right away crook went to check one of those theories, a stray bullet perhaps coming through the bathroom window. the window was closed but there s no bullet hole. nothing to indicate that anybody fired a shot. that s correct. crook returned to the kitchen, and that s when he discovered a gun lying on the kitchen floor. what did you think had happened? honestly, i didn t know. was this an accident? an attempted suicide? or something far more sinister? at least for now, those answers would have to wait. heidy was clinging to life. my focus at that time was, honestly, was to help heidy. paramedics took heidy to a nearby hospital. conrad followed in a police cruiser. a dash cam recorded the absolute desperation in his voice. this is not happening. this is really not happening. i really don t understand any of this. this is so crazy. about an hour after conrad arrived, hospital staff delivered the devastating news.
noise and how it wasn t very loud and, you know, maybe someone could have shot something at the house. it seemed farfetched but he said neighborhood vandals had recently been shooting the back of his house with paint balls. i was utterly confused. within minutes, sergeant crook arrived. conrad by now had moved to the doorway of his home to wave crook down. he had blood on his hands and he was screaming and shrieking. conrad led the sergeant through the front door, up the stairs, and then into a scene straight from a horror movie. i could see heidy laying there. she was naked, blood everywhere, just right at the top of the stairs, just this horrific scene. what s conrad doing? he s screaming and he s yelling. and, as these police photos make clear, covered in blood. i m asking him, like, conrad, what s going on? what happened here? he said, she was in the bathroom, you know, and just, i don t know what happened. everything was just different answers and different the
making incorrect measurements or adding up some figures wrong? i don t believe so. i believe that they willfully lied to secure a conviction against conrad truman. and for these attorneys, there were more issues with the state s case. one had to do with gunshot residue tests. the defense learned police swabbed both heidy and conrad s hands, but those swabs were never sent to the lab. when you have gunshot residue that was never tested, those things matter. the defense team decided to test those swabs themselves. conrad s hands were negative for residue, but there was a question as to whether conrad had washed his hands before they were tested. so those results were meaningless. that s probably why they didn t test in first place. as for heidy s swabs, there was no residue on her left hand. but there was on her right hand. and significantly, heidy was right-handed.
so many different stories about what might have happened. he said many things that night. maybe someone could have shot something at the house. at one point he said that 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 that commit suicide naked. conrad s stories were not adding up. but something else wasn t adding up either. a key piece of evidence. we went to the house, and we walked in and we think, a-ha! would a mistaken 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. something s going to break, and when it does, the truth s going to be known. as night fell. hello and welcome to dateline
conrad. everyone felt his behavior was odd. he s yelling, but it s a violent yelling. he s like, if you don t save her, i m going to [ bleep ] kill you. crook found those threats so alarming, he took out his phone to record them. you re gonna [ bleep ] die and everyone in your life is going to die if she dies. it could be the way this guy reacts to trauma, but i m telling you it was a red flag at the time. also a red flag conrad was drunk. he admitted he and heidy had been drinking earlier that night. i could see in his eyes, the redness. red flag number three. conrad told crook he and heidy had been arguing. a minor dustup, he said. no big deal. but enough for heidy to draw a bath and ask to be left alone. she went and locked herself in the bathroom. and then he details how he picked the lock and went in the bathroom. and then she kicked him out. to me, that s another it s just more proof of there was an argument, a bigger argument.