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up next a married man falls victim to
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temptation he had made a mistake which
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i'm sure a lot of people can identify
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with she offered him a wild side that he
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hadn't experienced then he vanishes
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without a trace he was there one minute
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and then gone to next for almost 20
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years the disappearance goes unsolved i
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kept that hope that maybe he would show
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up on my doorstep until a tiny chip of
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paint tells of a terrifying ordeal it
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would drive me crazy to know what a
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murder victim goes through every time
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they're killed
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the kennecott copper mine outside salt
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lake city utah is known as the richest
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hole on earth
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and copper
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isn't the only valuable mineral they
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mine gold and silver and they have very
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expensive equipment that sort of thing
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that
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theft is a big problem out there
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as a result
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security is very tight you just don't go
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onto kennecott copper property without
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usually encountering security
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so when the security guard wasn't on
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duty in the guard shack on a winter
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night in 1991
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it was unusual
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they went up and figured that he might
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be in the restroom checked it out for a
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while they went up and found his lunch
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was partly eaten his hard hat was still
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there
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the guard brian roof was not supposed to
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leave the shack for any reason until the
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shift changed at 11 o'clock it was just
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a strange incident where he was there
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one minute and then gone the next and
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and there was no real
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explanation of why he was gone
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snow had fallen just a few hours earlier
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but there were no footprints around the
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shack
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brian's car was parked in a nearby lot
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and there were no footprints anywhere
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near his car it looked like he might
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have just stepped outside the door and
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and vanished but it was in a very
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isolated area
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inside the shack everything was in order
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no sign of any foul play at all no blood
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nothing turned over or destroyed
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21 year old brian roof and his wife
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jennifer had been married for two and a
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half years and had a 15 month old baby
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work record showed this wasn't the first
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time brian went missing
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just a few weeks earlier brian walked
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off his job and ran away to las vegas
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he felt a big burden to provide for us
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especially with a second baby coming he
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felt that burden and he was trying to
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get through school and i know that
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finances worried him a lot he felt bad
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that we had to move in with my parents
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at the time
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brian spent six days in las vegas
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when he returned
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he was a changed man
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and not for the better he was very cold
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and distant a sight of him i'd never
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seen before
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he was
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very cold bitter
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about
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certain things finances things like that
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and just
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just angry
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as investigators searched the guard
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shack for clues
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the phone rang
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the caller said she was brian's wife
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jennifer she was surprised when somebody
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else answered the phone
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when brian didn't answer they told her
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at that time that they were the police
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and they were looking for brian
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she did tell them that she'd been
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talking to him around 6 30.
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he had told her that
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there's a another employee coming that's
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how he turned it and he just had to go
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as soon as police got off the phone with
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jennifer the phone rang again the deputy
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again answered the phone call
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knew it was a different female voice and
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the caller told the deputy that her name
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was jennifer roof somebody was claiming
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that
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they were brian's wife that really
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wasn't
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a missing man with two wives
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police knew right away
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it was going to be an unusual
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investigation
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shortly after brian roof's disappearance
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from his security job two women called
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his work phone asking to speak to him
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each of them identified herself as his
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wife
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the company's caller id system revealed
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one of the callers was indeed brian's
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wife jennifer
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the other was 20 year old christy
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bradley she was married to dale bradley
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was also a security guard at the
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kennecott mine and one of brian roof's
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co-workers
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so that's when they sent detectives over
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to dale and christy's house to find out
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what was going on christy told police
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that she and brian had become
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good friends and talked regularly on the
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phone
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dale would have christy bring dinner out
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to him and that's how brian and christy
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met is actually out at the job site when
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she would bring meals out to him
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when questioned about brian's
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disappearance christy said she was home
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all day
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and hadn't seen him
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dale said he had been off from work and
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was running errands all day
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dale bradley said he was up at the
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university of utah when his car broke
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down he called his friend bill easton
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who was down at a local bar here
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five days after brian disappeared
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his wife jennifer discovered a potential
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clue
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there were credit card bills that i had
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never seen before we had not applied for
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them together
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and also a phone bill
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jennifer discovered that brian was
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having an affair with christy bradley
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it was a double whammy to have him
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missing and then to be hit with such
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horrifying news that everything had been
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shattered my whole life had been
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shattered everything that i had dreamed
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and hoped for
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was gone
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jennifer also discovered that christy
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was with brian in las vegas a few weeks
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earlier
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when confronted with this information
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christie admitted the affair to both the
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police and her husband
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she told me that she thought brian was
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really nice she thought he was cute dale
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was very controlling to her and christy
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didn't like to be tied down christy and
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and brian were able to talk to each
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other and that's i think the reason for
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the phone calls to the guard check
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between christy and brian
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but dale insisted he knew nothing about
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his wife's affair when brian disappeared
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dale had no criminal history but the
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affair gave him a motive to harm brian
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so investigators got a search warrant
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for his car
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it was checked for blood and gunshot
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residue
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none of which we found we didn't find
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anything
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in addition dale and christy bradley
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agreed to take polygraph tests
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and they both passed
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when they found out about the affair i
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had heard
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they interviewed dale and christy and
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dale passed a polygraph
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and at that point they kind of dropped
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his name from from the list of suspects
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meanwhile investigators pursued another
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potential lead two of ryan's fellow
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security guards had been arrested for
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stealing from the mine they were
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arrested for stealing
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medals off of kennecott property and
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pawning them in
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junk metal shops or you know for junk
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metal
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in fact one of those guards was at the
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guard shack just minutes after brian was
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reported missing
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brian was one of those at the guard
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shack who reported some of these thefts
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going on
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but without brian roof's body police had
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no proof he was dead
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officially he was still a missing person
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shortly after brian roof disappeared
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police uncovered a theft ring run by
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security guards at the kennecott mine
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they were stealing anything that wasn't
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nailed down they were stealing gloves
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shovels you know just any kind of
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equipment that you would find around a
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mine
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police wondered if brian might have
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stumbled on a robbery in progress
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so a theory came up that maybe these
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guys were stealing medals off of the
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property that night brian had stopped
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them and they'd killed him to cover up
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the theft
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but none of the other security guards
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could be linked to brian's disappearance
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he basically was completely alone up
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there in the mountain and it really
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concerned him that it was an unsafe area
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that there were no cameras no
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electric gates no security systems like
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they had in the other gates
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weeks and then months passed
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with absolutely no sign of brian roof
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it was an overwhelming fear
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when i would be driving to work or
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driving to the store it was just a
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constant
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cloud over me of fear that somebody
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could just disappear and never come back
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brian's wife jennifer was forced to
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raise their little girl alone
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six months after brian went missing she
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gave birth to another daughter i just
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couldn't move on i was stuck in that
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realm of of grief until i knew what had
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happened to him
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one year later
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hikers discovered human remains
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in a camping area about 50 miles from
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the kennecott mine well first i just
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thought it was rock and then i thought
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it was a dead guy
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he still had his security outfit on as
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you say his wallet everything intact
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that's him
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brian patrick
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i got a phone call from the detectives
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and i asked him i said is it brian and
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he said yeah it's brian and
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that's when my world fell apart
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dental records confirmed the victim was
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brian roof
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an autopsy showed he'd been shot five
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times in the back
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i thought that somehow he had gotten in
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the middle of something
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illegal and
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they killed him for that
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search teams found five spent shells
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from a 22-caliber pistol near the body
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investigators believe brian was shot
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just a few feet from where he was buried
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in a shallow grave
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the next day
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they're out there working again
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and one of the dogs from the canine unit
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recovers a boot a black cowboy boot that
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was identified as brian's work boot
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that was recovered about 200 feet east
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of the gravesite
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i never did find a second boot
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but so much time had passed and so much
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rain and snow had fallen that no other
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clues were found at the scene
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it's really frustrating there's no other
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way to put it
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with no evidence to tie anyone to the
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crime the case went cold
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and the years passed
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until 14 years later
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when todd park a cold case detective
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with the salt lake county sheriff's
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office received a telephone call from
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authorities in neighboring carbon county
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when that call came in it gave me a i
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guess a fresh
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breath of air to look at another case
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and to to really dig into it
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police in carbon county were
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investigating dale bradley on the
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suspicion of murdering his second wife
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crystal
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dale had been a suspect in brian roof's
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murder 14 years earlier
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on a hunch todd park contacted dale's
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first wife christy who is now living in
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texas so when detective park contacted
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her 14 years after the fact she was
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surprised that the case hadn't been
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solved because dale told her somebody
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else had already been arrested for it
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and she just assumed this case was done
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but that obviously was a lie
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and christy told police something she
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hadn't mentioned during the original
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investigation she said the day after
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brian went missing
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dale cleaned the inside of his car
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he had never cleaned out that trunk
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as long as she had known him as long as
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he owned that
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camaro
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why would dale do this
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police wondered if brian roof had been
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inside that trunk
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was there blood was he shot in the car
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and wrapped in a blanket and looking for
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uh you know trace evidence looking for
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blood in the car
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but after 14 years
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could police find dale bradley's camaro
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14 years after brian roof's murder
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and investigators never lost hope they
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would solve the case the thing about
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brian he was a very good kid and he was
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a very good father
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and regardless of the affair i think he
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was a very good husband
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he just had a lot going on and i think
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he would have been able to really make
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something of his life and his family if
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he was able to continue on in life and
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that was cut short
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when investigators heard that their
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original suspect
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dale bradley was now a suspect in yet
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another murder investigation they
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decided to look once again at the
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evidence
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and this time
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on brian roof's boot
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the one they found in the mountains near
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his burial site they spotted something
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some kind of scuff mark on the bottom of
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the boot that looked like reddish orange
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paint
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when i saw that swatch of paint it just
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flashed back to me that that was the
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same color of paint
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that was on dale bradley's car and i got
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excited and i kind of got a little bit
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of butterflies and i thought i got him
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forensic analyst bill schneck examined
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this paint with the stereo microscope
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and i noticed it was a smear wasn't like
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paint chips that were adhering to the
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boot it's actually smeared into the
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leather of the bottom of the boot there
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was tremendous force to get that paint
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smear onto his boot
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was it the kind of force caused by
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trying to kick your way out of the trunk
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of a car for example
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bill schneck needed to know if the
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makers of dale bradley's camaro had
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painted the inside of the trunk
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luckily
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schneck had a friend who restored old
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cars
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he just happened to have a 75 camaro and
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i was there so we popped the trunk and
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indeed they have original paint in the
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trunk
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so that was good that was useful
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dale bradley drove a red 1974 camaro at
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the time of brian's murder
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the mission now
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was to find it
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i spent a lot of hours searching for
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that car they went up in an airplane and
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searched high and low for that car
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through a lot of investigation
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found that the car had been sold
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unfortunately two years after brian's
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murder the new owner sold the car for
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scrap metal
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that car was scrapped i mean it's just
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in little cubes it's been melted down
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but an examination of the case file
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revealed a surprise
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14 years earlier an alert detective had
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taken paint samples from dale's car
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we just took them
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it's hard to say why you know just we
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just took them and
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because there wasn't really much else to
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to take those paint samples just sat in
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our evidence room for years
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bill schneck took paint samples from the
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boot and the car and placed them on
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slides with an immersion liquid
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this eliminated any air trapped between
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the sample and the slide
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using a polarizing light microscope
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magnified up to a thousand times
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schneck saw the paint was a lead
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chromate paint
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i wanted to go back and find out how
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unusual is a lead chromate paint
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and i contacted the national institute
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of science and technology and received a
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paint chip known standard from the 74
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camaro
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using a scanning electron microscope
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schneck now did a three-way comparison
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he examined paint from the boot
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from the car
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and from the file sample of a 1974
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camaro
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all
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were identical
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paint on the boot came from that
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particular car or another car having
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those exact same
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properties composition
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and with this evidence dale bradley was
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arrested and charged with brian roof's
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murder
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it was shocking that
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anybody could do something so horrific
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let alone somebody that claimed to be a
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good friend
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prosecutors believe
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dale either knew or strongly suspected
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brian roof was having an affair with his
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wife christy and was afraid she was
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going to leave him
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i think that he was so angry that
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christy and brian
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betrayed him that he was going to make
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them pay
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the forensic evidence suggests dale's
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plan was to eliminate the person he
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perceived to be
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his competition
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since he knew brian's hours and when
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there would be the least amount of
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traffic
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he knew exactly when to strike
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dale probably forced brian into the
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trunk at gunpoint
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brian tried to kick his way out of the
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trunk during the 30 minute drive when a
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piece of the paint became embedded in
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his boot
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when dale got to the burial spot
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prosecutors think he ordered brian to
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remove his boots so he couldn't run away
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he then forced him over to a shallow
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grave which prosecutors think he dug
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earlier that day
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then
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shot him with a 22 caliber pistol
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the murder weapon was never recovered
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it was so typical of dale's personality
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to be a coward enough to shoot somebody
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in the back and not face him
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when he was going to take his life
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the paint and circumstantial evidence
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were difficult for dale bradley to
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refute
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he agreed to plead guilty to
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second-degree manslaughter and
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kidnapping and was sentenced to 40 years
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in prison
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what bradley didn't realize was that
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brian's boot held an important piece of
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evidence
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that told a story
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this cold case was solved because of
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that paint chip
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it makes me want to go out and look at
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every single case and examine every
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piece of evidence to see if there's
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something that i can do with it it
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motivates me to solve other cases
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dale bradley remains a suspect in the
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murder of his second wife
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it's ironic in a way
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that brian roof's desperate efforts in
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the trunk of dale's car resulted in the
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capture of his own killer
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just one little thing that's all it
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takes in this case it turned out to be
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the paint samples
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coupled with all the the
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the uh
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circumstantial evidence in this case and
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the physical evidence that you have
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that's was just the clincher in this
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case
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even today though there's a lot of
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detectives that are just focusing so
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much on dna they're forgetting all the
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other avenues that could be approached
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with trace evidence such as pain
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examination
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i hope it sends a loud message that
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there is forensics out there that people
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who are willing to
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continue to look at these cases that
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you're not going to get away with murder
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and that
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that the more they try to cover up some
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of their tracks
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the more cracks they leave
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you
