back so we could get together for dinner. and i didn t even get a chance to do that. shocking news, to say the least. shocking news. dana, a nurse, try to make some sense out of what had happened to her dear friend. she thought back to her last conversations with sarah. she was complaining of headaches. she would call and say, what do you think from a medical background? i said, maybe you should get your blood pressure check. i said basically you need a checkup. how long has it been since you ve been to the doctor? and then there was that funny that sarah had that people used to kid her. about the way she would fall asleep at the drop of a hack. well, maybe that wasn t so funny. maybe that was part of an underlying condition that help explain her sudden death. her mother in law noticed it when she first got to know sarah. it was christmas 2007. jill was taking home videos. all of a sudden i panned over and there is there is sarah spending time at the family. christmas sar
the police officer arrived. and will about the fingers and toes that should have been pruned up but weren t? well, no one knows what time sarah got into the top. we don t know if she was prepping in front of the mirror. we don t know any of this. staff and by the way, suggested the defense, you can t have it both ways with the dry bathroom theory. if ryan had killed sarah in the small bathroom, there s also should have been water splashed everywhere. there was a violent struggle there would be water on the floor, the counter, the walls, everywhere. her and if they want to claim that there was a stage scene where he cleaned up the water, then where is the wet towel? and investigators looked for wet towels. in the drier, even in the garage. nothing. and say for arguments say there had been a struggle. do you think ryan would ve scrap stopped a series of fought her life. but ryan didn t have a mark on him. how would sarah have reacted if she was being attacked? sarah it was a
i did it. i killed sarah. i did it. i thought what he meant was that he didn t do enough to save her life that night. he said, no, jen, listen to me, i did it. she said ryan told her it had started with a fight between the two of them. sarah had found out that he had cheated on her when she went away with her mom. he said that they were in the living room and they were arguing about his pornography. what happened when she came upstairs? she was getting ready for the bath. ryan said that the argument continued, said he couldn t open do it anymore, and that the marriage was over. ryan, she testified, then told sarah nobody leaves me, nobody ever leaves me, and i mean nobody. that s when jennifer crew says ryan hit his wife. she fell backwards and hit her head. he said, jen, i blacked out, i blacked out. but why this story now? jennifer crew waited until
this is ryan widmer s story as he tells it. he remembers a loving relationship with his wife sarah that was right from the first date. we hit it off perfect. was there any friction? none whatsoever. everything was cool? perfect. perfect. he only had one worry about sarah. my biggest problem with her was her sleep. she would work a regular day and need to be going to bed early or taking a nap. i just thought something wasn t healthy about it. you re 24 years old. but still he says they fell into their everyday lives, their jobs, walking the dog, building a deck on their house. all routine, he says, until that august night. sarah had come home from work, he says, with a headache. they had dinner, watched tv. she s what? laying on the couch. because she doesn t feel so hot? she says her neck is killing her, she s going to get in the bath and go to bed. ryan says he stayed downstairs and watched the game
guilty. ryan dropped his head to the table. he was hysterical. he was crying. he was a mess. a bad, bad, bad dream. ryan composed himself enough to proclaim to the court his innocence. judge, i did not do this. i don t know why this has to keep going on. my life has been ruined. i love sarah. i would never have hurt her. never. outside the court, ryan s father gary slumped to the ground. the son he was recently reunited with after years apart taken from him again. it was a horrifying moment. i think it just totally caught up with me at that point, the whole total shock. i just went weak. ryan widmer for the second time was given the mandatory sentence, 15 years to life. as court officers handcuffed him and led him away, few people were aware of a young woman on his side of the benches, crying. this is also a sarah. sarah manhurst. she s another twist in the story that has had so many.