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The prosecutors would have to convince other jury that ryan widmer had killed his wife. it's got to be hugely frustrated, you got a guilty verdict, you've got to do it over again. >> on the other hand, we knew how a jury would react to our evidence. >> on the other side of the choice, the defense has seen your case. >> and we can't change it very much. >> ryan widmer trial, take two. >> imagine ryan at 6 '2". >> a new juror makes a dramatic return to the scene of the drowning. and later, ryan widmer tells his own story. >> did you kill your wife? no, i did not. i couldn't hurt sara emotionally...

After a jury found ryan widmer guilty of murder, only to have the verdict thrown out, it would start over again. this time a new defense team would take over ryan's case. the new lawyers worried that even though they were starting the trial with a clean slate of jurors, the verdict from the first trial would still hang over the accused. >> he's still innocent until proven guilty. everyone thinks and knows he was proven guilty. >> across the courtroom, the prosecution team was the same. it would hammer home the argument that a healthy 24-year-old woman just does not die alone in a bathtub. >> d...

>> finally a woman came in and we said is she gone, and she said, yes. he just dropped down to his knees and was just balling and sobbing, went to the chair. >> sarah whitman, 24 years old, the bride of less than four months was dead. her husband ryan told the emergency services people he thought she'd fallen asleep in the bathroom and drowned. but those emts doing cpr didn't understand one crucial observation they made at the home that night. there's something here that doesn't look right. >> coming up -- a drowning in a dry bathroom? >> i expected something to be wet. there's a towel on the ...

There had been a violent confrontation in the widmer 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. >> on the stand the emergency dispatcher testified that the voice on the phone that night was giving more details than normal. >> it seemed that the caller was rather calm. usually i can't get anything out of them. >> she's in the bat...

Hemorrhage in her neck can be the result of cpr. >> 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 forwar...