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>> did she have an aneurism? did she have a seizure? >> police were baffled. >> i expected something to be wet. i expected there to be water on the floor. >> things were not adding up. >> something was screaming to me, "somethings bad, wrong." >> could this death have been deliberate? >> she was murdered. >> i love sarah. i would never have hurt her. >> i started crying because i just felt so bad for him. >> theres just no chance he had anything to do with it. >> three trials, three juries. >> w...

They had begun the two of them with a blind date at a pub that worked out. sarah, sarah stewart had been fixed up by her friend, dana. dana had an inkling that sarah would hit it off with ryan. >> i came home. i said sarah is amazing. i think their personalities would get along. he said, lets let them go to dipper and see what happens. >> what happened over drinks and nibbles was chemistry. laid back ryan, the college jock, and super organized, who needed everything just so talked about getting ...

Or was something more sinister at play? it would take years of police work and three sensational trials to uncover the stunning truth. heres dennis murphy. >> reporter: sometimes the shades are drawn early in a marriage even for a young couple so in love like newlyweds sarah and ryan. everything in life was still fresh. even at home on your average monday night. after his workday as a sports planner, ryan says he plopped down on the sofa, on an august night to chill with the bengals preseason op...

I mean every detail was planned obviously to a "t" because it was sarah. and she was gorgeous. >> awesome. >> probably the most fun wedding we had ever been to, ever. >> reporter: the newlyweds went to costa rica for their honeymoon and had a great time. then back to cincinnati to begin their journey together as mr. and mrs. ryan widmer. >> they worked really hard. built a beautiful deck. had a trip planned to cancun. they had everything to live for. >> reporter: august 11th should have been ano...

>> she was very excited. he was excited. sarah made him happy. >> reporter: soon the wedding invitations were in the mail. the bridesmaids knew they better snap to. >> she is a planner. she had everything ready to go. wanted to make sure the girls wore the same eye shadow. she gave us makeup kits for the wedding so we all looked the same. >> how was ryan doing? >> just as happy, happier than i have ever seen him with her. >> reporter: it cost sarah a big screen tv to seal the deal. but she got r...

>> i liked her a lot. probably number one thing that struck me the most was how -- beyond her years in maturity she was. >> poised, huh? >> yeah. sarah didnt have a problem telling anyone anything. so if you -- made sarah mad, you knew you made sarah mad. >> as for ryan he never seemed to lose it. >> never seen him upset. he doesnt get mad. >> he is so laid back and easy going, go with the flow. she is so on it organized this is where we have to be? he just says okay. >> jill enjoyed her days wi...

Explained her death. her mother-in-law noticed it when she first got to know sarah. it was christmas 2007 and jill was taken home videos. >> i panned over, theres sarah having a good time. sarah was sound asleep in the family room. there were 15 or 20 people in the room, laughing, talking, kids running around, and sarah went to sleep. >> sarah asleep at the dinner table. snoozing in the car. friends kidded her about it. >> she would always fall asleep at the beginning of movies, we would be nudg...

And the authorities believed her husband ryan did it. how shocking is that to you? >> oh, i cant even tell you. >> they charge ryan with murder. >> i mean, youve got to be kidding me. like why would they think -- why? and i cant even tell you what that was like. so on top of losing this beautiful member of our family, he didnt even get a chance to grieve because now were scared to death and hes scared to death that hes going to be charged with murder. >> and that is exactly what would happen. ju...

Examiner couldnt satisfactorily explain, but that it was murder? coming up -- the case goes to court and out comes the evidence. >> it would be virtually impossible for somebody to fall asleep and not wake up. >> and later, ryan speaks out at last. so you think they wanted to make a case here? >> why would they arrest me a day after if they didnt want to make a case? >> when the bathtub mystery continues. what?! im here to steal your car because, well, thats my job. what? what?? what?! (laughi...

He said as much to the 911 dispatcher. >> my wife fell asleep in the bathtub, i think shes dead. >> but all the observations about sarah was just anecdotal information, not the stuff of real medical investigation. the medical examiner would have the first real results about sarahs death. what was he finding? >> no evidence of stroke, no evidence of a heart attack. >> but the medical examiner had discovered something else. bruising to sarahs head and neck. what had caused those injuries? the inve...