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Detective tom wallace. what went wrong? >> from transposing numbers wrong. >> he admit the error and said it was minor, that conrad truman did not deserve a new trial. . >> did that change anyone's opinion? >> they didn't change my opinion. >> nor did it change the opinion of the deputy d.a. tim taylor, who decided to take on the task of prosecuting coleman once again. >> i wanted fresh eyes. i went through all the evidence. even with the medical examiner changing his opinion, i still felt there was enough to go forward. we knew going into it, it was going to be tough. >> at trial, the prosecu...

Believe that you could be right there with her in a very small area -- >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: -- and she's shot, and you don't know what happened. >> yeah. maybe in their heads. in mine, i was confused. >> reporter: could this be an accident? >> what i say to that is i didn't see. i don't know what happened. >> reporter: that's how he felt just hours after the shooting, but as the months passed, conrad came to the conclusion heidy may have taken her own life. his wife, he said, wasn't as tough as she appeared. was she a sad person? was she a depressed person? >> when she drank a little bit, y...

When officers first rushed through his front door. >> this guy's drinking, there's firearms in the house. so he must have shot her. >> reporter: why couldn't it be exactly that simple? this wouldn't be the first time that mixing alcohol, an argument and a handgun led straight to a prison sentence. conrad told us what he told police. it isn't that simple. sure, he and heidy had been drinking and, yes, they had been arguing, but he said neither was an explanation for what happened. >> i could have upset her with some of the things i've said or the way i acted with not -- being attentive, you kno...

>> reporter: as for the location of the gun itself, that, too, was suspicious. that gun's how far from heidy? >> oh, i would say eight feet, ten feet maybe. it's far enough away that it wasn't a normal if she shoots herself and falls to the ground type of thing. >> reporter: next morning they ask conrad to come to the station for more questioning. >> they can say whatever they want. but i did not hurt my wife. and i know that. bottom of my heart, i did not hurt my wife. >> reporter: heidy's family thought otherwise. after finally learning from police the details of how heidy died. >> the minut...

>> reporter: as you will learn, truer words may never have been spoken. >> what had happened in that house? coming up -- >> i'm asking him, conrad, what's going on? he said, i don't know what happened. everything was just different answers and different theories, different little things. >> a search for answers and a race to save heidy. >> this is not happening. this is really not happening. i really don't understand any of this. this is so crazy. >> when "as night fell" continues. >> when "as night fell" continues.