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Seemed to get stranger by the minute. her son on trial for murder. >> i see my scared baby is what i see. i mean, he was scared to death. >> 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 t...

Now another jury would be asked 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 ...

Seemed to get stranger by the minute. her son on trial for murder. >> i see my scared baby is what i see. i mean, he was scared to death. >> 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 t...

Caused her death by drowning? >> no. >> sarah's body dry to the touch, the officers and emts testified. and the bathroom where her husband lifted her soaking body out of the tub was also not wet. >> towels, a rug, magazines, all appeared to be dry. >> the juror would again hear the 911 call that to the prosecution's ears, sounded odd. >> she was face down in the bathtub. >> the message was, my wife's dead and i wasn't around when it happened. >> but unlike the first trial, the defense lawyers asked to take the jurors to the home where ryan and sarah had lived to inspect for themselves the very...

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...