details. that was the worst day of my life that i found out about my mom. a loving couple. a romantic hike. a secluded spot. she was turning to look at the bird. it s like her feet just went out from under her. all of a sudden i hear yelling coming from downstream. there was mrs. muller floating face up. a wife falling to her death. her husband falling apart. he was panicking and shaking. crying. the evidence at the scene makes you believe something entirely different happened. he told me she fell 20 feet. where were the injuries? why did i not see what i expected to see? a search for truth in the woods and water. if your theory is right, it is. loo like she was being hunted. almost like a hare and a wolf. two chilling accounts of what happened to the mom they adored. one seemingly unsolve able mystery. you either believe crazy story a or crazy story b. both stories are crazy. which one do you want to go with? winding down a mountain in southwest col
i was trying to take her picture. she fell. and i remember saying, but she s going to be ok? and he said, no, she s dead. and i kind of lost it. i started crying terribly. and he said, i m so, so sorry, mandy. what did your dad say to you when you got him on the phone? i don t even think i asked him what happened because you don t want to hear details. i mean, i could easily say that was the worst day in my life thati don t think i asked hi what happened. you don t want to hear details. i could easily say it was the worst day of the life i found out about my mom. and, the only detail that matters is she was gone. reporter: the tragic details, however, were the business of hensdale county sheriff ron bruce. he and his small office had the huge job of patrolling more than 1100 square miles of potentially dangerous wilderness and wildlife. should they have not gone to that area? no. it was perfectly fine. i think he related it was
day leslie died was unusual. fred, to him, showed a lack of emotion. but what really spoke volumes to the sheriff and his team was something they knew well. the terrain around cottonwood creek. as fred told them, leslie did a swan dive from up there, landing on her head and shoulders on this rock. then, she slid into the water. a horrible accident. but to local law enforcement something seemed off. the first trained rescuer on the scene noticed at first what appeared to be a major inconsistency in that story. after such a treacherous fall, leslie s body didn t look at all injured. he told me she fell 20 feet. where was the trauma? where were the injuries? why did i not see what i expected to see? reporter: one look at the dropoff and sheriff bruce was asking the same thing.
homeowner justice sparks. michael took off toward him. there was mrs. mueller dressed in a lime green jacket floating face up. he found her. i believe he used the word pinned under the log and face down. reporter: leslie had no pulse. but he thought there was still hope she would be revived. fred had caught up, towering over them from the creek embankment. he says is she dead? i tell him it is too soon to know. reporter: he sent fred back down the road to look for more help. by then, a small village of first responders had assembled at the start of the trail. among them, deputy casey. we had officers responding. the ems personnel. fire personnel coming with the fire trucks. reporter: dispatch put a call into local sheriff ron bruce. we had gotten a report of a
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