Most media accounts, driven by the hunches of the lead investigators, named but one suspect: Amy’s husband, Steve Bechtel. The couple have a son, Kunzang. According to Ellen’s mother and the talk show personality herself, we shouldn’t be expecting the pair to be expecting any time soon. Quick facts of Steve Alley. He remained on strict probation—which included a curfew—but was allowed his Dodge van so that he could work welding and construction jobs. Steve then retained the counsel of Kent Spence. Mr. Bechtel and his wife, Betty, have a large family of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. But after Richard Eaton called police with his suspicions, the detective dismissed the tip, choosing to believe instead the word of Dale Eaton's niece, who said he was visiting her in Greeley, Colorado on July 24th. They contained poetry that sometimes erred on the violent side and included troubling philosophies about male-gender dominance. Then, following a tip from neighbors who recalled seeing Eaton digging in his desert-scrub yard, authorities found her car buried on his property in Moneta, just an hour-and-45-minute drive east from Lander. By not pursuing the lead, they may have allowed the notorious Great Basin Serial Killer to get away. She was told the only people who would show would be eight of her former track teammates. Steve Harvey and his wife, Marjorie Harvey, have faced a lot of scrutiny over the years and have been the victims of several cheating and divorce rumors. Her last words to the world. He wouldn’t be so lucky this time. You’ll know the questions before they’re asked. If it was to be a random occurrence, or some high-probability random occurrence that may have happened, Dale Eaton is one. We know Amy is alive. A prominent New York attorney and his wife were killed in a plane crash in Genesee County on Friday afternoon. “We didn’t close off any routes out of here,” Zerga continues. Inside his trailer, authorities also found women’s clothing and purses, and newspaper reports about other murdered women. Then she leaves out the back door. She may have been seen running along the Loop Road; a footprint similar to her sneaker was found there, but it was destroyed before police could attempt to match it. It's possible that Amy fell during her run or was attacked by wild animals whilst in the wilderness. Disappearance. He still refused to take the polygraph, and many people in town continued to believe he was responsible for Amy’s disappearance. and a phone number: 1-800-867-5AMY. He had a stay of execution in December 2009 with his lawyers arguing that he was mentally unfit to stand trial In November 2014, a U.S. district judge overturned his death sentence which was commuted to life in prison. July 24, 1997, 2:30 p.m.She walks into the portrait studio on the second floor of the Camera Connection in downtown Lander, dressed for running. She had been a standout distance runner at Wyoming—she ranked first in school history in the indoor 3,000 meters (9:48) and second in the indoor 5,000 (18:07) in 1995—and, with a marathon PR of 3:01, had aspirations of qualifying for the 2000 Olympic Marathon Trials. True crime mysteries have always captivated America, in the same macabre way a car accident attracts rubber-neckers, but they’ve struck a cultural nerve lately. “I don’t mind being a suspect, but to me everyone else is a suspect.”, Lizard Head, the mountain, looms in the east as we head back toward Lander. Shannon accelerated and turned in a tight circle instead, which enabled Scott to jump out of the van with the baby and Shannon to get out the other side. She’s excited, talking about her forthcoming entries in the Sinks Canyon Photo Contest. Ellen DeGeneres hit it big as a stand-up comedian before starring on her own sitcom, Ellen. At the bottom: run. There were other things she hadn’t yet done, or at least hadn’t yet checked off the list. You might recognize her from her recurring role on The Office as Carol Stills, Michael's realtor who first appeared in Season 2. In late August 1997, the Federal Bureau of Investigation requested satellite photos from NASA of the area on the day of Bechtel's disappearance, but the satellite images provided no information. Petite, pretty—Amy looked like a lot of women, like a lot of women who also vanished without a trace from the Great Basin region of Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. In the Kimmell trial, Eaton was charged and found guilty of all counts, including first-degree murder, and sentenced to death by lethal injection in March 2004. On the other hand, Steve's wife is a well-known Hollywood personality who holds an estimated net worth of $700,000. I remember that Amy’s photograph started to mute with the first wash, and that it wasn’t long until she faded to the white of the shirt, like a ghost. The sewer line from his decrepit trailer house had been run into it—he’d been using his victim’s car as a septic tank. The incident got Eaton’s brother, Richard, thinking. Steve—rarely seen without a baseball cap—has short gray blond hair and the modesty and forearms of Peter Parker. Recently, Ellen and I took a hike in our Wind River Range foothills above town to interview Ellen about how she manages to be a mother of their 2-year-old son, a … In 2002 Steve and his father, Tom, went to the sheriff’s department in neighboring Natrona County when the Eaton theory wasn’t taken seriously in Fremont County after news of the Lil Miss murder broke. Skinner, who died in a tragic fall at Yosemite in 2006, was a world-renowned climber and Steve’s frequent climbing partner. The greatest source of hope is the love of family and friends. Lightner, and the trip to Dubois, will be Steve’s alibi. A $100,000 reward out for information leading to a resolution of Amy’s case was enough to cast suspicion on Richard’s motives. ... the other Baldwin wife, bares all on Hilaria, faith and Justin Bieber. Steve is also a well-known adventure rock climber. Amy was a runner within this climbing clique. Make some calls, drive around a little bit. “I would really like to rule Steve out,” Zerga says. Steve Harvey has four children and one grandchild. Still, there are elements in the case that puzzle the detective. [The investigation] was not good for at least the first three days. Amy's brother, Nels, was especially angry at Steve’s reluctance to take the polygraph test and cooperate fully with investigators. They had recently bought a house in the residential heart of Lander and were preparing to take the leap out of their “no-need-to-knock-door’s-never-locked” climbing-bum shanty on Lucky Lane. Maybe it was 2 o’clock. “I will not shy away from that,” Nels said to me when I visited him at a coffee shop near his home in Longmont, Colorado. Steve Bechtel is listed as a (President) with Elemental Training Center, Inc. in Wyoming. Amy and Steve had been married for just over a year and both worked part-time at Wild Iris, the local climbing shop. A week and a half after Amy vanished, Steve employed lawyers and refused to take a polygraph test which further raised suspicions for many residents of Lander as well as the media. “I told his brother that’s not a place to camp. A week and a half after Amy vanished, Steve sealed his public fate as the villain when he lawyered up and refused to take a polygraph test. Why perhaps at least nine other young women never came home. eco-radical Dave Foreman. It was a toilet paper wonderland in Ellen's studio, thanks to the amazing Steve Spangler! The mechanic for the county slows down so as not to dust her, as he makes his way uphill to change the carburetor on an old fire truck that sat idle at a youth camp. The “evidence” investigators had was Steve’s journals. Eaton stopped his off-green ‘85 Dodge van and offered them assistance and asked Shannon to drive. He remembers the woman running uphill. Bechtel was born in Casper, Wyoming and now resides in Lander, Wyoming with his wife Ellen and two children. “Are you familiar with Dale Eaton?” he asked me. Meanwhile, potentially crucial evidence was rendered useless by shoddy crime-scene management. “Maybe there’s a watch or a shoe or something we might recognize,” Steve says. “It was funny,” Steve says. He was with Sam Lightner scouting a climbing spot the day Amy had vanished in the mountains above Dubois and since it was grizzly country he took their dog Jonz as well as a firearm. Ellen DeGeneres Steve Granitz/WireImage. He reported her missing to police at 10.30 pm that night with a strange message, "Uh, yeah, hey, I’ve got a person missing here, I think, and I wondered if you had a spare around anyplace?”. But imagine having heart surgery and saying, ‘Well, I’ll just get a crappy doctor.’”, Steve drives at a contemplative mosey. It gets to be like 8 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m., that incredible anxiety builds up. Stephen Bechtel, Jr. ran Bechtel, his family's construction and engineering firm, for 30 years, from 1960 to 1990. Great job on the podcast and map. ”—Steve Bechtel, in a phone call to ... where he jokes with clients and checks in with his wife, Ellen. — -- Ellen Page's announcement that she married Emma Portner came as surprise to many fans. In various interviews, Ellen has stated that she feels the role of parenthood may be too much of a commitment for her and as a result, she’s not so sure she’ll have children in the future. She knows as well as anybody the story of Amy.”. I have these two little kids and more than anything in my life, those two are what I was born for, to raise those kids. The woman, blond, blue-eyed, and wearing a light-colored singlet, black shorts, and a fanny pack, smiles and waves at Osborne. Has Steve Jobs' widow found love again? The man—Dale Eaton—asked Shannon to drive. He has been working with athletes of all levels for over fifteen years, and is a sought-after expert in … An FBI profiler who examined the case would note that this public display, the trophy-keeping of Kimmell’s car, and the known kidnapping attempt of the Breedens all fit the profile of a serial killer. Then, two months after Amy vanished, King relinquished the case to Detective Sergeant Roger Rizor and turned his focus on campaigning for Fremont County Sheriff, a position he would be elected to in 1998. But a sample of his DNA was taken whilst he was incarcerated. Race morning was a sunny autumn day on the eastern shoulder of the Wind River Range, and 150 or so runners gathered for a bittersweet attempt to actualize the 10K course that Amy had been working on when she’d gone missing. But Osborne doesn’t see the runner again. “The Utah Criminal Tracking Analysis Project suggested that the Great Basin murders stopped around 1997. “Anybody who needs me to take that test—I don’t need them in my life.” He holds the relaxed confidence of an athlete, even while talking about a painful past. The last thing she writes is run. He is the co-founder (with his wife, Ellen) of Elemental Performance + Fitness, a full service training center and … Steve Bechtel: My name is Steve Bechtel. Spence is the son of the buckskin-wearing Wyoming native Gerry Spence, 87, who gained fame defending high-profile clients like whistleblower Karen Silkwood, Randy Weaver of Ruby Ridge standoff fame, and Earth First! * July 24. The Bechtels were tenants of the neighbors who would eventually find Amy’s abandoned car, Todd Skinner and Amy Whisler. But after the local search fizzled out, Amy’s mom, dad, brother, and two sisters returned to their respective homes and tried to carry on with lives that would never be the same again. Well, it was after lunch. Their concerns about Steve grew a few weeks later when they were presented with previously undisclosed information about the search findings and Steve’s journal entries. After her graduation from high school and the Children's Palace, she pursued a career as a professional dancer. My father passed away a number of years ago. It felt right at the time and it still does, 15+ years down the road. Its headlamps cast twin beams of light that pierce the midnight blackness. “I’m not gonna cover for somebody who might have murdered a friend of mine.”. Amy’s sister Jenny was there. Sheila Kimmell, Lisa’s mother, mentions Amy’s case in her 2005 book The Murder of Lil Miss, and is very well versed in other disappearances and homicides connected with the Great Basin Murders. Erdenetuya Batsukh, better known as Elle, is married to Steven Seagal. The narrative bent toward Steve. Hij is gitarist, zanger, arrangeur en producer bij de band Toto, sessiemuzikant op meer dan 1500 albums en hij heeft daarnaast een solocarrière sinds 1989.. Biografie. It's a Thursday. The whole situation with Steve not being cooperative, that really caused frustration for the family.”. Check out his amazing experiment, here. Amy is going to take care of some errands, including scouting the course for her 10K in September. A few hours pass. Glenn E. Bechtel . After a search of the couple's property, detectives discovered Steve Bechtel's journals which contained poetry or song lyrics sometimes with violent overtones, describing violence towards women and specifically, Amy. He shows me the garage, where he and friends ran the recovery effort. “We brought in cadaver dogs. She’d already contacted phone and electric companies to have services turned on at her and her husband’s newly purchased home (check), dropped off the recyclables from the gym where she worked at the recycling center (check), been to the photo store (check). Eaton was due to stand trial that fall on a manslaughter charge after killing his cellmate with a lethal punch to the man’s vertebral artery. He had that type of capability. Harold E. Bechtel, 86, of Boonville died Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. “You could take the strongest woman—a Division I athlete—and the average guy is gonna be able to overpower her,” Steve continues. Become the owner of this obituary to manage the guestbook, edit the notice, and more. That something was a note about Richard Eaton’s tip. Although each family member responded differently, their frustrations with Steve’s lack of overall cooperation and engagement with the investigators lingered. It was enough for Zerga to put other cases on hold in order to travel with an FBI agent to Colorado to try to interview a madman’s brother, and to Wyoming’s death row to interview the madman himself. “He pro-bonoed I don’t even know how many hours to us,” says Steve. “The one person who can help the most in possibly resolving what happened to Amy is the guy who for whatever reason—cowardice, selfishness, I don’t know—refuses to engage. He has since remarried … The couple first met when Nancy took Steve's improv class at the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. “The polygraph is like one of those monkey traps,” he says. “She was so cool, Jon. He does, however, have to inch around an old blue-green vehicle—he’ll later strain to recall that it may have been a van—stopped in the road. Earlier in the day, he had rendezvoused with Lightner in Dubois—a town roughly equidistant from Steve’s home in Lander and Lightner’s in Jackson, 80 miles or so.
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