police had a lot of questions for her husband, dale. they also wanted to talk to that other man in her life, her boyfriend, ron. coming up. i just want to ask, straight up again not accusing you do you know where stephanie is right now? when dateline continues. cs at walgreens, we love smart savers. like yard-sale savers. tee-time savers. and especially med d savers. select a medicare part d plan with walgreens as your preferred pharmacy and get co-pays for as low as zero dollars and 100 rewards points on prescriptions. isn t saving great? save smartly on med d. walgreens. trusted since 1901.
fell for the other man dancing with the mountain stars i go back to the day that i asked steph if i should shoot that wedding or not and i didn t go to that event with her. i wasn t going to be dancing with her on a big, important night for her. it was a curiously old-fashioned affair, apparently. stephanie told her friends her feelings were not so much physical as much as pure and emotional. she made it clear to dale that even though she still loved him, she had no choice but to follow these powerful feelings and make a life with that new man. i said if this is what you want, this is what you want. they would share the children, of course. 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 out. 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
because he had already threatened to harm or kill her. that threat from dale was years earlier, but stephanie had never forgotten how terrified she was. she told the story to her friend jennifer just before the murder. he strong-armed her into a corner, choking her, threatening to hit her. he stopped short of hitting her, but he did. there was another time he threw her on the bed and put his knee on her pregnant belly. how often would this happen? you know, there may be three of those two or three, i don t know, of those incidents that she talked about. then there was leah aiken, lifelong friend of dale, who told the court his reaction of when she said she was in love with another man. he just wanted her dead, you know? maybe she would have a heart attack or get hit by a car. i told him to stop saying that. could dale really feel that?
stars, local worthies paired with ballroom pros. did you go? oh, yeah, absolutely. i went to three years of them. the last one, i did not go to the last one. had a wedding to shoot. so, he missed the chance to watch stephanie teach those lead-footed businessmen the fox trot and tango and so on. which means he also missed what happened that night. she coached a number of couples and in the process, she met a man named ron. ron holthouse, a local, married physical therapist. she started working with him and got to know him. and she really call it a true love moment. he felt the same way about her? they really clicked together. and stephanie was dancing on air. she didn t realize there could be love like that. the secret from her family, of course, but she told her
district prosecutor s determination to pin it on dale. the lies are tough to take. you can t believe it. you re like, really? waiting for trial, he continued to live here, all alone now in the family house by the blue river, working with his attorney in the effort to clear his name. robert burnhart was the attorney, a man not at all impressed, he told us, with the police investigation. their position was, i think dale is the easy guy, you know, the worst pieces of investigating i ve ever seen in my career. dale and his attorney told us despite a show of interviewing other suspects, the police quite clearly had made up their minds the very day she disappeared. police came to my house. i don t know the exact first thing he said but he said, did you kill your wife? i was stunned. the police didn t seem to want to believe what he told them about how happy he was that