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>> 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 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 stealing metals of kennecotte property and pawning them for junk...

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...

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 was an unsafe area, that there were no cameras, no electric ga...

>> 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...

Samples from dales car. >> i just took him -- because 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 7...

Dale probably forced bryan into the trunk at gunpoint. bryan tried to kick his way out of the trunk during the 30-minute drive when a piece of the paint became embedded in his boot. when dale got to the burial spot, prosecutors think he ordered bryan to remove his boots so he couldnt run away. he then forced him over to a shallow grave, which prosecutors think he dug earlier that day. then shot him with a .22-caliber pistol. the murder weapon was never recovered. >> it was so typical of dales pe...