welcome back. conrad truman was serving a sentence for the murder of his wife heidi, but he had not given up on himself yet and neither had his family. they had just hired new lawyers and it was the legal team s first visit to the crime scene that confirmed something conrad s sister suspected. this case could not have added up to murder. here again is josh. while conrad truman sat in a utah state prison marking time, his sister colette searched endlessly for ways to get him out. was there a time when you or anybody else in your family thought maybe we don t know him as well as we thought we did. no. he couldn t have killed her? not possible. so much about conrad truman s
hello and welcome to date line extra. heidi and conrad truman had a special bond. deep love. envied by others. o one tragic evening a gunshot rang out. conrad s behavior in the minutes and hours that followed would be highly debated for years. detectives would focus on the grieving husband, but were they looking at the wrong man? this is josh majors. they seemed so incongruous. the soaring majesty of the wausau mountains and a woman struck down in her youth. it was a lot of things. tragic, crushing, stunning. but was it an accident or a suicide or a murder?
conrad s lawyers were ready to argue that heidi took her own life, but a witness who knew her as long as anyone would tell a different tale. with the conclusion of our story, here s josh. conrad truman had been convicted of murder and had already served more than three years. now the revelation of those flawed police measurements had led to conrad truman s new trial. that stunned everyone in the utah county da s office, especially the man responsible for conrad s conviction. this took us by surprise. the defense says you had to have known. that s their take. they re doing their job to zealously represent their client. just the same as lee detective tom wallace.
attempt to stop police advances. now back to dateline. you re back to dateline extra. the alcohol, the bizarre actions, it was all enough to convince a jury. he had more to say about it first in court and then he wanted to talk to us. here again is josh. just more than two years after his wife heidi s death, conrad truman stood convicted of her murder. he was looking down the barrel of a life sentence when he returned to a utah courtroom to learn his punishment. this is the moment where some convicted killers ask for mercy because of their difficult lives or tell the court they ve been