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. Were scared that the truth may not come out. 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 opener against green bay. Sarah, he says, went upstairs to draw a bath in the master. She liked her calming baths. The young dental hygienist had been tormented with more headaches that afternoon. The young couple in the suburban cincinnati home that evening had been married just under four months. 114 days to be exact. They vowed till death do us part. And that moment was only minutes away from arriving. 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. Lets 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 together. She said let me check my book. She gets out her little black book. Shes looking through. He is peeking over looking. He said, later he calls us and tells us there was nothing written in her black book. Reporter a fast track courtship. And before very long. Ryan was bringing his new Girlfriend Home to meet his mom, jill. 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 with ryan and his new girlfriend, sarah. Our family tends to do a lot of barbecues and picnics and things like that. We would spend some time down on the lake in kentucky. They would come down there. Were you please shed was becoming a serious part of the family . I was very pleased, yes. Reporter the couple bought a nice four bedroom house together in a good neighborhood and ryan surprised sarah with an Engagement Ring. The ring in a dog collar. Around the dogs collar. 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 ryan to take ballroom dance lessons for the wedding. I was amazed. Never in a million years. Reporter your son at dance lessons . She could get him to do more things than any woman he had ever dated. Reporter the wedding in april 2008 was a formal affair. The bride was beautiful. Ryans dance came off without a hitch. And the happy brides maids all matched just as sarah wanted. Very beautiful. 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 another day on the calendar in a young marriage . Yes. August 11th, monday night. Ryan remembers being downstairs watching monday night football. And sarah had gone upstairs to her bath. She was in trouble. 911, what is your emergency . My wife, she fell asleep in the bathtub. I think. I went downstairs. I came up. She was laying face down in the bathtub. I got a call it was ryan. 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 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. 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But somethings not right here. Reporter as he rolled to the house he knew some of what to expect. 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 24yearold 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 detective a fill on what he had found when he was led to the master bedroom where the 24yearold woman lay on the carpet off the bath. He felt for a pulse. He assisted with cpr on what he described as a completely dry body with her hair being only damp. Wet head, dry body. Correct. For some one who drowned in a bathtub full of water. Yes. Go ahead and get her out of bathtub and get her on the flat surface. Okay, okay. The 911 dispatcher had been quite clear. He instructed the husband to get his wife out of the bathtub and put her on the floor. Im dropping the phone. The husband went away and came back to say he moved his wife from the tub to the bedroom. Go ahead and get back to cpr. Try cpr. Well be there in a little bit. Reporter the detective wondered along with the emts and arriving officers why a woman who drowned in a bathtub would be mostly dry. He needed to see the scene. What story would it tell him. I start mentally preparing myself based on what they told me. What do i want to see versus what do i see . He headed for the master bathroom. I expected something to be wet. Expected water on the floors or towels or whatever it might be. It is not there. Drydry. There is a small remnant of water, what you might call droplets on the bottom of the tub around the drain. Other than that there is nothing. You got any bath mats. Wet towels on the floor. There is a towel on the floor. A mat on the floor. Everything is dry. Reporter he had a drowning victim that didnt appear to be wet. Someone that supposedly fell asleep in the tub and pitched down in the water. But a bathroom that was dry and undisturbed though presumably the husband had to wrangle her limp body out of the tub as he moved her to the bedroom. Whether its lotions, soap, whatever is on the side they werent knocked off. That bothered me if you are pulling somebody quickly out of the tub. Thats still together. The detective making mental notes. Something was screaming to me something is bad wrong, something bad really, really, really bad has happened here. More so than just a tragic accident where she drowned. The forensic techs arrived and were taking photos. Cutting out sections of the bedroom carpet where the mixture of blood and fluid common in drownings had stained it. What they wondered was there another explanation for the stains. They wanted to get the things to our lab right away to start, start checking out some things. Reporter though it was early hours in an incident. So much would depend on the findings of an autopsy, the detective knew this was not a case that was going to be closed out that night. When i left the house at 2 00 a. M. , i knew i had a suspicious death. Still there were questions how long had sarah been out of the tub . And had she been out of the tub long enough for her body to air dry . It wasnt possible. You know if you are pulling somebody directly out of a tub of water the body has to be wet. No other way around it. Unless a substantial amount of time has passed or were not being told an accurate story of what transpired. Question was it possible for ryan to lift sarah out of the tub without knocking over those bottles that the detective noted were undisturbed . Was it possible for water not to be splashed around as she was moved to the bedroom . And that overriding question what had happened to the young wife in the master bedroom . We knew she had drowned from the scene itself. It was the manner in which she drowned that had raised all the 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. Did she have an aneurysm . Did she have a seizure . Was there something medical behind this mystery . She was complaining of headaches. I was telling her, how long has it been since you have been to the doctor . At humana, we take a personal approach to your health, to provide care thats just as unique as you are. No matter what your name is. The moment you realized youre lucky your backyard is in the back. 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When i got to the bedroom. There were a couple pieces of carpet cut out of their carpeting which i thought was odd. It hadnt occurred to mother or son that the authorities were looking at sarahs death as anything but a tragic explainable incident of some sort. There were a million questions in our mind, did she have an aneurysm, did something medically happen to her . Did she have a seizure . Reporter day light and word was spreading that sarah was gone. Dana and chris, the couple who had fixed the newlywed up could not believe what they were hearing. We had just gotten back from a trip and told her i would call her as soon as we got back and we would get together to dinner. I didnt get a chance. Shocking news. Reporter dana, a nurse, tried to make sense of what had happened to her dear friend. She thought back to her conversations with sarah. She was complaining of headaches, saying what do you think of her medical background . I said, maybe you should get your Blood Pressure checked, i said, you should get a checkup. There was that funny trait sarah used to have that people would kid her about, that she would fall asleep at the drop of a hat. Maybe it was part of an underlying condition that explained her death. Her motherinlaw noticed it when she first got to know sarah. Jill was taking home videos in 2007. 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 snoozing in the car. Friends kidded her about it. She would always fall asleep at the beginning of movies, we would be nudging her, sarah, wake up. With an it so noticeable, you guys joked about it . Even at the dinner table, we would be saying, sarah, dont fall asleep. I would say, sarah, you have narcolepsy. She said, no. Had she fallen asleep and drowned in the tub . Was that possible . Ryan thought so. 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 investigators checked off what they had so far. Hey you a young woman supposedly drowned in the bathtub with a damp head of hair and a dry body. It didnt figure. If youre pulling somebody out of a tub of water, it has to be wet. Theres no way around it. A woman with unexplained broo bruises. And a husband whose story they didnt believe. Ryans story doesnt fit at all. We determined at that point we had a homicide. Sarah murdered. 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. Just two days after his new brides death, a warrant was issued for ryan widmers arrest. By ryans admission, he was the only one in the house. Ryan murdered sarah or hes covering for somebody that did. It didnt seem possible at first glance. A clean cut young couple, whim out a criminal record of any kind, them with no history of arguments, no problems in their marriage. What was the motivate for murder on a monday night . Any boyfriend girlfriend issues here . No evidence of that. Money trouble . Not that we can find. Any anger issues with the guy . No. Youre not getting a negative picture of this couple. No, were not. As unlikely as it may seem, police say theres no other explanation for sarahs death. Ryan is charged with his wifes murder. His family and friends were devastated. Ryan and i were both so broken hearted. I could not have ever conceived, nor could ryan, that they would have had any idea that he would have been the person to hurt her and that it wasnt just a tragic accident. It broke my heart, knowing that he was feeling that grief and fear for his own life too. Is there any moment when you think maybe i dont know the guy . Never. Maybe an instant of something awful happened . He never said anything where he was remotely angry. Even sarahs family was behind ryan. So much so, the two families decided to de