why, he asked, her stephanie's boyfriend ron holthouse and his wife cindy cleared so quickly? 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 live here, all alone now in the family house by the blue river, working with his attorney in the effort to clear his name. robert burnhart is the attorney, a man not at all impressed, he told us, with the police investigation. >> their position was, i think dale is the easy guy, you know, 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 disappeared. >> the police came to my house. i don't know the exact thing he said but he goes, did you kill your wife? and i was just stunned. >>