sexual assault and in 2018 his sentence was reduced to 48 years. it is the perfect storm. i m going down with the ship. stephanie s friend jennifer was driving when the verdict came in. i was in my car, yeah, parked on the side of the road, crying like a baby. and like others who knew stephanie, she wishes she had taken her secrets more seriously. i beat myself up every day, how i should have done this, should have done that. an almost good marriage with one deadly flaw. a lot of stephanie s close friends and family didn t know what was going on and i knew of a couple of events over the years. let s say it was only two. yeah snietd only took three and she was dead. so her friends say take some advice, heed the warning, don t hide the secret. that s why i m talking about
as detectives dug deeper into the bruner marriage, ugly secrets emerged that would put dale at the very top of the suspect list. here again is keith morrison with secrets in the snow. it s horrible. i mean, it s i i don t even know how to explain having a microscope go into your world. it s surreal. there are few secrets in a person s life that will escape the attention of a determined homicide detective. everything comes out. absolutely everything. dale and stephanie, it turned out, had their share of secrets. the weird thing one chilly morning six weeks before stephanie was murdered as stephanie told her friend, jennifer. she heard spanking and she told me she counted at least eight spanks before she got up the stairs and down the hall to the kitchen. well, my boy was acting out far beyond, you know, the norm. and i said, come on.
bill wasn t bed, he said, when stephanie announced that she was going out to clear head. and then didn t come back. the morning, gayle called the silver thorn police. i want made a report that we it was a records that veronica we nicholas took the call. he said i got ready ready for school, we ve got him ready on the bus, and then i thought i should call you guys. stephanie s car was in the driveway and when he called her phone it went straight to voice mail. britannica called stephanie s best friend, jennifer. i panicked, this is something that happens to other people, not to you. oh but it had happened. as the silver thorn police checked local hospitals, they scan the neighborhood. it seems unbelievable that stephanie had not checked. in we the day became two, and three. and some private secrets were about to become very public