Ryan Widmer will give his first public interview since being accused, then convicted, of murdering his wife, Sarah Widmer, in 2008.
Widmer, who was recently moved from a central processing facility near Columbus to the Warren Correctional Institution, will speak today with “Dateline NBC” for an upcoming segment.
The 30-year-old Mason man was convicted Feb. 15 of murder and sentenced to 15 years to life. He stood trial three times – the first two trials ended in mistrial. He did not take the stand to testify in his own defense in any of the trials.
The Enquirer’s Janice Morse reports that several other local media outlets have also requested interviews with Widmer, but prison officials did not immediately know whether Widmer and his attorneys have agreed to grant any additional interviews.
It is also unknown whether the interview would be no-holds-barred or whether Widmer and his lawyers will limit the subject matter – a possibility considering his pending appeal.
Dateline has also interviewed jurors from Widmer’s second trial who think he should have been acquitted, as well as jurors from his third trial.
Dateline has covered all three of Widmer’s trials and previously aired an episode on the case in September 2009.
Read a transcript of Dateline: The Mystery in the Master BedroomThe national attention drawn by television show attracted responses from hundreds of people from across the nation, including two women who turned into witnesses in Widmer’s third trial earlier this year.
Jennifer Crew of Iowa testified that Widmer confessed to her that he killed his wife, Sarah, 24, after an argument over an alleged affair. Prosecutors presented no evidence of any affair and jurors have said they discounted Crew’s statements.
A second woman who contacted Widmer after the Dateline episode, Melissa Waller of Washington State, testified for the defense. She said that she spoke to Widmer in a telephone call that ended just six minutes before the alleged confessional phone call to Crew, and that Widmer seemed normal and wasn’t agitated, as Crew alleged.
A Dateline spokeswoman had previously said the Widmer episode could air in May.
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