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>> 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 checked for blood and gunshot residue. >> none of which we found. we didn't find anything. >> in addition, dale and christie 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 of kennecotte property and pawning them for junk metal shops. >> one of those guards was at the guard shack minutes after bryan was reported missi...

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...

Around a mine. >> police wondered if bryan might have stumbled on a robbery in progress. >> so a theory came up that maybe these guys were stealing metals off of the property that night, bryan had stopped them and they had killed him to cover up the theft. >> but none of the other security guards could be linked to bryan's disappearance. >> he basically was completely alone up there in the mountain, and it really concerned him that it was an unsafe area, that there were no cameras, no electric gates, no security systems like they had in the other gates. >> weeks, and then months, passed with a...

>> bryan's wife, jennifer, was forced to raise their little girl alone. six months after bryan went missing, she gave birth to another daughter. >> i just couldn't move on. i was stuck in that realm of grief until i knew what had happened to him. >> one year later, hikers discovered human remains in a camping area about 50 miles from the kennecott mine. >> at first, i just thought it was just rocks and then i thought maybe it was a dead guy. >> he still had his security outfit on, his wallet and everything intact. >> that's him. bryan patrick ruff. >> i got a phone call from the detectives and...