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Conrad truman stood convicted of her murder. he was looking down the barrel of a life sentence when he returned to a utah courtroom to learn his punishment. this is the moment where some convicted killers ask for mercy because of their difficult lives or tell the court they've been misunderstood. and sometimes, of course, they don't speak at all. 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 w...

>> reporter: did heidy's not knowing her father or not knowing who he was, did that make her depressed or sad? >> no, no. >> reporter: the prosecutor pointed out, conrad's story evolved over time. immediately following the shooting on the way to the hospital. conrad insisted heidy would never commit suicide. >> i think something shot her or something. because she would never shoot herself. she'd never shoot herself. >> reporter: taylor argued it was only later after suspicion against conrad had mounted that he changed his tune. as for the gunshot residue on heidy's right hand, taylor called an...

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 who committed suicide, and she thought it was self...

Only where her daughter had been taken. >> i'm driving down to the hospital, and i make a comment to my daughter. i go, you know, autumn, as hard as it is that we lost heidy, we're going to have to be supporting conrad because he must be overwhelmed with grief. >> reporter: conrad's sister colette was thinking the same thing as she raced to the hospital. what kind of condition was your brother in then? >> he was just a total wreck, just absolutely hysterical. didn't know how it could have happened. >> reporter: no one did. but back at the truman home, sergeant crook had started analyzing the e...

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 nose. i needed to call 911 immediately. >> 911, what city is your emergency? >> utah. >> reporter: an unimaginably shocki...