could this murder had been deliberately. she was murdered. i loved sarah. i would never have hurt her. sarah crying because i felt so bad for her. there is just no chance that he had anything to do with it. three trials, three juries. we are scared that the truth may not come out. 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 writer, ryan said he plop down on the sofa on an august night to chill with the bengals preseason opener against green bay. sarah, he says, went upstairs to draw a bat in the bathroom. she liked her calling baths. the young dental hygienists had been tormented with more of her headaches that afternoon. the young couple in the suburban state in that the home that evening had been married for just under four months. 114 days to be exact. they vowed till dea
with each other. i even told them that they need to stop, i cannot take. it what was really new and stunning was the thing that had been haunting the defense and say first learned about it since the prosecution s mystery witness that would testify that ryan had confessed to the crime. it was a woman named jennifer from iowa. it was the first time that the defense would get a good look at this person who ryan had allegedly confessed to and they were horry she pulled in wearing a suit, decently done hair, normal makeup. how did this woman living 500 miles away living from ryan widmer that came to be starring in the prosecution? roll it turned out that she watched our coverage on dateline of the first trial. that dateline segment aired on september 18th, 2009. after watching the show, she said that ryan an email through the free ryan widmer website, telling him how bad she felt about his plight. i felt sorry for ryan. i asked him what i could do to
did you see any evidence that sarah suffered a seizure to cause her death by drowning? no. zero s body, drive to the touch as officers and emts testified. the bathroom where her husband lifted her soaking wet body out of the top, it was also not what. the child magazine to paid to be dry. the jury would then hear the 9-1-1 call that the prosecution hears, appeared odd. i came up here and shoes lying face down in the bathtub. the message was my wife is dead and i was not around when it happened. but unlike the first trial, the defense lawyers asked the to take the jurors to the hole where ryan inserted had lift to inspect the very bathroom where she had died. the lawyers made a pretrial visit. the first thing we said was, this is small. they wanted the jurors to see for themselves that this was a crime to space and a moderate modest builder home. imagine s ryan at 62 and
home experiments, that the time to air dry influenced my decision. jurors are not supposed to go home and do experiments. in the end, the judge agreed. four months after ryan widmer conviction, evil that the husband would get another trial. the not guilty verdict on the aggravated murder count would remain, so the prosecution could only retry him on the second count of unpremeditated murder. his mother sprang together enough cash to post the 400,000 dollar bond for him. ryan was released from prison, but by then he had already spent five months behind bars. the quest for judge justice can deplete both bank accounts and emotions. how far are you prepared to go in this? i m prepared to go until the day i die, if i have to live on the street in a cardboard box at the end of this, i m going to do whatever i can to get my son out of this. had ryan and his family would end up not at the very brink of financial bankruptcy, but also at the edge of emotional collapse. he said he can
there until she drowned. this was a drowning. she had been subjected to forcibly holding her throat over some object and drowning. but the jury had to wonder what the motivation could be for such an awful crime. sarah s mother who, had initially supported ryan, was now testifying for the prosecution. she said that when she was out shopping with sarah, her daughter seemed to feel that she needed to check everything with ryan, who could see her purchases on her his computer. she d buy something and ryan would call her so she bought it sometimes. telling him did you really need it. he thought he was spending too much money. he was very concerned about her shopping? that s correct. there was still stresses, things they were going on in their family. but even the prosecutors had to acknowledge that this didn t necessarily add up to a clear motive for murder. but they believe there were things happening in the little house that no one but sarah or ryan knew about. anybody who s