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In court, Muskingum County Assistant Prosecutor John Litle commended the teacher who recognized signs of abuse in the 11-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister. The suspected abuse was reported to Muskingum County Adult and Child Protective Services on Sept. 30 after the kids appeared online for school with their heads shaved bald. That same day, prosecutors said the computer camera turned off twice, one of the times the boy returned holding his mouth as if in pain and without speaking. Once...

With bryan ruffs murder. >> it was shocking that anybody could do something so horrific, let alone somebody who claimed to be such a good friend. >> prosecutors believe dale either knew or strongly suspected bryan ruff was having an affair with his wife christy and was afraid she was going to leave him. >> i think he was so angry that christy and bryan betrayed them that he was going to make them pay. >> the forensic evidence suggests that his plan was to eliminate the person he perceived to be ...

Disappear and never come back. >> brians wife jennifer was forced to raise their little girl alone. six months after bryan went missing, she gave birth to another daughter. >> i couldnt move on. i was stuck in that realm of grief until i knew what happened. >> then, hikers found human remains about 50 miles from the kennecott mine. >> he still had his security outfit on. his wallet and everything in tact. >> thats him. bryan patrick ruff. >> and i got a call from detectives and i said is it brya...

>> dental records confirmed the victim was bryan ruff. an autopsy showed hed been shot five times in the back. >> i thought that somehow he had gotten in the middle of something illegal and they killed him for that. >> search teams found five spent shells from .22 caliber pistol from the body. they believe he was shot just a few feet from where he was buried in a shallow grave. >> the next day, were out there working again and one of the dogs and the k9 unit uncovers a black cowboy boot that was...

Were found at the scene. >> its really frustrating. theres no other way to put it. >> with no evidence to tie anyone to the crime, the case went cold and the years passed. until 14 years later when tod parks a cold case detective with the salt lake county sheriffs office received a phone call from neighboring carbon county. >> when that call came in, it gave me a fresh breath of air to really dig into it. >> police in carbon county were investigating dale bradley on suspicion of murdering his wi...

>> when detective clark contacted her 14 years after the fact, she was surprised that the case hadnt been solved because dale told her somebody else had already been arrested for it and she assumed it was done. >> but that was obviously a lie and christy told police something she hadnt mentioned during the initial 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 shed known him, as long as hed owned tha...

They were stealing gloves, shovels, you know, just any kind of equipment you would find around a mine. >> police wondered if bryan might have stumbled on a robbery in progress. >> so a theory came up that maybe these guys were stealing metals off of the property that night, bryan had stopped them and they had killed him to cover up the theft. >> but none of the other security guards could be linked to bryans disappearance. >> he basically was completely alone up there in the mountain, and it rea...

Kristi bradley. >> it was a double whammy to have him missing and then to be hit with such horrifying news that everything had been shattered my whole life had been shattered, everything i had dreamed and hoped for was gone. >> jennifer also discovered that kristi was with bryan in las vegas a few weeks earlier. when confronted with this information, kristi admitted the affair to both the police and her husband. >> she told me she thought bryan was really nice and she thought he was cute. dale w...

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Their original suspect, dale bradley, was now a suspect in yet another murder investigation, they decided to look once again at the evidence. and this time, on bryan ruffs boot, the one they found in the mountains near his burial site, they spotted something, some kind of scuff mark on the bottom of the boot that looked like reddish orange paint. >> when i saw that swatch of paint, it just flashed back to me that that was the same color of paint on dale bradleys car. and i got excited and i kind...