Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning
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Rocky Mountain Reckoning is an investigative true-crime podcast focused on cold cases, unsolved murders, and overlooked victims across the Rocky Mountain West. Hosted by John and Angela from the Dark Dialogue network, the series explores cases from Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and the surrounding region where time, distance, and isolation have often allowed crimes to fade from public attention. Each episode examines the evidence, investigative decisions, and unanswered questions behind these cases while giving voice to victims whose stories deserve to be remembered. From remote highways and small towns to forgotten investigations, Rocky Mountain Reckoning searches for the truth that still waits in the mountains.
Episodes
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Rocky Mountain Reckoning Season One Finale | Looking Back Before the Hunt Begins Again
Season One has come to an end. Before the hunt begins again, John and Angela take one final look back at the investigations, the victims, and the journey that turned Rocky Mountain Reckoning into something far larger than either of them expected. Together they revisit the cases that changed them,...
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Amy Wroe Bechtel Part 4 | The Reckoning
After nearly three decades, one question remains: What does the evidence actually support? In the concluding chapter of our four-part investigation into the disappearance of Amy Wroe Bechtel, we step away from speculation and apply the same evidentiary standard to every major theory. Was Amy the...
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Amy Wroe Bechtel Part 2: The Final Day
Amy Wroe Bechtel disappeared after going for a training run near Lander, Wyoming on July 24th, 1997. Nearly thirty years later, the case remains one of the most haunting disappearances in the American West. In Part 2 of this Rocky Mountain Reckoning investigation, we reconstruct Amy’s final known...
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Amy Wroe Bechtel Part 1: Vanished in Wyoming
In July 1997, elite endurance runner Amy Wroe Bechtel disappeared during what should have been a routine training run near Lander, Wyoming. Her car was later discovered abandoned near Burnt Gulch along Wyoming’s Loop Road. The keys were still inside. Amy herself was gone. Nearly three decades...
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Shafter Jane Doe: The Case That Breaks the Great Basin Theory
In November 1993, a motorist pulled off Interstate 80 near Shafter, Nevada—and discovered the body of a young woman in the sagebrush. She was nude. She had been shot and beaten. And she had been deliberately positioned. For decades, Shafter Jane Doe has been grouped into the so-called “Great…
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Clark Perry Baldwin 3: What Died With Him
In 2025, a jury convicted Clark Perry Baldwin of murdering Pamela Rose Aldridge McCall and her unborn child—more than three decades after her body was found along a Tennessee highway. But that conviction didn’t close the case. It changed the questions. In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky...
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Clark Perry Baldwin 2: The Pattern on the Highway
This is the episode where the investigation changes. What began as two unidentified women found along Wyoming highways becomes something far more complex—when DNA proves they were killed by the same unknown man. Years later, that same profile connects to a third case… more than a thousand miles...
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Vicky Lynn Perkins: The Distance Between
Somewhere between Portland, Oregon… and a remote stretch of desert off Interstate 70 in eastern Utah… a 19-year-old disappears into a gap no one has ever been able to explain. No confirmed route. No confirmed ride. No clear timeline. Just distance. In this solo episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky...
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Without A Name In Wyoming
In the spring of 1992, two young women were discovered along the highways of Wyoming—one near Bitter Creek along Interstate 80, the other in a drainage ditch beside Interstate 90 near the Montana border. Both had been murdered. Both had been left in remote roadside locations along major trucking...
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A Name, A Number, and a Silence
In 1990 and 1991, three women were found along the highways and desert corridors of the American West. One was discovered in sagebrush near West Wendover, Nevada — known only as Unidentified Person #7519. One was found nude off the I-15 Mills exit in Juab County, Utah — a Jane Doe for eight years...
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The Murder of Patricia and Douglas Zyskowski Part 3 - Faith on the Open Road: The Reckoning
In March 2012, more than two decades after Patricia “Candy” Walsh and Douglas Scott Zyskowski vanished while hitchhiking near El Paso, Texas, Robert Ben Rhoades stood in a small West Texas courtroom and admitted to killing them. No trial. No death penalty phase. No appeals. Two capital murder...
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Faith on the Open Road: The Disappearance of Patricia Walsh and Douglas Scott Zyskowski – Part 1
In early 1990, Patricia “Candy” Candace Walsh and Douglas Scott Zyskowski were a young married couple traveling across the United States with a shared sense of purpose. As devoted members of an evangelical church in Seattle, they believed their journey itself was a form of ministry — hitchhiking...
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Lisa Marie Kimmell — Episode 7: Echoes of the Forgotten | Eaton’s Overturned Death Sentence, Unanswered Victims & The Legacy of “Lil Miss”
In the final chapter of the Lisa Marie Kimmell series, Rocky Mountain Reckoning returns to the courtroom, the desert, and the decades-long legal maze that followed Dale Wayne Eaton’s conviction. “Echoes of the Forgotten” traces the unraveling of Wyoming’s only active death penalty case — from...
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Lisa Marie Kimmell 6: Judgment and Justice
Sixteen years after an 18-year-old vanished from a Wyoming highway, the truth finally reached the courtroom. In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning, we follow the dramatic 2004 trial of Dale Wayne Eaton — the man convicted of kidnapping, assaulting, and murdering Lisa Marie...
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The Secret Graveyard: Unearthing the Truth Beneath Eaton’s Land
In this haunting installment of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning, host John McColl and co-host Angela return to the desolate plains of Wyoming, where justice finally clawed its way to the surface. When forensic teams broke ground on Dale Wayne Eaton’s property, they uncovered Lisa Marie...
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Lisa Marie Kimmell Part 4: DNA and the Man in the Desert
Fifteen years after Lisa Marie Kimmell vanished on a lonely stretch of Wyoming highway, a single DNA sample whispered the name of her killer — Dale Wayne Eaton. DNA and the Man in the Desert follows the forensic trail that broke one of the state’s most haunting cold cases and revealed the…
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Lisa Marie Kimmell Part 3: A Cold Silence
Silence can be louder than any answer. In this episode of Rocky Mountain Reckoning: Dark Dialogue, John and Angela revisit the long, painful years after the 1988 murder of Lisa Marie Kimmell—the bright 18-year-old whose life was stolen along a Wyoming highway. For more than a decade, her family...
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Lisa Marie Kimmell Part 2: What the River Gave Back – The Discovery of Lisa
🕯️ What the River Gave Back dives into the chilling moment Lisa Marie Kimmell was found—eight days after her disappearance—in the frigid waters of the North Platte River. Naked. Weighted down. Brutally assaulted. And discarded like she didn’t matter. But Lisa mattered. And this episode lays bare...
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The Lisa Marie Kimmell Case, Part 1 - Vanished on the Road to Cody
What happens when a bright, responsible 18-year-old vanishes on a road she’s traveled countless times? In this gripping premiere of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning, we begin the haunting case of Lisa Marie Kimmell—known to those who loved her as “Lil Miss.” In March 1988, Lisa left her…
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Model Dreams, Monster Road: The Murder of Janelle Johnson
In 1983, Janelle Johnson was chasing her dreams. Just 23 years old, she traveled from Riverton, Wyoming to Denver for a modeling interview at Vannoy Talent Center. She called home to check in, planned her return—and vanished. Two weeks later, her body was discovered on a desolate stretch of…
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Hitchhiked Into Oblivion: The Forgotten Death of Naomi Kidder
Naomi Kidder wasn’t a runaway. She wasn’t reckless. She was an 18-year-old mother trying to find her way in the rural sprawl of 1980s Wyoming. And in the summer of 1982, she disappeared—leaving behind a baby daughter, a devastated family, and a trail of silence that lasted over a decade. In this...
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Welcome to the Kill Zone: Serial Predators of the Great Basin
How many serial killers does it take before a region sounds the damn alarm? Apparently, more than a dozen. In this blistering special episode of Rocky Mountain Reckoning, John and Angela put the regular format on pause and turn their full attention to the monsters who stalked the Great Basin from...
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Trailer – Rocky Mountain Reckoning: Crime in the Forgotten West
In the vast silence of the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin, dark truths linger in small towns, canyons, and desert highways. Rocky Mountain Reckoning investigates the crimes most people have never heard of—serial killers in plain sight, unsolved murders in forgotten counties, and missing persons...
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Shadows at the Fairground: The Victims of Royal Russell Long
They were daughters, dreamers, and drifters—until they crossed paths with a man who thrived in shadows. In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckonings, we shift the focus away from Royal Russell Long and center the lives stolen, the voices silenced, and the trails that vanished under...
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The Desert Didn’t Forget: The Murder of Tammy Terrell
In October 1980, a teenage girl’s body was found in the Nevada desert—nude, bruised, stabbed, and stripped of her identity. For 41 years, she was known only by the crude “S” tattoo on her arm and a grave marker that read “Jane Doe.” Her name was Tammy Corrine Terrell. In this gripping episode of...
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Ashes of Absence: The Thousand Springs Jane Doe
Buried in the heat-hardened cliffs of Nevada’s Thousand Springs Canyon, a young woman’s story was reduced to ashes—her name burned away, her identity still unknown. Who was she? And who wanted her erased? In this gripping episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning, we delve into the...
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Crossroads and Canyons: The Devil’s Gate Mystery
A scorched canyon. A woman without a name. And a decades-old mystery that still haunts Nevada’s high desert. In this gripping installment of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning, hosts John and Angela investigate the tragic and unresolved case of Devil’s Gate Jane Doe—a young woman found...
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Desert Echoes: The Mystery of Starr Valley Jane Doe
🚨 On a desolate stretch of rural Nevada highway in the spring of 1972, the body of a young woman was discovered beneath a barbed wire fence in Starr Valley. She had been brutally murdered and left in the dust—no ID, no name, and no justice. Over fifty years later, the world still knows her only…
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Unveiling the Rockies' Shadows: The Great Basin Killings
Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning uncovers the chilling crimes of the Rockies—Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana and New Mexico—Season one focuses on the Great Basin Serial Killings, where at least 24 women and one man, like Lisa Marie Kimmell and Naomi Kidder, were lost to...
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Rocky Mountain Reckoning is an investigative true-crime podcast focused on cold cases, unsolved murders, and overlooked victims across the Rocky Mountain West. Hosted by John and Angela from the Dark Dialogue network, the series explores cases from Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and the surrounding region where time, distance, and isolation have often allowed crimes to fade from public attention. Each episode examines the evidence, investigative decisions, and unanswered questions behind these cases while giving voice to victims whose stories deserve to be remembered. From remote highways and small towns to forgotten investigations, Rocky Mountain Reckoning searches for the truth that still waits in the mountains.
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