Sarah Widmer
Criminology
Emash Digital
4.7 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Just before 11 PM on August 11th, 2009, Ryan Widmer called 911, requesting help at his home in Hamilton Township, Ohio. According to Ryan, His wife, twenty-four-year-old Sarah Widmer, had fallen asleep while she was taking a bath and accidentally drowned. Police quickly became suspicious of his story.
Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the death of Sarah Widmer. Ryan's story was picked apart, and discrepancies emerged. Also, the crime scene didn't seem to make sense. But the state's case was primarily circumstantial. And although Ryan has been convicted multiple times of Sarah's murder, there are many who believe he is innocent.
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| 0:00.0 | Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics. |
| 0:05.9 | Listener discretion is advised. Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 405 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson. |
| 0:43.0 | And this is Mike Morford. |
| 0:44.7 | Mr. Morford, how you doing this week, buddy? |
| 0:47.3 | I'm doing pretty good. How you doing? |
| 0:48.8 | I'm doing great. My, uh, my oldest daughter has been off for spring break. You know, she's a, she's a real adult now. I mean, she's got a full-time job. She's a speech pathologist at a school. She's just happy to get a spring break. Well, that's pretty cool to have a job where you do get to have some breaks now and then. I know you're always a teacher. So you get that little bit of time off and recharge the batteries. |
| 1:11.9 | Yeah, they're excited for the summer because they're going to be able to hang out together now. |
| 1:17.3 | So. |
| 1:18.0 | Very cool. |
| 1:19.1 | Neither you nor I ever experienced that because we didn't get our summers off, but teachers deserve it. |
| 1:25.5 | They put up with a lot. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah, they give them a lot of credit and |
| 1:28.5 | deserve a little break. So yeah, absolutely. Let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts. We had |
| 1:33.2 | Shannon Swenson and Scott Dislors. So great new support. We really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you so |
| 1:41.0 | much, Shannon and Scott and to everyone else that helps support the show. |
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