that night. but they were going to show that ryan widmer had no reason to hurt his wife. and as far as damp hair/dry body, they would explain that. the bottom line for the defense i know one thing. ryan widmer had nothing to do with his wife s death. charlie ritgers, ryan wid mer s defense attorney argued that his client was plagued from the get-go by the unhappy choice of words on that 911 call. she falls asleep in the tub all the time. had ryan told the 911 dispatcher only that his wife was unconscious, it wouldn t have been spususpicious. the only thing ryan knows is she fell asleep in the tub, but they jumped on that and said he s a liar. the defense argues the coroner had been all too quick to rule her death a homicide.
in the tub in the first place? bottom line is there would have been water everywhere. if there wasn t, it was cleaned up, and if there was a cleanup, then there was something to hide, and that was her murder. and an expert witness for the prosecution spoke to the issue of whether a person can actually fall asleep and drown in a bathtub. her testimony was no, that can t happen. it would be virtually impossible for somebody without the influence of drugs or alcohol or something external to fall asleep and not wake up. so first the sensation of water on your face would wake you up. two, would be the gag reflex, water entering your airway, just choking, and then three, if for someone reason that didn t, the drop in oxygen would cause you to stimulate and wake up. but maybe sarah hadn t fallen asleep. perhaps she d suffered a catastrophic but perfectly natural event, something to her heart, her brain, the coroner didn t find that.
any evidence of heart problems? no. any evidence of brain injury or seizure? no. one of the amazing things about sarah widmer is that she had regular medical care. for a person her age she went twice in two years for a regular physical. this is not a person who didn t have the opportunity to interact with her medical profession. and to the coroner, the bruising he saw on sarah s neck and scalp while performing the autopsy looked ominous, the wounds too significant and not in the right spot to have been caused by emt s life saving efforts. the things that were the most disconcerting were the three bruises which were able to be seen on the right side of the scalp. she s got another faint bruise on her forehead. she s got this significant degree of a neck hemorrhage. she s undergone significant cpr. however, there is no hemorrhage anywhere in the area of the chest so it s difficult to try to rationalize that the
was. poised, huh? yeah. sarah didn t have a problem telling anyone anything. so if you made sarah mad, you knew you made sarah mad. as for ryan he never seemed to lose it. never seen him upset. he doesn t get mad. he is so laid back and easy going, go with the flow. she is so on it organized this is where we have to be? he just says okay. jill enjoyed her days with ryan and his new girlfriend, sarah. our family tends to do a lot of barbecues and picnics and things like that. we would spend some time down on the lake in kentucky. they would come down there. were you pleased she was becoming a serious part of the family? i was very pleased, yes. reporter: the couple bought a nice four bedroom house together in a good neighborhood and ryan surprised sarah with an engagement ring. he put the ring in a dog s collar. that s all i know. she was very excited. he was excited. sarah made him happy. reporter: soon the wedding
tells us there was nothing written in her black book. reporter: 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. probably number one thing that struck me the most was how beyond her years in maturity she was. poised, huh? yeah. sarah didn t have a problem telling anyone anything. so if you made sarah mad, you knew you made sarah mad. as for ryan he never seemed to lose it. never seen him upset. he doesn t get mad. he is so laid back and easy going, go with the flow. she is so on it organized this is where we have to be? he just says okay. jill enjoyed her days with ryan and his new girlfriend, sarah. our family tends to do a lot of barbecues and picnics and things like that. we would spend some time down on the lake in kentucky. they would come down there. were you please she d was becoming a serious part of the family? i was very pleased, yes.