and i m going to end up getting a divorce because there s no way i can go back. only she did. finally, this domestic violence expert weighed in. when a victim is attempting to leave a relationship or has left a relationship, it is by far the most dangerous time for a victim. but what was the trigger that, according to the prosecution, set dale off? the answer, he said, may lie in an unfinished email stephanie was writing to the other man, ron, just before she was murdered. and though dale denied he knew what she was doing i honestly didn t know. i had no idea. the prosecutor said dale must have seen her writing it, begging ron for another meeting because she couldn t accept the idea that her new love was leaving her. i think dale bruner got angry at that and hit her with something. then he strangles her, believes that she is dead. she s probably unconscious at
dale at the family house. stephanie, in a rented condo. the weekend before she disappeared, he helped her move out. why in heaven s name did you do that? she asked me to help. isn t that what you do? i didn t fall out of love with her. i still loved her. then middle of the night, her very first night away, dale says he woke up to a commotion downstairs. it was stephanie. she crawled right back into bed with him. she had come home. wow! she said this was all a horrible mistake and she wanted to move back in. and i said, are you sure? she said don t worry. everything is fine. but now, just two days later, things were not fine. not at all. stephanie was missing and dale was down at the police department telling officers where he thought his wife might have gone. i thought she would go somewhere with her wi-fi and be on the computer. my other guess was maybe she went to, you know, ron s house. i didn t know.
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unless he s some kind of actor that deserves some kind of oscar performance, this guy seems distraught. and stephanie s friend, bill, even moved in for two months to help out, console dale. we were just trying to hold dale together. he was having a very difficult time. did you ever confront him or say, come on, tell us what happened? looked every one of us in the eye and said i had nothing to do with this. i m innocent. dale, can you talk at all about the investigators focusing only on you? i hope they re investigating someone else. didn t look like it. it was summer 2011. nine months after stephanie s murder when it happened. i was coming back from one of my photo shoots and a little unmarked car with a light on it flashed and siren went. and they have guns drawn on me. dale bruner was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his wife. he pled not guilty, posted bond and was offered a plea deal by the d.a. s office.
stephanie was missing, did any police officers come and visit you at work or at your home that day? no, they did not. and didn t ron s wife, cindy, have a motive? and i said something like, i don t know where she is, but i hope she rots in hell. and i m very sorry i said that. of course, dale and his attorney knew the prosecution would make a big deal about the restraining order stephanie took out after dale spanked their son. but her decision to ask for that order, said day, that sprang from the chaos in her life. i believe she built a fake little world where i was the bad guy. was stephanie ever worried dale might get violent? hardly said the defense. why else would she ask the judge to delay the order until after their little family holiday? the judge said he had never seen someone have a restraining order but then have someone say don t enact it yet, not until next week.