they said go wash your hands. conrad s attorneys were working hard to establish reasonable doubt. and the state medical examiner shifting opinion on heidy s manner of death, only help them. that s your case right there. you would think. i mean, if he has a reasonable doubt, hard to argue a jury shouldn t. exactly. the medical examiner told the jury that in the final analysis, he didn t know the manner of heidy s death. i finalized the autopsy report with the cause of death as a gunshot wound and the manner of death as could not be determined. the medical examiner also testified how, in his experience, a contact wound like heidy s s rear in homicide cases. with a contact gunshot would, it would be consistent with the wound that is self inflicted. after 15 days of testimony, the jury began to deliberate. so you felt pretty good leading up to the verdict? yes, there was enough there beyond a reasonable doubt. was conrad having a much harder time. it was really diff
it was amazing. we went on a lift, chairlift. and then all of the guests went down these slides. so, it was just so them. they said their vows and he s kind of doing this champion pose. like he was just, everything was right with the world. the enviable couple was just starting out. with a future as bright as their smiles. until that is, a sunday evening in september, 2012. three years after the truman were married. tell me about that day? that day was just like any other day. as night fell, heidy decided to take a bath. conrad said he went to the kitchen to get something to eat. as he faked himself a sandwich, he said he heard a noise coming from the direction of the bathroom. it was like the new year s hoppers or the halloween populists. where you can pull to the strings or you can pull one.
side like that? that s a tough question. it s like, how do you really know when someone is going to do that, you know? as he left his life behind bars, conrad continue to speculate. he also tried to stay hopeful. i was just like, this is going to work out. it has to because i didn t do. this conrad s family never gave up on him. so, they scraped together the money to hire conrad some new attorneys. mark and annie looked into the case. to them it was immediately apparent that there were a lot of problems. mark mark moffat and ann taliaferro were those attorneys. one of the first things they did was visit what had become the scene of the crime. we went to the house and we walked in and we think, a ha. within moments of being in that home, we knew immediately that there was a huge problem. not a problem for them. more for the people who had put conrad truman away. coming up an innocent man in jail for someone s mistake in math? i remember thinking, well, that s str
because he must be overwhelmed with grief. conrad s sister colette was thinking the same thing as she raced to the hospital. what kind of condition was your brother in? he was just a total wreck. just absolutely hysterical. didn t know how it could ve happened. no one did. but back at the truman home, sgt. crook had started analyzing the evidence. and was already developing a theory. i thought, oh, man. there s something going on here. you had a feeling? i had a feeling. yes. it wasn t just me. everybody was looking around like there is something wrong here. we need to check. coming up was a an accident, suicide? she s completely naked. we don t see a lot of women commit suicide naked. that s not normal. or something else? i felt like they thought i did something. when dateline continues. i m a big advocate of recommending things that i know work.
the story was hard to follow. he was jumping around all over. and wasn t making sense to me, so it was hard to follow. those officers also told the jury about conrad s threats. he was telling us we were going to slow. that we needed to hurry up or he was going to kill us. will (bleep) kill you if you don t get out my way. if you re making these violent threats to people who were there trying to help your wife, how are you treating your wife when it s only you and her alone? taylor then tackled the theory of suicide by calling witnesses to testify heidy was not suicidal. in your experience as heidy s mother, was she or sad or depressed person? no. i did it see her that way. did heidy s not knowing her father are not really knowing who he was, make her depressed or sad? no. no. the prosecutor pointed out conrad s story evolved over time. immediately following the shooting on the way to the hospital, conrad insisted heidy would never commit suicide.