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Exactly happened behind those closed doors on crested owl court. the prosecutors would have to convince other jury that ryan widmer had killed his wife. it's got to be hugely frustrating. you got a guilty verdict and 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 coin, the defense has seen your case. >> they certainly have. >> and they can now to counter punch. >> and we can't change it very much. >> ryan widmer trial, take two. coming up -- >> imagine ryan at 6'2" and sarah, 5'1", 5'2", and imagine them actua...

Guilty of murder, only to have the verdict thrown out, it would start all over again. this time, a new defense team would take over ryan's case. defense lawyers jay clark and lindsay gutierrez 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. and it would hammer home the argument that a healthy 24-year-old woman just does not die alone in a bat...

Puzzle. both a confession and a motive. and jay clark, the defense attorney, would now have to worry overtime about the state's new bombshell of a witness. did you guys know what they had up their leave? >> literally no. >> because the new witness feared for her life, saying ryan widmer had threatened her, her identity would not be disclosed to the defense team until the beginning of the trial. and trial three would begin with virtually everyone holding their breath. who was this person and what did she know? >> the mystery witness takes the stand. and what a story she has to tell. coming up -...

And says she was unnerved when he gave her a veiled threat. >> i promised him i would never tell anybody. he said, i hope not, i don't want you to be where sarah is at. >> but she also said she thought the jury, like the first one, would have convicted ryan. and when they didn't, she contacted the authorities after seeing pictures of sarah's mother. >> i saw the sadness and the pain and the hurt in her mom's face, and i'm a mom and i couldn't do that to them anymore. they needed to know the truth. coming up -- >> she came downstairs crying and she's like, he did it. she was scared, actually....

Another stunning development. a new sarah enters ryan's life. coming up -- >> he just was telling me how much he loved sarah and he could never, ever love another woman as much as he loved her. i think i started crying, because i just felt so bad for him. >> do you love ryan? >> i love him. yeah. >> just who is she? later, ryan tells all. >> she's awesome. so loving, caring. there are similarities i see in sarah, my wife, as i see with sarah now. >> you guys kept it secret? >> oh, yeah. because i knew they would try to make it into something negative. >> when "the bathtub mystery" continues. c...