did she have an aneurism? did she have a seizure? police were baffled. i expected something to be wet. i expected there to be water on the floor. things were not adding up. something was screaming to me, something s bad, wrong. could this death have been deliberate? she was murdered. i love sarah. i would never have hurt her. i started crying because i just felt so bad for him. there s just no chance he had anything to do with it. three trials, three juries. we re scared that the truth may not come out. the bathtub mystery. hello and welcome to dateline extra. i m craig melvin. sarah and ryan were newlyweds, a young people that appeared to be deeply in love. but less than four months after tying the knot, sarah mysteri s mysteriously drowned in their bathtub. ryan claimed it was an accident. but to investigators, his story just did not add up. was this a tragic mishap?
but hadn t gotten a response. minutes later, jill was with her son waiting anxiously together in a room off emergency. finally, a woman came in and then we said is she gone? and she said yes. and he just dropped down to his knees and was just bawling and sobbing into the chair. reporter: sarah widmer, 24 years old, the bride of less than four months, was dead. her husband ryan told the emergency services people he thought she had fallen asleep in the bathtub and drowned. but the emts doing cpr tried everything they could to save her. they didn t understand one crucial observation they made at the home that night. there is something here that doesn t look right. coming up a drowning in a dry bathroom? i expected something to be wet. there s a towel on the floor. there s a mat on the floor. but everything is perfectly dry. the questions deepen. when the bathtub mystery continues. tery continues.
we knew she had drowned from the scene itself. it was the manner in which she drowned that had raised all the questions. but detective braley would have the most questions for the seemingly happily married husband. was it possible there was stress in the marriage that no one knew about? i had to rely on the fact in the back of my mind that nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors. as police consider foul play, friends and family wonder was there something medical hyped this mystery? coming up did she have an aneurysm? did she have a seizure? when the bathtub mystery continues. e bathtub mystery continues. in your body to unblock your system naturally. and it doesn t cause bloating, cramping, gas, or sudden urgency. miralax. look for the pink cap. you get more than yourfree shipping.ir, you get everything you need for your home at a great price,
examiner couldn t satisfactorily explain, but that it was murder? coming up the case goes to court and out comes the evidence. it would be virtually impossible for somebody to fall asleep and not wake up. and later, ryan speaks out at last. so you think they wanted to make a case here? why would they arrest me a day after if they didn t want to make a case? when the bathtub mystery continues. what?! i m here to steal your car because, well, that s my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens. and if you ve got cut-rate car insurance, paying for this could feel like getting robbed twice. so get allstate. and be better protected from mayhem. like me. i felt i couldn t be at my best wifor my family. c, in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured and left those doubts behind.
her did you really need it, why did you buy it or something. he thought she was spending too much money. he was very concerned about her shopping habits. correct. there were still stresses, things going on in their family. even the prosecutors had to acknowledge that this didn t necessarily add up to a clear motive for murder. but they believed there were things happening in the little house that no one but sarah or ryan knew about. anybody who has been married or in a relationship knows that what goes on behind the closed doors of a marriage is not always apparent to the outside. but was the prosecution s case too thin? too much observation lite with not enough persuasive hard evidence? the defense would argue passionately that it was and that ryan had nothing to do with his wife s sudden death. ryan s defenders are not giving up. sarah s friends take to the stand to share their side of the story. coming up, when the bathtub