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In court, Muskingum County Assistant Prosecutor John Litle commended the teacher who recognized signs of abuse in the 11-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister. The suspected abuse was reported to Muskingum County Adult and Child Protective Services on Sept. 30 after the kids appeared online for school with their heads shaved bald. That same day, prosecutors said the computer camera turned off twice, one of the times the boy returned holding his mouth as if in pain and without speaking. Once the children were placed into foster care, the details of what had happened at the hands of two adu...

With bryan ruff's murder. >> it was shocking that anybody could do something so horrific, let alone somebody who claimed to be such a good friend. >> prosecutors believe dale either knew or strongly suspected bryan ruff was having an affair with his wife christy and was afraid she was going to leave him. >> i think he was so angry that christy and bryan betrayed them that he was going to make them pay. >> the forensic evidence suggests that his plan was to eliminate the person he perceived to be his competition. since he knew bryan's hours and when there would be the least amount of traffic, h...

Disappear and never come back. >> brian's wife jennifer was forced to raise their little girl alone. six months after bryan went missing, she gave birth to another daughter. >> i couldn't move on. i was stuck in that realm of grief until i knew what happened. >> then, hikers found human remains about 50 miles from the kennecott mine. >> he still had his security outfit on. his wallet and everything in tact. >> that's him. bryan patrick ruff. >> and i got a call from detectives and i said is it bryan and that's when my world fell apart.

>> dental records confirmed the victim was bryan ruff. an autopsy showed he'd been shot five times in the back. >> i thought that somehow he had gotten in the middle of something illegal and they killed him for that. >> search teams found five spent shells from .22 caliber pistol from the body. they believe he was shot just a few feet from where he was buried in a shallow grave. >> the next day, we're out there working again and one of the dogs and the k9 unit uncovers a black cowboy boot that was recovered about 200 feet east of the grave site. never did find a second boot. >> but so much tim...

Were found at the scene. >> it's really frustrating. there's 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 tod parks a cold case detective with the salt lake county sheriff's office received a phone call from neighboring carbon county. >> when that call came in, it gave me a fresh breath of air to really dig into it. >> police in carbon county were investigating dale bradley on suspicion of murdering his wife crystal. he had been a suspect in bryan ruff's murder.