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Thats why we have 2-hour appointment windows, including nights and weekends. so you can do more of what you love. my name is tito, and im a tech-house manager at comcast. were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. the cincinnati bengals were looking more than decent against green bay. fans across town, like jeff braley, wondered if this could finally be a miracle season for the back-then hapless local franchise of the nfl. but braley didnt get to see all of the game. he was a cop, a d...

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 sleeve? >> literally no. >> reporte >> because the new witness feared for her life, saying that 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 did she know? >> the my...

Court. the prosecutors would have to convince another jury that ryan widmer had killed his wife. its got to be huge little frustrated. you got a guilty verdict and you got to do it again. >> on the other hand, by that point, 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 counterpunch. >> and we cant change it very much. >> ryan widmer trial, take two. coming up -- >> imagine ryan at 6...

Questions. >> but detective braley would have the most questions for the seemingly happily married husband. was it possible there was stress in the marriage that no one knew about? >> i had to rely on the fact in the back of my mind that nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors. >> as police consider foul play, friends and family wonder was there something medical behind this mystery? coming up. >> did she have an aneurysm? did she have a seizure? >> she was complaining of headaches. i told...

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. >> well, hes still innocent until proven guilty. everyone thinks and knows he was proven guilty. >> across the courtroom, the prosecution team was the same. and it would hammer home the ar...

Show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. >> reporter: that monday night the cincinnati bengals were looking more than decent against green bay. fans across town, like jeff braley, wondered if this could finally be a miracle season for the back-then hapless local franchise of the nfl. but braley didnt get...

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 ryan told the emergency services people he thought she had fallen asleep in the bathtub and drowned. but the emts doing cpr tried everything they could to save her. they didnt understand one crucial observation they made at the home that night. there is something here that doesnt look right. >> ...

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 laying face down in the bathtub. >> the emergency dispatcher testified that the voice was giving more details than normal. >> the caller was rather calm. usually i cant get anything out of them. >> shes in the bathtub? >>...

>> as the coroner saw it, the significant bruising on sarahs neck was caused by ryans forceful drowning of her. >> do you have an opinion as to the manner of sarahs death? >> yes. the manner of death was homicide. >> and that took prosecutors into the realm of speculation. what had happened in the bedroom that night if sarah hadnt drowned by herself in the bathtub? this forensic pathologist had one scenario explaining a damp head but dry body. >> her head was pushed over the edge of either the b...

When you are a cop more than a 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 ...