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i m 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 don t know the it seems like it s always the husband, right? isn t that what police usually say? except this time, they were not so sure. it s a who done it? i had three viable suspects. three possible suspects. the victim also had a boyfriend and he had a wife. everyone starts getting question. husband, boyfriend, jealous spouse. i said something like, i hope she rocks in hell. so what did happen that snowy white knight? see what you think. because the most important clue of all may be the ....
don t hide the secret. that s why i m talking about it now. and hopefully just one woman will have the courage to stand up and say, i m being abused. bold. i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline . i just can t see someone why we knew would want to hurt her. how could this happen? how could this happen to someone that we knew? it s been very long 13 years. homecoming queen, hannah hill, was just 18 when she disappeared. everybody sweetheart. this is it happened to people like her. what? why? where? when? and who? was it her boyfriend? they had fought before? did you verbally abuse her? yes. did you physically abuse her? yes. or was a another man in her life? they had been together the night she died. we kissed and stuff. did you have sex with hannah? no, i did not. more than 13 years would go by as hannah s family fought for that justice. two possible suspects. did you kill hannah hill? ? absolutely art. ....
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 don t know the it seems like it s always the husband, right? isn t that what police usually say? except this time, they were not so sure. it s a who done it? i had three viable suspects. three possible suspects. the victim also had a boyfriend and he had a wife. everyone starts getting question. husband, boyfriend, jealous spouse. i said something like, i hope she rots in hell. so what did happen that snowy white knight? see what you think. because the most important clue of all may be the victim s own voice. i knew there was a line to draw. hello ....
you re just trying to maintain and not just melt. so, you prepare yourself to just breathe. just breathe. and then, there it was. we the jury find the defendant, dale bruner, guilty of murder in the second degree. dale bruner was also convicted of two counts of sexual assault and sentenced to a total 112 years in prison. an appeals court vacated the sexual assault convictions. and in 2018, bruner s sentence was reduced to 48 years. it is a perfect storm. i m going down with the ship. stephanie s friend jennifer was driving when the verdict came in. i was in my car, yeah. parked on the side of the road. crying like a baby. and like others who knew stephanie, she wishes now she d taken her friends secrets more seriously. i beat myself over it every day. about how i should ve done this or should have done that. and almost good marriage, with one deadly flaw. a lot of stephanie s close friends and families didn t even know what was going on. maybe a couple of events o ....
Absolutely everything. and dale and stephanie it turned out had their share of secrets. but the weird thing, one chilly morning, six weeks before stephanie was murdered. as stephanie told her friend, jennifer. she heard spanking. she told me she counted at least eight spanx before she got up the stairs and down the hall to the kitchen. my boy was acting out far beyond the norm. i said, come on. that was a wednesday morning. stephanie was furious about the spanking and stormed off to work and that very day was laid off from her county job. and then, still upset with dale, stephanie went to see a judge and filed a restraining order against him. saw advice from her friend bill. honestly, i was a little bit surprised. i had never detected any major problems in the relationship. but, and this was distinctly odd, she asked the court to delay implementing the order until the following monday. then she went home and said dale suggested that family holiday. we had a wonderful week ....