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What happened here? >> i was utterly confused. >> so many different stories about what might have happened. >> he said many things that night. >> maybe someone could have shot something at the house. >> at one point he said that it was 80% suicide. >> police had their own theory. >> i thought, oh, man, there's something going on here. >> we don't see a lot of women that commit suicide naked. >> conrad's stories were not adding up. >> but something else wasn't adding up either. a key piece of evidence. >> we went to the house, and we walked in and we think, a-ha! >> would a mistaken measurement...

So you felt pretty good? >> yes. there was enough there there. >> conrad was having a difficult time. eight hours later, no verdict. >> hold up your hands. you're not wearing handcuffs. you're not in custody. >> i'm free. >> this time he got the verdict he wanted, not guilty. >> conrad kept saying "did they say not? did they say not?" >> he grabbed my arm and said are you sure? >> i was giggling and crying at the same time. it was weird. >> on the other side of the aisle, tears of a different kind. >> i was in shock. my heart sank.

Proof enough that the prosecution's argument didn't hold up. >> when you walk in the house, there's no way that there's even 12 feet there. >> reporter: what's more, according to the defense team, conrad never told the police heidy shot herself in the bathroom. instead he told them he had no idea where she was when he heard the shot. tell me your theory of what happened here. >> we believe that heidy truman shot herself in this very area, and we believe that she fell right in the area directly in front of me on the ground, and that's the very area where she was found when law enforcement enter...

Thanks to conrad, heidy had firearms experience. can you think of any way it could have been an accident? >> no. heidy wouldn't have been so careless. >> reporter: so what about suicide? >> she's completely naked. we don't see a lot of women that commit suicide naked. that's not common. >> reporter: did you find anybody that heidy had spoken to about suicide or about being depressed? >> no. >> reporter: neither heidy's mother janet nor her sister autumn could imagine heidy even thinking about taking her own life. >> heidy would never do that. in fact, heidy was against that. she had a friend w...

Gunshot residue on him. >> conrad's attorneys were working hard to establish reasonable doubt. >> that's your case right there. >> you would think. >> i mean, if he has reasonable doubt, hard to argue a jury shouldn't. >> exactly. >> the medical examiner told the jury in the final analysis he didn't know the manner of heidi truman's death. >> i finalized the autopsy report with the cause of death as a gunshot wound and manner of death as could not be determined. >> the m.e. also testified how in his experience, a contact wound like heidi's is rare in homicide cases. >> after 15 days of testimo...