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 grew. >> when things were really rolling, i had operations under a the country, around 25 photographers working. >> stephanie got a job in county government, environmental planning department. t

the untimely demise of stephanie roller bruiner and the district attorney's attempt to pin it on dale bruiner. he steamed in silence about the lies against him. >> the lies are really tough to take. you're just like, really? >> during the trial, he continued to live here all alone in the family house by the blue river, working with his attorney in the effort to clear his name. robert bernhardt was his attorney, a man not at all impressed with the police investigation. >> their position was, i think dale is the easy guy, the worst pieces of investigating i've ever seen in my career. >> dale and his attorney told us that despite a show of interviewing other suspects, the police quite clearly had made up their minds the very day she disappead. >> the police came to my house. i don't know what the exact first thing he said but he goes, did you kill your wife? and i was just stunned. >> the police didn't seem to want to believe what he told them about how happy he was that last evening, discussing new possibilities, a fresh start. when around 9:00 p.m. their daughter came into the bedroom to ask f