in other words, had ryan told the 9-1-1 dispatch are only that his wife was unconscious it wouldn t have been so suspicious. the only thing ryan knows is she, fell asleep in the tub. but they jump on that as say he s a liar. the defense attorney argued the coroner had been all too quick to rule the death of homicide. he had no idea if she had unusual sleep habits. he had no idea that she was suffering from a headache that day. remember, an expert witness for the prosecution had said it would have been impossible for sarah to fall asleep and die in the tub. but those who knew her sleep abbott said it may have been a sign of an undiagnosed, underlying medical condition. sarah s boss, the dentist, testified that her quirky sleep patterns were well known around the office. she would normally grab a quick lunch and go out to her car and take a nap for 30 to 45 minutes. because people don t generally do that. and the dentist recollected that sarah hadn t been feeling well on th
came back on the line to say that he just moved his wife from the tub to the bedroom. okay. go ahead and get back to cpr. go and try cpr. they ll be there in a little bit. okay? okay. detective braley wondered along with the emts and arriving officers why a woman who drowned in a bathtub would be mostly dry. he needed to see the scene. what story would it tell? i start mentally prepare myself based on what they ve told me. what do i want to see what versus what do i see. he headed for the master bathroom. i expected something to be wet. i expected her there to be water on the floor. towels or whatever it might be. it simply was. not there. dry, dry? there is a very small bit of water, what you might call droplets, around the tub right around the drain. other than that, there is. nothing. for there is a toll on the floor. there s a math on the floor. but everything is perfectly dry. now you have not only a drowning victim who didn t appear to be wet. someone who supp
my wife she, fell asleep in the bathtub. i was downstairs. i just came up and she was laying face down in the bathtub. i got a call, it was ryan. something has happened to sarah. the emts were rushing sarah to the hospital. by then they had worked on her for 45 minutes but hadn t gotten a response. minutes later, jill widmer was with her son, waiting anxiously together in a room off emergency. finally a woman came in and we said is she gone? and she said yes. he just dropped down to his knees and was balling and sobbing. sara widmer, 24 years old. a bright of less than four months was dead. her husband ryan told the emergency services people he thought he had fallen asleep in the bathtub and drowned. but those emts doing cpr, trying everything to save her, didn t understand one crucial observation that they made that night. something here doesn t look right. coming up. a drowning in a dry bathtub. i expected something to be wet.
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. to, it would be the gag reflex. water entering your air with a weaker and choking. and three, for some reason if that didn t, the drop in oxygen would actually cause you to stimulate and we can. but maybe sarah haven t fallen asleep. perhaps she had suffered a catastrophic but perfectly natural event. something to her heart, her brain. the coroner didn t find anything. any evidence apart of drug 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 just a regular physical. this is not a person who didn t have the opportunity to interact with her medical professional. and to the coroner the bruising he saw on sarah s neck and scalp will perform in the autopsy were ominous.
he speaking over, looking. he said later and calls us and tells us, there was nothing written in her about black. book [laughs] it was a fast-track of courtship and before very long, ryan was bringing his new girlfriend home to meet his mom, jill. i liked her a lot. the one thing that struck me the most was how beyond her years and mature she was. sarah didn t have a problem telling anyone anything. so if you made sarah mad, you knew you made her mad. as for ryan, he never seem to listen. he doesn t get upset, he doesn t get mad. he so laid back and so easygoing, go with the flow. she so on it, organize. this is what it has to be. and he just says, okay. jill widmer enjoyed her days with ryan and his new girlfriend, sarah. our family tends to do a lot of barbecues, picnics, things like that. we would spend some time down at the lake in kentucky. they would come down there.