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Inconsequential actually ended up freeing him. >> reporter: what's life been like for your family since then? >> we're trying to put the pieces together. >> reporter: for heidy's family, that is easier said than done. >> i miss the things that we had together. i miss the simple conversations. i miss her sassiness. i miss her wonderful personality. she lives on forever in our hearts. >> reporter: conrad is left looking both backward and forward. >> i mean, i'd do anything to take another day, another walk with her. i loved her. and i do love her still. >> reporter: you got a lot of life left, a...

Time? >> and we know that's what you're thinking, too. coming up -- a new trial, a new jury, a different verdict? >> did those incorrectly entered measurements change your opinion of conrad truman's guilt? should they change anyone's opinion? >> they didn't change my opinion. >> there was enough there there beyond a reasonable doubt. >> it was really difficult because why didn't things work out if they didn't work mount the first time, you know? >> when "as night fell" continues. extraction power.

>> 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...

I did not do. i understood speaking out would make it way worse, that i was like -- i don't know. i was like to hell with this. i need to speak my mind. i didn't kill my wife. there's just no way. if there was proof and i didn't. that's why there is no proof. you know, this is just a big injustice. >> the judge had heard that before. the sentence he imposed? 16 years to life. crushing for conrad and his family sitting behind him including sister colette. >> you want to believe that things turn out the way that they're supposed to. and that's just not always the case. >> in prison conrad did wh...

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 ...