Find the defendant ryan k. Widmer is not guilty. A moment of relief for ryan. The jury did not believe he killed his wife with premeditation. But he still faced the second count of murder. We the jury in this case find the defendant is guilty. Guilty. The jury had decided that ryan widmer did indeed murder his wife sarah. Is there anything you wish to say . The accused, now the convicted, would kiss his wedding ring and address the court for the first time. He hadnt taken the stand, as was his right. Cies love my wife. I did not hurt her. I was never given a chance. The day after she passes away they charged me with murder. If i had an answer, i would give the answer to what happened to her. But i cant. I was not in the bathroom with her. He was very upset. He doubled over when addressing the court. I was surprised that he was at outspoken as he was. But he indicated to the judge and everybody that he loves sarah and he would never have hurt her. I love my wife and i did not hurt her. Ryan widmer was given the mandatory sentence, 15 years to life in prison. He was cuffed and moved to a holding cell. He stopped next to me and said, can i say goodbye to my mom . They said, no, just keep moving. How difficult was that . Beyond difficult. Dana, who had set up her friend with her college roommate, was devastated. She wasnt murdered. One of my best friends. There isnt a whisper of doubt that said my best friend may have been murdered . No. Ryans attorney took the loss personally. It was awful. This was on my shoulders. It was my duty to my client to get a proper verdict. And i failed. As ryan widmer got processed into the ohio prison system, it wasnt the end of the bathtub murder case. The fax machine in the defense Lawyers Office began to spit out other shocking information. The case of ryan widmer was far, far from over. As we speak, it isnt the end of things. Thats correct. Something amiss in the jury room. Two of three of the female jurors had done home experiments where they had showered and air dried. Home experiments . What was that all about . Ryan widmer was about to get a break. Everyone knows you only get the best deal on hotwire if you book on tuesdays. And wednesdays. Through mondays. Dont forget birthdays, doomsdays, michael farradays, yesterdays. Karls birthdays. Discover card. Hey. What can you tell me about your new Social Security alerts . Oh well alert you if we find your Social Security number on any one of thousands of risky sites, so youll be in the know. Ooh. Sushi. Ugh. Being in the know is a good thing. Sign up online for free. Discover Social Security alerts. When you dont get enough sleep, and your body aches, youre not yourself. Tylenol® pm relieves pain and helps you fall fast asleep and stay asleep. We give you a better night, youre a better you all day. And for your daytime pain relief, try tylenol® extra strength. Our grace will lead us all my impression was that the community was stunned by the verdict. Amazing grace the verdict was so unpopular in the court of Public Opinion that candlelight vigils were staged to protest the jury vote. There has never been a case where hundreds of americans come out of their homes carrying candlelights to listen to prayers about a condemned, convicted killer. Its never happened before. Talk Radio Host Bill cunningham, a lawyer by training, regards himself as a hang em high conservative. But even he felt this was a case of justice denied. Judging this case against a hundred other murder trials, this is one of the flimsiest and one of the weakest ive ever seen. My name is mike, im the creator of the website. Someone out there following the trial was mike, a young newlywed himself and a web page designer. Even though he never met ryan, he so believed in his enowe sense that he launched a free ryan widmer website. The goal is for him to get a new trial. If he doesnt get a new trial, i believe its going to outrage a lot of people. Angry citizens, taxpayers, voters. Even though the trial was over, the prosecution hadnt entirely called it quiltts. They spoke of things the judge had not allowed the jury to hear. Before she died, they say ryan had visited the website of an organization that bills itself as the Worlds Largest site for swingers. If they were such a happy couple, why was somebody on the computer surfing for a hookup . The judge had on the part of the allowed the web surfing or other pornography they found on his computer to be introduced as evidence since there was no way to know if sarah knew about it. But was it a sign, as the detective thought, that their marriage was not has anticipate as friends and family believed . My understanding that some of these sites supposedly that he visited ended up being popups on a computer. Im not the most computer literate person, but i dont think the full story was told there either. And i dont understand, if they got the verdict they want, why they have to continue to attack my son and my family. And ryans mother said if the couple had fought over anything, the family would have known. Sarah, always outspoken, wasnt the type to suffer in silence. Sarah told everybody, shes a chatty person, she had just been with her family for an entire weekend without ryan being there. If there were any problems, believe me, they all would have known it and i probably would have known it because sarah probably would have called and yelled at me about something that my son was doing that wasnt nice to her. But none of that mattered now. The jury had spoken and the defense lawyer still couldnt get over the guilty verdict. Ryan had become more than a client to him. I absolutely believed him. I had him to my home, i had him around my wife and kids. There was no question in my mind he was innocent. Innocent. He did what lawyers often do after losing a case. He wrote a motion to have the judge let ryan go free or order a new trial. A long shot. Ryan was in prison and would likely stay there. Its been a roller coaster lie ride. I cant let my hopes get up. He may be in prison 15 years. He may be. The appeals process can take forever. The day after the attorney filed his motion, his fax machine started humming. It was a letter from a juror. He was having problems living with himself. He said it was a moral dilemma to let it go without bringing it to somebodys attention. The juror claimed there had been forbidden Monkey Business during deliberations, over nothing less than the Biggest Issue in the trial. Damp head, dry body. He said that two or three of the female jurors had done home experiments where they had showered and air dried. They were testing out this theory of how quickly the body dries coming out of the tub or shower . Yes. At home . At home. If the faxing juror was correct, the panel had directly violated the judges instructions to consider only what they had heard in court. The allegation was jury misconduct, a serious matter. This attorney runs the ohio innocence project. He saw the juror letter as a way to persuade the judge to grant ryan a new trial. Its unusual for a juror to come forward and say the jurors performed experiments and brought that into the deliberations. The judge began reviewing affidavits from the jurors about just what went on during the deliberations. In one of those sworn statements, a juror said of those taboo home experiments, the times to air dry influenced my decision. Jurors are not supposed to go home and do experiments. In the end, the judge agreed. Four months after ryan widmers conviction, he ruled that the husband would get another trial. The not guilty verdict on the aggravated murder count, however, would remain. So the prosecution could only retry him on the second count of un premeditapremeditated murder. His mother scraped together enough cash to post the 400,000 bond for him. Ryan was released from prison. By then he had already spent five months behind bars. The quest for justice can delete Bank Accounts and emotions. Yes. How far are you prepared to go . Im prepared to go to the day i die, if i have to live on the street in a Cardboard Box at the end of this, ill do what it takes to get my son out of this. Ryan and his family ended up not only at the brink of financial bankruptcy but also at the edge of emotional collapse. He says he cant sleep. He says he sees her when he closes his eyes. He misses her. He still wears his wedding ring. Everything was spiraling downward for ryan. He lost his job after the guilty verdict and was left to do odd jobs. The house he and sarah bought together went into foreclosure. Now another jury would be asked to peer inside the mystery of a marriage and decide what happened behind those closed doors. The prosecutors would have to convince other jury that ryan widmer had killed his wife. Its got to be hugely frustrated, you got a guilty verdict, youve got to do it over again. On the other hand, we knew how a jury would react to our evidence. On the other side of the choice, the defense has seen your case. And we cant change it very much. Ryan widmer trial, take two. A new jury makes a dramatic return to the scene of the drowning. And later, ryan widmer tells his own story. Im going to fight this until its made right. Most allergy pills only block one and 6 is greater than 1. With more complete relief you can enjoy every beautiful moment to the fullest. Flonase. 6 is greater than 1 changes everything. I looked for reald ingredients for real taste. Absolutely no artificial flavors or preservatives. New knorr selects real ingredients for real taste. Dates, cashews, chocolate chips and sea salt. I dont know how they made four simple ingredients taste like cookie dough. But i am not complaining. Larabar food made from food. A little more than a year after a jury found ryan widmer guilty of murder, only to have the verdict thrown out, it would start over again. This time a new defense team would take over ryans case. The new lawyers worried that even though they were starting the trial with a clean slate of jurors, the verdict from the first trial would still hang over the accused. Hes still innocent until proven guilty. Everyone thinks and knows he was proven guilty. Across the courtroom, the Prosecution Team was the same. It would hammer home the argument that a healthy 24yearold woman just does not die alone in a bathtub. Did you see any evidence that sarah suffered a seizure that caused her death by drowning . No. Sarahs body dry to the touch, the officers and emts testified. And the bathroom where her husband lifted her soaking body out of the tub was also not wet. Towels, a rug, magazines, all appeared to be dry. The juror would again hear the 911 call that to the prosecutions ears, sounded odd. She was face down in the bathtub. The message was, my wifes dead and i wasnt around when it happened. But unlike the first trial, the defense lawyers asked to take the jurors to the home where ryan and sarah had lived to inspect for themselves the very bathroom where she died. The lawyers had made a pretrial visit. The first thing we said was, man, this is small. They wanted the jurors to see for themselves that this was a cramped space in a modest builders home. Imagine ryan at 62 and sarah, 51, 52, and imagine them interacting in here. It was such a small bathroom, a defense expert argued, that if there had been a violent struggle, both husband and wife would have shown more obvious bruises and scratches. I would have expected to see more juror if a violent struggle had occurred. But the prosecutors argued that widmer, in an explosion of anger, could have overtaken his wife so quickly that she would have had no time to fight back. And in their closing arguments, they told the jurors that ryan widmer not only killed his wife but also delayed calling 911 to buy time to cover up his crime. Things looked so nice because ryan widmer had the opportunity to reset the scene. He had time to put things back into place. But ryans defense lawyers were hopeful this jury would see the case the way they did. An innocent man on trial for a murder he did not commit. Absolutely believe him. No doubt in my mind. The case was given to juror number two. And it seemed as though everyone in cincinnati was on the edge of their seat, waiting for its decision. But three days into deliberations, nothing. The jurors asked to see the judge. Theres an impasse. He sent them back to deliberate some more. It is desirable that the case be decided. It was turning out to be the longe longest deliberation in Warren County history. As the jurors left for a long holiday weekend, the specter of a mistrial hung in the air. We have to make sure he knows were here. Thats what we do as friends, support him and be hopeful and have the faith that this is going to turn out the way that its meant to turn out. The jury returned to work on tuesday morning. But at 5 00 p. M. On the fourth day of deliberations, they asked to see the judge again. The note reads we cannot agree and further deliberations will not serve any purpose. They were deadlocked. Walking out of the courtroom, ryan widmers frustration spilled out. I want this to be over. I want this to be over. I should be found not guilty. At a press conference, ryans parents vowed to stand by their son. They had already spent more than a half Million Dollars on his defense, tapping out Bank Accounts and retirement plans. We know hes innocent and well do whatever it takes. Well move forward. Ryans dad gary was firmly behind his son. But in another odd twist, it had taken ryans arrest to reunite the pair. He had been out of his sons life for 13 years, the consequence of a bitter divorce. He hadnt even known there was a sarah until he learned his son had been charged with her murder. Father was reintroduced to son while ryan was in jail. This is the first meeting youve had with your boy in a long, long time. Hes on the other side of the glass and youre talking through one of those phone devices. Mmhmm. Thats kind of a hard thing to take right there. It was. It was hard but so sweet to see him. A poignant reunion, father and son. And a father who completely believes in his sons innocence and would will anything to help. If theres any avenue to take, you have to take it. Its my son. You have to take it. Your son didnt do it. Sarah widmer died for reasons unknown. Yes. Give yourself a round of applause. Beyond ryans family and close stands standing behind him, it was a case that had galvanized a personal army. There were ryan widmer tshirts and wrist bands. He was getting a lot of support, an anonymous donor said to contribute 60,000. A stranger. Yes. Even the prosecutors were a bit worried. So much taxpayer money would be spent on a third trial. So many ryan widmer supporters beating very loud drums. A plea deal was floated. We felt it was a subject worth bringing up. But the kists said there was no way ryan was taking a deal. They offered a plea, which they hadnt done in two trials. And he turned it down . Of course he turned it down, he says im innocent, why would i admit to something i would never have done that i did not do . Ryan widmer was gambling that the next jury would acquit him. But his roll of the dice was taking its toll not just on him but on his family as well. Ryans mom made headlines when she was stopped for drunk driving. She had pleaded not guilty to the driving under the influence charge. But police say they found two open bottles of have to can vod car. She broke down, hospitalized. A terrible toll on her. You could just feel her going deeper and deeper into this. But it seemed for every person that came out to support ryan widmer, there were those who believed just as strongly on the other side that he had deliberately drowned his wife. One of those people would soon change everything. Ten days after the juror deadlocked, a phone rang in the prosecutors office. It was a woman with a hand grenade of a story. Someone came forward and say this guy confessed to me. We want to find out more what she has to say and what she knows about this. The prosecutors came away convinced they had the long missing pieces of the puzzle. A confession and a motive. Jay clark, the defense attorney, would have to worry overtime about this bombshell of a witness. Because the new witness feared for her life, saying that ryan widmer had threatened her, her identity would not be disclosed to the defense team until the beginning of the trial. And trial three would begin with virtually everyone holding their breath. Who was this person and what did she know . The mystery witness takes the stand. And what a story she has to tell. I saw the pain in her moms face. They needed to know the truth. The leading branded injectable. The one i used to take. Victoza® lowers blood sugar in three ways. And while it isnt for weight loss, victoza® may help you lose some weight. Noninsulin victoza® comes in a pen and is taken once a day. announcer victoza® is not recommended as the first medication to treat diabetes and is not for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. 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The likelihood of 12 jurors coming to the same conclusion was very unlikely. We really didnt think that another jury would not be deadlocked. They would soon find out. Ryan widmers extraordinary third trial for the murder of his wife was about to start all over again. The prosecutors felt it was their duty to argue their case for sarah. Were committed to seeing that justice is done for the victim of this case. And thats what weve got to think about. It promised to be a judicial groundhog day. Repeat testimony from the emts and arriving officers at the widmer home. The oddity of a bathtub drowning victim with a damp head and dry body. A 911 call that to some listeners volunteered too much. And jurors to the wifes neck and head that spoke to the prosecutors of homicide and not resuscitation. The facts which came out in this case gave rise to the idea that there had been an assault that occurred which progressed into an instant of domestic violence. And this time, sarahs own mother described the couples relationship as more tense than she had in the previous trials, telling the court that ryan and sarahs arguments made her very uncomfortable. They would just call each other names and get hateful with each other. I told them, you guys have to stop, i cant take it. What really was stunning was something that haunted the defense since they learned about it the previous summer, the prosecutions mystery witness who would testify that ryan confess to the crime. Her anymore was jennifer crew from iowa. It was the first time the defense would get a look at this person that ryan had allegedly confessed to. And they worried. She strolled in wearing a suit, decently done hair, makeup. How did this woman who lived 500 miles away from ryan widmer have such a starring role . It turned out she watched datelines story from the first trial. After watching the show, she sent ryan an email telling him how bad she felt about his plight. I felt sorry for ryan. I asked him what i could do to help him. Before long, the two were in frequent touch. Struck up email, texts, ultimately a phone relationship. Correct. As the relationship continued, ryan sent her photos of his dogs and asked her to send him a picture of herself. Initially she sent this one of a friend. She says things got a little racy on the phone. He told me he was watching porn in his moms basement. There was even talk of jennifer visiting ryan in ohio for a threeway. Ryan asked me to ask my friend and i said i would. But the reason jennifer was on the stand was to testify about one phone conversation in particular. One very different than their usual banter. It was october 26th, 2009. Jennifer said she had been asleep when ryan called. It sounded to her as though he had been drinking. He was crying. And he was saying, i did it. I did it. I killed sarah. I did it. I thought what he meant was that he didnt do enough to save her life that night. He said, no, jen, listen to me, i did it. She said ryan told her it had started with a fight between the two of them. Sarah had found out that he had cheated on her when she went away with her mom. He said that they were in the living room and they were arguing about his pornography. What happened when she came on upstairs . She was getting ready for the bath. He said their argument continued, he said sarah told him that the marriage was over. Ryan, she testified, then told sarah nobody leaves me, nobody ever leaves me, and i mean nobody. Thats when jennifer crew says ryan hit his wife. She fell backwards and hit her head. He said, jen, i blacked out, i blacked out. But why this story now . Jennifer crew waited until almost two weeks after the second jury had deadlocked before coming forward, even though ryan had allegedly confessed to her eight months earlier. She said she had promised ryan she would not reveal his secret and said she was unnerved when he gave her a veiled threat. I promised him i would never tell anybody. He said, i hope not, i dont want you to be where sarah is at. But she said she thought the jury would have convicted ryan. When they didnt, she contacted authorities after seeing pictures of sarahs mother. I sought pain and hurt in her moms face. Im a mom, i couldnt do that to them anymore. They needed to know the truth. It was a lot to absorb. Ryan confessing, fighting with a wife who was leaving him, blacking out in the bathroom. Would the jurors believe any or all of it . The defense had to make certain they didnt. But they were worried that they might. I think she had invented this story and started to live it and really wanted to believe it. So they aimed for the jugular. Could this woman be trusted . She had a jaded past. Theft convictions, stealing. Thats not something that an honest, credible person does. A onetime bartender at a strip club who managed the dancers, jennifer crew admitted to misdemeanor brushes with the law. You were convicted of theft . Yes, sir. Also of fraudulent practices, correct . I believe thats when my record states. She was also in a Methadone Treatment Program for her dictati addiction to painkillers. You were using oxycontin for five years. Youve used false names to get drugs . Yes, i did. The defense indicated because of her addiction to drugs, her memory was not to be trusted. When detectives talked to you, you told them that your memory is not very good, didnt you . I dont recall saying that. Do you remember telling them, i dont remember verbatim the conversation between you and ryan . I do not remember the conversation verbatim. The defense hammered on what day the phone call came through, even the day it was placed. You told investigators the call was in the middle of the night. I was asleep and i thought that the call came in later than it did. Everything critical in terms of time, duration, any memory about the call, was all different once she got to testify, but only after she saw her phone records. After jennifer crew stepped down, the prosecution called the womans fiance to try to undo any damage to her testimony caused by the defense. He confirmed that she related the alleged confessional phone call to him immediately after hanging up that night. She came downstairs crying, shes like, he did it. She was scared, actually. She was upset. If the jury believed jennifer crews story, ryan widmer was sunk. The defense called a witness about the emotional call from ryan. It was another woman who had become interested in ryan widmers case after seeing our first dateline report. Melissa from seattle, like jennifer from ohio, struck up a phone and email relationship with ryan in 2009, she said was she drawn to the case after the death of her sisterinlaw. How often did you talk . Three times a week. He talked about sarah a lot, he was having a hard time accepting everything. She flew to ohio to visit a friend and go with another supporter to a bowling fundraiser organized for widmers defense. She even made this Video Tribute to ryan and sarah that she posted on youtube. One more day her husband supported her friendship with ryan. Was it a little out there . Yeah. But im so comfortable with her and our relationship that without a shadow of a doubt, i was 100 behind her. I did feel strongly about supporting him. Theres just no chance that he had anything to do with it. But the importance of the seattle womans sortory for the defense was that she too had a lengthy phone call with ryan that finished six minutes before he called jennifer crew in iowa. The call in which he allegedly confessed to killing his wife. Melissa walters said ryan was perfectly composed when she spoke to him for two hours that night. How do you know he was not drunk, not upset . Every phone conversation ive had, he has never been intoxicated or distraught. All the times i talked to him, he was never drunk or upset. She was convinced that jennifer crew with made up the whole story. I was shocked that she would lie. Had the defense paid a price by putting yet another woman on the stand . Is there risk for you about these women getting involved with ryan widmer . Its easy to get sucked into that. Its important to understand what ryan has been going through, hes never been able to grieve properly for sarah. They contacted him. It was companionship. It was time to wrap up trial number three. The prosecutor saying it was a sudden violent murder. Anybody whos been in a relationship knows that sometimes things go off, they snap, for no good reason. I think Something Like that happened. At some point ryan saw that his perfect marriage was falling apart and thats what led us here. The defense arguing a medically undetermined death by natural causes. Its probably going to bother me for the rest of my life, what happened to sarah well never know. Sarah had drowned. But how . A third jury retired for deliberations. Another stunner. A new sarah enters ryans life. Do you live ryan . I love him. Yes. Just who is she . Later, ryan tells all. You guys kept it secret, didnt you . Oh, yeah, i knew they would try to make it into something negative. Meet boots. He likes to eat clean. Thats why at petsmart we love the nutro feed clean philosophy. Theyre made with nongmo ingredients and highquality protein. Now buy 1 select bag of nutro pet food and get 10 off your next purchase. Petsmart for the love of pets. The moment you realized youre lucky your backyard is in the back. At lowes, well help you find the lawn Care Products perfect for your yard so you can get back to enjoying it. Hurry into lowes and get a troybilt gas trimmer for only 79. Did any bag of dog or buy cat food at petsmart we give a meal to a pet in need . Help us reach our goal of donating more than 60 million meals so hungry pets across the country get to eat. Petsmart for the love of pets. And now Come Celebrate our grand opening in your neighbourhood. The jury had been out for a day. Again, it seemed everyone in cincinnati was waiting for a verdict. While widmer still had a number of ardent supporters, trial watchers say this time things were changing in the court of Public Opinion. You have a candlelight vigil for now, and you could probably hold it in a phone booth. One strong voice that had turned against widmer was radio talk show host bill cunningham. He used the free ryan widmer website to pick up chicks. It sounds like it fell apart for you on the character issue. It did. The wallpaper of the case changed. Day two in the courthouse was going round and round. I felt awful. I was nauseous. I hadnt felt that way for 20 years. The jurors were working their way through the evidence. They parsed the 911 call. My wife fell asleep in the bathtub, i think shes dead. The more you listen to it, the more and more it starts to sound like it was staged. There was sarahs body. Officers testified it was too dry. 2 1 2 minutes after being removed from a tub, you would expect a body to be wet. The alleged confession as recounted by jennifer crew. I just dont believe anything she said. The prints in the tub. Under normal circumstances you cannot leave those kind of fingertips on the side of a tub trailing down. The bruising to sarah. Both the defense and the prosecution put up good arguments about that. That thats teetering on a razors edge with me. At the end of the second day, they took their one and only vote. They had a verdict. A blast of calls went out. The kists got the news. I said, i cant believe theyre back so soon, im worried. The judge asked for the jury ballot. Anxious . Very. Sick. Ryan widmer stood with his lawyers. His life hanging in the balance. I can actually hear ryan shaking. I can hear it. Its that silent in there and hes that nervous. The verdict. We the jury in this case find the defendant ryan widmer is guilty of murder. Guilty. Ryan dropped his head to the table. I was hysterical. He was crying. He was a mess. A bad, bad, bad dream. Ryan composed himself enough to proclaim to the court his innocence. I did not do this, judge. I dont know why this has to keep going on. My life has been ruined. I love sarah. I would never have hurt her. Never. Outside the court, ryans father gary slumped to the ground. The son he was recently reunited with after years apart taken from him again. It was a horrifying moment. It just totally caught up with me at that point, the total shock. I just went weak. Ryan widmer for the second time was given the mandatory sentence, 15 years to life. As Court Officers handcuffed him and led him away, few people were aware of a young woman on his side of the benches, crying. This is also a sarah. Sarah manhurst. Shes another twist in the story that has had so many. Do you love ryan widmer . I love him, yeah. Sarah wore an Engagement Ring and is the mother of ryans son, born in the summer after trial number two. What did you name the baby . His name is ryan. You see ryans face in the babys . Yeah. Sarah, a canadian via new york, like jennifer from iowa and melissa from seattle, also became aware of ryan after our first Dateline Program on the case aired back in 2009. I thought that he was rail ro roaded. She sent an email to ryan saying how sorry she felt with him. He sent one back. Soon they were talking on the phone. She came to cincinnati to visit right and stayed at his mothers house. I thought it was a little awkward, because we had talked on the phone but hadnt met. He was telling me how much he loved sarah and could never love another woman as much as he loved her. I started crying because i felt so bad for him. Sarah went back to new york and three weeks later returned to cincinnati as ryans guest at his mothers thanksgiving dinner. That was the weekend they became intimate. The first time we were together i got pregnant. How did ryan take the news . Shocked, obviously very bad timing. They kept the pregnancy a secret, as ryans second trial would take place the following may. I decided, yeah, i was going to have the baby. And he was okay with that. But it was just difficult, because im thinking, here i am pregnant, and youre facing another trial, and my child could potentially grow up without a father, which [ crying ] now hes in jail. With ryan sentenced to 15 years, sarah is raising their son. Im still in shock. I cant believe this happened to him. If in your own mind you couldnt get to beyond reasonable doubt, if there was a sliver of doubt that he had done this thing, would you have stayed . Never. I would never have stayed with him. Theres no way he could have done this, ever. 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He remembers a loving we hit it off perfect. Was there any friction . None whatsoever. Everything was cool . Perfect. He only had one worry about sarah. My biggest problem with her was her sleep. She would work a regular day and need to be going to bed early or taking a nap. Something wasnt healthy about it. Youre 24 years old. But he says they fell into their everyday lives, their jobs, walking the dog, building a deck on their house. All routine, he says, until that august night. Sarah had come home from work, he says, with a headache. They had dinner, watched tv. Shes what . Laying on the couch. She says her neck is killing her, shes going to get in the bath and go to bed. Ryan says he stayed downstairs and watched the game until he too was ready for bed. Upsets to the master bedroom and back. Tell me what you see, just like a videotape recording. I walk in the room. I walk over to the night stand. And i put some things down, turn on the tv. And then i walked in the bathroom. I saw sarah, i knew something wasnt right. She was just unconscious. How did you see her . Her head was just underneath the water. I dont even remember. Was she face down in the tub as you told 911 . All i remember, yeah, just finding her. I mean, i knew it wasnt good. She was laying in the water. I dont know what else to say other than it wasnt right. The only thing i remember certain things because of what i heard on the 911 tape. Its such a shocking image, you would think you would remember. I wasnt thinking i would have to remember. Head, nose, under the water . Underwater, yes. What did you do next . I tried to get a reaction out of her, nothing. Thats when he says he called 911. I think shes dead. When you chose that word, i think she fell asleep. When you chose that word, falling asleep its not about choosing a word. It was her sleeping issue. Theyre saying, this guy is giving us too much information, hes downstairs whats going on, shes upstairs. I was watching the football game. I dont know what they wanted me to they will them. Maybe just get an ambulance here quick. I dont know. I called and thats what i said. I dont know. Prosecutors say the First Arriving officer was at the house six minutes after the 911 call was answered and less than three minutes after ryan lifted sarahs body out of the stub. Why is this womans hair down and is her body dry, the observation of the responding officers. It doesnt make sense. I understand that. How do you explain it . I left the house and there was cops there by themselves and they came up with the story they came up with. You think they fabricated this . I know they did. You think they wanted to make a case here . I know they did. Why would they arrest me the day after if they didnt want to make a case . Why would they have it in for you . Emts and Police Officers dont even work for the same agency. They clearly do when they get up to testify, theyre coached what to say. What about the story of the woman who says ryan confessed to her that he killed sarah . Listen to me, i did it. Heres jennifer crew from iowa on the stand saying he called me one night, he was sloppy, and he confessed to me. Right. Jennifer, i did it. Im telling you i did it. Mmhmm. Did that conversation happen . Nope. It never happened. Jennifer crews story is made up . 100 made up. The same goes, right now told us, for sarahs mothers testimony about hearing hateful arguments between the couple. They would just call each other names. Shes a liar. Sarahs mom is making this stuff up . We were never mean to each other. Never. A onetime motherinlaw from an earlier life who he says is embellishing the reality of his marriage. Now ryan widmer has a baby with a new sarah. Shes awesome, so loving, caring. There are similarities i see in sarah, my wife, as i say with sarah now. You guys kept it secret . Oh, yeah. Because i knew they would try to make it into something negative. In that court of Public Opinion, the women from far away places, iowa, seattle, new york, who became involved in his case, didnt go down well with everyone. A character issue. We talked to somebody who says youre abusing the free ryan widmer website as a dating service, just a way to meet women. I dont know who said that, but its not true. But investigators wondered how good the marriage really was based on what they found on widmers computer. Did you have an unhealthy addiction to porn . No. But you looked at porn . Yes. He says that certainly does not make him a murderer. Did you kill your wife sarah . No, i did not. I couldnt hurt sarah either emotionally or physically. She didnt get in your face and say shes leaving you . No. Didnt happen . Didnt happen. You were downstairs watching the ball game and you found her in a bad situation . Yes. You say youre wrongly convicted . Im 100 wrongly convicted. And the 30 jurors or more found you guilty after hearing the story . Yes. Theyre not getting it . Theyre not getting it at all. But these jurors are confident they got it right. They say among other things it came down to what they saw as sarahs toodry body, oddities in the 911 call, prints on the tub, and the unlikeliness of an out of the blue medical event striking sarah in the bath. I went into it believing he was innocent. But everything that was put together with the evidence came down with four or five facts that we could not deny. We believe he intentionally drowned her. And the guilt of ryan widmer will also never be doubted by the prosecutors. Do you believe he actually did this thing . Absolutely. He killed her. And he was the only one who could have done it. Ryan widmer lost a federal appeal in february. Im not letting this stand. Im going to fight this until its made right. The passage of time hasnt made the events inside the little house on crested owl court any clearer had. And time of course brings changes. Its been six years since we first met sarah manners. She and ryan are no longer a couple. She says she Still Believes in his innocence. And more change. His mother jill passed away. Nothing, it seems, stays quite the same except the central mystery itself. And that will likely be argued for years still to come. Tonight on running wild with bear grylls. Actress and singer Vanessa Hudgens joins me in the Sierra Nevada desert. [screams and laughs] i feel so badass. Vanessa is best known for her performances in High School Musical and grease live. And shes the star of nbcs primetime series powerless. Vanessas father passed away recently, and shes still grieving the loss. Its gonna be crappy im surehen im getting married, and hes not there to walk me down the aisle. Yeah, but the thing is, he is. [soft dramatic music] [laughs softly] aw. But shes joining me on this adventure. Watch out. Watch out. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Because it would have made him proud. Yeah we havent got a lot of rope left. Uh. This is crazy vanessas known for being a glamorous actress. Oh, my gosh