and that is exactly what would happen. just two days after his new bride s death, a warrant was issued for ryan widmer s arrest. by ryan s admission, he was the only one in the house. ryan murdered sarah or he s covering for somebody that did. it didn t seem possible at first glance. a clean cut young couple, whim out a criminal record of any kind, them with no history of arguments, no problems in their marriage. what was the motivate for murder on a monday night? any boyfriend/girlfriend issues here? no evidence of that. money trouble? not that we can find. any anger issues with the guy? no. you re not getting a negative picture of this couple. no, we re not. as unlikely as it may seem, police say there s no other explanation for sarah s death. ryan is charged with his wife s murder. his family and friends were devastated. ryan and i were both so broken hearted. i could not have ever conceived,
mr. widmer, is there anything you wish to say? the first trial ended with a mistrial. the second with a hung jury. with this next you re reach a verdict? these three jurors from the last trial said the prosecutors failed to convince them that ryan widmer had killed his wife. there s just nothing to prove to me he had anything to do with her death. and the next group of jurors would also not be able to reach a unanimous decision. we sat in jury deliberations for 36 hours. the likelihood of 12 jurors coming to the same conclusion was very unlikely. we really didn t think that another jury would not be deadlocked. they would soon find out. ryan widmer s extraordinary third trial for the murder of his wife was about to start all over again. the prosecutors felt it was their duty to argue their case for sarah. we re committed to seeing
something has happened to sarah. emts were rushing sarah to the hospital. by then they worked on her for 45 minutes. but hadn t gotten a response. minutes later, jill was with her son waiting anxiously together in a room off emergency. finally, a woman came in and then we said is she gone? and she said yes. and he just dropped down to his knees and was just bawling and sobbing into the chair. reporter: sarah widmer, 24 years old, the bride of less than four months, was dead. her husband ryan told the emergency services people he thought she had fallen asleep in the bathtub and drowned. but the emts doing cpr tried everything they could to save her. they didn t understand one crucial observation they made at the home that night. there is something here that doesn t look right. a drowning in a dry bathroom? i expected something to be wet. there s a towel on the floor. there s a mat on the floor.
minute. her son on trial for murder. i see my scared baby is what i see. i mean, he was scared to death. but the prosecution s message for the jury was blunt. there had been a violent confrontation in the widmer house that night. ryan widmer purposely killed sarah stewart widmer and murdered her by drowning. the prosecutors began with the first moments of the case. ryan s call to 911. my wife, she fell asleep in the bathtub, i think. i was downstairs. i came up here and she was laying face down in the bathtub. the emergency dispatcher testified that the voice was giving more details than normal. the caller was rather calm. usually i can t get anything out of them. she s in the bathtub? the water is draining right
jennifer from ohio, struck up a phone and e-mail relationship with ryan in 2009, she said was she drawn to the case after the death of her sister-in-law. how often did you talk? three times a week. he talked about sarah a lot, he was having a hard time accepting everything. she flew to ohio to visit a friend and go with another supporter to a bowling fundraiser organized for widmer s defense. she even made this video tribute to ryan and sarah that she posted on youtube. one more day her husband supported her friendship with ryan. was it a little out there? yeah. but i m so comfortable with her and our relationship that without a shadow of a doubt, i was 100% behind her. i did feel strongly about supporting him. there s just no chance that he had anything to do with it. but the importance of the seattle woman s story for the defense was that she too had a