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IT TURNS OUT TO BE A LIE.
IT TOOK FIFTEEN-YEARS AFTER
THE DEATH OF BRYAN RUFF BUT
DALE BRADLEY WAS FINALLY
CONVICTED OF THE CRIME.
IN 1991, RUFF DISAPPEARED
FROM HIS SECURITY POST AT
KENNECOTT MINE.
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EVENTUALLY IT LED TO
BRADLEY WHO WAS A CO-WORKER.
FOR EVERY CRIME THERE'S A
STORY AND THE TRUTH MATTERS.
HERE'S ABC4'S SENIOR CRIME
AND PUNISHMENT CORRESPONDENT
MARCOS ORTIZ WITH PART 3 OF THIS
JUSTICE FILES REPORT.
MARCOS: AFTER HIS
DISAPPEARANCE, JENNIFER CAMPBELL
SOON DISCOVERED BRYAN RUFF'S
DARK SECRET AND IT TURNED OUT TO
BE THE CAUSE OF HIS MURDER.
Jennifer Campbell: "Apparently
they were just friends. they
were both guards at that shack
where they were at that smelter.
BUT FROM THE OUTSET JENNIFER
CAMPBELL DISTRUSTS DALE BRADLEY
Jennifer Campbell: "He was a
really strange person and I
struggled with him in the first
place.
He just gave me bad vibes."
RUFF DISAPPEARS IN NOVEMBER 1991
BUT RETURNS WHEN HE LEARNS THEIR
DAUGHTER IS HOSPITALIZED.
CAMPBELL FORGIVES THINKING HE
NEEDS ALONE TIME.
Jennifer Campbell: "We were
married clearly at a very young
age and just a lot of pressure I
think. built up with the
responsibility of having to
raise a child."
A FEW WEEKS LATER, RUFF
DISAPPEARS FROM HIS GUARD POST
AND LEAVES ALL OF HIS POSSESSION
IN THE SHACK. OUTSIDE IS THE
FAMILY CAR. RUFF IS NEVER SEEN
AGAIN.
MEANWHILE, CAMPBELL AND
DETECTIVES SEARCH PHONE RECORDS
AND CREDIT CARDS.
SHE LEARNS MORE ABOUT RUFF'S
NOVEMBER DISAPPEARNCE WHICH
TAKES HIM FROM PROVO TO LAS
VEGAS AND SAN FRANCISCO.
SHE CALLS A SAN FRANCISCO NUMBER
FOUND ON RUFF'S PHONE LOG.
Campbell: "It turned out to be
Dale Bradley's wife's uncle. He
answered and I asked him if he
knew who bryan roof was and he
immediately said that was my
niece's husband and they had
come to visit him in November.
SHE REALIZES HER THEN HUSBAND IS
HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH DALE
BRADLEY'S WIFE.
Campbell: "So that's when the
pieces started to come
together."
AND AUTHORITIES SOON BRING IN
BRADLEY FOR QUESTIONING.
Dale Bradley: "I didn't do
nothing to hurt him. I am not
that type of person.
Dale Bradley: "I wouldn't do
nothing to the man. I didn't
kill nobody."
WHEN DETECTIVES SEARCH BRADLEY'S
CAR, THEY NOTICE IT'S BEEN
MUDDIED. THEY WANT TO KNOW
WHERE BRADLEY'S TRAVELLED TO
RECENTLY. BRADLEY ADMITS HE MAY
HAVE GONE OF THE ROAD. BUT
DOESN'T KNOW WHEN.
DETECTIVES ARE AWARE OF RUFF'S
AFFAIR WITH BRADLEY'S WIFE AND
OFFER IT AS A MOTIVE.
Detective: "I am not so sure
people would blame you for a
good friend of yours having an
affair with your wife. I am not
too sure a whole lot of people
would put you at fault for
something like that."
Dale Bradley: "I didn't do it.
Even in that frame of mind I
mean because, I don't get to the
point where I'm unrational."
BUT AFTER THAT 1993 INTERVIEW,
BRADLEY'S LET GO. THERE'S NOT
ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CHARGE HIM.
IT'S NOT UNTIL A DECADE LATER A
COLD CASE DETECTIVE TODD PARKS
REINVESTIGATES.
HE TAKES OUT RYAN'S BOOT FROM
THE EVIDENCE ROOM AND EXAMINES
IT.
PARKS NOTICES ORANGE PAINT CHIPS
ON THE SOLE OF THE BOOT AND
SENDS IT TO A LAB.
MONTHS LATER, FORENSICS MATCH
THE COLOR TO THAT OF BRADLEY'S
CAR.
THE THEORY: RYAN'S TIED AND
PLACED IN THE TRUNK WHERE HE
ATTEMPTS TO KICK THE TRUNK OPEN.
THE BOOTS ARE FOUND WITH RUFF'S
BODY IN A SHALLOW GRAVE NEAR
FIVE-MILE PASS. HE'D BEEN SHOT
FIVE TIMES.
BRADLEY'S FACES MURDER CHARGES,
EVENTUALLY ADMITS TO THE CRIME
AND GETS UP TO 40 YEARS IN
PRISON.
Jennifer Campbell: To wait
15-years to have some peace,
it's so powerful. we were so
happy that we were able to have
some peace."
NEARLY THREE DECADES LATER AFTER
LEARNING OF RUFF'S BETRAYAL,
CAMPBELL FINDS A WAY TO MOVE ON.
SHE REMARRIES, RAISES A FAMILY
Campbell: "It was clearly a
mistake and we have all made
mistakes and it cost him his
life.
As I've told my girls, that was
not who he was. It was a bad
judgement call and it was a
moment in time
He was a wonderful person, a
wonderful dad. loving father.
He was so excited to be having a
baby and I wanted my kids to
remember him."
BRADLEY ENDED UP DIVORCING HIS
WIFE EVEN BEFORE CHARGES WERE
FILED.
HE MARRIED AGAIN BUT HIS SECOND
WIFE WAS FOUND MURDERED IN
CARBON COUNTY. HE AGAIN WAS
SUSPECTED OF THE MURDER BUT NO
CHARGES WERE FILED AND THE CASE
REMAINS UNSOLVED.
