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Stars, local worthies paired with ballroom pros. did you go? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. i went to three years of them. the last one, i did not go to the last one. >> had a wedding to shoot. so, he missed the chance to watch stephanie teach those lead-footed businessmen the fox trot and tango and so on. which means he also missed what happened that night. >> she coached a number of couples and in the process, she met a man named ron. >> ron holthouse, a local, married physical therapist. >> she sta...

Going to have to leave. >> so he did. after which, said dale, they calmed down and ten days later went back to ask the judge to rescind his order. the court recorded the session. >> im never going to spank again. this potentially could crush my entire world. and i am so sorry to you and i will make it up in any and every way i possibly can. >> she wanted to leave, but she felt like the restraining order was too much, that dale didnt deserve that and that maybe she had overreacted. >> so they tal...

Sort of crime that husbands commit when their wives are about to leave them. >> or should i say boyfriends? >> or boyfriends. well, there you go. >> that was the point his lawyers wanted to make in court, that police and prosecutors had unfairly brushed off the possibility that stephanies new soulmate or his wife had anything to do with it. that would be ron holthouse. >> when everybody found out stephanie was missing, did any police officers come and visit you at work or at your home that day? ...

>> i didnt sit up looking at him all night. [ inaudible question ] >> i think i would have, yeah. >> so their alibis were each other. detectives kept prodding. >> would you have done anything for him? >> within reason. would i lie for him? no. because you know what? if he made his bed, hes got to lay in it. >> for almost a month, detectives went back and forth between ron and cindy and stephanies husband, dale. who, by that time, had been advised by a friend -- better get a lawyer. so, i called....

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So im here, asking for help. and im going to end up getting a divorce because theres no way i can go back. >> only she did. finally, this domestic violence expert weighed in. >> 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 in an unfinished e-mail stephanie was writing to the other man, ron, just before she...

Downstairs. it was stephanie. she crawled right back into bed with him. >> she had come home. >> wow! >> she said this was all a horrible mistake and she wanted to move back in. >> and i said, are you sure? she said dont worry. everything is fine. >> but now, just two days later, things were not fine. not at all. stephanie was missing and dale was down at the police department, telling officers where he thought his wife might have gone. >> i thought she would go somewhere with her wifi and be on...

>> the police interviewed the other man, of course. ron holthouse. >> i just want to ask you straight up again -- not accusing you -- do you know where stephanie is right now? >> i absolutely have no idea. >> okay. >> ron admitted he and stephanie had a romantic relationship, but he denied they ever slept together. >> but we never ended up having sex. >> then ron told them something very interesting. that he had ended the affair. it was the night she moved into the condo, he told them. he said t...

So, he missed the chance to watch stephanie teach those lead-footed businessmen the fox trot and the tango and so on. which means he also missed what happened that night. >> she coached a number of couples and in the process she met a man named ron. >> ron holthouse, a local married physical therapist. >> she started working with him and got to know him. and saw how funny and animated he was and how that made her feel. she really did call it a true love moment. >> and he seemed to feel the same ...

Stephanies husband, dale, her brunt, ron, and rons wife, cindy. each had a possible motive. but as investigators dug deeper into the bruners marriage, a startling discovery would push dale to the top of the list. here again is keith morrison. its horrible. i mean, its -- i -- i dont even know how to explain having a microscope go into your world. its surreal. >> there are few secrets in a persons life that can escape the attention of a determined homicide detective. >> everything comes out. ab...