veronica we nicholas took the call. he said i got ready ready for school, we ve got him ready on the bus, and then i thought i should call you guys. stephanie s car was in the driveway and when he called her phone it went straight to voice mail. britannica called stephanie s best friend, jennifer. i panicked, this is something that happens to other people, not to you. oh but it had happened. as the silver thorn police checked local hospitals, they scan the neighborhood. it seems unbelievable that stephanie had not checked. the day became two, and three. and some private secrets were about to become very public indeed. where was stephanie? police had a lot of questions for her husband dale, they also wanted to talk to that other man in her life. her boyfriend, ron. coming up. i just want to ask straight-up again, not accusing you, do you know where stephanie is right now? when dateline continues.
maintain and not just melt. so, you prepare yourself to just breathe. just breathe. and then, there it was. we the jury find the defendant, dale bruner, guilty of murder in the second degree. dale bruner was also convicted of two counts of sexual assault and sentenced to a total 112 years in prison. an appeals court vacated the sexual assault convictions. and in 2018, bruner s sentence was reduced to 48 years. it is a perfect storm. i m going down with the ship. stephanie s friend jennifer was driving when the verdict came in. i was in my car, yeah. parked on the side of the road. crying like a baby. and like others who knew stephanie, she wishes now she d taken her friends secrets more seriously. i beat myself over it every day. about how i should ve done this or should have done that. and almost good marriage, with one deadly flaw. a lot of stephanie s close friends and families didn t even know what was going on. maybe a couple of events over the years. it only t
stephanie loved to dance. dance was her life. she was alive when she danced. hardly surprising then that stephanie and jennifer were close to. we started a ballroom dance program together. pretty soon she would be doing back flips. but it was dance that led off the whole cascade of trouble. in the fall of 2010, there is an annual fund raiser here in silver throat thorn called dancing with locals paired with ballroom pros. did you go? absolutely. i went to three years of them. the last one i did not go to. at a wedding to shoot. so he missed the chance to watch stephanie will teach those left footed businessmen the foxtrot, the tango, and so on. which means he also must wet happened that night.
sexual assault convictions. and in 2018, bruner s sentence was reduced to 48 years. it is a perfect storm. i m going down with the ship. stephanie s friend jennifer was driving when the verdict came in. i was in my car, yeah. parked on the side of the road. crying like a baby. and like others who knew stephanie, she wishes now she d taken her friends secrets more seriously. i beat myself over it every day. about how i should ve done this or should have done that. and almost good marriage, with one deadly flaw. a lot of stephanie s close friends and families didn t even know what was going on. maybe a couple of events over the years. it only two, three and she s dead. and so, said her friends, take some advice in warning. don t hide the secret.