah stewart widmer and murdered her by drowning. >> the prosecutors began with the first moments of the case. ryans call to 911. >> my wife, she fell asleep in the bathtub, i think. i was downstairs. i came up here and she was layi...