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.
department, making some incorrect measurements, adding up some figures wrong? i do not believe so. i believe they will fully lied to secure a conviction against conrad truman and for these attorneys, there were more issues with the states case. one had to do it gunshot residue tests be defense learned police swab both heidy and conrad s hands, but those swabs were never sent to the lab. when you have gunshot residue that was never tested, those things matter. the defense team decided to test those swabs themselves. conrad s hands were negative for residue. there was a question as to whether conrad had washed his hands before they were tested so those results or meaningless that is probably why they did not test in the first place. as for heidy s swabs, there was no residue on her left hand, but there was on her right hand. and significantly, heidy was right handed when you have
have additional information. before we share that, we want to make sure it s accurate. so that s part of the process that we re working through with the investigation is confirming the accuracy the information which is why we want to be mindful of that as we share information. go ahead. can you confirm what the suspect had on him at the time, a bus backed back a weapon? i cannot, cannot confirm what the suspect had on him at the time. all i can confirm is what he was wearing and had on an on campus in the photograph that we released during the incident. yes sir. can you tell me more about how the suspect was contacted by police? i cannot offer any additional police swab why the police contacted the suspect. what i can say, is with the overwhelming response that we
which they also said was completely consistent with the testimony that heidy would have fallen after only a step or two. she would have gone to the ground immediately your argument is that she did fall down, and she fell right about here? yes, that is exactly what our argument is. according to moffat, this was not a simple mistake. is this just a case of a small thing from the police department, making some incorrect measurements, adding up some figures wrong? i do not believe so. i believe they will fully lied to secure a conviction against conrad truman and for these attorneys, there were more issues with the states case. one had to do it gunshot residue tests be defense learned police swab both heidy and conrad s hands, but those swabs were never sent to the lab. when you have gunshot residue that was never tested, those things matter. the defense team decided to test those swabs themselves. conrad s hands were negative for residue. there was a question as to