At the time he was on unpaid leave from the Warren County Convention and Visitors Bureau and living with his mother in Mason pending his trial for the August 2008 death of his wife, Sarah, 24, an Edgewood High School graduate.
Ryan Widmer, accused of drowning his wife of four months in an upstairs bathtub, will be retried beginning March 15 after his April guilty verdict was overturned by Warren County Common Pleas Judge Neil Bronson amid allegationos of juror misconduct during deliberations. He is out on bail, again living with his mother as he awaits his new trial.
According to the public notice for the sheriff’s sale, the house will be auctioned at 10 a.m. Jan. 11 in the lobby of the Warren County Common Pleas Courthouse, 500 Justice Drive, Lebanon.
The property, located at 5250 Crested Owl Court, was appraised at $165,000 and will not be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraised value, according to the sale notice.
The buyer would need to put 10 percent down of the purchase price at the time of sale with the balance to be paid in full within 30 days, according to the notice. The sale notice also stated the appraisal did not include an interior examination of the premises.
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