that was cut short. when they learned that their original suspect was yet a suspect in another murder. so, they decided to look again that evidence. and the boot that they found near his burial site, they spotted something, a scuff mark that looked like reddish, orange paint. when i saw that swauch of paint, it flashed back to me that that was the same color of paint that was on dale bradley s car and i kind of got a little bit of butterflies and thought, i got him. forensic analyst examined this with a microscope. it s actually smeared into the leather at the bottom of the boot. there was tremendous force to
a phone bill. she discovered that he was having an affair with christy bradley. it was a double whamy that everything had been shattered, everything that i had dreamed and hoped for was gone. jennifer also discovered that christy was with brian in las vegas a few weeks earlier. when confronted with this information, christy admitted the affair to both the police and her husband. she told me that she thought brine was really nice and dale was controlling to her and christy didn t like to be tied down. christy and brian were able to talk to each other and i think that s the reason for the phone calls. but dale insisted he knew nothing about his wife s affair
with bryan ruff s murder. it was shocking that anybody could do something so horrific, let alone somebody who claimed to be such a good friend. prosecutors believe dale either knew or strongly suspected bryan ruff was having an affair with his wife christy and was afraid she was going to leave him. i think he was so angry that christy and bryan betrayed them that he was going to make them pay. the forensic evidence suggests that his plan was to eliminate the person he perceived to be his competition. since he knew bryan s hours and when there would be the least amount of traffic, he knew when to strike. dale probably forced bryan into the trunk at gunpoint. brin tried to kick his way out
detectives over to dale and christy s house. dale would have christy bring dinner to him and that s how they met was out that job site when she would bring meals to him. when questioned about brian s disappearance, christy said she had been home all evening and hadn t seen him and dale said he was running errands all day. when his car broke down, he kaled his friend billy who was at a local bar here. five days after brian disappeared, his wife jennifer, discovered a potential clue. i found bills of credit cards that we didn t have together and
had taken paint samples from dale s car. there wasn t much else to take. he placed them on slides with an emersion liquid. this eliminated any air trapped between the sample and the slide. using a poleerizing litght microscope magnified up to 1,000 times. i received a paint chip known standard from a 1974. and he now did a three-way comparison. he examined paint from the boot, from the car and from the file sample of a 1974 camaro. all were identical. and with this evidence, dale bradley was arrested and charged