PROVO, Utah (AP) — A jury has begun deliberating in the case of a Utah man on trial for the second time in his wife’s death.
The jurors in 35-year-old Conrad Truman’s first-degree murder trial will have to decide whether he shot and killed Heidy Truman in 2012 or if she turned the gun on herself.
A judge overturned a previous jury conviction of the Orem man last year due to faulty police measurements of the house where the shooting take place. The judge said the measurements wrongly undermined the defense theory that 25-year-old Heidy Truman shot herself.
During closing arguments Thursday, prosecutors said Truman gave conflicting stories about the night his wife died. Defense attorneys argued that Orem police were too quick to narrow down Truman as a suspect.
Jurors deliberated for about three hours Thursday and will resume Friday.