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And she said yes. and he just dropped down to his knees and was just bawling and sobbing into the chair. >> reporter: sarah widmer, 24 years old, the bride of less than four months, was dead. her husband ryan told the emergency services people he thought she had fallen asleep in the bathtub and drowned. but the emts doing cpr tried everything they could to save her. they didn't understand one crucial observation they made at the home that night. there is something here that doesn't look right. >> a drowning in a dry bathroom? >> i expected something to be wet. there's a towel on the floor. the...

House that night. >> ryan widmer purposely killed sarah stewart widmer and murdered her by drowning. >> the prosecutors began with the first moments of the case. ryan's call to 911. >> my wife, she fell asleep in the bathtub, i think. i was downstairs. i came up here and she was laying face down in the bathtub. >> the emergency dispatcher testified that the voice was giving more details than normal. >> the caller was rather calm. usually i can't get anything out of them. >> she's in the bathtub? >> the water is draining right now. i was out there watching tv. she falls asleep in the tub all th...

>> as the coroner saw it, the significant bruising on sarah's neck was caused by ryan's forceful drowning of her. >> do you have an opinion as to the manner of sarah's death? >> yes. the manner of death was homicide. >> and that took prosecutors into the realm of speculation. what had happened in the bedroom that night if sarah hadn't drowned by herself in the bathtub? this forensic pathologist had one scenario explaining a damp head but dry body. >> her head was pushed over the edge of either the bathtub or the sink or the toilet, either forwards or backwards, either into water or under runni...

When you are a cop more than a decade you become familiar with the signs of the drowning like the froth about the victim's nose and mouth. >> your mind starts running immediately about possibilities. they initially tell me i have a 24-year-old drowning victim that died in the tub. i'm thinking that we will find evidence of something. drugs. evidence of an overdose or something. as he pulled up the victim was already loaded in the back of the ambulance. the arriving police officer was still inside the house. and he gave the detective a fill on what he had found when he was led to the master bed...