Judge to rule on Dale Wayne Eaton's mental capacity

Frozen Truth

Scott Fuller

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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SEASON 1 UPDATE: A judge will order Dale Wayne Eaton to undergo a mental evaluation which could determine whether he will face the death penalty.

http://www.frozentruthpodcast.com/2020/06/judge-to-rule-on-dale-wayne-eatons-mental-capacity/

Last month, following 15 years of appeals and court rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Eaton's final appeal. Following that decision, Wyoming prosecutors have re-stated their intentions to continue pursuing Eaton's execution.

Here's an update episode following court proceedings in Natrona County, Wyoming earlier today.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Scott Fuller here again with an update once again on our season one case, the 1997
0:06.0	disappearance of Amy Roebuckold from the mountains around Lander. We're in your feed for a few
0:11.4	moments last month with a legal development involving a person of interest in that case, Dale Wayne
0:16.3	Eaton, and that's exactly why we're here again. We'll tell you what's going on with the case now,
0:21.5	following the Supreme Court decision last month right after this.
0:28.0	So you'll recall last month, I was in your earphones updating you about Dale Wayne Eaton.
0:34.1	Just as a refresher, in 1988, Dale Wayne Eaton abducted and murdered an 18-year-old
0:39.7	young woman named Lisa Marie Kimmel as she was traveling across Wyoming. And he was uncought
0:45.6	for that crime all the way until 2004 when DNA finally linked him. Actually, 2002, I believe he was
0:53.2	arrested. But any event, he was convicted in 2004, and he was sentenced to death for that crime in 2004. And what's followed legally, we've talked about throughout season one of the podcast, and it's a bit of a winding road that I don't want to unwind fully right now because you can just basically say 15 years ago
1:12.4	or so, Dale Wayne Eaton was sentenced to death, and the legal appeals and the court rulings have
1:18.5	persisted for 15 years after that, as these things often do in capital cases. Until finally last
1:25.3	month, the U.S. Supreme Court, which is the highest governing legal
1:28.4	authority in this country, refused to hear his appeal. That is the end of the appellate line for
1:36.2	Dale Wayne Eaton. He has nowhere else to go, and his death sentence has effectively been
1:42.9	reaffirmed, and the state of Wyoming has said that they
1:45.9	want to pursue and continue to pursue that death sentence. So that's where it's at right now. It's back
1:50.9	in Wyoming and the case was in front of a Natrona County judge earlier today. And let me just
1:56.8	recap the events of today and sort of outline a little bit of what we know of the legal
2:02.3	roadmap forward. There's virtually no way now that Dale Wayne Eaton can be unconvicted for his
2:10.5	1988 murder of Lisa Marie Kimball. He has been convicted and all his appeals have run out. But that's
2:16.9	not to say he's out of options as it relates
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