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Dateline NBC

The Bathtub Mystery

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Ryan and Sarah are newlyweds of just 114 days. Home together on a quiet Monday evening, no one could ever imagine how their lives would soon take a turn for the worst. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on May 6, 2011.

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0:00.0

What goes on behind the closed doors of a marriage is not always apparent to the outside.

0:16.0

My wife, she goes into the bandit and came up here and she was laying face down in the bandit.

0:22.0

She was just unconscious of being in bride haunting death. He was telling me he could never ever love another woman as much as he loved her.

0:34.0

What had happened? Did she have an aneurysm? Did she have a seizure?

0:38.0

Police were baffled. I expected something to be wet. I expected her to be water on the floor.

0:43.0

Things were not adding up. Something was screaming to me. Something's bad wrong.

0:47.0

Could this death have been deliberate? She would have murdered.

0:50.0

I love Sarah. I would never have hurt her.

0:53.0

I started crying because I felt so bad for him. There's no chance he had anything to do with it.

0:59.0

Three trials, three juries.

1:01.0

We're scared that the truth may not come out.

1:05.0

Sometimes the shades are drawn early in a marriage, even for young couples so in love like newlywed Sarah and Ryan.

1:21.0

Everything in life was still fresh, even at home on your average Monday night.

1:26.0

After his workday as a sports planner, Ryan said he popped down on the sofa on an August night to chill with the Bengals preseason opener against Green Bay.

1:37.0

Sarah, he says, went upstairs to draw a bath in the master. She liked her calming baths.

1:43.0

The young deadlite genus had been tormented with more of her headaches that afternoon.

1:47.0

The young couple in the suburban Cincinnati home that evening had been married for just under four months. 114 days to be exact.

1:56.0

They'd vowed till death to us part, and that moment was only minutes away from arriving.

2:08.0

They'd begun the two of them with a blind date at a pub that worked out.

2:12.0

Sarah, Sarah Stewart had been fixed up by her friend Dana Kist.

2:17.0

Dana had an inkling that Sarah would really hit it off with her husband Chris's former college roommate, Ryan Wydmer.

2:23.0

I came home when I said Sarah is amazing. I said I think this their personalities would really get along. He said, well let's let him go to dinner and see what happens.

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