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His sister colette. but one detail in particular kept gnawing at her. it had to do with the diagrams used by the state depicting the area where heidy's body was found. >> i remember thinking, well, that's strange. that's -- that couldn't be right. >> reporter: post-verdict, colette shared her concerns with conrad's new attorneys, mark moffat and ann taliaferro. they decided to visit the truman home to see for themselves if the state's diagrams were accurate. we later made that same trip with moffat who showed us what they discovered. this is the area in question, and it's pretty small. >> it i...

>> reporter: according to sandi, those things had to do with heidy's upbringing. most significantly, heidy grew up not knowing the identity of her father. >> that really bothered her. you know, she did not know her dad. and she had always wanted that. >> it bugged her tremendously. >> reporter: enough to take her own life? had she ever attempted suicide before? >> never to my knowledge, no. >> reporter: she never talked about it. >> no. >> reporter: it's very hard to believe that what was going on in heidy's life at the time, what seemed like a pretty happy marriage to you, she's going to spur...

Hit heidy. >> i was trying to think of the noise and how it wasn't very loud and, you know, maybe someone could have shot something at the house. >> reporter: it seemed farfetched but he said neighborhood vandals had recently been shooting the back of his house with paint balls. >> i was utterly confused. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: conrad led the sergeant through the front door, up the stairs, and then into a scene straig...

Gunshot residue tests, conrad's lawyers were ready to argue that heidi took her own life. but a witness who knew her as long as anyone would tell a different tale, with at conclusion of our story, here's josh mankiewicz. >> conrad had been convicted of murder and served more than three years. now the revelation of the flawed police measurements led to his new trial. that stunned everyone in the utah county danc y d.a.'s offi. >> the defense said you had to have known. >> well, that's their take and they're doing their job to zealously represent their client. >> just as stunned was the man who ...

Story went like this -- conrad was in the kitchen. heidy was 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 bleeding. >> and he either runs over and catches her or she falls down. >> reporter: wallace then went back to the truman home, making 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's at the top of the staircase. it doesn't add up that she would have traveled that distance he said she ha...