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.
numbers were just transposed wrong. wallace admits the error but says it was minor. that conrad truman did not deserve a new trial. it s not that significant as they made it out to be. did those incorrectly entered measurements change your opinion of conrad s guilt. should they change anyone s opinion? they didn t change my opinion. nor did they change the opinion of the district deputy district attorney who decided to take on the task himself are prosecuting conrad once again. i think craig had been on the case for a long time, so i wanted fresh eyes. i went through all the evidence and even with medical examiner changing his opinion, i still felt that there was enough to go for it. that, we knew that going into it it was going to be tough. at trial, the prosecution s case was familiar. starting with the officers who testified about conrad s rambling, often incoherent description of what had happened that night. the core of our case were his inconsistent statements.
Heidy and Conrad Truman are an enviable couple with a bright future; then, one fateful night, Heidy is found dead of a gunshot wound to the head; in the.
to the m. e., hoping to sway his ruling on the matter of death once again just as police did, prior to conrad s arrest. we gave them a bunch of information, and then he, on his own, with his investigator went to the home to look at it and the result was just what they had asked for. heidy truman s manner of death, once undetermined, then a homicide was now officially, once again, on determined. it was man out from forensic heaven. how often do they change their findings and then change them back? i have never had a case where this has happened, ever. it took another year, but conrad truman s conviction was overturned, he was granted a new trial. i did not even think that was a possibility, for them to change it, i never would have thought that. is there a part of you that things, i can t get my own