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Test those swabs themselves. conrad's hands were negative for residue. there was a question as to whether conrad had washed his hands before they were tested so those results or meaningless >> that is probably why they did not test in the first place. >> as for heidy's swabs, there was no residue on her left hand, but there was on her right hand. and significantly, heidy was right handed >> when you have gunshot residue in a look ocean, and in a quantity that is absolutely consistent with firing a semiautomatic weapon, one of the possibilities is that she fired a gun. you cannot discount that....

Story went like this. conrad was in the kitchen, was heidy in the bathroom. at some point, conrad heard a pop and when he turned, he saw heidy standing somewhere between the kitchen and the bathroom hallway, leading. >> and he either runs over to catch her, or she falls down. >> wallace then went back to the truman home, making a detailed measurements of the kitchen and surrounding rooms. he wanted to see if conrad's story checked out. his conclusion, it did not. >> her body is at the top of the staircase. it doesn't add up that she would've traveled the distance that he is saying she would ha...

Answers and different theories, different little things. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: nothing to indicate that anybody fired a shot. >> that's correct. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: was this an accident? an attempted suicide? or something far more sinister? at least for now, those ans...

Welcome back. conrad truman was serving a sentence for the murder of his wife heidy, but he had not given up on himself yet. and neither had his family. they had just hired new lawyers and it was the legal team's first visit to the crime scene that confirmed something conrad's sister suspected. this case could not have added up to murder. here again is josh mankiewicz. >> while conrad truman sat in a utah state prison marking time, his sister colette searched endlessly for ways to get him out. was there a time when you or anybody else in your family thought maybe we don't know him as well as w...

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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: the defense team decided to test those swabs themselves. conrad's hands were negative for residue, but ther...