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So you felt pretty good leading up to verdict? >> yes. there was enough "there" there beyond a reasonable doubt. >> reporter: conrad was having a much harder time. >> it was really difficult. you know? because why would things work out if they didn't work out the first time? you know what i mean? >> reporter: eight hours later, the verdict. hold up your hands. you're not wearing handcuffs. >> no cuffs. >> reporter: you're not in custody. >> i'm free. >> reporter: that's right. this time conrad truman got the verdict he wanted. not guilty. >> i just kept saying did they say not? >> he grabbed m...

>> conrad also shared with us how he picked the bathroom lock, not, he said, to confront heidy, but just to apologize. >> she just said get out. i was like, okay. so i just let her be. >> as for conrad's behavior after police arrived at his door, he said he had good reason for acting that way. >> i was trying to save my wife. i don't know. does that make sense? i just wanted her to live. >> i get how frantic you must have been. i'm not sure i understand the threatening part of that. and i think that's one of the things that ended up getting you in trouble. >> could be. and i was like, do i hav...

Police? >> no, i absolutely not. i never washed my hands until they said, go wash your hands. >> reporter: conrad's attorneys were working hard to establish reasonable doubt, and the state medical examiner's shifting opinion on heidy's manner of death only helped them. that's your case right there. >> you would think. >> reporter: i mean, if he has reasonable doubt, hard to argue a jury shouldn't. >> exactly. >> reporter: the medical examiner told the jury that in the final analysis, he didn't know the manner of heidy truman's death. >> i finalized the autopsy report with the cause of death as...

Extra." heidy and truman had a bond envied which others. but in one tragic even, a gunshot rang out, and in the blink of an eye, heidy was on the floor clinging to life. conrad's behavior in the minutes and hours that followed would be highly debated for years. detectives would focus on the grieving husband, but were they looking at the wrong man? here's josh mankiewicz. >> they seem so incongruous, the soaring majesty of utah's wasatch mountains, and the story of a beautiful woman, struck down in her youth. it was a lot of things. tragic. crushing. stunning. but was it an accident? or a suici...

>> when you have gunshot residue in a location and in a quantity that is absolutely consistent with her firing a semiautomatic weapon, one of the possibilities is that she fired a gun. you can't discount that. >> the deeper moffat and taliaferro got into the case, the more it seemed to them heidy's fatal wound was self-inflicted. they believe the head wound, a contact wound, ruled out homicide. >> a contact gunshot wound to the right temple are the most common site of self-inflicted gunshot wound that there were. >> moffat and taliaferro decided to take their findings to the m.e. hoping to swa...