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>> but the prosecution's message for the jury was blunt. 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. >> 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 th...

I came up. she was laying face down in the bathtub. >> i got a call it was ryan. something has happened to sarah. >> emts were rushing sarah to the hospital. by then they worked on her for 45 minutes. but hadn't gotten a response. minutes later, jill was with her son waiting anxiously together in a room off emergency. >> finally, a woman came in and then we said is she gone? 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 emer...

>> i got a call it was ryan. something has happened to sarah. >> emts were rushing sarah to the hospital. by then they worked on her for 45 minutes. but hadn't gotten a response. minutes later, jill was with her son waiting anxiously together in a room off emergency. >> finally, a woman came in and then we said is she gone? 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 asle...

To peer inside the mystery of a marriage and decide what happened behind those closed doors. 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. >> i'm goin...

She's got a significant degree of neck hemorrhage. 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 hers...