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Frozen Truth

Season 1 Update - Execution Leverage

Frozen Truth

Scott Fuller

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7652 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Natrona County, Wyoming District Attorney Dan Itzen has announced that his office will continue to pursue the death penalty against convicted murderer Dale Wayne Eaton.

In 1988, Eaton abducted and killed 18-year-old Lisa Marie Kimmell as she drove from Colorado to Cody, Wyoming. He was not connected to the murder until his DNA was matched in 2004, leading to his arrest and conviction. A jury subsequently sentenced him to death.

Eaton, 74, has been appealing his conviction and sentence for the past 15 years.

In 2013, the the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office in Lander, Wyoming announced information they’d received that may implicate Eaton in the 1997 disappearance of Amy Wroe Bechtel.
Frozen Truth covered Amy’s case in Season 1.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It is too soon to tell how important, if at all, this is as pertains to our answer in Amy

0:06.9

Robecktel's disappearance.

0:08.5

But there has been a development that I can tell you about.

0:11.3

First, as a refresher, I want to take you back to season one.

0:15.0

You'll remember a central character from season one, Dale Wayne Eaton.

0:20.2

Dale Wayne Eaton surely killed two people, Lisa Marie Kimmel and his cellmate.

0:24.7

Despite his arrest in 1998, the Fremont County Sheriff's Office didn't begin to take seriously

0:30.0

Dale Wayne Eaton as a suspect in Amy's disappearance until 13 years later when a new lead

0:34.8

investigator took over the case. Other members of Eaton's family are convinced he's involved in Amy's disappearance as well.

0:41.4

Richard, his brother, and his niece, it's fuzzy around the edges, but they put him in that

0:47.4

general area at that time.

0:49.3

Where Amy's car was found at the junction of the Loop Road and the Burnt Gulls. That's one half mile away from Dale Wayne Eaton and his family's elk hunting camp.

1:00.0

Breeden said she was uncomfortable with Eaton right away.

1:03.0

He said, drive down this road.

1:05.0

The road was a two-track dirt trail leading away from the highway.

1:08.0

When I saw nothing in front but desert, I thought, if I'm going down, I'm going down right here, Breeden said.

1:14.8

Breeden pushed her foot on the accelerator and turned the van in a tight circle, trying to knock the rifle away from Eaton.

1:21.5

U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson issues a 375-page ruling the judge wants a do-over in the sentencing portion of Eaton's case only.

1:32.3

He's still guilty of murder, but the judge here has ordered the state to re-argue Eaton's capital sentence.

1:38.5

So that kind of brings us to Eaton because supposedly Dale Wayne Eaton's family campsites two miles down that Burncultz Road,

1:44.7

and there's no way to prove that he was on the mountain at that time.

1:48.0

Supposedly his brother walked that note into the Fremont County Sheriff's Office that said,

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