they raised their three young children. awesome children. the best. how about a smile? and life for the bruner family was it was fantastic. we traveled. we vacationed. but it was in her spare moments and hours that stephanie was truly transformed, a ball room dancer. dancing was probably to her what photography is to me. my guest star, bill. it was her passion, said her old friend, bill. he knows flamenco. stephanie loved to dance. dance was her life. she was alive when she danced. hardly surprising stephanie and jennifer were close, too. we started a ball room dance program together. pretty soon, she had me doing backflips. but it was dance that led off the whole cascade of trouble. in the fall of 2010, an annual fund-raiser here in silverthorne called dancing with the mountain
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 wasn t like stephanie roller-bruner to just disappear. seemed more likely a stranger might be involved or stephanie herself might have run off into despair and maybe hurt herself. stephanie s friends and family poured over those last few weeks, so full of change, secrecy, turmoil. were there clues? of course, some knew about stephanie s relationship with her 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 little family holiday. she said let s go to glenwood springs for the weekend, all classic, wonderful place. it was almost romantic, said dale, just like the old days.
exactly what happened. i am still trying to figure it out. what in god s name was his wife doing, walking out into the brutal cold? more to the point, what happened to her? middle class married mother of three, where did she go? without a word to him or her friends. you can t imagine that this is happening to you and to your friend. she was just plain missing. yes, she was. it was terrifying. dreadful in the end. as events were about to prove, a shocking lesson on what can dwell hidden beneath a person s public skin. this is really a secret thing, as far as you know? a lot of it, sure. everybody has secrets, of course. stephanie roller-bruner s secrets lived as she did in a skier s paradise. they lived in silverthorne, colorado. for daily, he was a photographer
noupsed she was going out to clear her head. and stephanie never came back. in the morning, he 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. veronica nicholas 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 stephanie s best friend jennifer. i panicked. this is something that happens to other people, not to you. but it had happened. silverthorne police check local hotels and hospitals. her 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?
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