Narrator: A young dad working as a security guard
vanishes from his nightshift at an isolated utah copper mine.
Jennifer: The sheriff's department
told me that his gate was left unattended.
Narrator: Investigators discovered
there's an underbelly of crime at the mine.
Nate: He would worry that he would
stumble on some of the thieves
and, uh, it would make him a target.
Narrator: And the dark secret under the guard's own roof.
Det. Lassig: She pretended to be his wife.
Could she have hired somebody to take care
of an unfaithful spouse?
Narrator: Leading to a mystery that remains unsolved
for a decade.
Det. Park: For all these years,
she felt like somebody
was already in jail for the murder.
It was such an extreme torture
that I never in my wildest dreams
would have imagined.
This was a body buried in the sand.
[♪♪]
utah doesn't look like many other places in the world.
Uh, there's mountains of course,
but then in between those mountains,
you have sagebrush deserts.
It creates these incredible landscapes.
Narrator: One of those stunning landscapes
just an hour south of salt lake city
is a desolate and unforgiving stretch
of high desert known as five mile pass.
On a summer morning, four young friends
are up and about after camping overnight.
One of them spots something unexpected in the desert sand.
Det. Lassig: The gal wandered
from her campsite
and she sees some fabric
sticking out a small patch
maybe eight inches or so in diameter,
dirt around it, dirt on top of it.
It's nylon-ish type fabric
and with a chunk
of sheet metal over the top of it.
She ends up calling the other campers over.
They're looking at it, you know,
and she's claiming
there's something under there.
One person takes out a knife
to actually kind of cut some fabric away.
Det. Lassig: They tug at it and when they start pulling up
a little more of it, they see
some skeletal remains.
And they contact the police.
Narrator: Officers fromn the utah county sheriff's office
arrive and carefully begin to excavate
what appears to be a burial site.
The body had charge cards on him,
he had id, he had his driver's license
in the pockets was identification
to bryan ruff,
but that still needed
to be positively identified.
Vincent: We found most of the bones.
He clearly was shot five times.
The casings were found underneath the body
and the slugs were found in the chest area.
This opens the door to a homicide.
Nate: This was a body buried in the sand.
And it was really just kind of out there
in the wilds of utah.
Det. Lassig: It was our responsibility
to try to figure out who's bryan ruff
and who's responsible.
[♪♪]
narrator: The mountains southwest of salt lake city
sit atop some of earth's most precious minerals,
a 60-mile stretch known as the utah gold belt.
Prominent in the middle of this rich area
is the kennecott mine.
Nate: From salt lake city and pretty much everywhere
in the salt lake valley,
you can look to the south and west
and see the kennecott copper mine.
Det. Lassig: It was one of the major employers up here
in northern utah area.
[♪♪]
narrator: And an overnight security guard shift
is the ideal job for 22-year-old bryan ruff.
He's a young father and is studying
to earn his nursing degree.
Jennifer: When bryan got the job at kennecott,
it was a better paying job
because of his certification with emt.
It was a lot of pressure on him to do
everything to be there for me
and the baby and to also be a provider,
and then also going to school to get a better education.
Bryan and I went to the same congregation
together at church in south carolina.
We met and, um, we had our first date
when I was 16 years old.
He was very open, and friendly, and warm,
and that's what attracted me to bryan.
His bubbly personality,
he was just a really fun person.
He was tall and thin, skinny.
He only weighed 98 pounds.
Patricia: He was a good kid. He always was funny
and he got along with others
and enjoyed being around with other people.
[♪♪]
narrator: After dating for just two years,
the couple marries in the mormon temple.
Soon, they are the proud parents of a baby girl.
They decide to move from south carolina
to salt lake city, where jennifer's parents
have relocated and can help them with the baby.
My parents were super excited
when we announced that we were having
our first baby and they were thrilled
when we decided to move closer to them.
Bryan just loved being a dad
and she was definitely a daddy's girl.
Narrator: But with a young family to support,
money is tight and about to get tighter.
In June of 1991,
jennifer announces she's pregnant again.
In order to continue with his nursing
studies during the day,
bryan takes the overnight security job
at the kennecott mine.
Jennifer: He had to make rounds around the mine
to make sure things were secure at night.
He had a very busy schedule.
Narrator: So does jennifer who's working
as a nurse's aide at a local hospital.
Jennifer: Being so young, obviously,
finances were something that we had
to really struggle with.
I worked opposite hours so that we didn't have
to count on daycare.
[♪♪]
narrator: On a chilly November morning
in 1991,
jennifer wakes up to the disturbing discovery
that bryan hasn't come home
from his late shift at the mine.
Jennifer: I found a note he left on our bed
that he was stressed, he needed some time to think.
I was four months pregnant at the time
and had a 13-month-old baby.
So it was scary and I didn't know
what exactly was going on.
I didn't anticipate him to be gone
for any long amount of time
and then it turned in to days.
And that's when I decided to call
the kennecott security shack.
Narrator: When she calls bryan's boss,
jennifer receives both confusing
and devastating news.
He had walked in that evening,
handed in his badge and his--
and his equipment and quit
on the spot and took our last paycheck
and our car and disappeared.
Narrator: Just when jennifer thinks
things can't get any worse,
there's a new crisis,
their daughter brittany catches a cough
which turns into viral pneumonia.
Bryan found out that I was up
at the emergency room with our daughter
and the next morning, he was at the hospital.
He apologized and told me
that he just was overwhelmed,
stressed, he regrets it.
He should never have left.
I think that he lived a very quiet,
sheltered life and I don't think
he had a lot of experience.
So I do think that's why he made
some of the choices he did.
So we went back to our routine.
I was thrilled that it looked like things were back on track.
Narrator: Bryan swallows his pride and begs
for his old job back at the kennecott mine.
The only post available has him working
from 4:00 to midnight guarding a more remote gate.
Jennifer: The security shack he was stationed
at was very, very desolate area.
And they didn't have the security system
or the lights around the guard shack
that he worked at at that time.
Narrator: On a freezing December afternoon,
bryan drops jennifer off at work.
I remember him handing me the last few dollars
he had in his wallet
to make sure that I had money
for food that evening
and he told me he would pick me up
when he got off and he would see me then.
Narrator: Later that night, jennifer receives
a disturbing call at work.
Jennifer: Somebody identified themselves
as the sheriff department
and told me that bryan was missing,
that his gate was left unattended.
They had done a brief search
and couldn't find him.
Det. Lassig: When the patrol officers went out there,
his car was still there, his half-eaten lunch,
he had a, like, a cup of soup that was there.
It didn't look like there's any fight
inside the shack.
But they realized things weren't right.
That's when I got called out.
I had no idea what could have happened to him.
I just had this terrible feeling of dread.
[♪♪]
det. Park: Had bryan caught him stealing from the mine,
he would have had a motive to kill bryan.
Det. Lassig: We've got a missing person
with some suspicious circumstances
there at the scene and some stories
that don't line up.
[♪♪]
narrator: 22-year-old bryan ruff
has mysteriously vanished
from his remote guard post
at the kennecott copper mine
on the outskirts of salt lake city, utah.
[♪♪]
det. Lassig: There was 13 different police agencies
in salt lake county.
Attempt to locates were put out for bryan
with a description he was wearing
a burns security uniform.
Narrator: As police examine the guard post
bryan vanished from that night,
an odd phone call comes in that raises their eyebrows.
We had somebody call in
saying that they're bryan's wife, jennifer.
But we had jennifer's information
and the phone number wasn't right.
Narrator: Police are able to quickly trace
the strange call.
They learned that it came
from the home of bryan's friends,
dale and kristi bradley.
Det. Lassig: The little red flags pop up
because it's not headline news
that bryan was missing.
We wanted to find out more
if she knew anything about,
you know, bryan, what his activities were,
what his mindset was.
So we went over to dale bradley's house.
Narrator: Detectives question kristi
about the call to the guard shack.
She said that the reason that she did it
was she was concerned.
Bryan was a friend, heard that he was missing,
and wanted to find out what's going on
and knew that we wouldn't tell her
because she wasn't the wife.
So that's why she pretended to be bryan's wife
because she wanted to find out what was going on.
Narrator: As the detectives talk with kristi,
her husband dale comes home.
And in speaking with him, the investigators learn
about bryan's earlier disappearance
just a month before.
Det. Lassig: Initially, you know, we're trying
to figure out his mindset.
Was he having problems again to decide he needed
to take a break and go away again?
Vincent: Bryan and dale were also
coworkers at the mine.
They were work colleagues
for several months and dale
was somebody that he could talk to.
Narrator: But dale says he has no idea
what has happened to his friend.
Patricia: Bryan went missing on December 10th
and my birthday was the 11th.
And that's when we found out that he was missing.
And that was really hard.
We live up in the mountains of south carolina,
and he wanted to come back home for christmas.
But he couldn't afford the--the airfares.
Every day, we were wondering and hoping
that he did just take off
and maybe he was on his way
out here or whatever.
[♪♪]
narrator: Investigators immediately begin
putting together a timeline
of bryan's movements on the day he vanished,
hoping to narrow down when he left his post.
They start by gathering information
from bryan's supervisor at the mine,
todd fallows.
Vincent: Bryan was on the phone at 6:30,
so somewhere around 6:52
they could put him on the phone.
So when fallows comes by at 8:00,
bryan is not there.
[♪♪]
narrator: The detectives learn of some suspicious activity
at the mine and wonder if it might be connected
to bryan's disappearance.
It's recently been the target of criminal activity,
with thieves stealing more than $150,000
worth of material over the past several months.
It became a concern actually for bryan
because he was supposed to be checking some cars
coming and going to make sure they weren't stealing anything.
And he would worry that he would stumble
on some of the thieves
and it would make him a target.
Det. Lassig: We didn't notice any signs of struggle
outside the guard shack.
Search and rescue did a grid search
at the mine
and came up with nothing really.
Narrator: But when detectives pressed todd fallows
about what could have happened to bryan,
he points to a sinister possibility.
Narrator: While they search for any evidence
that might support todd fallows'
frightening suggestion,
detectives get some information
that causes them to take a closer look
at todd himself.
Detectives start questioning
other security guards at the mine.
Det. Park: They hear rumors that todd was a part
of the theft dream at the copper mine.
Obviously if bryan caught todd fallows
stealing from the mine,
todd fallows would have had a motive
to kill bryan.
[♪♪]
nate: When detectives go to question fallows again,
he denies having anything to do with the theft.
Property crimes detective
pursued that angle of the investigation.
And todd did get fired due to the theft
of materials from kennecott.
Nate: So now, detectiv
and he was the last person to see bryan.
So it does not look good for fallows.
Det. Lassig: He was looked at as a person of interest.
But we could never really tie him
into the disappearance of bryan ruff.
[♪♪]
narrator: Another week goes by with no sign of bryan,
jennifer's worries are mounting.
And her concern grows into alarm when she starts
receiving some unexpected bills in the mail.
I got a bill from our phone company
and bills from credit cards
and started tracking the charges
and the phone calls that were made
during the week he had disappeared the first time,
and that's when I discovered
he had spent the first night he left
in a hotel close to town
and then started tracking him
traveling through reno, nevada,
and then eventually ended up in san francisco
when he got the call about brittany being in the hospital.
Narrator: The phone bill includes a number
in san francisco that jennifer doesn't recognize,
so she decides to call it.
A gentleman answered the phone and told me
that he was kristi bradley's uncle.
And that kristi had come for a visit
a few weeks prior.
Narrator: Kristi bradley is bryan's friend
who told police she called his guard shack
pretending to be jennifer
because she was worried about him.
Jennifer: And I asked kristi's uncle
if he knew bryan, and he said
that they had introduced bryan
as kristi's new husband.
Narrator: Bryan ruff has been missing in utah
for more than a week, and his wife jennifer
has made the shocking discovery
that he was likely having an affair
with kristi bradley,
the wife of his friend and coworker,
dale bradley.
Jennifer actually brought the phone records to my partner
and ended up talking with kristi
and kristi did verify
that bryan was with kristi
the whole time he was gone.
So now we had to figure out if an affair
may be the reason he's missing.
Narrator: The revelation puts both jennifer and kristi
in the detective's spotlight.
Being so young at the time, I was so naive.
Never in a million years would I have thought
that anybody would have questioned me
or where I was at the time.
[♪♪]
narrator: When detectives question her,
jennifer insists she couldn't have been involved
in her husband's disappearance.
On the day bryan vanished, she explains
she was working at the hospital.
I was five and a half months pregnant
and I was working at the time.
She was at work in that 5:30
to 7:30 timeframe,
it was verified.
She did relay to us that they've had
some rocky patches in their marriage,
but this last two-week timeframe, prior to this,
it was some of the happiest times that they've had.
Could she have hired somebody to take care
of the problem for her? Yes.
But was there any indication of it?
Not that we came up with.
Narrator: With jennifer ruled out as a suspect,
the investigators then turn their attention
to kristi bradley, who they now know
ran off with bryan a month
before he disappeared.
She admits that they've kept in contact
after they got back to utah.
The detectives learned that includes a phone call
earlier on the same night
that bryan was reported missing.
Det. Lassig: We found out that kristi had called out
and talked to bryan before 5:30.
It was a short phone call.
He said there's an employee here
and he has to hang up.
Bryan didn't specifically name who was there to kristi.
Narrator: Knowing that kristi's husband dale
also works as a security guard at the mine,
the detectives wonder if he could have been
the employee bryan mentioned.
If dale had found out about the affair,
could he have gone to confront bryan that night?
Dale said he didn't know anything about an affair
between kristi and bryan
until we broke the news.
Vincent: Dale told us that he was going
to his counseling class that started at 8:00 pm.
But he said that he went there at 7:00
and the doors were locked.
Det. Lassig: He said that he went up
to the university of utah
to the library up there
to listen to some motivational tapes.
Det. Lassig: He sat in his car,
got stuck on the ice in the parking lot.
Vincent: He called his friend bill easton
down in gino's bar at 33rd and state.
And bill easton came up to help him up
at the university of utah.
And bill helped him get his car started.
And then dale and bill drive over to dale's house.
And when they arrive,
police are already there questioning kristi
about bryan's disappearance.
Narrator: It's a detailed account
that seems to provide dale
with a solid alibi.
But as the detectives probe further,
dale suddenly changes his story.
There were just a bunch of different stories
and each time he told it,
there's a little bit different angle.
Det. Lassig: Brings up this concern
that he's not telling us the truth.
Narrator: Concerned about dale's lack of honesty
and shifting stories, the detectives decide
to take a closer look at him.
He agrees to let them search his car.
Vincent: They confronted him about what appeared
to be fresh mud in the wheel wells.
And he said, "no, I've only been driving on pavement."
det. Lassig: Some dirt samples were taken,
some paint chips were obtained.
I didn't see anything that was out of sorts.
I didn't see any blood.
He had some damage to the door that dale's claiming
this is because of slipping on the ice up at the university.
We've got a missing person
with some suspicious circumstances there at the scene
and some stories that don't line up.
Narrator: Investigators haven't found anything
connecting dale or his wife kristi to bryan's disappearance.
Yet they know bryan and kristi's affair
gives dale a potential motive to want to harm bryan,
so they can't rule him out.
Det. Lassig: Now, the focus
was a little more on dale bradley.
Is dale the kind of an impulsive person
to where now he's gonna get even with the guy
who his wife is having an affair with?
So, we started thinking, you know, let's do a polygraph.
If dale flunks miserably,
we can hammer him with it.
Narrator: Dale bradley has agreed to take a polygraph
in an effort to prove he had nothing to do
with the disappearance of his friend
and coworker bryan ruff.
When you're doing an investigation,
you look at every tool that's out there,
and polygraphs were a tool.
Narrator: Even though he's told police conflicting stories
about where he was the night bryan vanished,
dale passes the lie detector test.
Det. Lassig: There was nothing that could positively identify
that dale bradley was the person that was responsible
for the disappearance of bryan ruff.
Vincent: We still had a missing person.
Law enforcement continued to work at it.
[♪♪]
narrator: Three months after bryan's disappearance,
there's still no sign of him or what happened to him.
Jennifer and bryan's family are desperate for answers.
Patricia: The snow had begun melting.
When the phone rang and I would answer,
I just say, "is this bryan? Is this bryan?
If it is, come home."
they probably thought I was nuts,
but this is back in the day that we didn't have,
uh, caller id.
It was extremely difficult
in a lot of ways, constantly worrying.
Narrator: More weeks and months go by
with no break in the case,
despite the offer of a $5,000 reward.
Jennifer now a mother of two
is surviving on food stamps,
facing bankruptcy, and rapidly losing hope.
Jennifer: I knew at the time that our daughter was born
that he would have come back,
that it was kind of the final shred of hope
that I had that he was still alive.
I knew that something really terrible had happened to him.
[♪♪]
narrator: Then, in early July 1993,
police received a frantic call
from a group of young hikers 25 miles from kennecott mine.
When law enforcement responds,
it doesn't take long to identify the body
the hiker stumbled upon.
We recovered a significant part
of the evidence including the identification.
Narrator: Two hundred yards away,
a canine finds a boot
with a bullet hole in it.
His second boot, we never recovered.
All the stuff that was gathered from the hole
was bagged up as evidence.
We got to make sure that it was bryan ruff
that was exhumed out of there.
Narrator: Crime scene techs carefully remove the bones
and take them to the medical examiner's office.
An autopsy determines that the victim was shot
five times in the back with. 22 caliber bullets
fired from a single gun.
Det. Park: Ultimately,
the medical examiner's office
was able to definitively identify bryan
through dental records.
Jennifer: I remember I was unloading my groceries
and had brittany and jesse
sitting in the living room with my mom and dad.
And I got the phone call
that they had found bryan's body.
I remember collapsing to the floor.
And I remember looking over and I remember
brittany and jesse.
Sorry.
It was such an extreme torture
that I never in my wildest dreams
would have imagined.
We had a lot of people here that had been praying for him.
We had the memorial service in salt lake
and all of our family was there.
Narrator: But there are still no leads
to what happened to bryan that night.
The frustration of it is, yeah, we--
we've recovered, uh, bryan ruff's remains,
but we weren't any closer to finding the person
who was responsible for what happened to bryan ruff.
Franklin: We kept praying that we would find
who murdered bryan.
We were just wanting hopefully that they would
find somebody quick.
So we know who did it to bryan and why.
Narrator: But the prayers go unanswered
and a decade goes by with no new information
about how bryan was murdered and buried in the sand.
Then, another homicide more than 100 miles away
from salt lake city
suddenly brings new attention to this cold case.
Tom: It was in wellington, utah.
A neighbor had called and said that there was a body
outside a residence.
And they were investigating dale bradley for that homicide.
[♪♪]
there was a lot of blood loss.
Det. Park: When I looked at the boot for the first time,
I saw a paint scuff on the bottom of the boot.
It appears that he was trying to kick his way out.
That was a huge piece of evidence.
Narrator: A decade after the investigation
into bryan ruff's murder goes cold,
one of the potential suspects dale bradley
is at the center of another homicide case
a hundred miles away.
Dale's second wife crystal bradley
has been found dead outside her home
in carbon county, utah.
Tom: A neighbor told us she was bringing laundry back
into the house at the time.
There was a lot of blood loss.
Narrator: The prime suspect is her husband dale bradley,
bryan's coworker and the former husband
of kristi bradley, the woman with whom bryan
was having an affair.
He'd moved away from salt lake city
after bryan's death and remarried.
Tom: Dale says that he doesn't know how crystal died.
He says that he was in diabetic shock
and that he doesn't remember anything from the evening.
I asked dale if he would take a polygraph and he agreed.
In the polygraph pre-examination,
dale bradley was asked if he had ever taken
a polygraph exam before.
He then mentions that he had taken one in 1991
regarding the kennecott disappearance of a guard.
I didn't know if he was a suspect
or what his involvement was.
I had to do some research.
Narrator: When questioned about his wife crystal's death
dale fails the polygraph miserably.
To learn more about their prime suspt,
the detectives contact their colleagues
in salt lake county to ask about the earlier case.
The request lands on the desk
of cold case detective todd park.
To have somebody that is a suspect
in two separate homicides that far apart
and that many years apart is pretty unique.
And that's when I pulled the case out
and started to review it.
The bryan ruff case was very similar to the fact
that dale bradley's current wife crystal
had been having an affair on him
and had told him about the affair
and was going to leave him the following day
to go be with her new boyfriend.
I think those two things mirroring each other
is a pure motive.
Narrator: In reviewing the cold case files
on bryan ruff, detective park quickly notices
discrepancies in the alibi dale gave
in the early days after bryan's disappearance.
Det. Park: Dale bradley said that he called bill easton
to say, "hey, I got into a car accident up here
at the university of utah. Will you come and pick me up?"
and we found out that bill easton
did not have a car or a driver's license.
And dale bradley knew that,
so why would you do that?
That's kind of a crazy thing to do.
Narrator: But that's not the only odd thing
the detective discovers about the call
dale made to his friend waiting in the bar that night.
Det. Park: The only telephone call that had came in
to gino's bar the day
that, uh, bryan had disappeared
was from a place called lake point
and it came in from a phone booth.
I did a distance check from the guard shack
to the gravesite to lake point
where the phone booth was and to gino's bar.
From kennecott to five mile pass where bryan was found,
it would probably only take you about 45 minutes to drive that
at that time of the night.
Det. Park: I realized that dale saying
that he was up at the university of utah
during this whole period of time
was just a fallacy.
It was not the truth.
Narrator: Spurred on by this discovery,
detective park begins unpacking the old evidence boxes.
And to my surprise,
there was very little evidence there.
So I started thinking, well,
bryan was kidnapped in one county
taken to another county where he was shot,
killed, and left.
Maybe utah county had the evidence.
So I contacted utah county
and they had all the clothing,
which included the black cowboy boot
from the scene where bryan's body was found.
When I looked at the boot for the first time,
I saw a paint scuff on the bottom of the boot.
I was surprised to find out
that the paint wasn't talked about
at any last police reports.
To me, it looked like that boot had kicked at something
which created the scuff.
The color on it was a reddish orange.
It-- it just popped up into my head
that that was the same color
of car that dale bradley had driven.
The original detectives,
they had actually taken paint chips
from that car back in 1991.
Those paint chips were in salt lake county's evidence.
And then when I found the boot in utah county
and looked at the boot,
the color of the paint chips,
the picture of the car that was in the case file
and, uh, the color that was on the scuff
on the bottom of the boot,
all three of those to me
were close enough in color
to take that examination further.
Narrator: Detective park sends the paint samples
to a specialty lab in seattle for comparison.
Meanwhile, he tracks down dale's former wife kristi
and learns she's now living in marietta, georgia.
Det. Park: I reached out to her by telephone
and she had been told
by dale bradley that the case had been solved.
And so for all these years, she felt like somebody
was already in jail for, uh, bryan ruff's murder.
[♪♪]
narrator: With a circumstantial evidence
building against dale,
the detectives get the concrete evidence
they need to connect him to bryan's murder.
The lab results on the paint samples come back
showing the smudge found on bryan's boot
is a match for dale's car.
Not only did they match microscopically,
but they-- they matched in chemical compound.
And so that was a huge piece of evidence.
Now, I'm in a situation in the case
to where I'm taking it to a prosecutor
and convincing them that I have enough probable cause
to file charges against dale bradley.
[♪♪]
narrator: On September 19th 2005,
dale bradley is charged with the murder
of his friend bryan ruff,
14 years earlier.
Patricia: Detective park called us.
They had him arrested and he was in jail.
It's always hard.
It's 30 years
this December and it's still hard.
[♪♪]
dale, in one of his interviews, admitted that he was at the mine
around 6:30.
He most likely took bryan at gunpoint
and put him in the trunk.
Narrator: After forcing bryan into the trunk of his car,
dale heads to five mile pass.
Vincent: It appears by the directionality
of the paint on the booth that bryan was trying
to kick his way out. Very possible that he stopped
because he was making noise and told to take
his boots off there, or the boots taken off
out at the scene.
Narrator: Investigators conclude
that in the last moments of his life,
bryan was forced by dale to dig his own grave.
He was shot approximately five times in the back
with a small caliber.
They found casings underneath his body.
For the casings to be that close to the grave area
would indicate that he was very close
or in the grave at the time that he was shot.
Narrator: Then, dale bradley buries bryan ruff
in the desert sand.
I think trying to back down this hill
so he could leave the scene,
his door catches
and it springs the door open
causing damage on his car
that dale is going to have to try to explain away.
And then after he gets out of five mile pass,
he takes another way home back to salt lake.
He goes through lake point,
because people are going to ask questions
about where he's been.
He calls his friend bill easton,
who he knows doesn't have a driver's license
or doesn't have a car and he asked him
to come and pick him up at the university of utah
because his car had gotten into a small accident.
So after he makes that phone call,
he shows up as a surprise to bill easton at gino's bar.
Narrator: Although no murder weapon is ever recovered,
facing a mountain of evidence stacked up against him,
in January 2007,
dale bradley agrees to a plea deal on charges
of second degree felony manslaughter and kidnapping.
Vincent: Dale bradley refused to admit guilt.
So essentially, what he says is,
"I agree that the state's evidence
"when presented would convict me"
"of this particular crime,"
or what we call an alford plea.
Narrator: Under the plea deal,
dale is sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Jennifer: Him being able to take the alford plea
and not give answers and admit what he had done,
it wasn't justice at all.
Franklin: I think bryan would have been a good nurse.
He loved to take care of people
and I think he would have
made a good father.
And he didn't get a chance to do it.
Patricia: I made a memory quilt out of his shirts
and photographs from his life
and my friend embroidered all around the edge
different things about him.
And these are his two daughters.
It was about the time that we had the trial.
They're both married and both have two children.
And brittany is expecting a second little girl.
There's more to bryan than that last
few weeks of his life.
He made some bad decisions,
but he was a good person.
He had a kind heart.
And I've always made sure that my girls know
that they were born to parents
that loved them and wanted them.