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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

SUBMERGED-Janice Hisle

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

A young bride drowns in her bathtub. Her husband of four months is accused of murder. What happened in their tiny suburban bathroom—and why—was never resolved. A compelling true-crime drama, based on exclusive new information, Submerged exposes hidden angles of a case that captivated and divided an ordinary American community, tore apart two families and tested the criminal justice system.
Compelled by conscience and curiosity, former Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Janice (Morse) Hisle—who covered the saga of Ryan and Sarah Widmer from the start—returns 10 years later to dig deep to tell the untold story: dozens of interviews, 6,000 pages of trial transcripts and previously unrevealed records such as:
•Ryan’s first written statement about Sarah’s death
•attorneys’ notes and trial-preparation documents
•Ryan’s personal journal, notes and correspondence
•more than a thousand pages of police notes and reports
Submerged will draw you into the depths of a stranger-than-fiction story that you will ponder long after turning the final page. SUBMERGED: Ryan Widmer, his Drowned Bride and the Justice System-Janice Hisle

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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime history,

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and the authors that have written about them. Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Nightstocker,

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DTK, every week, another fascinating author, talking about the most shocking and

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infamous killers in True Crime history. True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan

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Zufanski.

1:02.6

Good evening. A young bride drowns in her bathtub. Her husband of four months is accused of murder.

1:09.8

What happened in their tiny suburban bathroom and why was never resolved. A compelling true

1:16.4

crime drama based on exclusive new information submerged, exposed hidden angles of a case

1:22.8

that captivated and divided an ordinary American community, to her part two families,

1:28.3

and tested the criminal justice system. Compeld by conscience and curiosity,

1:34.3

former Cincinnati inquire reporter Janice Morse Heisel, who covered the sag of Ryan and Seren

1:41.2

Widmer from the start, returns ten years later to dig deep to tell the untold story.

1:47.1

Dozens of interviews, 6,000 pages of trial transcripts, and previously unrevealed records such as

1:54.1

Ryan's first written statement about Serra's death, attorney's notes and trial preparation

1:59.2

documents, Ryan's personal journal notes and correspondence. More than a thousand pages of

2:04.7

police notes and reports submerged will draw you into the depths of a stranger than fiction

2:10.3

story that you will ponder long after turning to final page. The book that we're featuring this

2:16.7

evening is submerged. Ryan Widmer is drown, bride, and the justice system. With my special guest

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