anxious? very. sick. ryan widmer stood with his lawyers. his life hanging in the balance. i can actually hear ryan shaking. i can hear it. it s that silent in there and he s that nervous. the verdict. we the jury in this case find the defendant ryan widmer is guilty of murder. guilty. ryan dropped his head to the table. he was hysterical. he was crying. he was a mess. a bad, bad, bad dream. ryan composed himself enough to proclaim to the court his innocence. i did not do this, judge. i don t know why this has to keep going on. my life has been ruined. i love sarah. i would never have hurt her. never. outside the court, ryan s father gary slumped to the ground. the son he was recently reunited with after years apart taken from him again. it was a horrifying moment. it just totally caught up with me at that point, the total shock.
a half a million dollars on his defense, tapping out bank accounts and retirement plans. we know he s innocent and we ll do whatever it takes. we ll move forward. ryan s dad gary was firmly behind his son. but in another odd twist, it had taken ryan s arrest to reunite the pair. he had been out of his son s life for 13 years, the consequence of a bitter divorce. he hadn t even known there was a sarah until he learned his son had been charged with her murder. father was reintroduced to son while ryan was in jail. this is the first meeting you ve had with your boy in a long, long time. he s on the other side of the glass and you re talking through one of those phone devices. mm-hmm. that s kind of a hard thing to take right there. it was. it was hard but so sweet to see him. a poignant reunion, father and son. and a father who completely believes in his son s innocence and would will anything to help. if there s any avenue to take, you have to take it. it s my son. you
defense, tapping out bank accounts and retirement plans. we know he s innocent and we ll do whatever it takes. we ll move forward. ryan s dad gary was firmly behind his son. but in another odd twist, it had taken ryan s arrest to reunite the pair. he had been out of his son s life for 13 years, the consequence of a bitter divorce. he hadn t even known there was a sarah until he learned his son had been charged with her murder. father was reintroduced to son while ryan was in jail. this is the first meeting you ve had with your boy in a long, long time. he s on the other side of the glass and you re talking through one of those phone devices. mm-hmm. that s kind of a hard thing to take right there. it was. it was hard but so sweet to see him. a poignant reunion, father and son. and a father who completely believes in his son s innocence and would will anything to help. if there s any avenue to take, you have to take it. it s my son. you have to take it. your son didn
his life hanging in the balance. i can actually hear ryan shaking. i can hear it. it s that silent in there and he s that nervous. the verdict. we the jury in this case find the defendant ryan widmer is guilty of murder. guilty. ryan dropped his head to the table. i was hysterical. he was crying. he was a mess. a bad, bad, bad dream. ryan composed himself enough to proclaim to the court his innocence. i did not do this, judge. i don t know why this has to keep going on. my life has been ruined. i love sarah. i would never have hurt her. never. outside the court, ryan s father gary slumped to the ground. the son he was recently reunited with after years apart taken from him again. it was a horrifying moment. it just totally caught up with me at that point, the total shock. i just went weak. ryan widmer for the second time was given the mandatory
a hung jury, no verdict. by best count they were deadlocked seven guilty, one undecided. four, not guilty. at a press conference ryan s parents vowed to stand by their son. they had already spent more than a half million dollars on his defense, tapping out bank accounts and retirement plans. we know he s innocent and we re going to do whatever it takes. we ll move forward. ryan s dad gary was firmly behind his son. but in another odd twist, it had taken ryan s arrest to reunite the pair. he had been out of his son s life for 13 years, the consequence of a bitter divorce. he hadn t even known there was a sarah until he learned his son had been charged with her murder. father was reintroduced to son while ryan was in jail. this is the first meeting you ve had with your boy in a long, long time. through a glass wall. he s on the other side of the glass and you re talking through one of those phone devices. mm-hmm. that s kind of a hard thing to take right there. it was