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He felt bad we had to move in with my parents at the time. >> bryan spent six days in las vegas. when he returned he was a changed man and not for the better. >> he was very cold and distant, a side i have never seen before. he was very cold, bitter about certain things, finances, things like that and just -- just angry. >> as investigators searched the guard shack for clues, the phone rang. the caller said she was bryans wife jennifer. >> she was surprised when somebody else answered the phone ...

Kidnapping and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. what bradley didnt realize was that bryans boot held an important piece of evidence that told a story. dale bradley remains a suspect in the murder of his second wife. its ironic, in a way, that bryan ruffs desperate efforts in the trunk of dales car resulted in the capture of his own killer. >> just one little thing, thats all it takes. in this case, it turned out to be the paint samples, coupled with all the circumstantial evidence in this ca...

Richest hole on earth and copper isnt the only valuable mineral. >> they mine gold and silver. they have very expensive equipment, that sort of thing that. >> theft is a big problem out there. >> as a result, security is tight. >> you dont go on the property without usually encountering security. >> when the security guard wasnt on duty in a guard shack on a winter night in 1991, it was unusual. >> they went up and figured he might be in the restroom and checked it out. and his lunch was partly ...

Found at the scene. >> its really frustrating. there is 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 todd park, a cold case detective with the salt lake county sheriffs office, received a telephone call from authorities in neighboring carbon county. >> when that call came in, it gave me, i guess, a fresh breath of air to look at another case and to -- to really dig into it. >> police in carbon county w...

>> bryans wife, jennifer, was forced to raise their little girl alone. six months after bryan went missing, she gave birth to another daughter. >> i just couldnt move on. i was stuck in that realm of grief until i knew what had happened to him. >> one year later, hikers discovered human remains in a camping area about 50 miles from the kennecott mine. >> at first, i just thought it was just rocks and then i thought maybe it was a dead guy. >> he still had his security outfit on, his wallet and e...

A search warrant for his car. it was checked for blood and gunshot residue. >> none of which we found. we didnt find anything. >> in addition, dale and kristi bradley agreed to take polygraph tests and they both passed. >> at that point, they kind of dropped his name from the list of suspects. >> meanwhile, investigators pursued another potential lead. two of bryans fellow security guards had been arrested for stealing from the mine. >> they were arrested for stealing metals off of kennecott pro...

Second-degree manslaughter and kidnapping and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. what bradley didnt realize was that bryans boot held an important piece of evidence that told a story. dale bradley remains a suspect in the murder of his second wife. its ironic, in a way, that bryan ruffs desperate efforts in the trunk of dales car resulted in the capture of his own killer. >> just one little thing, thats all it takes. in this case, it turned out to be the paint samples, coupled with all the cir...

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...

>> she was surprised the case hadnt 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 hadnt 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 w...

>> 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 dales plan was to eliminate the person he perceived to be his competition. since he knew bry...