Long Gone Girl by John Billman.

Thursday, August 18th, 2016, Runner's World magazine.

The day is filled with possibility.

Steve is off from his part-time job at Wild Iris,

and Amy has her shift at the fitness center before she is off too. The morning sunshine tugs at both of them to get outdoors.

Steve's plan is to go scout some Dolomite bands with Sam Lightner in the mountains above Dubois. It's Grizzly Country, so he's taking guns,

bear spray, and Johns, the couple's dog. Amy is going to take care of some errands, including scouting

the course for her 10K in September. Wow, is it only two months away, and she still needs to design

the flyers, plan the road closure, measure the course, she sits down to make a list.

The last thing she writes is run.

Amy would never check it off.

Why not?

If Detective John Zerga finds out, by way of a Dale Wayne Eaton confession, we may also learn

why Naomi Lee Kidder never came home, why Belinda Mae Grantham never came home,

why Janelle Johnson never came home, why perhaps at least nine other young women never came

home. The question persists, obscured in a great basin haze. Why didn't the runner come home?

Today we'll try to get the author himself to answer that question, or at least get us all closer.

This is Frozen Truth, episode four.

I'm Scott Fuller.

One of the definitive pieces of journalism in the Amy Robechtel disappearance was written by John Billman, my guest on this episode.

John's writing a book right now on mysterious cases of people who go missing in the wild.

You'll find a link to his article on Amy's case for Runner's World magazine in the show notes for this episode at frozen truth podcast.com.

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