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Frozen Truth

Season 1, Episode 6 - The Journals

Frozen Truth

Scott Fuller

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7652 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

I'm happy to resume our coverage of Amy Wroe Bechtel's disappearance from Lander, Wyoming in 1997. New Season 1 episodes are on the way! Over the next weeks and months, we'll dive even deeper into Amy's case, speaking with the people who knew her and the case.

In this episode, I speak with Amy's brother Nels Wroe. He shares his concerns about Amy and Steve's relationship, and recounts what it's been like to search for answers to what happened to his younger sister 22 years ago.

(By the way, my full conversation with Nels is available right now to Patreon supporters: www.Patreon.com/FrozenTruth)

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0:00.0

Previously on Season 1 of Frozen Truth.

0:14.7

In the morning, Amy left her apartment to run some errands.

0:18.7

And then later that afternoon, she went to a photo store where she gave in some

0:24.2

film to be developed.

0:25.7

She wanted, I think, to enter a photo contest of some kind.

0:29.8

And then the person who worked at the store who saw Amy said that it looked like she

0:34.8

was heading out for a run, but that she wasn't all sweaty, so they

0:38.6

didn't think she'd been on a run yet.

0:41.0

This is typically considered the last confirmed sighting of Amy.

0:45.1

That was, I believe, at around 2 p.m.

0:47.8

The sheriff's office at the time even expressed hope that she might yet be alive, even a week

0:52.4

later, because of her excellent physical condition.

0:55.6

These stories indicate that Amy's wallet was missing, which her family says was odd,

1:00.3

given that she never took it with her when she went running.

1:03.1

Members of Amy's family also indicated in those first news reports, they thought it was strange

1:07.7

that Amy would be running there at all. They said that's probably not the place Amy would have gone for her daily job.

1:14.4

Have you ever heard the 911 call that Steve made?

1:17.9

Hi, this is Steve Beckville call, and I'm missing a person.

1:23.0

And that's literally if you maybe had an extra.

1:25.9

I mean, I do think, like, you must suspect that it would be very useful to listen to the

1:31.2

whole call because maybe in context that isn't quite as terrible as it seems.

1:37.2

I'm not sure how that could be possible, but perhaps the call was 10 minutes long,

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