noticed her hard hat, and they have a little personality or stickers, you know. and hers said, it s all about me. deal with it. i was kind of thinking this girl s kind of a feisty girl. soon conrad asked heidy out on a date. i m not that type usually. i don t get super serious right off the bat, but it was almost like we were enseparable after that. that first night? yeah, yeah. this tough girl even shared conrad s interest in guns. we would go to the range out of town and shooting in the hills. heidy knew how to handle a handgun? yes. one year into their courtship, conrad decided to pop the question. in true utah form, he chose a mountain on which to do it. did she have any idea it was coming? no. so i got on one knee, and i asked her and i started bawling. and she just said yes right off the bat. conrad s sister colette couldn t believe it when her brother first introduced heidy to the family.
mm-hmm. and she s shot, and you don t know what happened. yeah. maybe in their heads. in mine, i was confused. could this be an accident? what i say to that is i didn t see. i don t know what happened. that s how he felt just hours after the shooting, but as the months passed, conrad came to the conclusion heidy may have taken her own life. his wife, he said, wasn t as tough as she appeared. was she a sad person? was she a depressed person? when she drank a little bit, you could see it come out. it wasn t every time. but it did. heidy s friend sandi sanchez also saw another side to heidy. that strong, funny, you know, person also had some things inside that were very painful. according to sandi, those things had to do with heidy s upbringing.
i was actually really sort of surprised when i first met her, like how did he land that girl? they just seemed to be such a great match. you saw love and chemistry there? oh, it was almost awkward. they were definitely an enviable couple. another year later came the wedding. it was amazing. we went up on a lift, a chair lift, then all of the guests left down these slides. so it was just so them. they said their vows, and he s kind of doing this champion pose like he was just everything was right with the world. the enviable couple was just starting out with a future as bright as their smiles. until, that is, a sunday evening in september 2012, three years after the trumans were married. tell me about that day. that day was like, just like any other day. as night fell, heidy decided to take a bath. conrad said he went to the
so you felt pretty good leading up to verdict? yes. there was enough there there beyond a reasonable doubt. reporter: conrad was having a much harder time. it was really difficult. you know? because why would things work out if they didn t work out the first time? you know what i mean? reporter: eight hours later, the verdict. hold up your hands. you re not wearing handcuffs. no cuffs. reporter: you re not in custody. i m free. reporter: that s right. this time conrad truman got the verdict he wanted. not guilty. i just kept saying did they say not? he grabbed my arm. are you sure? reporter: in the courtroom, conrad s family shared tears of joy. i was giggling and crying at the same time. it was weird. reporter: on the other side of the courtroom aisle were tears of a different kind. i felt my heart sink and i just was in shock. reporter: you fainted? i did.
conrad also shared with us how he picked the bathroom lock, not, he said, to confront heidy, but just to apologize. she just said get out. i was like, okay. so i just let her be. as for conrad s behavior after police arrived at his door, he said he had good reason for acting that way. i was trying to save my wife. i don t know. does that make sense? i just wanted her to live. i get how frantic you must have been. i m not sure i understand the threatening part of that. and i think that s one of the things that ended up getting you in trouble. could be. and i was like, do i have to how do i explain this to you guys? get her help. and when you can t explain that to someone, i just started i started making threats. well, if all that s true, then why and how did heidy wind up with a bullet in her head? i think police found it hard to believe that you could be right there with her in a very small area