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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Episode 355 – Amy Wroe Bechtel

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

July 24, 1997. Fremont County, Wyoming. After spending the day running errands, 24-year old Amy Wroe Bechtel never returns home and her abandoned car is discovered on a remote road in Shoshone National Forest. Even though he claims to have an alibi, Amy’s husband, Steve Bechtel, is looked at as a potential suspect by law […]

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July 24th, 1997, Fremont County, Wyoming.

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After spending the day running errands, 24-year-old Amy Rob Bechtel never returns home and

0:12.0

her abandoned cars discovered on a remote road in Shoshone National Forest.

0:16.7

Even though he claimed to have an alibi, Amy's husband, Steve Bechtel, is looked at as a potential suspect by law enforcement due to his unwillingness to take a polygraph test.

0:27.0

However, the investigation eventually focuses on convicted murderer Dale Wayne Eaton, who was supposedly in the area when Amy went missing,

0:35.4

but there is no evidence to implicate him and no trace of Amy is ever found.

0:40.3

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh,

0:54.0

uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh,

1:05.0

and uh,

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uh,

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uh,

1:08.0

uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Okay. Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.

1:25.0

I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering one of our most highly requested missing persons cases.

1:32.0

The 1997 disappearance of Amy Rowe-Bechtel.

1:35.7

Anyway, the disappearance of Amy-Rechtel is a very prominent missing persons case

1:40.8

which has been featured on unsolved mysteries and disappeared, and not surprisingly,

1:45.6

I've had numerous requests to cover it since the inception of this podcast.

1:50.1

It involves a young woman who went missing in Shoshone National Forest after apparently driving out there to go running,

1:56.0

and while her abandoned car was discovered on a remote road, Amy herself could not be found.

2:01.0

At the outset, there was speculation that Amy may have gotten lost and

2:05.0

succumb to the elements or been attacked by a wild animal, but investigators soon directed suspicion

2:10.4

towards her husband, Steve Bechtel.

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