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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 evidence and was already developing a theory. >> i thought, oh, man,...

>> reporter: as night fell, 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 bleed...

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...

After his wife heidy's death, 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 spe...

Family sitting behind him including sister colette. >> you want to believe that things turn out the way that they're supposed to. and that's just not always the case. >> reporter: in prison conrad did what many do -- he retraced the steps that led him there. and he thought a lot about the night heidy died. as conrad saw it, the police rush to judgment began precisely when officers first rushed through his front door. >> this guy's drinking, there's firearms in the house. so he must have shot her. >> reporter: why couldn't it be exactly that simple? this wouldn't be the first time that mixing a...