you hear that crunch? >> and we love our snacks. >> mm-hmm. >> and you could dress these up for the big game, or you could just keep them plain and put them in the kid's lunch box. >> and i love that now you can have a guilt-free snack any time, any day. >> chips are back on the menu. >> the coolest part for me was the spiralizer. i think that's just awesome. i would use it. i'd call whoever was around the house, like, "hey, come check this out." my daughter, she liked watching it, too. and it's like super fast. two zucchini, one yellow squash. we made a whole bunch of vegetable pasta, like a whole bunch. and my daughter and my niece -- they're 1 and 1 1/2 -- they tore it up. they were eating it like crazy. it was really, really, really good. the veggie bullet is a great way to get vegetables in your kids because it's like little kid bite-size pieces, like little chips and stuff. kids love chips. they love candy. they love little things that they can hold and just, like, grab a handful off. it's super fresh, and that's the best way to eat. >> announcer: from the makers of the world-famous nutribullet comes the next innovation in whole-food nutrition extraction. introducing the veggie bullet, the world's first cyclonic spiralizer, lightning-

food-prep accelerator and world-famous nutrition extractor. it's the one-button, three-in-one kitchen miracle that can turn nutrient-rich whole foods into complete meals in just minutes. and it takes up less space than a toaster. let's face it. most of the time it takes to make great, homemade meals is in the prep and the cleanup. now you can cut your prep time by up to 75%, and cleanup's a breeze. spiralize whole foods in seconds for incredible pasta recipes, curly fries, and ribbon spirals for great lasagnas. chop and slice faster than you ever thought possible for chopped salads, pizzas, slaws, and homemade chips. even blend salad dressings for the week, smoothies, salsa, and so much more. all with the press of just one button. the secret starts with the veggie bullet's cyclonic-action spiralizer and high-torque motor with razor-sharp stainless-steel blades for recipes that will fill your family up, not out, like the most amazing spaghetti and meatball recipe your family has ever tasted. and the family favorite -- oven-ready curly fries for four prepped in less than one minute, all right here in the veggie bullet recipe book. with whole-food spiralized

faster than straining, boiling, or baking. and they absorb flavors and spices in just minutes for tastes that amaze professional chefs, moms, dads, and even the kids. replacing pasta with gluten-free, low-calorie whole foods can even help you lose weight. it's guilt-free pasta, and it really is back on the menu. with just a simple twist, lift off the spiralizer and snap on the food prep accelerator for the fastest slicing and shredding you've ever seen. five potatoes perfectly sliced in just 30 seconds. slice beets, sweet potatoes, onions, and carrots faster and more perfectly than ever before. even make veggie chips for a great crunchy, nutritious lunchtime snack. but it gets even better. just flip the blade over, and now you can shred mountains of cauliflower rice for cauliflower crust pizza or mushroom risotto. shred cabbage for pickled coleslaws in 20 seconds. and use the small chute for carrots, cilantro, and garlic, hot peppers, green onions, and all those things you hate to chop. even slice a leftover chicken breast or steak to top a salad. and how about sunday prep for the whole week done in a frac o

a fridge full of vegetables for salads, all kinds of healthy pastas in minutes. never throw out good food again. look -- you could easily spend over $500 on kitchen appliances with complicated attachments and buttons that don't even spiralize. but you won't pay $500, $300, not even $200. in fact, you can try the entire veggie bullet system in your home for a full 30 days for just $29.99. you'll get the world's first cyclonic spiralizer and spaghetti blade to make all of your favorite pasta recipes and our 70-page recipe book full of complete meals the whole family will love. tv buyers will also get three more spiralizing blades -- the angel-hair blade for incredible, five-star-restaurant-style meals, the ribbon blade to make food art, and the family favorite curly-fry blade for healthy, homemade fries -- a $30 value, yours free. and you will also get the food prep accelerator for the fastest slicing and shredding of whole foods that you've ever seen. tv buyers also get the world-famous cyclonic-action veggie bullet blender, a $20 value, yours free. blend, pulse, puree, and mix

salsas, dips, and toppings, and all of your favorite smoothies. now, you can spiralize, slice, shred, and blend in seconds with one machine and the press of one button. try the entire veggie bullet system in your home for a full 30 days for just $29.99 with free shipping. if you don't love it, send it back for a complete refund of your $29.99. but love it and keep it all for less than $1 a day. that's just four additional monthly payments of $29.99. but there's still more. call or go online right now and learn how you can also get this incredible bonus of up to $100 of groceries from thrive market delivered nationwide, directly to your front door, with free shipping available. altogether, that's $150 in bonus offers just for trying the veggie bullet for 30 days for only $29.99. and shipping is free. remember, this is a special tv-only offer, and it's not available in stores. up your kitchen game with the veggie bullet. order now. >> so, first thing we're gonna do is spiralize our sweet potato. now, i want to show you how to make one-skillet,

minutes with the veggie bullet. >> all right! >> so, now, what i did with these is i took the sweet potato, mixed it in with some herbs and oil. it gets crispy and caramelized. now we're gonna crack the eggs in the center. >> they fit perfectly. >> this is the perfect healthy take on my mom's egg in a hole with that thin white bread. it's amazing. now, what i love about the veggie bullet is that it makes everything taste better. broccoli stems. >> okay, i would have thrown those out. >> not anymore. >> so, you're making pasta with the broccoli stems? >> exactly. what you used to throw away, now you're gonna love. >> i love saving money on food. >> all right. now we're gonna add the carrot in the inner chute. just the color combination of the orange and the green is beautiful. and broccoli stems are great 'cause they're high in vitamin k and folate, really healthy. all right. so, we have the scallops searing on the outside, noodles in the middle. we're gonna add a little bit of soy and hoisin sauce. >> that looks amazing. >> we're gonna give that a quick

it all together. and then, that's what you have. >> wonderful. >> dinner for two to four people in seconds. >> so much! >> now, one of my favorite things in the ribbon blade. look at this. we are gonna make lasagna. >> that's my kids' favorite is lasagna. >> exactly, and now it's gonna be their favorite, and it's gonna be good for them. because instead of high-glycemic, starchy pasta... >> right. >> ...we're using zucchini. >> then you're probably not gonna be as sleepy, which is really important. >> exactly. >> i hate feeling stuffed after a little pasta. [ gasps ] those are beautiful! >> look at that. >> all right. >> so, we're just gonna finish this off. you want to throw the cheese on? >> i will. >> you get the same texture, the same crunch, the same flavor, but a lot healthier than pasta noodles. >> well, i love it. now i don't feel guilty for the cheese if i'm eating it this healthy. there we go. >> all right. >> all set. >> all right. let's pop this in the oven. >> i can see it bubbling from here! >> it is beautiful. check this out. this does not feel like you're cheating yourself. >> now, if you had told me that these were just vegetables, i wouldn't believe you. >> look at the layers. >> look at all of these perfect

cheese. mmm! >> beautiful, but i think our breakfast is ready. >> okay! >> all right. we're gonna finish this off with a touch more green onion. >> this looks great. >> absolutely. i love these one-skillet dishes. ready? >> okay. >> and then all you have to do is slide it right on to the plate. >> [ laughs ] that's amazing! now, that is a breakfast the kids will love. >> exactly. all right. so, what we're gonna do first is we're gonna make cauliflower rice. >> okay, i've never even heard of cauliflower rice before. >> yeah, and wait till you see this. >> okay. look at that! >> check this out. cauliflower rice. >> that's so fine. >> and you could use this for side dishes and salads, to make tacos -- endless. so, we're gonna add some cheese to it, as well. >> perfect every time. >> right? look at this. and now i'm gonna show you something else. what is america's favorite fast food? >> i would probably say pizza. >> exactly. and my wife grew up in rome, so pizza is a household staple. i'm gonna show you how to make the biggest internet rage -- cauliflower pizza crust. >> [ laughs ] i've never heard of cauliflower

we have our mixture here. all we do is add a couple eggs. >> all right. >> we're gonna add our coconut flour. >> oh, so that would make it gluten free. >> exactly. little herbs of choice. >> that's easy. >> and then we just mix that together. and just like a pizza dough, it comes together perfectly. you would just spread this out on a sheet pan and pop it in the oven. >> i can do that. >> this is what it looks like when it comes out. this one's been cooked and cooled down. >> look at how nice and golden brown that is. if you told me that that was cauliflower, i wouldn't believe it. >> exactly. delicious. you're not cheating anymore. and it's high fiber, low glycemic. >> perfect. >> let's top this baby. >> okay. here i go. i'm gonna add our veggies. look at these perfect slices. >> perfect. >> oh, that looks great, jeffrey. and again, no tears with the onion. got our mushrooms. perfect. all done. look at these perfect slices. >> that is gorgeous. all right. let's put some of this on top. >> these smell great. >> and the veggie bullet is great for pepperoni, as well. >> yes. >> beautiful, but we're gonna keep thie

>> yeah, absolutely. get a nice mix. look how beautiful that is. >> that looks great. i think we're done. >> i'm gonna pop it in the oven. >> all right. this here. jeffrey, i can smell it from here! it smells great! >> wait till you see it. >> look at that! >> look at that. you have to try this. >> perfect. of, if you told me that that wasn't crust, i wouldn't believe it. >> look at that. >> that looks amazing! >> the shredding component of the veggie bullet -- you better hold on. the cauliflower rice -- what i did is i treat it like a rice. and i've done stir-fry, so just like an asian stir-fry. i threw in shrimp on top of it, several vegetables, and it looked good and it tasted even better. >> the veggie bullet is a great way to get vegetables into your family's diet. you can fool them. [ chuckles ] you can fool them into thinking they're eating something that's co

vegetables. my husband is italian. when i made him lasagna with not an ounce of pasta in it, he was stunned. and actually, last week, he asked me to make lasagna again, and he said, "no, the kind you make -- the good kind." my husband is the hardest person to get to eat vegetables, and i solved the problem with the veggie bullet because now he'll eat whatever i give him. well, i can say, with the veggie bullet, pasta is back on the menu. >> jeni, as a chef and passionate cook, i love to travel. i've been to thailand, china. and i'm absolutely in love with asian food, especially noodles. >> mm! >> but when i make these dishes, it's like 30 minutes each. my wife's like, "i want to eat now." >> yes! >> so, we're gonna do a little challenge. >> okay. >> i want you to see if i can prep and finish three dishes in three minutes. >> all right, so you want me to time you? >> yep. you ready? >> all right. you ready? >> let's go. >> all right. let's go! >> first thing we're doing -- spiralized yellow squash. >> so fast! and i love it -- just one button, you get the speed, you get the results. >> always done just like that. now i got these beautiful

noodles already cooking with some veggies -- peppers. >> it looks so fresh. >> you finish it off with shrimp or whatever protein you like. that's enough for two to four people any night of the week. >> perfect. >> time for another clean-out-the-fridge special. we'll do a little stir-fry here. >> love it. >> all right. we're gonna get the broccoli going there. >> this is such a time and, really, money saver. >> absolutely. anything that you have in the fridge, you can use it up. center chute for the carrots. you know all about that. >> this is so much better than a food processor. >> and our green onions. >> those are so hard! that looks so wonderful. >> and in seconds. i love it. beautiful color, great texture. right into the sauté pan. all right. we're gonna give that a toss. >> nice sizzle. >> yeah, all the flavors come together, and what i love is a little bit of heat, so we're gonna add some chili flake. >> like that. extra color. >> let's add a little bit of soy sauce, bring all the flavors together, create a little sauce. all right. so, we have the sauce in there, beautiful. now, as you know, the veggie bullet is great for slicing cooked meats. >> that's right. i love that. >> we're gonna put our steak in there. we'll give that another little toss. let the steak absorb the sauce and get hot... >> that smells wonderful! i can't wait to taste that.

ready? >> all right. >> i'm sure you've had frittata. >> i love it. >> never like this. spiralized ribbon zucchini. >> you know i love the ribbons. see, this is something that's really great for brunch, for entertaining. >> all right. beautiful. easy every time. check out these ribbons. >> that looks so great! >> gorgeous. look at these. >> oh! perfect every time. >> gonna add those right on top of the yellow ribbons. little bit more. and these are great because they're gonna add color and texture. beautiful. now, no frittata's good without some cheese. a little goat cheese to melt into there. some green onions. >> do you want me to help? >> yeah, why don't you throw that egg in there. >> all right. >> little shaved broccoli. and a little heat and crunch from the red onions. this is gonna be delicious. >> and really fun. you can make this for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. >> anytime of the day. all right. you'll see that soufflé up in the oven. it's gonna be gorgeous. >> i can't wait to see how this turns out. >> check it out. >> all right. we'll pop it right there. >> look at that! >> wow! >> is that gorgeous or what? >> that looks so great! al in minutes.

dish. check this out. >> we're doing really great. >> yep. beautiful. and dinner is served. >> that's it. you did it. three meals in under three minutes. there's really no competition. the veggie bullet is gonna have a permanent place on my kitchen counter. ♪ >> jeni, this unique machine will bring out the top chef in all of us, no knife skills required. >> i absolutely love it. but now it's time to bring the veggie bullet into your home. pick up the phone or go online right now. the veggie bullet will truly be a game changer in your kitchen. thank you, jeffrey, for introducing such an amazing machine to us today. >> absolutely. jeni, it's been a slice. no, really. i had a lot of fun. >> don't wait a second longer. order yours right now. >> announcer: from the makers of the world-famous nutribullet comes the next innovation in whole-food nutrition extraction. introducing the veggie bullet, the world's first cyclonic spiralizer, lightning-fast food-prep accelerator and world-famous nutrition extractor. it's the one-button, three-in-one kitchen miracle that can turn nutrient-rich

in just minutes. and it takes up less space than a toaster. let's face it. most of the time it takes to make great, homemade meals is in the prep and the cleanup. now you can cut your prep time by up to 75%, and cleanup's a breeze. spiralize whole foods in seconds for incredible pasta recipes, curly fries, and ribbon spirals for great lasagnas. chop and slice faster than you ever thought possible for chopped salads, pizzas, slaws, and homemade chips. even blend salad dressings for the week, smoothies, salsa, and so much more. all with the press of just one button. the secret starts with the veggie bullet's cyclonic-action spiralizer and high-torque motor with razor-sharp stainless-steel blades for recipes that will fill your family up, not out, like the most amazing spaghetti and meatball recipe your family has ever tasted. and the family favorite -- oven-ready curly fries for four prepped in less than one minute, all right here in the veggie bullet recipe book. with whole-food spiralized noodles, you can cook up to 70% faster than straining, boiling, or baking. and they absorb flavors and spices in just minutes for tastes that amaze professional

kids. replacing pasta with gluten-free, low-calorie whole foods can even help you lose weight. it's guilt-free pasta, and it really is back on the menu. with just a simple twist, lift off the spiralizer and snap on the food prep accelerator for the fastest slicing and shredding you've ever seen. five potatoes perfectly sliced in just 30 seconds. slice beets, sweet potatoes, onions, and carrots faster and more perfectly than ever before. even make veggie chips for a great crunchy, nutritious lunchtime snack. but it gets even better. just flip the blade over, and now you can shred mountains of cauliflower rice for cauliflower crust pizza or mushroom risotto. shred cabbage for pickled coleslaws in 20 seconds. and use the small chute for carrots, cilantro, and garlic, hot peppers, green onions, and all those things you hate to chop. even slice a leftover chicken breast or steak to top a salad. and how about sunday prep for the whole week done in a fraction of the time? a fridge full of vegetables for salads, all kinds of healthy pastas in minutes. never throw out good food again. look -- you could easily spend

over $500 on kitchen appliances with complicated attachments and buttons that don't even spiralize. but you won't pay $500, $300, not even $200. in fact, you can try the entire veggie bullet system in your home for a full 30 days for just $29.99. you'll get the world's first cyclonic spiralizer and spaghetti blade to make all of your favorite pasta recipes and our 70-page recipe book full of complete meals the whole family will love. tv buyers will also get three more spiralizing blades -- the angel-hair blade for incredible, five-star-restaurant-style meals, the ribbon blade to make food art, and the family favorite curly-fry blade for healthy, homemade fries -- a $30 value, yours free. and you will also get the food prep accelerator for the fastest slicing and shredding of whole foods that you've ever seen. tv buyers also get the world-famous cyclonic-action veggie bullet blender, a $20 value, yours free. blend, pulse, puree, and mix your favorite salad dressings, salsas, dips, and toppings, and all of your favorite smoothies. now, you can spiralize, slice, shred, and blend in seconds with

button. try the entire veggie bullet system in your home for a full 30 days for just $29.99 with free shipping. if you don't love it, send it back for a complete refund of your $29.99. but love it and keep it all for less than $1 a day. that's just four additional monthly payments of $29.99. but there's still more. call or go online right now and learn how you can also get this incredible bonus of up to $100 of groceries from thrive market delivered nationwide, directly to your front door, with free shipping available. altogether, that's $150 in bonus offers just for trying the veggie bullet for 30 days for only $29.99. and shipping is free. remember, this is a special tv-only offer, and it's not available in stores. up your kitchen game with the veggie bullet. order now. this has been a paid presentation for veggie bullet, brought to you by veggie bullet llc.

i'm here, asking for help. >> it was like hearing a ghost, a voice beyond the grave. >> there a es no way i can go back. >> can she help solve her own murder? >> it's 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 tidal wave that's coming towards you, do you? >> it seems like it's always the husband, right? isn't that what police usually say? only this time, they weren't so sure. >> it's a whodunit. i have three viable suspects. >> three possible suspects? it turns out this victim also had a boyfriend, and she had a wife.

>> everyone starts getting questioned. >> husband, boyfriend, jealous spouse. >> i said something like i hope she rots in hell. >> so what did happen that snowy night? 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. >> i'm lester holt, and this is "dateline." tonight, "secrets in the snow." here's keith morrison. >> it was cold the night it happened, so very cold. a night to be inside by a fireplace, tucked under a quilt. not outside in the frigid dark, not way up here, 9,000 feet up in the colorado mountains, snow thick already that late november night. and with the wind chill 24 below. >> i don't know enough to know exactly what happened. i'm still trying to figure it out. >> what in god's name was his wife doing, walking out into the brutal cold?

and more to the point, what happened to her? this middle-class married mother of three, where did she go? without a word to him or her friends. >> you can't imagine that this is happening to you and to your friend. >> she was just plain missing. >> yes, she was. and it was terrifying. dreadful in the end. and these events were about to prove a shocking lesson on what can dwell hidden beneath a person's public skin. so it's really a secret thing? as far as you know. >> a lot of it, sure. >> everybody has secrets, of course. stephanie roller bruner's secrets lived in the snowy peaks of silverthorne, colorado. and happy way she got her was the sort of thing you might expect to read in perhaps a romance novel. >> it was instant attraction. >> they met on top of a mountain.

dale bruiner who was a professional photographer was taking and selling photographs of visiting skiers. today skiers were it. >> i love taking wildlife photos and scenics, and people said, why don't you sell more of your work that way? and i said, well, buffalo don't carry credit cards. you know? >> anyway, it was up there on that mountain he spotted this young woman. seemed to be conducting some sort of forestry service survey. >> i skied up to her and i said, what are you doing, writing parking tickets? and she looked up at me and smiled. >> and then she took off her big ski goggles. >> i was stunned. i'm like, wow. she's beautiful. >> they moved in right away, and when they got married a few years later, they eloped. they headed off to fiji. it was so stephanie, her friends said. >> they kind of went off and did it. >> they made their home in silverthorne where dale's photo business grew and

rolling, i had operations under a the country, around 25 photographers working. >> stephanie got a job in county government, environmental planning department. they raised their three young children. >> awesome children. the best. >> how about a smile? >> and life for the bruner family was -- >> it was fantastic. we traveled, we vacationed. >> but it was in her spare moments and hours that stephanie was truly transformed. a ballroom dancer. >> dancing was probably to her what photography is to me. >> it was her passion, said her old friend bill. >> he flows flamenco. >> stephanie loved to dance. i mean, dance was her life. she was alive when she danced. >> hardly surprising, then, that stephanie and jennifer were very close, too. >> we started a ballroom dance program together at my dance studio, and pretty soon she had me doing back flips with men and partnering and just all kinds of

>> but it was dance that led off the whole cascade of trouble. in the fall of 2010, there was an annual fundraiser here in silverthorne called dancing with the mountain stars, local worthies paired up with the dancing pros. >> did you go? >> oh, absolutely. i went to three of them. i did not go to the last one. >> had a wedding to shoot, so he missed the chance to see stephanie teach the fox trot and the tango and so on. which means he also missed what happens that night. >> she coached a number of couples, and in the process, she met a man named ron. >> ron holthouse, a local married physical therapist. >> she started working with him and got to know him and saw how funny and animated he was and how that made her feel.

she really did call it a true love moment. >> he seemed to feel the same thing about her? >> yeah, they really clicked together. >> so they did. oh boy, did they ever. and stephanie was dancing on air. her whole world upended. >> she didn't realize there could be love like that. >> the secret from her family, of course, but she told her friends she had found her soulmate. >> it was almost odd how she told a number of us that, i just want you to know that i'm very happy. >> but joy and misery come in pairs sometimes. as thanksgiving approached, chaos took over what had been a well-ordered life. >> it was a wednesday middle of october when things started piling up. >> horrendous day for her. >> because? >> she went to work that day and the county laid off 20 people that very day. >> including stephanie. in fact, stephanie's troubles and her secrets seemed to pile up like the snow.

>> a little unpredictable? >> a little bit, yeah. >> it was thanksgiving week that cold, dark night. not far away from peaceful silverthorne, someone robbed a bank. a very rare thing around here. her husband was in bed when stephanie said she was going out to clear her head and then didn't come back. come morning, dame called the police. >> i got a call from dale bruner and just said i wanted to make a report that my wife is missing. >> it was a records clerk named veronica nicholas who made the call. >> he said, i got the kids up and ready for school and on the bus, and then i thought i should better call you guys. >> her car was in the driveway, and when she called her cell phenomenon it went to voice mail.

>> it seemed unbelievable that stephanie would not check in. >> it had happened. checking the hospitals, stephanie's friends scoured her neighborhood. >> it just seemed unbelievable that stephanie would not check in. >> a day became two and then three. and some private secrets were about to become very public indeed. >> so where was stephanie? police had a lot of questions for her husband dale. they also wanted to talk to that other man in her life, her boyfriend, ron. and when we come back, they do. >> i just want to ask straight up again, not accusing you, do you know where stephanie is right now? ♪ nobody does underwater stunts, sylvia. except me, of course. this is my stop. adios! ♪

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all night the bitter cold pried at the windows and licked under the door frames of the bruiner house here in silverthorne, colorado. certainly not a night for a night walk. had she hurt herself or had someone else hurt her? it was not like stephanie bruner to just disappear. >> it seemed more likely it might be a stranger that might be involved or that stephanie herself might have just run off in despair and maybe hurt herself. >> stephanie's friends and family poured over those last few weeks so full of change and secrecy, turmoil. were there clues?

of course, some knew about stephanie's relationship with that new man and how upset she was about losing her job. still, she seemed to be holding the trouble at bay. six weeks before she disappeared, as dale recalled, she suggested a little family holiday. >> she says, let's go to glenwood springs for the weekend. old, classic, wonderful place. >> and it was almost romantic, said dale, just like the old days. but when they got back, she gave him the news. >> she goes, i want a divorce. i said, you don't love me anymore? she goes, i've met this other person. she even said, it's not that i don't love you, but i think i met my soulmate again. >> just like that, dale's world came crashing down. >> i called her brother. i called her sisters. i called her mom. i said, do you know what's going on? do you know what's happening? >> he talked to her sister ramona. >> i remember during the phone call feeling really annoyed,

but then by the time the phone call ended, i remember thinking, yeah, what is steph doing? >> he begged stephanie's friend jennifer, do something. >> you've got to talk some sense into her. you know, you've got to make her see that she needs to stay with me. >> you had no inkling this was coming? >> no, not until she told me she was in love with somebody. >> helplessly in love, she told him. fell for that man at the dancing mountain stars. >> i wasn't going to be dancing with her on a big, important night for her. >> it was a curiously old-fashioned affair, apparently. stephanie told her friends her feelings were not so much physical as pure and emotional. but she made it clear to dale that even though she still loved him, she had no choice but to follow these powerful feelings and make a life with that new man.

>> i said, if this is what you want, this is what you want. >> they would share the children, of course. dale at the family house. stephanie in a rented condo. the weekend before she disappeared, he helped her move out >> why in heaven's name did you do that? >> she asked me to help. isn't that what you do? i didn't fall out of love with her. i still loved her. >> then middle of the night, her first night away, dale said he woke up to a motion down stairs. it was stephanie. she crawled right back into bed with him. >> she had come home. >> wow. >> she said, this was all a horrible mistake and that she wanted to move back in. >> and i said, are you sure? she said, don't worry, everything is fine. >> but now just two days later, things were not fine. not at all. stephanie was missing, and dale was down at the police department telling officers where he thought his wife might have gone. >> i thought she would go somewhere with her wi-fi and be on the computer, and my other guess was maybe sh

i didn't know. >> the police interviewed the other man, of course, ron holthouse. >> i just want to ask straight up again, not accusing you, do you know where stephanie is right now? >> i absolutely have no idea. >> ron admitted he and stephanie had a romantic relationship, but he denied they ever slept together. >> we never ended up having sex. >> and then ron told them something very interesting. that he had ended the affair. it was the night she moved into the condo, he told them. he said to stephanie it was over. >> i said, i'm going to move to florida with my wife. we're going to try to go back to naples and make this work. >> do you have any reason to believe that anything bad may have happened to her? >> that would be my worst fear. >> thanksgiving day came and went. no stephanie. an overstretched local police

force called in the colorado bureau of investigations, which is why agent greg sadar was standing beside the shallow blue river staring at what looked like a lump of snow on some rocks. >> there was several inches of snow on top of her, and you could see the body underneath the snow. >> it was stephanie, all right. but how did she get here? coming up, the autopsy finding that surprised everyone. had stephanie been murdered? >> it's a whodunit. >> i had at least three viable suspects. >> any one of whom had potential motive. >> absolutely. >> when "dateline" continues.

it was perplexing, almost, that a thing so awful could happen in the midst of such beauty. here in the frigid rushing water of the blue river, three and a half days after she disappeared, they found stephanie roller bruner, nude but for a tie-dyed shirt that still on her body. she had come to rest near some snow tumbled rocks. >> further down where the water becomes calm is where we located her. >> just after that bend there? >> yes, sir. >> she hadn't gone far, agent greg sadar of colorado bureau of investigations. >> how far from the house? >> off the top of my head, roughly 250 to 300 yards

>> news spread fast. >> investigators say they found a body. >> it was a pretty bad day. >> your heart drops. let's find out what happened to her, along with humongous sadness. >> the county coroner broke the news to dale. >> they said, dale, we need to tell you something. and i'm like, what? i just went into convulsions. >> but how did she get here? was it suicide, accident or murder? there's a bridge just upstream from the place they found stephanie's body. dale told police she often liked to walk there. she could have been attacked on this bridge and shoved over. >> that was one of our early fears. >> or, that she just simply committed suicide. jumped in the water, hit her head and that was that. >> that was also another legitimate consideration. >> so thus the puzzle. >> it is. >> until four days after thanksgiving when the autopsy revealed a curious detail, one that seemed to rule out suicide.

>> there was no wounds at all to the soles of her feet. >> what did that mean? >> that certainly means that she did not walk to where we had found her without shoes. >> and just in case there was any lingering doubt, the autopsy also revealed she had taken a blow to the head and then she had been strangled but was still alive when she was thrown into the freezing water. the ultimate cause of death, hypothermia and drowning. >> we knew at that point she had been murdered. >> first murder in silverthorne in decades. but who would do such a thing and why? it was just hours before stephanie took her walk in this virtually crime-free community that somebody robbed that nearby 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 is 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. >> it 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 wanted revenge. and then there was dale, dale bruner, the husband. and any one of them, thought the detective, was certainly physically capable of causing the crime. >> her husband, 6 foot, 200-pound, very athletic guy. and mr. holthouse, a big, strong guy. his wife, actually a very physically fit woman. >> she would be outgunned by any one of them. >> i would believe so. yes, sir. >> they took ron in for questioning several times.

and 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 dinnertime. and it wasn't a happy meeting. >> i was actually trying to tell her that it was over. >> he had earlier sent her a break-up e-mail, he said. she insisted on seeing him in person. she wasn't taking it well at all. >> and then she said -- asked me again one more time, like, but we can make it work. i said, no, we cannot make this work. >> she was still interested in having a relationship with him. >> and didn't want to let him go. >> correct. and i'm sure that he was motivated to not let his wife find out about that. >> which begged the question, where was ron holthouse later that monday evening when stephanie went for her walk? >> you're saying to me you were at home, you never went out on monday night. >> correct.

>> the detectives called in ron's wife, cindy. >> it would not be unheard of for a woman to be very upset that her -- to find that her husband, who has been seeing another woman, and want to go to significant lengths by eliminating that temptation. >> her alibi? she was home, sleeping, right next to ron. >> okay. did you know for sure if ron was in the house? did he leave at any time that night on monday night? >> i did not sit up looking at him all night. >> if he had gotten up and left, would you have awoken? >> i think i would have. yeah. >> so their alibis were each other. detectives kept prodding. >> how much do you know your husband? >> pretty well. >> would he do anything for you? >> within reason.

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eight spanks before she got up the stairs and down the hall to the kitchen. >> well, my boy was acting out far beyond, you know, the norm. and 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, sought advice from her friend bill. >> honestly, i was a little bit surprised. i had never detected any major problems in their 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 weekend at the hotel colorado and the hot springs swimming with the kids. >> but then back in town was when stephanie revealed, one, that she was in love with

another man, and two, her restraining order was about to be served. >> she told me that, you know, the sheriff's department was going to come to the house and i'm going to have to leave. >> so he did. after which, said dale, they calmed down and ten days later went back to ask the judge to rescind his order. the court recorded the session. >> i'm never going to spank again. this potentially could crush my entire world. and i'm so sorry to you, and i will make it up in any and every way i possibly can. >> she wanted to leave but she felt like the restraining order was too much, that dale didn't deserve that and that maybe she had overreacted. >> so they talked about it like adults. and eventually they signed divorce papers, and dale even helped stephanie move into her condo where, as you know, the very night she moved in, her new love ron told her the affair was over. they weren't going to be together, not then, not ever.

two days later, she was dead. and ron and his wife and dale were all under suspicion. >> they said i was a person of interest, and 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? and why, while dale's friends and family scoured the town looking for her, why didn't he take part at all? >> it was kind of this mounting series of things that we started to be concerned about. >> and it was dale, said sadar, who had motive and opportunity. for one thing the place they found her body, dale could certainly have carried her that far. >> we were struck by how close

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time of the murder, it was now spotless. >> what did you find? >> nothing. there was nothing to find. >> no blood, no signs of a struggle, nor was there a sign that stephanie had ever lived there. >> there wasn't a single photograph of her. every trace of her had been scrubbed from the house. >> it also seemed suspicious, said the detective, that dale changed his story a bit. the first time he called the police, he said they had had an argument before she left to go out walking. later he said there was no argument. >> was there an argument at any time? >> no, we never had an argument. no argument. it was just the facts were on the table. >> what were you guys talking about that she needed to clear her head? >> we were just talking about us. >> within a few weeks of stephanie's murder, the state ramped up the pressure on dale. social services sent the bruner children to live with his brother in california. >> i'm in a fight with mike tyson with no gloves. and then they're going to take my kids away, too? >> dale wasn't completely alone, mind you. some family stayed around, reportac

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