Wet, waters on the floor. Could this death be deliberate . I started crying because i just felts so bad for him. Theres just no chance he had anything to do with it. Three trials, three juries. Were scared that the truth may not come out. The bathtub mystery. Hello and welcome to dateline extra. Im craig melvin. Sarah and ryan were newly weds a young couple that appeared to be deeply in love. But less than four months after tying the knot sarah mysteriously drowned in her bathtub. Ryan claimed it was an accident, but to investigators his story just did not add up. Was this a tragic mishap or was something more sinister at play . It would take years of police work and three sen saegzal trials to uncover the stunning truth. Heres dennis murphy. Sometimes the shades are drawn early in a marriage, even for young couples so in love like newly weds sarah and ryan. Everything was so fresh. After his workday as a sportswriter ryan said he plopped down on the sofa on an august night to chill wi
mom. reporter: that monday night the cincinnati bengals were looking more than decent against green bay. fans across town, like jeff braley, wondered if this could finally be a miracle season for the back-then hapless local franchise of the nfl. but braley didn t get to see all of the game. he was a cop, a detective. and you don t get to pick your down time. i was at home watching the bengals game. i get a call from the sergeant. lieutenant, we re out on a drowning. the paramedics are working on her. but something s not right here. reporter: as he rolled to the house he knew some of what to
maturity she was. sarah didn t have a problem telling anyone anything. so if you made sarah mad you knew yowl made sarah mad. as for ryan he never seemed to lose it. he never seemed upset. he doesn t get mad, you know. he s so laid-back and easygoing and she s so organized, this is where we have to be and he just says, okay. jill enjoyed her days with ryan and his new girlfriend, sarah. our family tends to do a lot of barbecues, picnics. she was becoming a serious part of the family. i was very pleased, yes. the couple bought a nice house together in a good neighborhood and ryan surprised sarah with an engagement ring. he put a ring around the dog s collar. she was very excited, he was very excited. and soon the invitations were
the newly weds went to costa rica for their honeymoon and had a good time. they worked really hard, built a beautiful deck on the back of their house, they had a trip planned to cancun. they had everything to live for. so august 11th should have been another day on the calendar. ryan remembers being down stairs to watch monday night football, sarah had gone up stairs. she was in trouble. she was laid face down in the bathtub. i got a call, it was ryan, something s happened to sarah. the emts were rushing sarah to the hospital. by then they d worked on her for 45 minutes but hadn t gotten a response. minutes later jill whitmer was with her son.
worked out. sarah, sarah stuart had been fixed up by her friend, and dana had an inkling that sarah would really hit it off with her husband s former roommate. i said i think their personalities would get along. and he said, well, let them go to dinner and we ll see what happens. laid-back ryan, a college jock and baseball player, and super organized sarah who needed everything just so talked about getting together again. she said let me check my book, and she gets out her little black book, and he s peeking over looking and later he calls and tells us, you know, there was nothing written in her black book. it was a fast track courtship and before very long ryan was bringing his new girlfriend home to meet his mom, jill. i liked her a lot. i probably remember the one thing that struck me the most was how beyond her years in