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The colorado mom had been bludgeoned, strangled, and then browned in a river not far from her house. now, detectives were focused on three people of interest. stephanie s husband, dale. her boyfriend, ron. and ron s wife, cindy. each had a possible motive. but as investigators dug deeper into the bruner s marriage, a startling discovery would push dale to the top of the list. here again is keith morrison. it s horrible. i mean, it s i 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 will escape the attention of a determined homicide detective. everything comes out. absolutely everything. dale and stephanie, it turned out, had their share of secrets. the weird thing one chilly morning six weeks before stephanie was murdered as stephanie told her friend, ....
correct, no direct evidence of mr. bruner murdering her. of course, had dale taken the stand, he would have had to have answered to some stubbornly uncomfortable facts and this question that hung over the defense table like a cloud. you loved your wife. you loved her a lot. but in that moment of extreme rage when she was leaving you, you killed her. strangled her and then threw her body in the river. so not true. the theme of the prosecution was that you were an abuser and that it was it s beyond so not true. it s just not true. they painted quite a picture, though. oh, yes. they certainly did. with the help of a woman whose message, in a way, came back from the grave. coming up, stephanie speaks. ....
Mind you. some family stayed around, reported back to her sister, ramona, dale was truly grieving. we kept asking, what is he acting like? what is he saying? unless he s some kind of actor that deserves some kind of oscar performance, this guy seems distraught. and stephanie s friend, bill, moved in for two months to help out, console dale. we were just trying to hold dale together. he was having a very difficult time. did you ever confront him or say, come on, what happened? looked every one of us in the eye and said i had nothing to do with this. i m innocent. can you talk at all about the investigators focusing only on you? i hope they re investigating someone else. didn t look like it. it was summer 2011. nine months after stephanie s murder when it happened. i was coming back from one of my photo shoots and a little unmarked car with a light on it flashed and siren went. and they have guns drawn on me. ....
Family pored over those last few weeks, so full of change, secrecy, turmoil. were there clues? 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 glennwood springs for the weekend, old classic, wonderful place. it was almost romantic, said dale, just like the old days. but when they got back, she gave him the news. she goes, i want a divorce. i said, you don t love me anymore? she said i met this other person. she even said it s not that i don t love you, but i think i love i think i met my soulmate again. just like that, dale s world came crashing down. i called her brother. i called her sisters. i called her mom. i said do you know what s going on? do you know what s happening? he talked to her sister, ramona. ....
The time of the murder was now spotless. what did you find this time? nothing. there was nothing to find. no signs of blood. no evidence of any struggle. nor, in fact, was there any sign that stephanie had ever lived there. there wasn t a single photograph of her. every trace of her had been scrubbed from the house. it also seemed suspicious, said the detective, that dale changed his story a bit. first time he called the police, he said they had an argument before she left to go out walking. later he said there was no argument. was there an argument of any kind? no, we never had an argument. there was no argument. it was just the facts were on the table. what were you talking about that she needed to clear her head? we were just talking about us. within a few weeks of stephanie s murder, the state ramped up the pressure on dale. social services sent the bruner children to live with stephanie s brother in california. i m in a fight with mike tyson with no gloves. a ....