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>> 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...

>> 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 thats how bryan and christie met, at the job site when she would bring meals out to him. >> when questioned about bryans disappearance, christie said she was home all day and hadnt 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 east...

Work records showed this wasnt the first time bryan went missing. just a few weeks earlier, bryan walked off his job and ran away to las vegas. >> he felt a big burden to provide for us, especially with this second baby coming, he felt that burden and he was trying to get through school and i know finances worried him a lot. 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 ve...

There wasnt really much else to take. >> bill schneck took paint samples from the boot and the car and placed them on slides with an immersion liquid. this eliminated any air trapped between the sample and the slide. using a polarizing light microscope magnified up to 1,000 times, schneck saw the paint was a lead chromate paint. >> and i contacted the national institute of science and technology and received a paint chip known standard on a 74 camaro. >> using a scanning electron microscope, sch...

>> 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 christie was with bryan in las vegas a few weeks earlier. when confronted with this information, christie admitted the affair to both the police and her husband. >> she told me she thought bryan was really nice and cute and dale was really controlling to her and ...

>> 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 were investigating da...

Harm bryan, so investigators got 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 christie 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 s...

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 really concerned him that it w...

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...

>> 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 christie was with bryan in las vegas a few weeks earlier. when confronted with this information, christie admitted the affair to both the police and her husband. >> she told me she thought bryan was really nice and cute and dale was really controlling to her and ...