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heidy wagner and conrad truman had a powerful connection. a deep love envied by others. then one fateful night, the young couple was jolted by unforeseen tragedy when heidy was killed by a single john gunshot to the head. in the aftermath, fingers were pointed. but where the aimed at an innocent man? here s josh mankiewicz with as night fell . they seem so in congress. 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 suicide? or a murder? police felt they knew. but as most cops who will tell you, both the evidence and the jury have their own stories to tell. and the answers are not always so clear. certainly, that is true for this story. and quite possibly for the woman at its heart. her name? heidy wagner. as a baby, she was favored. everybody loved her. she could do no wrong. autumn was one of heidy s four sisters. she ....
you just wonder how this could happen. it seems very surreal. a quiet night at home shattered by a gunshot. she came out of the shower and i heard a pop. and there s blood. a young life dying on the floor. she wasn t talking at all. i m asking, what happened here? i was utterly confuse. so many different stories about what might have happened. he said many things that night. maybe someone shot something at the house. at one point he said 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 commit suicide naked. his stories weren t adding up. but something else was it adding up either. a key piece of evidence. we went to the house and we walked in and we think, ha. would in the stake in measurement send an innocent man to prison? or free a guilty one? we thought it was over. we thought this was settled. one suspect, so many stories, only one of them could be t ....
We don t see a lot of women that commit suicide naked. that s not normal. did you find anybody that heidy had spoken to about suicide, or about being depressed? no. 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 she was against that. she had a friend who committed suicide and she thought it was selfish and in her words, dumb. heidy ever tell you she was depressed? no. ever act depressed? no. she was probably one of my happiest, most of the kids. that left wallace with homicide. and it put conrad back in the police crosshairs. wallace decided to speak to the officers first on the scene about their experience with conrad. everyone felt his behavior was odd. he s yelling but it s a violent yelling. he s like, if you don t save her, i m going to (bleep) kill you. crook found those threat so alarming, he took out his phone to require them. you are going to (bleep) d ....
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 have gone, and then followed at that location. it was hard for to wallace believe heidy could have traveled from the bathroom to the top of the stairs, after sustaining such a severe head wound. she would ve followed immediately to the ground. shared wallace his findings with assistant district attorney craig johnson. johnson agreed. everything pointed to conrad. why would conrad want to kill his wife? under the circumstances, i d say the motive was just based on that heat of passion. argument that they were having. alcohol, a fight, and again, that is where we got murder. at the same time, johnson was st ....
later that morning, police ask conrad the to come to the station for more questioning. they can say whatever they want, i did not hurt my wife. and i know that. bottom of my heart, i did not hurt my wife. heidy s family thought otherwise. after finally learning from the police the details of how heidy died. the minute i heard how she died, i knew he did it. it sounds like he had it to her and he is very intoxicated. and he did something that perhaps he didn t plan? i just knew he did it. detective wallace next poured over conrad s statements to police about what happened that night. as wallace saw it, conrad s 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, leading. ....