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But there was no physical evidence linking dale to the crime. at trial, his lawyer would portray dale as the victim of a rush to judgment. why, he asked, were stephanie s boyfriend ron, and his wife, simd cindy, cleared so quickly? once again, here s keith morrison. two winters passed here in the colorado rockies between the untimely demise of stephanie roller-bruner and the prosecutor s determination to pin it on dale. and he fumed in silence about the allegations against him. the lies are really tough to take. you just can t believe it. 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 is the attorney, a man not at all impressed, he told us, with the police investigation. ....
Who was driving when the verdict came in. my car parked on the side of the road crying like a baby. she wishes now she taken her friend s secrets more seriously. i beat myself everyday how i should have done this or that. almost good marriage with one deadly flaw. stephanie s close fends or family didn t know what was going on. it only took three and she s dead. and so her friend takes the advice, heed the warning, don t hide the secrets. that s why i am talking about it now. hopefully one woman would have the courage to stand up and say i am being abused and living in fear and living in secrets. i need to stand up and be bold. ....
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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. ....
Next week. why would she go away on a yoga retreat and decline this friend s offer to babysit? can i take care of the kids? she said no, they re fine with dale. that s because she knew that dale wasn t a threat to her. he wasn t a threat to those children. remember how the detective found the house unusually spotless two weeks after the murder? it was, turned out, family and friends who cleaned up. apparently because dale was paralyzed by grief. dale walks into his walk-in closet and half of the stuff is stephanie s. he comes out and he s just crying. he s like, i ve got to get this stuff out of here. clearly a rush to judgment, sloppy investigation, said the defense. by detectives who bought the holthouse s alibi too easily, who failed to consider that the murder might have been committed by whoever robbed the nearby bank just before stephanie disappeared. attorney burnhart confronted agent sadar. you had no direct evidence of mr. bruner assaulting his wife? ....