of course, some knew about stephanie s relationship with a new man and how upset she was about losing her job. still, she seemed to be holding the trouble at bay. six weeks before she disappeared, as dale recalled, she suggested a family holiday. she said let s go to glen wood springs for the weekend. a classical, wonderful place. and it was almost romantic, said dale. just like the old days. but when they came back, she gave him the news. she goes, i want to divorce. i said, you don t love me anymore? and she said i met this other person. it s not that i don t love you, but i think i have met my soulmate again. and just like that, dale s world came crashing down. i called her brother, i called her sister s, i called her mom. i said, do you know what s going on? do you know what s happening? he talked to her sister, ramona.
and for bill, skiers were it. i love to take photos, of buffaloes. but buffaloes don t carry credit cards. anyway, it was up there in the mountain seem to be conducting some forestry service survey. i skied up to her and i said what are you doing, writing parking tickets? and she looked up at me and smiled. and then she took off her big ski goggles. i was stunned and i thought wow she is beautiful. they moved in together right away and when they got married, a few years later, they eloped. they get it off to fiji. it was so, stephanie, said her friend. yes that went off and did it. they made their home wear dave s foot a brusqueness grew and grew.
he said to stephanie, it was over. and i said i m going to move to florida with my wife. we are going to try to go back to naples and make this work. do you have any reason to believe that anything bad may have happened to her? that would be my worst fear. thanksgiving day came, went, no stephanie. and overstretched local police force called the colorado bureau of investigations. greg saidar was the one who answered the call. he was soon at the river and start at what looked like a lump of snow and rocks. you could see the body underneath the snow. it was stephanie, hole right. but how did she end up here? the dateline returns after the break. ktu is the first-of-its-kind, once-daily pill for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis for the chance at clear or almost clear skin. it s like the feeling of finding that outfit psoriasis tried to hide from you. or finding your swimsuit is ready for primetime. [dad] once-daily sotyktu is proven to get more people clearer skin than th
could ve been hiding out. any number of opportunities at that point. still, it was so cold, perhaps too cold, for a lurking predator. it is one of those few cases where it s a who done it, if you will. and you have at least three viable suspects. anyone of whom had potential motives? absolutely. it was fronds holthaus the other man who had suddenly dumped stephanie. there was stephanie, ron s wife, who, if she knew about the affair, could ve wanted revenge. and then there was dale, dale bruner, the husband. and any one of them, felt the detective, was physically capable of committing the crime. her husband, six foot, 200 pound, very athletic guy. and mr. holthaus, a big strong guy. and his wife was a very physically fit woman.
love of his life. in a fifth of blind. reach dale bruner, strangles her. believes that she s death. takes her to the river and dumps her. so, what did happen on the night of the murder? the prosecutor called a child to start the story. dale and stephanie s eldest daughter. the girl who walked into her parents bedroom around 9 pm. at ten years old, she can see what happened with specifics. out of the view of the media, she told the court she heard her parents arguing, not cuddling, as dale claimed. after which, remember dale claimed stephanie went for a walk to clear her head. in temperatures well below freezing? you ve got to be kidding, said the prosecutor. his wife goes for a walk and