but there was no physical evidence linking dale to the crime. at trial, his lawyer would portray dale as the victim of a rush to judgment. why, he asked, were stephanie s boyfriend ron, and his wife, simd cindy, cleared so quickly? once again, here s keith morrison. two winters passed here in the colorado rockies between the untimely demise of stephanie roller-bruner and the prosecutor s determination to pin it on dale. and he fumed in silence about the allegations against him. the lies are really tough to take. you just can t believe it. like really? waiting for trial, he continued to live here, all alone now in the family house by the blue river, working with his attorney in the effort to clear his name. robert burnhart is the attorney, a man not at all impressed, he told us, with the police investigation.