>> little bit, yeah. >> not far from silverthorne, someone robbed a bank. very rare thing around here. dale was in bed, he said, when stephanie announced she was going out to clear her head and then didn't come back. a morning dale called the silverthorne police. >> i got a phone call from dale bruner and said i wanted to make a report that my wife was missing. >> it was a records clerk named veronica nicholas who took the call. >> he said i got the kids up, got them ready for school, got them on the bus and then i thought i should probably call you guys. >> stephanie's car was in the driveway, said dale. when he called her cell phone, it went to voice mail. veronica called her best friend, jennifer. >> i panicked. this is something that happens to other people, not to you. >> but it had happened. as the silverthorne police check local hospitals, her friends scoured the neighborhood. >> it seemed unbelievable that stephanie would not check in. >> a day became two, then three, and some private secrets were about to become very public, indeed. >>> where was s