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[Music] Stephanie and I did a dance [Music] together and it was a dance about love
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and loss and it was an empty chair on the stage the empty chair symbolizes the loss of a loved
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one I thought how ironic is this that we do this dance and now Stephanie's the one that's in my empty
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[Music] chair my name is Jennifer vakis and Stephanie is my best friend I think about Stephanie every day
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every time I dance she's with me it was the Monday before Thanksgiving in Silverthorn very small town
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Colorado it was dark night was a blizzard that night and very cold temperature was 1° with wind chill ofus
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20 or lower Stephanie roller Bruner mother of three while her young children are
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asleep she supposedly goes out for a walk on this cold snowy blizzard night and she disappears Into Thin
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Air my job was to find Stephanie and if I couldn't find Stephanie I felt like I would
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fail my name is Teresa Burger I'm a detective for the Silverthorn Police Department I was hoping for the best but
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I was thinking of the worst Summit County Colorado it can get very cold and it can be very
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dangerous first 24 hours is the most imperative when finding a missing person I didn't find
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her the scenario that you hope happens is that Stephanie would be found safe and unhe hurt
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somewhere I'm Mark Robert and I'm the district attorney up here in Su County and we were called in early on in the
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case because up here every missing person we look at is possibly a homicide each day that we looked into
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Stephanie's life we learned many things we learned that Stephanie had secrets she was very scared she was
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scared for her life I don't know what it is about beautiful kind women who fall into these
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kind of traps that's the biggest question now is [Music] why