could this murder had been deliberately. she was murdered. i loved sarah. i would never have hurt her. sarah crying because i felt so bad for her. there is just no chance that he had anything to do with it. three trials, three juries. we are scared that the truth may not come out. sometimes the shades are drawn early in a marriage. even for a young couple so in love like newlyweds sarah and ryan. everything in life was still fresh. even at home on your average monday night. after his workday as a sports writer, ryan said he plop down on the sofa on an august night to chill with the bengals preseason opener against green bay. sarah, he says, went upstairs to draw a bat in the bathroom. she liked her calling baths. the young dental hygienists had been tormented with more of her headaches that afternoon. the young couple in the suburban state in that the home that evening had been married for just under four months. 114 days to be exact. they vowed till dea
did you see any evidence that sarah suffered a seizure to cause her death by drowning? no. zero s body, drive to the touch as officers and emts testified. the bathroom where her husband lifted her soaking wet body out of the top, it was also not what. the child magazine to paid to be dry. the jury would then hear the 9-1-1 call that the prosecution hears, appeared odd. i came up here and shoes lying face down in the bathtub. the message was my wife is dead and i was not around when it happened. but unlike the first trial, the defense lawyers asked the to take the jurors to the hole where ryan inserted had lift to inspect the very bathroom where she had died. the lawyers made a pretrial visit. the first thing we said was, this is small. they wanted the jurors to see for themselves that this was a crime to space and a moderate modest builder home. imagine s ryan at 62 and
came back on the line to say that he just moved his wife from the tub to the bedroom. okay. go ahead and get back to cpr. go and try cpr. they ll be there in a little bit. okay? okay. detective braley wondered along with the emts and arriving officers why a woman who drowned in a bathtub would be mostly dry. he needed to see the scene. what story would it tell? i start mentally prepare myself based on what they ve told me. what do i want to see what versus what do i see. he headed for the master bathroom. i expected something to be wet. i expected her there to be water on the floor. towels or whatever it might be. it simply was. not there. dry, dry? there is a very small bit of water, what you might call droplets, around the tub right around the drain. other than that, there is. nothing. for there is a toll on the floor. there s a math on the floor. but everything is perfectly dry. now you have not only a drowning victim who didn t appear to be wet. someone who supp
the wounds, to significant. and not in the right spot to have been caused by emts lifesaving efforts. the things that were the most disconcerting were the three bruises seen on the right side of the scalp. she had another bruised on her forehead. she s got a significant degree of neck hemorrhage. she s undergone significant cpr. however, there was no hemorrhage anywhere in the area of the chess. so, it is difficult to try to rationalize that the hammer judge in her neck can be the result of cpr. as the corridor saw it, the significant bruising on sarah s neck was caused by ryan s forceful drowning of her. do you have an opinion as to the manner of sarah s death? yes, in the manner of death was homicide. and that took prosecutors into the realm of speculation. what had happened in the bedroom that night if sarah has been drawn by herself in the bathtub?
my wife she, fell asleep in the bathtub. i was downstairs. i just came up and she was laying face down in the bathtub. i got a call, it was ryan. something has happened to sarah. the emts were rushing sarah to the hospital. by then they had worked on her for 45 minutes but hadn t gotten a response. minutes later, jill widmer was with her son, waiting anxiously together in a room off emergency. finally a woman came in and we said is she gone? and she said yes. he just dropped down to his knees and was balling and sobbing. sara widmer, 24 years old. a bright of less than four months was dead. her husband ryan told the emergency services people he thought he had fallen asleep in the bathtub and drowned. but those emts doing cpr, trying everything to save her, didn t understand one crucial observation that they made that night. something here doesn t look right. coming up. a drowning in a dry bathtub. i expected something to be wet.