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>> the prosecution's message for the jury was blunt. there had been a violent confrontation in the widmer house that night. >> ryan widmer purposefully 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 just came up here, and she was laying facedown in the bathtub. >> on the stand, the emergency dispatcher testified that the voice on the phone that night was giving more details than normal. >> it seemed that the caller was rather calm. usually i can't get, you k...

>> 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 asleep in the bathtub and drowned. but those emts doing cpr trying everything they could to save her didn't understand one crucial observation they made at the home that night. there is something here that doesn't look right. >> coming up, a drowning in a dry bathroom? >>...

Would call her as soon as she bought it sometimes, telling her did you really need it. why'd you buy it or something? he thought she was spending too much money. >> he was very concerned about her shopping habits? >> correct. there were stresses, things going on in their family. >> but even the prosecutors had to acknowledge this didn't necessarily add up to a clear motive for murder, but they believed there were things happening in the little house that nobody but sarah or ryan knew about. >> anybody who's been married or in a relationship knows that what goes on behind the closed doors of a ...

That perhaps even a medical examiner could never satisfactorily explain but that it wasn't murder? >> coming up, the case goes to court and out comes the evidence. >> it would be virtually impossible for somebody to fall asleep and not wake up. >> and later, ryan widmer speaks out. >> so you think they wanted to make a case? >> why would they arrest me a day after if they didn't want to make a case? >> when the bathtub mystery continues.

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. you know, we're going to find some drugs or evidence of an overdose or something. as he pulled up the victim was already loaded in the back of the back of the ambulance. the arriving police officer was still inside the house. and he gave the detective a fi...