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Heidy decided to take a bath. conrad said he went to the kitchen to get something to eat. as he fixed himself a sandwich, he said he heard a noise coming from the direction of the bathroom. >> it was like the new year's poppers or the halloween poppers where you can pull two strings or you can pull one and confetti and stuff comes out. >> reporter: that's when conrad said he turned and saw heidy standing there in the hallway naked. >> she wasn't talking. she wasn't talking at all. she was coughing, she was heaving. >> reporter: and she was bleeding? >> she was bleeding out of her mouth and her...

Conrad arrived, hospital staff delivered the devastating news. heidy wagner truman could not be saved. >> it was pain, it was misery. it was why, how? >> reporter: in a neighboring town heidy's mother janet would soon agonize over those very same questions. it was after midnight when two police officers came to her door. what must that be like? >> the most horrendous thing ever. and i would never want anybody to have to feel that and that pain, that agony of knowing that your daughter, for whatever reason, is dead. is gone. >> reporter: the officers wouldn't give janet any details. only where ...

About their experience with conrad. >> everyone felt his behavior was odd. >> he's yelling, but it's a violent yelling. he's like, if you don't save her, i'm going to [ bleep ] kill you. >> reporter: crook found those threats so alarming, he took out his phone to record them. >> you're gonna [ bleep ] die and everyone in your life is going to die if she dies. >> it could be the way this guy reacts to trauma, but i'm telling you it was a red flag at the time. >> reporter: also a red flag conrad was drunk. he admitted he and heidy had been drinking earlier that night. >> i could see in his eyes,...

But not conrad truman. >> listen to me, please. i can't say sorry for something i did not do. i understood speaking out would make it way worse, that i was like -- i don't know. i was like to hell with this. i need to speak my mind. i didn't kill my wife. there's just no way. if there was proof and i didn't. that's why there is no proof. you know, this is just a big injustice. >> reporter: the judge had heard that before. the sentence he imposed? 16 years to life. crushing for conrad and his family sitting behind him including sister colette. >> you want to believe that things turn out the way...

Thanks to conrad, heidy had firearms experience. can you think of any way it could have been an accident? >> no. heidy wouldn't have been so careless. >> reporter: so what about suicide? >> she's completely naked. we don't see a lot of women that commit suicide naked. that's not common. >> reporter: did you find anybody that heidy had spoken to about suicide or about being depressed? >> no. >> reporter: neither heidy's mother janet nor her sister autumn could imagine heidy even thinking about taking her own life. >> heidy would never do that. in fact, heidy was against that. she had a friend w...