the location of her head wound, conrad s lawyers were ready to argue that heidi took her own life. but a witness who knew her as long as anyone would tell a different tale. with the conclusion of our story. conrad truman had been convicted of murder and had already served more than three years. that stunned everyone in the utah county s da s office especially the man responsible for conrad s conviction prosecutor craig johnson. this is something that really took us by surprise. the defense is you ve had to have known. that s their take and they re doing their job to represent their client and i can tell you categorically that s not correct. just as stunned was the man whose team took the
as for the location of the gun itself, that, too, was suspicious. that gun s how far from heidy? oh, i would say eight feet, ten feet maybe. it s far enough away that it wasn t a normal if she shoots herself and falls to the ground type of thing. next morning they ask conrad to come to the station for more questioning. they can say whatever they want. but i did not hurt my wife. and i know that. bottom of my heart, i did not hurt my wife. heidy s family thought otherwise. after finally learning from police the details of how heidy died. the minute i heard how she died, i knew he did it. sounds like he had a temper, and he was very intoxicated, and he did something that perhaps he didn t plan? i just knew he did it. detective wallace next pored over conrad s statements to police about what happened that night. as wallace saw it, conrad s story went like this conrad
was in the kitchen. heidy was in the bathroom. at some point conrad heard a pop, and when he turned, he saw heidy standing somewhere between the kitchen and the bathroom hallway bleeding. and he either runs over and catches her or she falls down. wallace then went back to the truman home, making detailed measurements of the kitchen and surrounding rooms. he wanted to see if conrad s story checked out. his conclusion it did not. her body s at the top of the staircase. it doesn t add up that she would have traveled that distance he said she had gone then fallen in that location. it was hard for wallace to believe that heidy could have traveled from the bathroom to the stairs after sustaining such a head wound. she would have fallen immediately to the ground. wallace shared his findings with assistant district attorney craig johnson. johnson agreed. everything pointed to conrad. why would conrad truman want to
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. 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. 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. come quick! an unimaginably shocking scene. heidy on the kitchen floor in a pool of her own blood. conrad on the phone pleading for help. there s so much blood. if you don t get here right now, she s going to die. i don t know what happened. i really don t know what happened. oh, my god. it was bad to begin with and it got so much worse.
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 hide wee 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 expert to say it proved nothing. nobody can identify a shooter based on the results of this test. that is a major limitation of this test. reporter: defense attorney mark moffat answered by telling the jury that, before being allowed to wash his hands that night, conrad had pleaded with police to confirm he had no residue on them. he s telling them, test my hands. test my hands. i didn t shoot a gun. reporter: did you wash your hands before saying t