serves, every dog who has ever lived a human. we need them now more than ever. we learned that again tonight. and so, that is our broadcast for this friday night and for this week with our thanks for being here with us. have a good weekend, unless you have other plans. on behalf of our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. what goes on behind closed doors of a marriage is not always apparent to the outside. my wife, she fell asleep. i just came up here and she was laying a face down in the bathtub. something was right. she was just unconscious. a b mcbride, a hunting death. she was telling me he could never ever love another woman as much as he loved her. what had happened? did you have an aneurysm? did she have a seizure? police were baffled. they expected something to be wet. they are expected there to be water on the. floor things we re adding
room. laughing, talking, kids running around. and she was just a. sleep sarah asleep at the dinner table. snoozing in the car. friends kidded her about. it she would always fall asleep at the beginning of the movies. so he would always be nudging her the whole time. sarah, i sarah wake up and watch the movie. was it so noticeable that you guys joked about it? every time we went somewhere, even at the dinner table. we would be like sarah don t fully. i told her she had narcolepsy. she would say i do not i m just tired all alone all the time. had she fallen asleep and drone? is that even possible to? do ryan seem to think so. she said as much of the 9-1-1 dispatch. or my wife i ll asleep in the bathtub and i think she s dead. but all the observations about sleepy sarah, sara with her headaches, was just anecdotal information on the not the stuff of real medical investigation. the medical examiner would have the first real results about sarah s death. what was he finding?
you had to surmount? you had a lovely 24 year old woman who was dead and no one could explain why. the defense wasn t going to be able to tell the jury what caused sarah widmer to drown that night. but they were going to show that ryan widmer had no reason to hurt his wife. and as far as damp here dry body, they would explain. that bottom lane for the defense, we know one thing ryan widmer had nothing to do with his wife dead. ryan with men s defense attorney argued that his client why his unhappy towards of words on that 9-1-1 call. is she still a bathtub? yes, she falls asleep in the tub all the time. saying she falls asleep in the top all the time. exactly. in other words, had ryan told the 9-1-1 dispatch are
here? right. and so much more of the prosecution case was bill upon the observation of the first arriving officers and emergency responders. they noted not only was ryan not wet, this man who had lifted his wife somebody out of the tub just minutes before they arrived, sarah was also mostly dry. we noticed that her body was dry. her here was. dan and others on the scene corroborated this observation. damp head, dry. body things were not adding up. it seemed to me the body would ve been wet. the floor would have been wet. the carpet would have been wet. you re talking about, from the time he says i m taking out of the bathtub, to the time that other people are there. her here is described as simply damp. not even. wet carpet is not wet. there is not water dripping off of her here on the rest of her body. the floor is not. wet and the officer noticed something else. the victims fingers and toes. we all know what happens to them when they ve been soaking in a bathtub. it
normal. it seemed that the color was rather calm. usually when i can t get anything out of them. she s in the bathtub? yes, she s in water it s draining now. i was downstairs watching tv. she falls asleep in the tub all the time. to prosecutors john arnold and travis vieux, the husband was trying to place himself as far away as possible from the bathroom were sarah had died. he really gives very little information about her condition. it s really more for him to say, i was out there. i really do anything to do with this. i could sarah even be dead face town in the bathtub? couldn t body control that way? that seems opposition for somebody who has fallen asleep, to be faced down when with your face near the faucet. in terms of the possibilities of how the king kong space of the bathtub is shorter than she is long. we re not talking about a month mansion, whirlpool tub