bryan patrick ruff. >> i got a phone call from the detectives and i asked them, i said, is it bryan? he said, yeah, it's bryan. and that's when my world fell apart. >> dental records confirmed the victim was bryan ruff. an autopsy showed he had been shot five times in the back. >> i thought that somehow he had gotten in the middle of something illegal and they killed him for that. >> search teams found five spent shells from a .22-caliber pistol near the body. investigators believe bryan was shot just a few feet from where he was buried in a shallow grave. >> the next day, they're out there working again, and one of the dogs from the k-9 unit recovers a boot, a black cowboy boot, that was identified as bryan's work boot. that was recovered about 200 feet east of the grave site. never did find a second boot. >> but so much time had passed and so much rain and snow had fallen that no other clues were found at the scene. >> it's really frustrating. there is no other way to put it. >> with no evidence to tie anyone to the crime, the case went cold and the years passed. until 14 years lat