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Mom. ♪ >> reporter: that monday night the cincinnati bengals were looking more than decent against green bay. fans across town, like jeff braley, wondered if this could finally be a miracle season for the back-then hapless local franchise of the nfl. but braley didn't get to see all of the game. he was a cop, a detective. and you don't get to pick your down time. >> i was at home watching the bengals game. i get a call from the sergeant. "lieutenant, we're out on a drowning. the paramedics are working on her. but something's not right here." >> reporter: as he rolled to the house he knew som...

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. >> did you see any evidence that sa...

Expect. 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 ma...

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. a new jury makes a dramatic return to the scene of the drowning. and later, ryan widmer tells his own story.

She's undergone significant cpr. however there is no hemorrhage anywhere in the area of the chest. so it's difficult to try to rationalize that the 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 o...