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>> this guy's drinking, there's firearms in the house. so he must have shot her. >> 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 know, to her. i know i do that sometimes when i drink. i don't p...

Hold up. >> when you walk in the house, there's no way that there's even 12 feet there. >> 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 entered the home that night. >> which they also said was completely...

>> right away crook went to check one of those theories, a stray bullet perhaps coming through the bathroom window. >> the window was closed but there's no bullet hole. >> nothing to indicate that anybody fired a shot. >> that's correct. >> crook returned to the kitchen, and that's when he discovered a gun lying on the kitchen floor. what did you think had happened? >> honestly, i didn't know. >> was this an accident? an attempted suicide? or something far more sinister? at least for now, those answers would have to wait. heidy was clinging to life. >> my focus at that time was, honestly, was ...

Noise and how it wasn't very loud and, you know, maybe someone could have shot something at the house. >> it seemed farfetched but he said neighborhood vandals had recently been shooting the back of his house with paint balls. >> i was utterly confused. >> within minutes, sergeant crook arrived. conrad by now had moved to the doorway of his home to wave crook down. >> he had blood on his hands and he was screaming and shrieking. >> conrad led the sergeant through the front door, up the stairs, and then into a scene straight from a horror movie. >> i could see heidy laying there. she was naked,...

Making incorrect measurements or adding up some figures wrong? >> i don't believe so. i believe that they willfully lied to secure a conviction against conrad truman. >> and for these attorneys, there were more issues with the state's case. one had to do with gunshot residue tests. the defense learned police swabbed both heidy and conrad's hands, but those swabs were never sent to the lab. >> when you have gunshot residue that was never tested, those things matter. >> the defense team decided to test those swabs themselves. conrad's hands were negative for residue, but there was a question as ...