Dark Tales from the Mountain States

On July 24th, 1997, Olympic hopeful and distance runner Amy Wroe Bechtel drove into Wyoming's Shoshone National Forest to map a race route. Her car was found on the Loop Road with a to-do list on the passenger seat, every item crossed off except one. The FBI deployed infrared sensors and requested satellite imagery from NASA and the Russian space station Mir. Over 200 searchers combed the Wind River Range. They found nothing. Dale Wayne Eaton - later convicted of abducting and murdering 18-year-old Lisa Marie Kimmell after keeping her captive for six days - was confirmed to be camping miles away. He has never spoken a word about Amy Bechtel.

This documentary examines six unsolved and cold cases from across the Mountain States: two women shot on the same January night in Breckenridge, connected by a single orange sock and solved forty years later by a discarded fast-food napkin; a Steamboat Springs hardware store owner murdered by a woman who had married nine men under sixteen aliases; a church pianist who vanished from her grandparents' Idaho Falls property three days after 9/11; a Montana doctoral candidate who walked out of her apartment in 1966 leaving a teakettle on the stove and two uncashed paychecks on the counter; and a teenage girl whose car was found buried on a convicted killer's Wyoming property fourteen years after she disappeared.

Some cases were solved by forensic genealogy, forensic botany, and a mother's refusal to stop. Others remain open.

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