something was wrong at the truman house. she came out of the shower, and i heard a pop, and there s blood! and she s in blood! i have officers and paramedics on the way. okay? reporter: the 911 call came into the orem, utah, police department at about 11:00 p.m. that september night back in 2012. we got a call of a gunshot wound or some sort of injury. reporter: sergeant bill crook went to the truman home. so we all kind of rushed to our cars and headed that direction with lights and sirens. reporter: on the other end of the phone was conrad, kneeling on his kitchen floor covered in blood and consumed by panic. it was devastating. it was a nightmare. you can t even explain it. reporter: with one hand he held the phone. with the other, his bleeding wife. it was so hard. when it s your loved one like that. i had no i just did the best i could to try to keep her breathing.
only where her daughter had been taken. i m driving down to the hospital, and i make a comment to my daughter. i go, you know, autumn, as hard as it is that we lost heidy, we re going to have to be supporting conrad because he must be overwhelmed with grief. reporter: conrad s sister colette was thinking the same thing as she raced to the hospital. what kind of condition was your brother in then? he was just a total wreck, just absolutely hysterical. didn t know how it could have happened. reporter: no one did. but back at the truman home, sergeant crook had started analyzing the evidence and was already developing a theory. i thought, oh, man, there s something going on here. reporter: you got a feeling? i got a feeling, yes. it wasn t just me. everybody was kind of looking around like there s something wrong here. we need a detective. coming up was it an accident? suicide? we don t see a lot of women who commit suicide naked.
at some point conrad heard a pop, and when he turned, he saw heidy standing somewhere between the kitchen and the bathroom hallway bleeding. and he either runs over and catches her or she falls down. reporter: wallace then went back to the truman home, making detailed measurements of the kitchen and surrounding rooms. he wanted to see if conrad s story checked out. his conclusion it did not. her body s at the top of the staircase. it doesn t add up that she would have traveled that distance he said she had gone then fallen in that location. reporter: it was hard for wallace to believe that heidy could have traveled from the bathroom to the stairs after sustaining such a head wound. she would have fallen immediately to the ground. reporter: wallace shared his findings with assistant district attorney craig johnson. johnson agreed. everything pointed to conrad. why would conrad truman want to kill his wife? under the circumstances, i d
while conrad truman sat in a utah state prison marking time, his sister colette searched endlessly for ways to get him out. was there a time when you or anybody else in your family thought maybe we don t know him as well as we thought we did? no. reporter: he couldn t have killed her? not possible. reporter: so much about conrad truman s trial bothered his sister colette. but one detail in particular kept gnawing at her. it had to do with the diagrams used by the state depicting the area where heidy s body was found. i remember thinking, well, that s strange. that s that couldn t be right. reporter: post-verdict, colette shared her concerns with conrad s new attorneys, mark moffat and ann taliaferro. they decided to visit the truman home to see for themselves if the state s diagrams were accurate. we later made that same trip with moffat who showed us what they discovered. this is the area in question,
was in the kitchen. heidy was in the bathroom. at some point conrad heard a pop, and when he turned, he saw heidy standing somewhere between the kitchen and the bathroom hallway bleeding. and he either runs over and catches her or she falls down. wallace then went back to the truman home, making detailed measurements of the kitchen and surrounding rooms. he wanted to see if conrad s story checked out. his conclusion it did not. her body s at the top of the staircase. it doesn t add up that she would have traveled that distance he said she had gone then fallen in that location. it was hard for wallace to believe that heidy could have traveled from the bathroom to the stairs after sustaining such a head wound. she would have fallen immediately to the ground. wallace shared his findings with assistant district attorney craig johnson. johnson agreed. everything pointed to conrad. why would conrad truman want to