Im lucky to get through a shift without a disaster. My bargain detergent couldnt keep up. So i switched to tide pods. Theyre super concentrated so i get a better ean. 15 cleaning ingredients thats my tide. Reporter all night, the bitter cold pried at the windows and licked under the door frames of the bruner house here in silverthorne, colorado. Hardly a night to take a walk. Certainly not an all night walk. Had she hurt herself, or had someone else hurt her . It wasnt like stephanie roller bruner to just disappear. It seemed more likely that it might be a stranger that might be involved or that stephanie herself might have just run off in despair and maybe hurt herself. And family poured over those last few weeks. So full of change secrecy, of course some knew about stephanies relationship with that new man, and how upset she was about losing her job. Still, she seemed to be holding the trouble at bay. 6 weeks before she disappered, as dale recalled, she suggested a Little Family holi
i m craig melvin. it had been a month since stephanie roller-bruner was bludgeoned, strangled and then drowned in a river, just yards from her house. investigators zeroed in on three people of interest. stephanie s boyfriend, ron, who just broke up with. her ron s wife, cindy. and stephanie s husband, dale bruner. and as detectives dug deeper into the bruner marriage, a grill-y 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 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 can escape the attention of a determined homicide effective. everything comes out.
that her to find that her husband had been seeing another woman. and want to go to significantly it s by eliminating that temptation. her alibi? she was home, sleeping right next to iran. okay did you know do you know for sure if ron was in the house. did he leave at anytime that night on monday night? i can t tell sitting up looking at him all night. if he was gonna get up and leave would you have told? i would ve. yes. they re alibis where each other. detectives kept how much do you love your husband? i m committed. would you do anything for him? look within reason. would i lie for him? no. look because you know what? he made his bed, he s got a lane it. for almost a month, detectives went back and forth between ron and cindy and stephanie s husband dale. who, by that time, had been
so she would be outgunned by any one of them? i would believe so, yes sir. they took ron in for questioning several times. and, again and again, he insisted it wasn t him. i screwed up my marriage. i made a mess of my life. he admitted that in the last hours of stephanie s life he met her here in this clothing store parking lot, around dinnertime. and it wasn t a happy meeting. i was actually telling trying to tell or that it was over. he earlier sent her a brief break up email, he said. she insisted on seeing him in person. she was not taking it well at all. and then she said, ask me again one more time, but we can make it work. i said, no, we cannot make this work. she was still interested in having a relationship with him. and didn t want to let him go? correct. and i m sure that he was motivated to not let his wife find out about that. which speck the question, where was drawn holthaus later that evening when stephanie went for her walk? you re saying to m
it made such a big deal of the fact that dale didn t join the search for stephanie. even though i called the police and they told me stay home and casey comes up. so, by the time dale s trial began, he isn t his attorney were ready for evidence that was, they knew only circumstantial. questions like this. the way she was beaten on her head. the strangle the way she was strangle. it s a very intimate crime. it s the sort of crime husbands commit when their wives are about to leave. or should i say, boyfriends? well, there you go. that was the point his lawyers want to make in court. that police and prosecutors had unfairly brushed off the possibility that stephanie s new soulmate, or his wife, had anything to do with it. that would be ron holthaus. when everybody found out that 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? i said something like, i do