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Mr. holthouse a, big, strong guy. his wife was actually a very physically fit woman. >> so, she would be outgunned by one of them? >> i would believe so. yes, sir. >> they took ron in for questioning several times. again and again, he insisted it wasn't him. >> i screwed up my marriage. i made a mess of my life. >> he admitted that in the last hours of stephanie's life, he met her here in this clothing store parking lot, around dinner time, and it wasn't a happy meeting. >> i was actually trying to tell her that it was over. >> he earlier had sent her a break-up email, he said. she insisted on...

>> they said i was a person of interest. i didn't think i had any worries. >> but agent sadar wasn't so sure. as his investigation continued, he became convinced that ron holthouse and his wife, cindy, had been telling him the truth. >> i feel awful. i really feel awful. >> but he kept encountering suspicious things about dale. why had dale waited until morning to report his wife missing? why, as dale's friends and family scour the town looking for her, why did he not take part at all? >> it was kind of this mounting series of things that we started to be concerned about. >> it was dale, said ...

Papers, but there was no physical evidence linking dale to the crime. at trial his lawyer would portray dale as a victim of rush to judgement. why, he asked, her stephanie's boyfriend ron holthouse and his wife cindy cleared so quickly? it was time for the holthouses to face the defense's questions on the witness stand. two winters passed here in the colorado rockies between the untimely demise of stephanie roller-bruner and the prosecutor's determination to pin it on dale. >> the lies are really tough to take. you just can't believe it. like, really? >> waiting for trial, he continued to li...

Bank. so, did the robber later encounter stephanie and then assault and kill her? >> this is where a predator could have been hiding out. there's any number of opportunities at that point. >> still, it was so cold. perhaps too cold for a lurking predator. >> this is one of those very few cases where it's a whodunit, if you will, and we've got -- i had at least three viable suspects. >> any one of whom had potential motive? >> absolutely. >> there was ron holthouse, the other man, who had just suddenly dumped stephanie. there was cindy, ron's wife, who, if she knew about the affair could have w...

Detectives kept prodding. >> how much do you love your husband? >> i'm committed. >> would you have done anything for him? >> within reason. would i lie for him? no. because you know what? if he made his bed, he's got to lay in it. >> for almost a month detectives went back and forth between ron and cindy and stephanie's husband, dale. who by that time had been advised by a friend better get a lawyer. so, i called. and my attorney said, you don't know the onslaught, the tidal wave that's coming toward you, do you? you have no idea. i said apparently not. >> oh, yes. and what a tidal wave it wa...