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>> im here. asking for help. >> it was like hearing a ghost, a voice from beyond the grave. >> there is no way i can go back. >> can she help solve her own murder? >> so surreal. this is something that happens to other people, not to you. >> she was a dancer who married a dashing photographer. they seemed a perfect family until the bone chilling night she went missing. >> you could see the body underneath the snow. >> where was her husband that night? >> my attorney said you dont know ...

a voice from beyond the grave. >> there is no way i can go back. >> can she help solve her own murder? >> so surreal. this is something that happens to other people, not to you. >> she was a dancer who married a dashing photographer. they seemed a perfect family until the bone chilling night she went missing. >> you could see the body underneath the snow. >> where was her husband that night? >> my attorney said you dont know the -- >> it seems like its always the husband, right? isnt t...

I had three viable suspects. Reporter three possible suspects . Turns out, this victim also had a boyfriend. And he had a wife everyone starts getting questioned. Husband. Boyfriend. Jealous spouse. I said something like, i hope she rots in hell reporter so what did happen that snowy night . See what you think. Because the most important clue of all may be the victims own voice. I knew there was a line to draw. Im lester holt and this is dateline. Tonight, secrets in the snow. Heres keith morris...

I had three viable suspects. Reporter three possible suspects . Turns out, this victim also had a boyfriend. And he had a wife everyone starts getting questioned. Husband. Boyfriend. Jealous spouse. I said something like, i hope she rots in hell reporter so what did happen that snowy night . See what you think. Because the most important clue of all may be the victims own voice. I knew there was a line to draw. Im lester holt and this is dateline. Tonight, secrets in the snow. Heres keith morris...

Force called in the Colorado Bureau of investigations. Which is why agent greg sadar was standing beside the shallolo blue river staring at what looked like a lump of snow on some rocks. There was several inches of snow on top of her. You could see the body underneath the snow. Reporter it was stephanie, all right. But how did she get here . Coming up. The autopsy finding that surprised everyone. Had stephanie been murdered . Its a whodunit. I had at least three viable suspects. Any one of whom ...

Im lucky to get through a shift without a disaster. My bargain detergent couldnt keep up. So i switched to tide pods. Theyre super concentrated so i get a better ean. 15 cleaning ingredients thats my tide. Reporter all night, the bitter cold pried at the windows and licked under the door frames of the bruner house here in silverthorne, colorado. Hardly a night to take a walk. Certainly not an all night walk. Had she hurt herself, or had someone else hurt her . It wasnt like stephanie roller brun...

Were all under suspicion. >> they said i was a person of interest. i didnt think i had any worries. >> an agent but agent sadar was a social. as his investigation continued, he became convinced that ron holthaus and his wife, cindy, had been telling him the truth. >> i feel awful. i really feel awful. >> but he kept encountering suspicious things about dale. why had dale waited until morning to report his wife missing? and why while dales friends and family scour the town looking for her, why di...

>> i cant tell sitting up looking at him all night. >> if he was gonna get up and leave would you have told? >> i wouldve. yes. >> theyre alibis where each other. detectives kept -- >> how much do you love your husband? >> im committed. >> would you do anything for him? >> look within reason. would i lie for him? no. look because you know what? he made his bed, hes got a lane it. >> for almost a month, detectives went back and forth between ron and cindy and stephanies husband dale. who, by that...

Him about it and say, you need help. and i just think that would go really bad. so, im here asking for health. >> and im going to end up getting a divorce because there is no way i can go back. >> only, she did. finally, this domestic violence expert waited. >> when a victim is attempting to leave a relationship, or has left a relationship, it is by far the most dangerous time for a victim. >> but what was the trigger that according to the prosecution, set dale off? the answer, he said, may lie ...

Have gone. >> i thought she would go somewhere with her wi-fi, to be on the computer, and my other guest was to maybe she went to rons house. i didnt know. >> the police interviewed the other man, of course. ron holthaus. >> i just want to ask straight-up again, not accusing you, do you know where stephanie is right now? >> i have no idea. >> ron admitted, he and stephanie had a romantic relationship but he denied the other slept together. >> we never ended up having sex. >> and ron told them so...