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Second-degree manslaughter and kidnapping and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. what bradley didn t realize was that bryan s boot held an important piece of evidence that told a story. dale bradley remains a suspect in the murder of his second wife. it s ironic, in a way, that bryan ruff s desperate efforts in the trunk of dale s car resulted in the capture of his own killer. just one little thing, that s all it takes. in this case, it turned out to be the paint samples, coupled with all the circumstantial evidence in this case and the physical evidence that you have. that was just a clincher in this case. even today, though, there s a lot of detectives just focusing so much on dna, they re forgetting all of the other avenues that could be approached with trace evidence such as forensic examination. i m glad there are people ....
Caused by trying to kick your way out of the trunk of a car, for example? bill schneck needed to know if the bakers of dale bradley s cam mayor camaro had painted the inside of the trunk. luckily, he had a friend who restored old cars. he just happened to have a 75 camaro when i was there. so they popped the trunk, and indeed, they had original paint in the trunk. that was useful. dale bradley drove a 1974 camaro at the time of bryan s murder. the mission now was to find it. they, through a lot of investigation, found that the car had been sold. unfortunately, two years after bryan s murder, the new owner sold the car for scrap metal. it s in little cubes. it s been melted down. but an examination of the case file revealed a surprise. 14 years earlier, an alert detective had taken paint samples from dale s car. i just took him because ....
she was surprised the case hadn t been solved, because dale told her somebody else had already been arrested for it, and she just assumed the case was done. but that obviously was a lie. and kristi told police something she hadn t mentioned during the original investigation. she said the day after bryan went missing, dale cleaned the inside of his car. he had never cleaned out that trunk as long as she had known him, as long as he had owned that camaro. why would dale do this? police wondered if bryan ruff had been inside that trunk. was there blood? was he shot in the car and wrapped in a blanket and looking for trace evidence, looking for blood in the car? but after 14 years, could police find dale bradley s camaro? honestly? i wanted a smartphone that shoots great video. ....
it was shocking that anybody could do something so horrific, let alone somebody that claimed to be a good friend. prosecutors believe dale either knew or strongly suspected bryan ruff was having an affair with his wife, kristi, and was afraid she was going to leave him. i think he was so angry that kristi and bryan betrayed him that he was going to make him pay. the forensic evidence suggests dale s plan was to eliminate the person he perceived to be his competition. since he knew bryan s hours and when there would be the least amount of traffic, he knew exactly when to strike. dale probably forced bryan into the trunk at gunpoint. bryan tried to kick his way out ....
christie told police she and bryan had become friends and talked regularly on the phone. dale would have christie bring dinner out to him and that s how bryan and christie met, at the job site when she would bring meals out to him. when questioned about bryan s disappearance, christie said she was home all day and hadn t seen him. dale said he was off from work and running errands all day. dale bradley said he was at the university of utah and when his car broke down he called bill easton, at a local bar here. five days after bryan disappeared, his wife, jennifer, discovered a potential clue. there were credit card bills i had never seen before. we had not applied for them together. also a phone bill. jennifer discovered that bryan was having an affair with christie bradley. ....