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You're watching Investigation Discovery
On Demand.
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It's two days before Thanksgiving in the
picture postcard town of Silverthorne,
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Colorado.
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Hey, Steph.
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As the snow falls quietly outside.
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Steph.
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Inside the Bruner household.
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Steph. Panic is starting to set in. Hey,
Steph.
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48 -year -old Dale Bruner's three young
kids are late to school.
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Hey, Steph, will you call me when you
get this, please?
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And their mother is nowhere around.
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Stephanie has been gone hours at this
point.
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Daddy, where's Mommy?
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I don't know, sweetie.
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She's supposed to come on our field trip
today to the museum. I'm sure she'll be
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there, okay?
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Why don't you finish getting dressed,
get your jacket on, and help your
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He got his kids off to school and called
the non -emergency line.
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Yeah, hi, this is Dale Bruner. I'm
calling because I'm worried about my
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Stephanie Bruner.
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We had a bit of a disagreement last
night, and she went out for a walk
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p .m., and she never came back.
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Can you let us know that she left the
house walking?
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I don't know.
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She's wearing a red jacket, tie -dye
shirt. She said she just needed to clear
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her head.
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I'm at 6321 Green Terrace Drive. The
night that she went missing, the
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temperature was about one degree above
zero.
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with a windfill factor of negative 24.
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Temperatures like that, they can be
really, really dangerous.
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She left her house and just disappeared.
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Did someone help her disappear?
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After graduating from the University of
California, Irvine, Stephanie Roller
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hopes to one day join the Peace Corps.
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Steph very much was the dreamer.
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She really liked to help people, was
always a lover of life.
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A nature lover, Stephanie volunteers as
a goodwill ambassador on Mount Hood in
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northern Oregon.
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See right up through there, that's Mount
Hood.
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It's actually a stratovolcano. Do you
know what that means?
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Please tell us.
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It's built up over many, many years with
layers of hardened lava.
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Thank you. It's there she meets Dale
Bruner, a professional wildlife
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photographer. Hello. Sorry, I was
distracted by that prairie falcon. Did
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that by any chance?
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No, but I've seen them before.
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Dale was taking pictures, and he
literally bumped into Stephanie.
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Well, what are you doing, writing
parking tickets?
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Very funny. No, I'm actually an
ambassador for the park.
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He was, you know, very personable. He's
not this macho guy. He was more of this
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kind of quiet and calm.
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What's with all the camera gear?
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Well, I am working, too.
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Stephanie.
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Can I try something?
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Oh, this is much better here. Just hold
those.
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I can remember her talking about this
guy and later finding out his name was
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Dale.
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Those eyes, beautiful.
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And that she was smitten with him.
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He's very charismatic.
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I remember thinking, oh, wow, I can see
what she likes in him.
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Their connection is instant.
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After dating for a year.
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The couple settles down in Silverthorne,
Colorado.
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Glad you like it. It's my favorite hike.
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Me too.
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Where do you want to go for vacation
this summer?
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Oh, man. Costa Rica?
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Hawaii? Bahamas?
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Fiji? I can go anywhere.
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Costa Rica sounds amazing.
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But then again, so does Fiji and every
other tropical island I fantasize about.
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I was happy for her. She was ready to
venture off to that new adventure.
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Well, then maybe Fiji.
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Maybe that's the perfect place to get
married.
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Married?
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Yeah, sure, why not?
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Are you serious?
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The two...
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Became very close very quickly and ended
up eloping in Fiji.
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Damn. Hey, Mary.
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I'd love to.
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They soon start a family together, two
girls and a boy.
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He just was loving being a mom and was
just so great at it.
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Look at me, Dad.
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You want a spot?
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Nope. I'm good. It seemed by all
appearances that Dale Bruner was a good
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and father.
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Race you to the top.
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She's definitely your daughter.
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Clearly.
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When not caring for the kids, Stephanie
teaches dance and works for the county
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as a city planner.
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She always had a love of dance.
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We were in dance since we were young
kids.
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She was involved in local charities.
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Very popular and well -loved by her
family and her community members.
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So it's even more chilling when
Stephanie vanishes the night of November
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2010, days before Thanksgiving.
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It's not uncommon for people to go
missing, but it is uncommon for a mother
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walk away from her family a couple of
days before a holiday.
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She would never leave those kids. I just
remember thinking, there's no way.
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Stephanie's photo is released to the
public while Officer Teresa Barger
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forces.
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Thank you.
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Officer Barger?
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He said she was alone.
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And if you had to guess her age, what
would you say?
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We called in search and rescue. We were
running down any leads. We were getting
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tips. Like, I mean, I don't got a lot of
tips.
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As word spreads, everyone joins the
quest to find her.
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Stephanie was so beloved by the
community that just the community came
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Excuse me, have you seen this woman? Her
name's Stephanie Bruner.
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The search was on for Stephanie.
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Excuse me, have you seen this woman? Her
name's Stephanie Bruner.
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No, I haven't.
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Stephanie enjoyed walking along the Blue
River in the National Parkland just
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behind her home.
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Stephanie! But there is no sign of her
there either.
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Stephanie!
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Stephanie! We had many, many volunteers
that were combing the banks of the river
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trying to locate Stephanie.
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With all of that searching, we really
found...
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No leads that we could actually follow.
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The next morning, Dale Bruner heads into
the Silverthorne Police Department to
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meet with Officer Barger.
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I do want you to write down a statement
for me.
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My goal at that point was just to get
the story.
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So there are three options in a missing
person case like this.
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I'm Teresa, by the way.
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Dale.
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So, one, she ran off to start a secret
life.
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Two, she committed suicide.
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Or three, she was murdered.
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At first, he was kind of calm, cool,
collected.
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Are you okay?
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No, I'm not okay.
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And then he got very upset.
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My kid's mother.
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I know, I'm sorry.
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So we need to verify a few details,
okay? Just so we can try to eliminate
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a suspect.
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I just want to get this done as quickly
as possible so we can...
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Find out where she is so why don't you
walk me through exactly what happened
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last night, okay?
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Around 10 10 p .m.
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Stephanie went out for a walk to get
some fresh air and I fell asleep soon
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that and Next thing I know it's morning
She never came home
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Why do you think that she went for a
walk so late at night in the middle of a
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snowstorm?
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Well, um things haven't been
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exactly great in our relationship, and
that's something that we're working to
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try to fix, but I thought it would be
good just to give her some space.
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He had mentioned that they kind of had a
disagreement. It really wasn't this
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huge argument, but she just needed to
leave and kind of clear her head.
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Why do you think she didn't take her
purse or her keys with her? Didn't you
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think that was odd?
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Okay, look, I'm going to be honest with
you. The reason I wasn't really worried
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about where she was going is I just
assumed that she was going to go be with
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boyfriend.
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Her boyfriend.
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As soon as Dale Bruner reveals his
missing wife is
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in a secret relationship, Officer Teresa
Barger knows her case just got a lot
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more complicated.
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When Stephanie left the house, I just
figured her boyfriend was coming to pick
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her up.
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So you knew she was seeing someone?
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Yeah.
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His name's Dennis Calden.
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Stephanie was his dance instructor.
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When she told me about the relationship,
I mean, it affected our marriage
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greatly, obviously, but I just want
Stephanie to be happy,
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even if that means that she's with him.
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When Mr. Bruner mentioned the boyfriend,
I thought, okay, this is something I
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had no clue about.
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He's like, they met on Dancing with the
Mountain Stars.
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Dancing with the Mountain Stars pairs
notable residents with dance pros to
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money for the county's hospital.
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Is this the right place?
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Oh, hi.
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I'm Dennis. Stephanie. It's nice to meet
you.
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I have to let you know, though, I have
two left feet.
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It's local therapist Dennis Calden's
first appearance at the dance charity.
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And he's in good hands with Stephanie.
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Okay, I think we'll just start with a
basic salsa step.
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So I'm going to take my hands like that.
Get inside here. Okay.
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So on the first count, it's going to be
one and two. We come back to center. And
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then your right foot goes back.
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Three and four. And then you just repeat
that.
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One and two. Dennis was an interesting
character.
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Tall, athletic guy.
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And the two quickly became very, very
close.
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Oh, this is easy.
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I've got to get in.
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Okay.
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It's okay.
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Okay. It took me a while.
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There you go.
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Yeah.
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There we go. Oh, yeah. Okay.
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You're good at that. You're a natural.
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I've got this. Yes. Yes.
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He made her feel like he was the world.
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On the big night, Stephanie and Dennis
pull off an impressive routine.
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It's not enough to win the trophy, but
they do take away something else, a
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connection.
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He was compassionate with her. He cared
and wanted to know more about her. He
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cared about what happened to her. That
was amazing.
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That was incredible.
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You were so good.
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Though Dale isn't able to attend the
event,
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There is someone special in the crowd
cheering on Dennis.
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Hi, baby.
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Hey. Hi. His wife, Loretta. Did you see
that? I did.
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Oh, my.
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Hi, I'm Loretta. I'm Dennis' wife.
Stephanie. Hi, Stacy. Oh, my gosh. Thank
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so much. You did such a good job. He
wouldn't dance with me at our own
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It was very clear that Stephanie and
Dennis had an intensely emotional
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relationship.
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That was complicated by the fact that
they were also both married.
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We've had some drinks. Let's get you
home.
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All right.
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Thanks again, Stacy.
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Definitely. Yeah. They were both very
respectful of being in relationships.
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There wasn't any adultery going on.
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Still...
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Over the next couple of months,
Stephanie and Dennis' emotional bond
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intensified.
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I honestly have no regrets.
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Things are different now.
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I understand.
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And I love my wife, but I feel like she
doesn't see me, you know?
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Like you do. She had fallen in love with
him.
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found somebody that she was able to
connect with emotionally.
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In mid -October, Stephanie shares her
secret.
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You know, something seems different
about you today.
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You're glowing.
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You know that guy that I was teaching
for the charity event?
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Yeah, what about him?
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Well, we've been seeing a lot of each
other lately.
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For what? The competition's over.
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Wait a minute. I know that look. You are
not.
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I think I've fallen in love with him.
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Wait, back up. Did you say love?
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Tell me everything.
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When she confided with these close
friends, they actually were kind of okay
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that, even though she had been married
to Dale.
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It just happened by accident, but
nothing physical.
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He makes me so happy.
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Does Dale suspect anything?
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Yeah, he knows.
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Dale was hurt, and he wanted her back,
and he was trying to get her family to
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convince her to come back.
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While search and rescue continue to
blanket the town of Silverthorne,
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Bureau of Investigation agent Greg
Sadar... Brings in Dennis Calden.
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I'm just going to ask you straight up.
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Do you know where Stephanie is right
now?
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I absolutely have no idea.
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He maintained that the relationship was
not physical, but just spiritual and
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emotional. When was the last time you
saw her?
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We met up Monday afternoon.
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Two days ago.
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The same day she went missing.
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Yeah, I wrote her an email.
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That Sunday evening, telling her that it
was over, but she wanted to meet in
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person the next day.
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Thank you for meeting me.
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I knew if we could just see each other,
if we could talk face to face, we could
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just figure out whatever this is going
on.
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We can make this work.
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I can't.
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I'm sorry.
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With his wife still in the dark about
Stephanie, Dennis decides to end the
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relationship, hoping it's not too late
to save his own marriage to Loretta.
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What about us?
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We had a plan. We can make this work.
Don't think for a second that this
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hurt me as much as it does you, because
it does.
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I have to go.
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Please, don't.
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Dennis had told us that he kissed her
for that first time, and he realized
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he really cared for her a lot, even
though he had to separate it.
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That probably just devastated her. This
was...
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her soulmate, and he's now closing the
door on her.
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Have you talked to her or seen her since
then?
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No.
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That was it.
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Where were you that night around 10 p
.m.? I was at home with my wife.
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His alibi was that the two of them were
in bed.
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that they slept well that night, that
there were no issues of anyone getting
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or leaving the house.
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I didn't do anything to Stephanie.
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Just five hours after their breakup,
Stephanie disappears into the night.
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While investigators track down Dennis'
wife Loretta for questioning, Agent
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pays a visit to the Bruner family home.
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Just look around, find anything you can
see that doesn't... Would you be willing
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to sign a consent to search form?
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Sure. We wanted to take a look and see
if there was any crime scene evidence
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that we would need to preserve.
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When a person consents to search, that
is a positive sign. That moves them a
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little towards the non -suspect as
opposed to the suspect.
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We weren't able to find any signs of a
struggle or where any possible crime
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scene had been cleaned up either.
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So I understand you and Stephanie were
having some problems.
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Now, I want you to know I already spoke
to Dennis Calden, and he doesn't know
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where she is.
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Is there anything else that you could
tell us that might be able to help us
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her? I guess I was a little worried
about her, yeah. I mean, she wasn't
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recently.
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She'd started taking some anti -anxiety
medication, but I'm not really sure it
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was working.
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Turns out Stephanie had also lost her
job just six weeks earlier, and Dale's
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photography business was drying up.
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When Stephanie lost her job, she filed a
restraining order against me.
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With a misunderstanding, it was
rescinded. And what was that for?
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I spanked our son.
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I know I shouldn't have done that, but
she overreacted.
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Is that what you two were arguing about
before she went out on her walk?
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No, no, no. We weren't arguing.
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We just... She went out for some fresh
air.
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It's a clear change in Dale's story, and
Agent Sadar takes note.
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Despite the bitter cold, the community
has now spent three days searching for
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Stephanie.
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We were all drained by Thanksgiving
evening. We knew it wasn't going to be
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We're getting...
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More and more concerned, and it was hard
to celebrate what is a family holiday.
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The next day, a search and rescue team
is scouring the forest along the Blue
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River when they notice something on the
water's edge.
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They see something with some snow on it.
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The day after Thanksgiving,
investigators' worst fears are realized.
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When 41 -year -old Stephanie Bruner's
body is discovered on the banks of the
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Blue River.
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Just a half mile from her home.
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I remember there just an overwhelming...
Try to keep my composure
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here.
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She was naked except for a tie -dye T
-shirt that was wrapped around
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one arm, and it was just the sinking
feeling of, oh, gosh.
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You couldn't get any footprints. The
snow's melting too fast.
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I'm sure any DNA already washed down the
river.
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Still, we need to get a rape kit.
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Foul play is suspected, but
investigators can't rule out suicide.
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Agent Sadar notifies Stephanie's
husband.
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Dale turned towards the river, which was
just a few hundred yards away from
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their house, and broke down sobbing.
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Three days later, the results of her
autopsy are in.
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What's really interesting is that
there's water in her lungs, and there
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signs of hypothermia.
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What does that mean?
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Well, dead people don't drown, so she
was definitely alive when she was placed
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in the river.
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Suicide?
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Definitely not.
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There was no damage at all to the soles
of her feet, which made it unlikely that
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she actually walked into the river. What
about sexual assault?
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No, no signs of that.
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There was blunt force trauma to the
head.
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She was hit on the head by something
that caused her skull to break.
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So is that how she died?
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I'm declaring it a homicide caused by a
combination of drowning, hypothermia,
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blunt force trauma, and strangulation.
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The real turning point in the autopsy
was when they had found out that there
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evidence of...
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manual strangulation.
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Come take a look at my report.
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Her throat was pretty much crushed, and
she was alive when she went into the
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water.
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Strangulation is a very, very personal
crime.
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When you are strangling somebody, you
are looking in their eyes.
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So at this point, we have three prime
suspects.
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We have Dale Bruner, the boyfriend,
Dennis, and Loretta.
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This is one of those rare instances
where you had a legitimate whodunit.
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We felt that it was very important to
interview Loretta. One, she was Dennis
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Calden's alibi.
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Second, she could be the murderer.
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If she viewed Stephanie as a
homewrecker, she could be exceedingly
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You know why you're here?
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I'm the jealous wife, right?
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Well, let me put it this way.
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At this point, everybody's a suspect.
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When did you learn about the affair?
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Dennis just told me a few days ago.
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Dennis didn't tell his wife that he was
having this emotional affair with
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Stephanie until after she had gone
missing.
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When you look at the interview of
Loretta, she's pissed at Denna.
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Okay, so the official headcount for our
Thanksgiving dinner is at 15.
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Loretta, we need to talk.
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What's wrong with you?
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Stephanie Bruner is missing.
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Your dance instructor?
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00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,920
The Silverthorne PD called me this
afternoon.
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They asked me to come in for
questioning.
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You hardly knew her.
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00:26:07,870 --> 00:26:08,870
Right?
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Loretta, we were having an affair.
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I knew it. And I'm sorry I had to tell
you like this.
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It was nothing. I kissed her once.
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How could you do something like this?
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I tried to break it off with her the
other day. I wanted to focus on us make
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this right.
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But now she's missing.
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You know what?
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I hope she rots in hell.
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00:26:38,420 --> 00:26:42,320
After Stephanie's body was found,
Loretta was pretty upset about having
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those angry statements.
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00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,700
Where were you the night Stephanie went
missing?
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I was at home with Dennis.
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She gives the same alibi, that they were
home in bed, that they were alone.
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00:26:52,380 --> 00:26:54,320
Would you ever lie to protect your
husband?
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00:26:56,100 --> 00:27:00,340
I love my husband a lot, but no, I'm not
going to lie for him.
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Even if it means him going to prison?
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No.
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Because you know what?
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If he's made his bed, he needs to lay in
it.
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She was pretty resolute, and all the
details of her statement matched up with
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Dennis' details.
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A week after Stephanie's body surfaced
in the Blue River, friends and family
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gather at her beloved dance studio to
celebrate her life.
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We would like to honor Stephanie now as
her dance family and representatives.
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of that world in a procession.
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The memorial service was very well done.
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All of her dance friends were all there,
and it was beautiful.
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Following the advice of investigators,
Dennis and Loretta Calden do not attend
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the service and both agree to take a lie
detector test.
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Did you have anything to do with
Stephanie Berner's disappearance?
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00:28:02,540 --> 00:28:08,690
No. While polygraph results are not
admissible in court, it really helps us
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00:28:08,690 --> 00:28:11,310
focus on our investigation.
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00:28:12,530 --> 00:28:15,570
Do you have any first -hand knowledge of
Stephanie Bruner's death?
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00:28:16,350 --> 00:28:19,230
No. Did you kill Stephanie Bruner?
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00:28:20,090 --> 00:28:21,130
Absolutely not.
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00:28:22,570 --> 00:28:26,330
So they take the polygraph and they both
fail the polygraph.
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00:28:27,190 --> 00:28:31,510
And suddenly the needle moves towards,
uh -oh, have we made a mistake?
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So that did cause us to take a step
back, re -look at them as our suspects.
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00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,080
Did you have anything to do with
Stephanie Brunner's death?
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00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:53,240
No.
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00:28:53,980 --> 00:28:55,880
Do you know who killed Stephanie
Brunner?
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00:28:56,220 --> 00:28:57,220
No.
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00:28:57,810 --> 00:29:03,010
After Dennis and Loretta Calden both
failed their polygraph exams,
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circled back to their original
statements.
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00:29:06,750 --> 00:29:11,230
But it's a meeting with Stephanie's best
friend, Jennifer, that forces them to
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reconsider another suspect.
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00:29:13,470 --> 00:29:15,410
Thank you for meeting me. Of course.
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00:29:15,690 --> 00:29:16,690
What's going on?
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00:29:16,790 --> 00:29:18,310
Did you know about the restraining
order?
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00:29:18,670 --> 00:29:21,830
Yeah, Dale mentioned it already, but
Stephanie rescinded it.
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00:29:22,350 --> 00:29:24,150
She only did it to protect the children.
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00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,480
She was afraid of what Dale might do if
she didn't.
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00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,820
Seems there is more to the story than
Dale let on.
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00:29:34,380 --> 00:29:36,520
She was rushing to go to work.
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00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,820
Realized she forgot something, needed to
go back into the house.
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00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,300
Hey sweetie, where's daddy?
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00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,640
From the doorway, had heard.
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00:29:53,800 --> 00:30:00,260
Spanking so loud on their skin that it
immediately
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alarmed her.
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00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,880
Hey, what are you doing? Dale, that's
enough. Stop it.
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00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,960
Horrified, Stephanie contacts
authorities and initiates a restraining
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A week or so later, Stephanie felt that
keeping Dale away from the kids might
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have been a little too harsh, and they
both went to court to have the
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restraining order rescinded.
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00:30:30,820 --> 00:30:36,640
After that incident, she confided in
Dale about her relationship with Dennis,
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00:30:36,860 --> 00:30:41,560
and she told him that she wanted a
divorce.
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00:30:41,860 --> 00:30:43,300
And how did Dale take that?
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00:30:43,740 --> 00:30:45,380
He was surprisingly understanding.
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00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:47,900
He even helped her.
464
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,240
Find a place of her own and move out.
465
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,060
She actually rented a place the weekend
before she went missing.
466
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:05,660
Finally free to pursue a relationship,
Stephanie reaches out to Dennis to
467
00:31:05,660 --> 00:31:06,660
celebrate.
468
00:31:09,620 --> 00:31:12,280
But her hopes are quickly dashed.
469
00:31:14,890 --> 00:31:19,630
The first night Stephanie was in her new
home, she was communicating online with
470
00:31:19,630 --> 00:31:20,630
Dennis.
471
00:31:21,250 --> 00:31:26,370
And Dennis expressed in writing he
wanted to take a step back from their
472
00:31:26,370 --> 00:31:28,390
relationship and try to focus on his
marriage.
473
00:31:30,770 --> 00:31:35,970
Just hours after moving into her own
place, Stephanie and the children return
474
00:31:35,970 --> 00:31:36,970
home.
475
00:31:37,390 --> 00:31:41,730
It's expensive up here to live. And I
think that's when Stephanie realized
476
00:31:41,730 --> 00:31:43,010
she couldn't do it alone.
477
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,360
The next evening, Stephanie disappears.
478
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:53,280
So investigators zero in on those last
24 hours of her life.
479
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,980
They bring in Dennis Calden again.
480
00:31:56,740 --> 00:31:59,780
I swear, I didn't do anything to her.
481
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:09,300
Dennis was pretty emotionally upset when
we told him a little bit more about
482
00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:10,300
Stephanie's death.
483
00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:13,140
He would openly sob.
484
00:32:14,590 --> 00:32:16,950
Legitimate, real tears rolling down his
cheeks.
485
00:32:17,670 --> 00:32:21,290
How could this have happened? What do I
have to do to help you find who's ever
486
00:32:21,290 --> 00:32:22,290
done this to her?
487
00:32:22,350 --> 00:32:24,410
We're going to need to search her home
if that's okay.
488
00:32:24,690 --> 00:32:25,690
Yeah, fine.
489
00:32:30,090 --> 00:32:34,150
We did a search on their homes and their
cars. There was nothing that would say
490
00:32:34,150 --> 00:32:37,550
that they had anything to do with her
disappearance or her murder.
491
00:32:37,790 --> 00:32:39,430
Looks like Loretta's been keeping a
journal.
492
00:32:39,850 --> 00:32:42,090
Listen to this. We did, however...
493
00:32:42,460 --> 00:32:46,240
find some pretty compelling information
to find that they were not involved.
494
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,860
I feel for those children who are going
to be without their mother on
495
00:32:49,860 --> 00:32:52,220
Thanksgiving. I pray that she comes home
safe.
496
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,780
That doesn't sound like someone who's
been involved in a murder.
497
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:05,180
Computer records also prove that Dennis
was home the night Stephanie went
498
00:33:05,180 --> 00:33:09,500
missing. We were able to cooperate. He
was on his computer. He wrote an email.
499
00:33:09,660 --> 00:33:10,780
He came up to bed later.
500
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,000
Loretta said the same thing.
501
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:19,080
With this new information, Dennis and
Loretta are dismissed as persons of
502
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,480
interest. We realized that we probably
made some mistakes in how we phrased
503
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:24,980
of the questions to each of them.
504
00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:32,360
When Dennis and Loretta are officially
eliminated as suspects, that just leaves
505
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:33,360
one person.
506
00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:35,950
Dale. Dale Bruner.
507
00:33:39,370 --> 00:33:43,150
Police obtain a warrant to search Dale's
home for a second time.
508
00:33:43,430 --> 00:33:46,090
You go all along here, up around the
door.
509
00:33:46,530 --> 00:33:47,530
Okay? All right.
510
00:33:47,810 --> 00:33:48,810
Don't forget inside.
511
00:33:52,530 --> 00:33:53,530
Oh.
512
00:33:53,830 --> 00:33:55,290
What happened to all Stephanie's stuff?
513
00:33:55,770 --> 00:33:58,190
I took it to Goodwill. I couldn't stand
looking at it anymore.
514
00:33:58,450 --> 00:34:02,950
One of the things we noticed that's
really odd to us was there was not one
515
00:34:02,950 --> 00:34:04,710
of Stephanie Bruner left in the house.
516
00:34:05,150 --> 00:34:06,150
What about all the pictures?
517
00:34:06,950 --> 00:34:12,909
All of Stephanie's clothes and personal
items were gone. Any picture of her was
518
00:34:12,909 --> 00:34:13,909
gone.
519
00:34:14,810 --> 00:34:20,630
After a second search fails to yield
forensic evidence, investigators get a
520
00:34:20,630 --> 00:34:21,630
-changing tip.
521
00:34:22,590 --> 00:34:26,889
I'm Officer Berger. I'm Dale Bruner's ex
-girlfriend. Oh, okay. I have some
522
00:34:26,889 --> 00:34:29,489
information that might help in the
investigation of his wife's murder.
523
00:34:29,870 --> 00:34:30,870
Please.
524
00:34:31,989 --> 00:34:33,270
I know he did it.
525
00:34:35,130 --> 00:34:37,130
I know he did it because he tried to
kill me.
526
00:34:38,489 --> 00:34:42,230
She goes, as soon as I knew that she was
deceased, I knew it was Dale. Because
527
00:34:42,230 --> 00:34:44,090
if I didn't get out, I think he would
have killed me.
528
00:34:44,590 --> 00:34:49,010
I mean, Dale would be very charming and
very kind, but when he would get mad, he
529
00:34:49,010 --> 00:34:53,290
would just switch, like Jekyll and Hyde.
I mean, we would get this look in his
530
00:34:53,290 --> 00:34:54,290
eyes.
531
00:34:54,469 --> 00:34:55,469
Hey, Dale!
532
00:34:55,710 --> 00:34:56,549
Stop it!
533
00:34:56,550 --> 00:34:58,350
I wasn't done talking to you. Damn it!
534
00:34:59,010 --> 00:35:03,290
If you ever talk to me like that again,
I will kill you. I will kill you.
535
00:35:11,159 --> 00:35:15,400
That was huge when we got that tip.
536
00:35:17,580 --> 00:35:23,300
Over the next few months, investigators
dissect every detail of Dale's past.
537
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,800
The results are troubling.
538
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,400
It became apparent to us that Dale had a
repeated...
539
00:35:31,020 --> 00:35:34,040
pattern and practice of strangling women
when he was upset with them.
540
00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:39,020
He was kind of seen as this nice
photographer guy.
541
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:45,420
But through this investigation, we're
going to see a very different side of
542
00:35:45,420 --> 00:35:48,080
Bruner. Hey, Dale, that's enough. Stop
it.
543
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,780
That in private, he could be very
violent.
544
00:35:51,420 --> 00:35:55,540
Turns out, Dale's ex -girlfriend was not
his only victim.
545
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:57,600
Has he ever been violent with Stephanie?
546
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,320
Stephanie told me that Dale actually
threatened to kill her.
547
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:03,800
She was so ashamed of it.
548
00:36:05,340 --> 00:36:08,340
I swear to God, if you leave me, I will
kill you! Dale, the kids!
549
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,240
Don't turn your back on me. Get over
here!
550
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:14,760
Dale!
551
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,760
Stop! Stop! Let go of me!
552
00:36:19,380 --> 00:36:20,380
Let go!
553
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,720
We were able to get warrants for Dale's
arrest, and obviously we were very
554
00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:37,180
comfortable that we had the right guy.
555
00:36:42,340 --> 00:36:47,720
Eight months after Stephanie's body is
discovered in the river near her home.
556
00:36:47,820 --> 00:36:49,660
Put your hands on the steering wheel
now!
557
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,600
Dale Bruner is taken into custody.
558
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,300
You're under arrest for the murder of
Stephanie Bruner. But without physical
559
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:00,240
evidence, will he be convicted?
560
00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:10,820
Put your hands on the steering wheel
now!
561
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:20,400
In August 2011, Dale Bruner is arrested
for the murder of
562
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,500
his wife of 11 years, Daphne Bruner.
563
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,180
Put your hands behind your head!
564
00:37:28,980 --> 00:37:30,800
You have the right to remain silent.
565
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:36,060
He's offered a plea in exchange for a
guilty verdict, but adamantly proclaims
566
00:37:36,060 --> 00:37:38,140
his innocence and opts to face a jury.
567
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,060
I remember thinking, bring it on.
568
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:45,320
We'll get you.
569
00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:54,080
Although the case is circumstantial, the
prosecution believes the sum of the
570
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,940
evidence clearly points to Dale as the
killer.
571
00:37:58,060 --> 00:38:02,140
When you have no physical evidence and
you have no eyewitnesses, you have to
572
00:38:02,140 --> 00:38:05,460
build your case piece by piece by piece.
573
00:38:08,930 --> 00:38:14,490
Investigators believe that just hours
after Dennis breaks up with Stephanie,
574
00:38:14,490 --> 00:38:16,950
emails him to try to win him back.
575
00:38:19,450 --> 00:38:24,230
One of the critical things about that
email was that it autosaved just before
576
00:38:24,230 --> 00:38:25,230
midnight.
577
00:38:25,550 --> 00:38:31,150
So that put her in the house from their
IP address prior to her sudden
578
00:38:31,150 --> 00:38:32,150
disappearance.
579
00:38:33,550 --> 00:38:37,370
And that email was professing her love
to Dennis.
580
00:38:40,190 --> 00:38:43,930
And her email stopped mid -sentence, not
finished.
581
00:38:48,050 --> 00:38:54,250
It led us to believe that she may have
been typing an email when Mr. Bruner
582
00:38:54,250 --> 00:38:57,830
looked at her computer and saw what she
was doing. What do you think you're
583
00:38:57,830 --> 00:38:58,830
doing?
584
00:38:58,970 --> 00:39:01,330
Nothing. I was just writing an email to
my sister.
585
00:39:02,190 --> 00:39:03,970
Come on, how stupid do you think I am?
586
00:39:04,170 --> 00:39:07,170
Please, the kids are sleeping. He
grabbed that computer.
587
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,460
and hit her in the head with that,
causing blunt force trauma.
588
00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:19,340
He then strangles her with so much
force, it breaks a bone in her neck.
589
00:39:25,380 --> 00:39:28,740
She is unconscious, and he thinks he has
killed her.
590
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:34,500
And so he takes her, and he dumps her
body into the Blue River.
591
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:41,840
thinking that she will float down the
Blue River and they will never, ever
592
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:42,880
her body.
593
00:39:57,860 --> 00:40:04,680
The most dramatic moment in the trial
comes from Stephanie's own agonizing
594
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:05,680
words.
595
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:11,160
The recording of the restraining order
made against Dale just six weeks before
596
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,160
her murder.
597
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,880
It was one of the most incredibly
powerful things that we were able to
598
00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:46,740
Stephanie's voice from essentially
beyond the grave, when we played that,
599
00:40:46,740 --> 00:40:51,200
just silence in the courtroom. Everybody
was just stunned.
600
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:58,740
It really put it in perspective what she
had been enduring and going through for
601
00:40:58,740 --> 00:40:59,740
so many years.
602
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:01,460
And that was tough.
603
00:41:03,530 --> 00:41:05,650
I think that was the turning point for
the jury.
604
00:41:06,610 --> 00:41:09,930
Dale Bruner is found guilty on all
charges.
605
00:41:10,870 --> 00:41:14,370
He is sentenced to 112 years in prison.
606
00:41:15,190 --> 00:41:19,390
It's just relief that maybe you've got a
little bit of justice for Stephanie,
607
00:41:19,510 --> 00:41:21,370
who died such a horrible, horrible
death.
608
00:41:23,430 --> 00:41:26,070
He was a manipulator. Oh, beautiful.
609
00:41:27,730 --> 00:41:28,730
He's a narcissist.
610
00:41:29,370 --> 00:41:33,030
Love you. There was no doubt in my mind
that he had done it.
611
00:41:38,470 --> 00:41:42,170
It's exactly like a double life. That
person right here behind these closed
612
00:41:42,170 --> 00:41:46,190
doors, one person. They come out and
what they show the world, totally
613
00:41:46,190 --> 00:41:47,310
different. And that's what he was.
614
00:41:56,069 --> 00:41:58,810
Today, Stephanie's children are being
raised by her family.
615
00:41:59,610 --> 00:42:04,890
I remember thinking, now they're going
to go through life without their mom and
616
00:42:04,890 --> 00:42:05,890
their dad.
617
00:42:07,970 --> 00:42:09,790
No child should have to go through this.
618
00:42:11,110 --> 00:42:13,330
I'll never forget Stephanie and I'll
never forget her kids.
619
00:42:13,530 --> 00:42:17,170
When I think of this case, it still
really bothers me. It's going to be one
620
00:42:17,170 --> 00:42:20,030
will stay with me because I don't want
that ever to happen to anybody else.
621
00:42:20,650 --> 00:42:22,130
If I could go back in time.
622
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:27,740
I would just say, Steph, you'll be safe
with me. Come, you know, we'll get you
623
00:42:27,740 --> 00:42:28,740
out of this.
624
00:42:29,020 --> 00:42:35,320
There's organizations out there to help
625
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:39,820
get you out while you're still alive.
626
00:42:42,660 --> 00:42:45,820
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