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Person. if ryan had forced sarah over the side of the tub, had she tried to brace herself as she was pushed into the water? >> from my experience, those looks like prints that are going in a downward motion. >> how do you fight back? keep your head out of the water? put your hands against the tub, or put your hands on the bottom of the tub? do you grasp at somebody and lose your only hold on life? >> a stark image, a husband pushing his wife's head underwater and holding her there until she drowned. >> this was a drowning. she had been subjected to forcibly holding her threat over some object ...

Start over again. this time a new defense team would take over ryan's case. defense lawyers jay clark and lindsey 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. >> well, he's still innocent until proven guilty, everyone thinks and everyone knows, well, 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 sarah suffer...

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 one scenario explaining a damp head but dry body. >> her head was pushed over the edge of either the...

>> 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...

Energy lives here. >> reporter: sarah widmer had died of drowning in her home. and her body would be examined by the coroner. there was nothing for ryan, her husband of four months, to do but leave the hospital and head home. his mother, jill, took him back to the house in the wee hours. ryan asked me, mom i can't go back in there. can you go in and grab clothes for me. so i want upstairs. when i got to the bedroom. there were a couple pieces of carpet cut out of their carpeting which i thought was odd. >> it hadn't occurred to mother or son that the authorities were