heidy wagner and conrad truman had a powerful connection. a deep love envied by others. then one fateful night, the young couple was jolted by unforeseen tragedy when heidy was killed by a single john gunshot to the head. in the aftermath, fingers were pointed. but where the aimed at an innocent man? here s josh mankiewicz with as night fell . they seem so in congress. the soaring majesty of utah s wasatch mountains and the story of a beautiful woman, struck down in her youth. it was a lot of things. tragic. crushing. stunning. but was it an accident? or a suicide? or a murder? police felt they knew. but as most cops who will tell you, both the evidence and the jury have their own stories to tell. and the answers are not always so clear. certainly, that is true for this story. and quite possibly for the woman at its heart. her name? heidy wagner. as a baby, she was favored. everybody loved her. she could do no wrong. autumn was one of heidy s four sisters. she was ju
you just wonder how this could happen. it seems very surreal. a quiet night at home shattered by a gunshot. she came out of the shower and i heard a pop. and there s blood. a young life dying on the floor. she wasn t talking at all. i m asking, what happened here? i was utterly confuse. so many different stories about what might have happened. he said many things that night. maybe someone shot something at the house. at one point he said it was 80% suicide. police had their own theory. i thought, oh, man, there s something going on here. we don t see a lot of women commit suicide naked. his stories weren t adding up. but something else was it adding up either. a key piece of evidence. we went to the house and we walked in and we think, ha. would in the stake in measurement send an innocent man to prison? or free a guilty one? we thought it was over. we thought this was settled. one suspect, so many stories, only one of them could be true.
heard and wondered if a stray bullet might have come through the bathroom window and hit heidy. i was trying to think of the noise and how it was it very loud. and maybe someone could have shot something at the house. it seemed far fetched. but he said, neighborhood vandals had recently been shooting the back of his house with both. i was utterly confused. within minutes sgt. crook arrived, conrad i now had moved to the director of his home to weigh from down. he had blood on his hands. and he was screaming and shreaking. lead conrad the sergeant through the front door, up the stairs, and then it was a scene straight from a horror movie. i could see heidy laying there. she was naked. blood everywhere. right at the top of the stairs was a horrific scene. what is conrad doing? well, he s screaming and he s yelling. and as as these police photos make clear, covered in blood. i m asking him, conrad what s going on? what s happened here?
bullet might have come through the bathroom window and hit heidy. i was trying to think of the noise and how it was it very loud. and maybe someone could have shot something at the house. it seemed far fitch. but he said, neighborhood vandals had recently been shooting the back of his house with both. i was utterly confused. within minutes sgt. crook arrived, conrad i now had moved to the director of his home to weigh from down. he had blood on his hands. and he was screaming and striking. lead conrad the sergeant through the front door, up the stairs, and then it was a scene straight from a horror movie. i could see heidy laying there. she was naked. blood everywhere. right at the top of the stairs was a horrific scene. what is conrad doing? well, he s screaming and he s yelling. and as as these police photos make clear, covered in
but he said, neighborhood vandals had recently been shooting the back of his house with both. i was utterly confused. within minutes sgt. crook arrived, conrad i now had moved to the director of his home to weigh from down. he had blood on his hands. and he was screaming and striking. lead conrad the sergeant through the front door, up the stairs, and then it was a scene straight from a horror movie. i could see heidy laying there. she was naked. blood everywhere. right at the top of the stairs was a horrific scene. what is conrad doing? well, he s screaming and he s yelling. and as as these police photos make clear, covered in blood. i m asking him, conrad what s going on? what s happened here? he said she was in the bathroom, i don t know what happened. everything was just different answers and different theories. different little things. right away, sgt. crook went to check one of those theories. a stray bullet. perhaps coming through the