reporter: christine was still trying to find her husband. she didn t know he had been transferred to a different jail. eventually, he called. he told me everything would be okay. and that we were gonna have to to fight some things. reporter: christine was a wreck. her husband was in jail and she was dumbfounded as to why the police had taken the boys out of school and then interviewed them without parental permission. she felt better about this though the two oldest boys backed their dad s story they had seen their mom cory alive valentine s day morning, just like curtis said. they saw their mother alive that day. the and that s that s the gist of their story. yes, i saw her alive that morning yes. when dad took us to school. uh-huh. so there it was valentine s day. so therefore she couldn t have been dead upstairs and right. dying and rigor mortis setting in. right. because we saw her alive. uh-huh yes. reporter: the boys sister lyndsay,
clock was ticking as he staged his scene before calling 911, and that explains the dry body/damp hair mystery. sarah widmer was either out of the bathtub for a long period of time or her body was never fully in that bathtub. they claim ryan spent so much time cleaning up the scene before he called for emts, that sarah s dead body was showing signs of rigor mortis when she arrived. she was already dead, 42 had difficult intubating her because her chin kept wanting to fall. rigor mortis setting in. now it was up to the jury to decide. we re scared that the truth may not come out. the verdict. and the controversy.
victim here? are we talking about stab wounds, bullets holes no. no. reporter: lacerations, abrasions? there s a large amount of blood and there s several lacerations to the the head. it seemed as though the body had been there for a while. i touched the deceased for the first time, with rigor mortis setting in, i thought, how long that body had been on that floor. reporter: there was an open paint bucket at the scene. and paint light-colored paint everywhere. the paint, to me, is fresh paint. it s wet. there was a thin layer of paint on the deceased that appeared to be dry in some spots, but then there was other paint on the deceased that was still wet and a large amount of paint on the floor that was wet. reporter: did this look like the case of somebody who had taken a bad fall? and somehow ends up knocking into the paint can and causing the paint to spill over them? no, because in the configuration of where the deceased was in relation to the stairs and wh
clock was ticking as he staged his scene before calling 911, and that explains the dry body/damp hair mystery. sarah widmer was either out of the bathtub for a long period of time or her body was never fully in that bathtub. they claim ryan spent so much time cleaning up the scene before he called for emts, that sarah s dead body was showing signs of rigor mortis when she arrived. she was already 4ead,d difficult intubating her because her chin kept wanting to fall. rigor mortis setting in. now it was up to the jury to decide. we re scared that the truth may not come out. the verdict. and the controversy.
jamie magarian, the lead investigator, studied the scene. let it talk to him. any obvious injuries to the victim here? are we talking about stab wounds, bullets holes no. no. reporter: lacerations, abrasions? there s a large amount of blood and there s several lacerations to the the head. reporter: it seemed like the body had been there for a while. i touched the deceased for the first time, with rigor mortis setting in, i thought, how long that body had been on that floor. reporter: there was an open paint bucket at the scene. and paint light-colored paint everywhere. the paint, to me, is fresh paint. it s wet. there was a thin layer of paint on the deceased that appeared to be dry in some spots, but then there was other paint on the deceased that was still wet and a large amount of paint on the floor that was wet. reporter: did this look like the case of somebody who had taken a bad fall? and somehow ends up knocking into the paint can and causing the paint to