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They had begun the two of them with a blind date at a pub that worked out. sarah, sarah stewart had been fixed up by her friend, dana. dana had an inkling that sarah would hit it off with ryan. i came home. i said sarah is amazing. i think their personalities would get along. he said, let s let them go to dipper and see what happens. what happened over drinks and nibbles was chemistry. laid back ryan, the college jock, and super organized, who needed everything just so talked about getting together. she said let me check my book. she gets out her little black book. she s looking through. he is peeking over looking. he said, later he calls us and 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. ....
there were a million questions in our mind, did she have an aneurysm, did something medically happen to her? did she have a seizure? reporter: daylight, and word was spreading that sarah was gone. dana and chris, the couple who had fixed the newlyweds up, could not believe what they were hearing. we had just gotten back from a trip and told her i would call her as soon as we got back and we would get together to dinner. i didn t get a chance. shocking news. reporter: dana, a nurse, tried to make sense of what had happened to her dear friend. she thought back to her conversations with sarah. she was complaining of headaches, saying what do you think from a medical background? i said, maybe you should get your blood pressure checked, i said, you should get a checkup. how long has it been since you ve been to the doctor? there was that funny trait sarah used to have that people would kid her about, that she would fall asleep at the drop of a hat. maybe it was part of an unde ....
Letter that was read during the service. the minister that did their wedding did her funeral as well. chris and dana grieved for sarah. but also tried to comfort a shattered ryan. i remember him telling me, dana, i love her so much. ryan was so distraught, he felt he couldn t go back to the home he had bought with sarah. so while he waited for his trial date, he moved in with his mother. it was great to have him staying with me, but there s only one topic in the household, huh? there s two. one was continuing to talk about how much we miss sarah, trying to grieve for her. at the same time this young man who lost the love of his love, he s trying to grieve for his wife and he s got a murder charge hanging over his head that he might go to prison the rest of his life. ryan wondered why couldn t everybody just see that he loved his wife and that she died a death that perhaps a medical ....
Member rethinking an incident that may not have been so innocent after all. had trouble been brewing in the seemingly happy marriage? here again is dennis murphy. sarah was wonderful. the most loving person. she was just a great person. sarah widmer had been a daughter, a wife, a loyal friend in her brief life. but in death, to those who would never know her, she would become simply the victim. the case could be summarized as briefly as a true crime paperback: the bathtub murder. on talk radio in the greater cincinnati area, host bill cunningham could feel the court of public opinion respond to the story. the bathtub murder case had the phone ringing. the idea that such a young man could be watching a bengals game, and within a few seconds turn from a bengals fan, long-suffering, to a murderer, was a little bit shocking. for months listeners debated whether the husband could have ....
The tub. but those who knew her sleep habits say it may have been a sign of an undiagnosed, underlying medical condition. sarah s boss, a dentist, testified sarah s quirky sleep habits were well-known around the office. she would go to her car and take a nap. that s odd because people don t usually do that. the dentist recollected that sarah had not been feeling well on that last day of her life. she had a sore throat. she was still feeling crummy later in the evening when she spoke to a friend. she had a headache and the back of her neck was hurting. she sounded tired. she didn t sound like she felt very good. ....