then didn t come back. a morning dale called the silverthorne police. i got a phone call from dale bruner and said i wanted to make a report that my wife was missing. it was a records clerk named veronica nicholas that took the call. he said i got the kids up, got them ready for school, got them on the bus and then i thought i should probably call you guys. stephanie s car was in the driveway, said dale. when he called her cell phone, it went to voice mail. veronica called her best friend, jennifer. i panicked. this is something that happens to other people, not to you. oh, but it had happened. as the police checked local hospitals and hotels, stephanie s friends scoured the neighborhood. it seemed unbelievable that stephanie would not check in. a day became two, then three, and some private secrets were about to become very public, indeed. where was stephanie? police had a lot of questions for her husband, dale.
getting a divorce because there is no way i can go back. only she did. finally this domestic violence expert weighed in. the victim is attempting to leave a relationship or has left a relationship it is by far the most dangerous time for the victim. what was it triggering according to the prosecution said set dale off. dale deny he knew what she was doing. i honestly didn t know. the prosecutors say dale must have seen her writing it. he could not accept the idea that her new love leaving her. dale ruined her and got angry and hit her with something and strangles her and believes that she s dead and probably unconscious at that point but
they weren t going to be together, not then, not ever. he was staying with his wife. two days later, she was dead. and ron and his wife, and dale, were all under suspicion. they said i was a person of interest. i didn t think i had any worries. but agent sadar wasn t so sure. as his investigation continued, he became convinced that ron holthouse and his wife, cindy, had been telling him the truth. i feel awful. i really feel awful. but he kept encountering suspicious things about dale. why had dale waited until morning to report his wife missing? why, as dale s friends and family scoured the town looking for her, why didn t he take part at all? it was this mounting series of things we started to become concerned about. it was dale, said sadar, who had motive and opportunity. for one thing, the place they found her body, dale could have certainly carried her that far.