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A search warrant for his car. it was checked for blood and gunshot residue. >> none of which we found. we didn't find anything. >> in addition, dale and kristi 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 bryan's fellow security guards had been arrested for stealing from the mine. >> they were arrested for stealing metals off of kennecott property and pawning them in junk metal shops, you know, for junk metal. >> one of those guards was a...

Second-degree manslaughter and kidnapping and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. what bradley didn't realize was that bryan's boot held an important piece of evidence that told a story. dale bradley remains a suspect in the murder of his second wife. it's ironic, in a way, that bryan ruff's desperate efforts in the trunk of dale's car resulted in the capture of his own killer. >> just one little thing, that's all it takes. in this case, it turned out to be the paint samples, coupled with all the circumstantial evidence in this case and the physical evidence that you have. that was just a cli...

Their original suspect, dale bradley, was now a suspect in yet another murder investigation, they decided to look once again at the evidence. and this time, on bryan ruff's boot, the one they found in the mountains near his burial site, they spotted something, some kind of scuff mark on the bottom of the boot that looked like reddish orange paint. >> when i saw that swatch of paint, it just flashed back to me that that was the same color of paint on dale bradley's car. and i got excited and i kind of got butterflies and thought, i got him. >> forensic scientist bill schneck examined this paint...

>> she was surprised the case hadn't 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 hadn't 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 wondered if bryan ruff had been inside that trunk. >> was there blood? was he shot in the car and w...

>> it was shocking that anybody could do something so horrific, let alone somebody that claimed to be a good friend. >> prosecutors believe dale either knew or strongly suspected bryan ruff was having an affair with his wife, kristi, and was afraid she was going to leave him. >> i think he was so angry that kristi and bryan betrayed him that he was going to make him pay. >> the forensic evidence suggests dale's 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, he knew exactly when to strike. dal...