Somebody Knows Something (2026) s01e08 Episode Script

[ominous music playing]
[reporter] Amy Bechtel was supposed
to be out for her daily run…
-[high-pitched ringing]
-[heartbeat thumping]
[reporter] But she disappeared.
[reporter 2] The FBI says
this is one of the largest
family searches they've ever seen.
I spend every minute
wondering if she's all right.
[Chamberlain]
For 30 years, people have been talking
about Amy Bechtel's
baffling disappearance.
No trace of her has ever been found.
Maybe before she started her run,
she was met with foul play.
This is so scary.
I don't go running by myself anymore.
[Chamberlain] Did she hurt herself
while she was on a run?
There are a lot of dangers
in the Shoshone National Forest.
Could she have been
attacked by a grizzly bear?
[Chamberlain] Or was she taken
by a different kind of predator?
She had piqued the interest
of quite a few men.
He was just kind of a weird guy.
-They were kind of circling around.
-Oh!
I'm missing a person.
The 911 call, it's odd.
And I was wondering if you
maybe had an extra.
Serial killers, they don't wear stickers
on their forehead.
He could have buried a victim right here.
Amy's disappearance, it broke our family.
[tense music playing]
[Chamberlain] Every year,
more than 600,000 people go missing
in the United States.
[reporter 3] The story of Jaycee Dugard
shocked the nation.
Amy Bradley simply disappeared
without a trace.
[reporter 4] Asha Degree went to bed
one night and was gone in the morning.
I'm Kara Robinson Chamberlain,
and in 2002, I was one of those victims.
[reporter 6] At just 15 years old,
Kara was abducted by a serial killer.
[reporter 7] Assaulted
and tortured for 18 hours,
but somehow, she managed to escape.
[Chamberlain]
I went on to a career in law enforcement.
[Lott] Then she wanted
to be a victim advocate,
and show them
how they can be a survivor like her.
[Chamberlain] Now I'm investigating the
cases true crime fans are obsessed with.
Because there are people who don't know
what happened to their loved ones.
Somebody knows something.
Somebody saw something.
And if I can bring
one person some answers,
then it's worth everything.
[gentle music playing]
[Chamberlain] Twenty-four-year-old Amy
Bechtel went for a run and disappeared.
And for 30 years, the Internet hasn't
stopped speculating about this case.
But the closer you look at this case,
the weirder it starts to seem.
It's dripping
with theories and accusations.
No trace of Amy was ever found.
[Chamberlain]
She's living in Lander, Wyoming.
She's an avid runner and Olympic hopeful.
And on July 24th, 1997, Amy goes missing.
Her car is actually found on a trail
in Shoshone National Forest,
but Amy has been gone for nearly 30 years.
I'm gonna to be speaking
with Stephanie Tinsley.
She's the host of Everything They Missed,
which is an episodic podcast
where she does deep dives into cases.
And she's been following
Amy's disappearance.
[automated voice] Recording in progress.
Hey, Stephanie. How are you doing?
-Hey, Kara. I'm good. How are you?
-[Chamberlain] I'm good.
So I cannot wait to hear
about this Amy Bechtel case.
It is truly a mystery.
I mean, it is very rare
that you start out with zero evidence,
no blood, no clothes, no crime scene,
and that's what this is.
[Chamberlain] So Amy was living in Lander,
Wyoming with her husband, Steve.
[Tinsley] Yes. So Lander, Wyoming
is known for its mountains,
and it's a place that Steve and Amy moved
specifically for the rock climbing,
the hiking, the running, the trails.
They were living in a rental house.
The street was called Lucky Lane.
[Chamberlain] From what I've read, a lot
of their neighbors were guys in their 20s,
like Steve, and everybody was
really big into climbing.
Everybody knew each other.
Everybody stuck together.
It was a very safe community
by all accounts.
So the media really picked up
on this story
and I think that it resonates
with so many people.
How can just a normal day
of everyday activities
result in someone being missing?
[Chamberlain] Makes sense.
Amy was running errands that morning
and planned to go running
that afternoon in the National Forest.
So I imagine
there's a lot of possibilities
when you're looking for a missing person
in that area.
Injury, wildlife,
things like that as well, right?
[Tinsley] Could she have been attacked
by a grizzly bear?
By a mountain lion? Yes.
But generally, there's clues to that.
There's blood, there's drag marks,
and there just were none.
Did they find any signs of foul play?
Nothing. And that's
just the most agonizing thing about it.
But that is most likely
what happened to Amy.
[Chamberlain] Well, if Amy and Steve were
well known in town,
it could have been anyone,
including Steve.
You always look at the husband first.
So Steve was immediately a suspect.
And he made one of the strangest 911 calls
that I've-I've ever heard.
Hi, this is Steve Bechtel calling.
I'm uh missing a person.
And I was wondering if you
maybe had an extra.
-That's very strange.
-Yeah.
-Something to look into for sure.
-Yeah.
There was also the person
that some people think is
a serial killer in the area.
His name is Dale Eaton.
And some people might think
that's a farfetched theory.
I-I don't think so.
You always have to consider, like,
the crime of opportunity, of course.
So at this point,
probably the best place to start is
-with the family.
-Yes.
[gentle music playing]
-[Joanne] Hi.
-[Chamberlain] Hi. Are you Joanne?
I'm Joanne.
-Nice to meet you.
-And your name is?
-[Chamberlain] Kara.
-Kara.
-Kara, I'm Nels. Yep.
-Nels? Nice to meet you.
-I'm Casey. Nice to meet you as well.
-[Chamberlain] Casey, nice to meet you.
[Chamberlain] How long
have you lived here?
Thirty years. We moved here
at the end of Amy's senior year.
-Okay. Amy's the baby?
-Yeah.
-Real pretty tight-knit sibling group?
-[Casey] Yes. Very.
-Yeah, I mean, as kids, we stuck together.
-[Casey] This would be an example of that.
-This photo here.
-Oh, yeah.
This looks like not a large spread.
-What's the age differences here?
-[Nels] Two and a half to three years.
These pictures give me a really good idea
of what you guys were like growing up.
-Ah. Pretty much.
-Like you…
you look--
It's not showing the mischief behind them.
-Yeah. Oh, no, I ca… I can see it in this.
-Oh, okay.
[Casey] Amy was the silent one.
-[Nels] Yes, she was.
-[Casey] And sneaky. [laughing]
[Nels] Somebody would tell her
she can't do something,
then look out,
she would probably go and do it.
-[Casey] She would find a way.
-She-She would find a way.
Like, when she first started running…
I mean, she was a walk-on to the team
in high school,
and then becomes the team captain.
-[Casey] She ended up on a scholarship.
-[Joanne] Yeah.
[Nels] But she was more than running.
She was amazingly artistic,
and smart, and driven,
and every day, I would be like,
"God, dang it, Amy.
If onl… If only I could… I could do
what you can do," right?
So… and… and
so I-I-I missed that in my life.
-Mmm. Mm-hmm.
-And it's not fair.
Yeah.
How did she meet Steve?
[Casey] They met in college
at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
They dated on and off
before she got married.
She was really looking forward
to someday having a family.
[Chamberlain] Why did they move to Lander?
Steve really wanted to move there.
He's, you know, a big climber.
And that is a very much
a climbing community culture there.
And it was almost like a-an extension
of a college dorm like.
-[Chamberlain] Really?
-[Casey] Yes.
I would always ask how things are going,
and… and she says, "Well, one of the…"
One thing that's kind of hard is
that all of the climbing people
come and hang out at their place,
which was a tiny place.
[Chamberlain] Mm-hmm.
[Nels] In the community,
they were such a focal point.
And people would crash all the time.
She'd wake up in the morning,
and they had people in the bathroom.
And people came
and just were sleeping in sleeping bags,
-and, uh, all around the house.
-[Chamberlain scoffs]
[Joanne] She was anxious
to have a normal house.
Actually, they just purchased a home
and were getting ready to move in,
like, literally,
the week that she vanished.
[Chamberlain] She had a lot
to look forward to.
[Casey] She did.
I think about Amy every day.
What would she be doing?
What would I know about Amy now?
I actually think a lot
about where we'd be as a family.
-[Joanne] Mmm.
-Mm-hmm. Yeah.
-It broke our family from what it was.
-[Nels] Yeah.
And the closeness that we had for so long,
that did vanish.
I hope somebody can help us
get back to being a family again.
Let's go back to that day
that Amy went missing.
What was that day like for all of you?
I got a call from Steve,
and it was at 10:00 p.m.
[Chamberlain] Mm-hmm.
And he said, "Is Amy at your house?"
And I said, "No, why?"
And he said, "Well, I got home,
I've been climbing with a friend.
She still hasn't come home."
Then Duane, my husband,
he talked with Steve,
and he said,
"Well, did you call the hospital?
Did you call the sheriff's department?"
You know.
And he said,
"Well, no, I haven't done that.
I'm just trying to figure out
where she might be."
And he says, "Well, get on it."
Then he hung up.
He says, "Pack some bags,
we're going to Lander."
And then within 30 minutes,
in the middle of the night,
we were all on the road.
We were all ready to go find her, right.
Yeah, I remember thinking,
"Oh, my gosh, she has probably fallen
when she's been out for a run."
She's up in the mountains someplace.
-There's wild animals out there.
-[Chamberlain] Mm-hmm.
[Joanne] By the time we got to Lander,
law enforcement
and everybody was involved.
And by that point, the search and rescue
operation was really up and running.
[Lowe] At night, there aren't any lights
out there. It's just pitch black.
There are a lot of dangers
in the Shoshone National Forest,
but two deputies and her husband, Steve,
and his friends were searching the area.
And Amy's car was located
early in the morning
by one of Steve's friends.
It was off of the Loop Road
in Sinks Canyon.
The car had her keys on the passenger seat
just as she liked to leave them.
Typical items that were always in the car
were in the car.
It seemed to have been parked
as she would have left it.
And at that point, law enforcement was
looking for an injured runner
and most people felt
like they were gonna find Amy.
But as time went on,
there were growing concerns.
Law enforcement combed the areas,
double combed them,
sent the helicopters up, sent out dogs.
There was nothing
that was located on the trails.
And I should say that
significantly, right?
Because there's always something
that's going to be found.
Footprints, tracks,
or signs of possibly an animal attack.
[reporter 8] This search has gone on
one week without a single clue.
I spend every minute of every day
wondering if she's all right,
where she is, and, you know, wondering
what I can do to find her.
[Nels] At that point,
I started to get concerned.
She was smart enough
and well trained enough
to know "stay in place, stay on a trail,
stay where somebody can find you."
So no longer are you worried
about wildlife or injury,
you're worried that somebody was involved.
[Casey] And when you realize
that something horrible has happened
to someone you loved,
it's really hard not to let your mind
go to really dark places.
[tense music playing]
[Armstrong] I'm Anthony Armstrong.
I'm a detective
with Fremont County Sheriff's Office
in Riverton, Wyoming.
I've been working this case
for about eight years.
My two partners are Wes Barry
and Sarah Lowe,
both detectives with the sheriff's office.
[reporter 9] Officials say
that a lost or missing person
is usually found
within the first 48 hours.
[Armstrong] About the third day
of the search,
it turned into a criminal investigation.
One of the initial reports was
that a deputy had located some footprints
that they believed
to be about the same size as Amy's feet.
Those were in the relative area
of Amy's car.
Unfortunately,
that evidence wasn't retained,
and I don't believe
it was even photographed.
So we talked
with the closest people to her.
[reporter 10] The FBI is now
investigating friends and family,
starting with Amy's husband.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Barry] The spouse is
always gonna be a person of interest.
I mean, you…
you're looking for the people
that are with them,
that know their schedules,
that know their life,
that know the things that make them tick,
that have that opportunity
to make bad things happen to them.
[Lowe] So on July 24th, 1997,
the day Amy disappeared,
Steve had mentioned to investigators
that Amy had gone
to teach her class at the gym.
And he and a friend had headed up
in the Dubois area
to find a new rock climbing route.
Steve said he expected
that she would run some errands,
and that she would meet back at the house
when she was done.
When Amy didn't come home,
Steve went out and looked for her,
and then Steve finally contacted
the sheriff's office around 10:30 p.m.
Hi, this is Steve Bechtel calling.
I'm uh missing a person.
And I was wondering if you
maybe had an extra.
My impression of the 911 call is,
it's odd.
Sometimes people
in super uncomfortable situations try
to lighten it with humor,
but it's an awkward phone call to make.
And the way
that him and his friends were acting
just didn't sit right
with the investigators at that time.
Instead of grieving in the way
that they thought
he should have been grieving,
he was playing hacky sack
with his buddies.
[ominous music playing]
[Barry] The day Amy went missing,
his alibi was that he was with a friend
mapping some climbing routes, uh,
in another town in Wyoming.
But there were people who remember seeing
a truck up there on the mountain
in Shoshone National Forest
where Amy went missing,
very similar to Steve Bechtel's vehicle.
It was the same shape
and it was the same color.
One of our investigators
sat down with Steve
a few weeks into Amy being gone.
And the interview started out well,
and then about halfway through,
Steve stopped the interview
and retained an attorney.
He was asked to do a polygraph,
but under the counsel of his attorney,
he said he was going to decline.
So law enforcement did obtain
a search warrant,
and they were able
to search Steve and Amy's house.
They did find some items.
[reporter 11] Investigators uncovered
a journal Steve had kept.
I can see why, uh, those journals would
have made him concerning to anyone.
Some of the words that have
described these journals
have been disturbing and scary.
They're a collection of different things.
There are lyrics from songs I… I wrote
when I was in a band in high school, um…
A lot of the stuff that I wrote
early on was, you know, filled with angst
and things like that, but,
um, I-I never felt like it was strange,
or-or diabolical, or anything.
[Nels] You know, I've seen
these journals. I've read them.
And they were very, very specifically
about my sister,
and were extremely disturbing,
and misogynistic, hateful,
violent writings.
[Chamberlain] Was there anything
that you noticed
about Amy and Steve that concerned you?
I noticed that there were patterns
of just controlling behavior.
There's a time when they're in our kitchen
and she had what looked
like finger mark bruises on her arm
and… and we raised that, said,
"Hey, what happened to your arm?"
And then, no eye contact and Steve
could not get out of there fast enough.
-Mmm.
-[Nels] All right?
She was very… [sighs] …subdued maybe and…
-[Nels] Yeah. Passive.
-…passive.
For a long time, she'd never speak out
her wishes with Steve there.
This is why there's… [stammers]
…concern within the family.
Like, that's pretty concerning.
[ominous music playing]
So was Steve's alibi airtight?
Steve was with a climbing buddy of his
to map a new route.
They don't have video,
and that was in 1997.
There wasn't no cell phone pings
or things like that,
so nothing's airtight.
Would he have had the amount of time
from his alibied location
to get to where Amy's car was found
before he reports Amy missing?
Potentially.
She's last seen early afternoon in Lander
and he gets home a few hours after that.
There's some overlap
that we can't discount.
Wow.
[music ends]
[Chamberlain] Amy's family mentioned
that they noticed some marks on her arms.
Can y'all speak to that?
[Armstrong] I trust
they saw a mark on her arm,
but there's no known
domestic violence history.
There's never any charges or anything
that we're aware of.
Mm-hmm. What about these journals?
I mean, we've agreed that the family,
they were justified to… to be concerned,
but it's hard to say this is exactly
what this person meant, right?
Nobody in their day-to-day group
seemed to have any concerns
about what was going on.
[Chamberlain] So, you take
the family's concerns seriously,
but there's no hard evidence.
Steve cooperated a lot.
And he was there for searches.
He would even talk to the media.
[Bechtel] She walked out, I walked out,
just like any other day.
I can't remember, um, if we kissed,
if I told her that I loved her.
We were expecting for her
to come stumbling out of the woods
and say, "Hey, I'm over here."
[interviewer] For the record,
did you have anything to do
with your wife's disappearance
or her death?
No, of course not.
There's nothing that could be worse
than wondering if I'll ever see her again,
when I'll ever see her again.
And if I do,
whether she'll be alive or dead.
[Armstrong] He was at the briefings
and we've listened to the interviews
and we believe that
they went a little too hard at him
without… without the evidence to back it,
and it concerned him.
So he put a… a halt to that interview, so…
And then he declined a polygraph?
[Armstrong] We don't take that
as an indicator
of his guilt or innocence at all.
[Chamberlain] Because back then,
polygraphs were seen
a little differently, right?
Yeah, Steve was viewed
as a suspect early on.
Um, we don't have him as a suspect,
but he's still a person of interest
until we get evidence
to take him completely off.
I don't wanna get tunnel-visioned.
And we have to make sure
that we're staying focused.
Throughout this investigation,
the number of people spoken to is just…
it's so vast because there were many men
that were kind of circling around Amy.
She had a lot of admirers, which… It makes
the case that much more difficult.
[intriguing music playing]
[Chamberlain] Was there anyone else
in Amy's circle
who you all were concerned about?
She attracted a lot of attention.
Her personality type.
She's kind to everybody,
and you know, she… she… she would be
warm and welcoming to… no matter what.
Definitely had a following of young men
who may have wanted relationships
that Amy didn't want.
We even saw men that would follow…
that followed them to Lander.
This climbing community had its own
cult of personality around these climbers.
There were so many people
that had access to Steve and Amy.
[Chamberlain] Mm-hmm.
And there were so many strange behaviors
from a lot of people around them.
Someone that had followed along
with that group from Laramie
was somebody that law enforcement were
concerned about.
[tense music playing]
[Armstrong] This would have been the house
that Steve and Amy shared.
There was a gentleman that had come
from Laramie and moved to the area,
actually moved
to the end of the block here.
He was a little too interested in Amy.
[Chamberlain]
Wow, so this is new information.
And there's… what?
Ten, 12 houses here, maybe.
So, he would have been close to Amy then.
Definitely raised some flags.
[tense music playing]
Early on, this person was involved
in some of the search efforts for Amy.
This guy used his middle name
instead of his first name as a sign-in
at one of the searches up on the mountain,
and misrepresented his relationship
with Amy's brother.
[Nels] The police interviewed him
when Amy disappeared
in the first couple of weeks,
and the transcript of the interview,
he shared that he and I were best friends,
that he was at my wedding,
and I'm like, "What the what?"
So he radically misrepresented
his relationship with me
and with our family.
I didn't know him well at all.
But he was around a lot.
He was just… he was uncomfortable
and he was just kind of a weird guy.
[suspenseful music playing]
Well, our concern right away,
with this person of interest
making these statements
that weren't true would be
that he is okay not telling the truth.
If he's willing to lie about this,
is he willing to lie
about his involvement with Amy?
And what's crazy
about this person of interest is
the vehicle that they drove
was very similar
to Steve Bechtel's vehicle.
It had a camper shell
just like Steve's truck did,
and it was approximately the same color.
So in 1997,
law enforcement interviewed this person.
He was asked to provide his whereabouts
and he did provide an alibi
that we don't know to be verified,
and from there, there was
no other interview that took place
that we're aware of.
But they were able to search the house.
They did find some items,
and the reason that
I wouldn't cover them specifically is
because of the active investigation.
They're still a person of interest.
[music ends]
[Chamberlain] Do we know Amy
was actually up on the mountain
the day she disappeared?
[Armstrong] Yeah, nothing's 100%,
but we have a witness
that saw her driving up there…
[Chamberlain] Mm-hmm.
…and then there are other witnesses
that saw her running up the Loop Road.
So that's also the area
where her car was located, right?
[Armstrong] Yeah.
[Chamberlain]
Did Amy usually run by herself?
I think so, yeah.
There's not a whole lot of people
that could keep up with her,
I wouldn't think.
[Chamberlain] But if she was alone
and the timing was right,
somebody could have grabbed her.
-It really could have been anyone.
-[Armstrong] Yeah, for sure.
[inquisitive music playing]
[punching keys]
[Chamberlain] I wonder what else
I can find about this case.
It looks
like there's been some speculation
about a suspected serial killer
in the area.
…been plucked right off of the land.
Another potential lead emerged years later
involving convicted murderer,
Dale Wayne Eaton.
[Chamberlain] This is interesting.
This article states
that a Wyoming woman believes
her family's property may contain clues
to the case of Amy Wroe Bechtel.
This is a pretty big deal.
This woman's family let a guy named
Dale Eaton stay on their ranch.
Dale Eaton is a suspected serial killer
who's currently in prison for the murder
of Lisa Marie Kimmell,
which happened in March of 1988.
Her body was found floating
in a river in Casper, Wyoming.
Which is not very far
from where Amy went missing in Lander.
Tracy said
she found evidence on her ranch
possibly linking Dale to Amy.
[suspenseful music playing]
[birds chirping]
[tense music playing]
My name is Renee Jean,
and I am a reporter
with Cowboy State Daily.
Back in October, I found a story.
There was a woman named Tracy.
She mentioned
that her parents had this land
and that Dale Eaton had lived
on this property
with this RV between these two cabins.
Dale Eaton was friends
with Tracy's family.
The police believed
that he was a serial killer,
because at the time,
the Lisa Kimmell case broke,
they said there's evidence
that Dale Eaton has been involved
in a number of cases.
He's suspected
of being the Great Basin Killer.
Along Route 191,
there have been a number of people
who went missing,
and Dale Eaton is a suspect
in those disappearances.
Serial killers,
they don't wear stickers on their forehead
that say, "Hey, I'm a serial killer."
He was hiding a very dark secret
and hiding it very well.
But Tracy found these receipts
in Eaton's car
stuffed inside of a cowboy boot.
The receipt showed
that he was in the Lander area
at the same time period
that Amy disappeared.
He could have easily gone
into one of those cabins on the property.
No one would see him working
through the night.
He would have a measure of privacy.
Who knows
what he was hiding on the property?
Dale Eaton had a habit
of burying evidence.
In 1988, he had buried
this whole Honda CRX
that belonged to Lisa Kimmel
on his property.
Tracy thought Dale might have buried
Amy's body on her parents' property.
[Barry] So Dale Eaton,
we do have some information that says
that he was in the area at the time.
But at no point are we gonna say
we're cutting off everything else
because of this one guy
until we've got enough to say that.
[Chamberlain] What actions are being taken
to investigate Dale Eaton at this time?
I couldn't comment on that.
Um…
That would have to be… Yeah, I couldn't…
I couldn't comment on that
in an official capacity.
[music ends]
[Chamberlain]
Because of the active investigation,
police couldn't comment on Dale Eaton.
So I'm on my way to go meet
with Tracy Sve and her family
on their ranch
where Dale lived in the 1990s.
At the time,
no one in Tracy's family suspected
what Dale was capable of
and that's really common.
In my case,
most people were surprised to hear
that the man who kidnapped me
was a killer.
If Dale Eaton is like the man
who kidnapped me,
he's a psychopath.
And one of the things
that they are able to do
is they put people in categories.
So, people that they know, family,
they exist in a box,
that they don't exhibit
their psychopathic tendencies
towards those people.
If Dale was hiding so much
from Tracy and her family,
I am curious to know
what led her to the evidence
found on the ranch.
-Hi. How are you?
-[Chamberlain] Good.
-Tracy.
-I'm Kara. Nice to meet you.
-Come on inside.
-All right.
-[Tracy] This is my sister, Connie.
-[Chamberlain] Hi, Connie.
[Tracy] And my brother Bruce will be
giving you some information, that's all.
All right.
[somber music playing]
So tell me about your experience
with Dale Eaton.
My dad and him were like… like that.
We met Dale in 1982.
He was here to help my dad.
There used to be a little general store
out front and a junkyard.
He had a welding truck,
and he did mechanic work too.
[Tracy] So they just became friends.
Dale had a really horrible childhood.
He was abused.
And then along comes my dad,
who would love anybody.
My kids and I have had dinner with him.
-We've played cards with him.
-[Chamberlain] Yeah.
He… He was just part of my dad's life.
And they worked every day together.
And he would just spend the night
in one of the cabins.
When he was here.
[Tracy] He might be gone for a month,
and then he would come back.
But in '94, he moved his motor home
back here between the log cabins.
He lived there
until he was finally incarcerated.
Was there anything
that tipped you off at any point
about what he was doing
or anything that sat weird with you?
I always thought he was a little weird.
I mean, he's a little different,
but not like that.
[Bruce] I wouldn't have
expected him to do that
to somebody 'cause he's so protective.
-[Chamberlain] Yeah?
-He saved my dad's life one day.
-Oh. Uh-huh.
-A car fell on my dad,
and Dale was extremely strong.
He lifted the car off of my dad
and saved my dad's life.
He had access to every one of us,
all of us kids, and he never did anything.
[Chamberlain] When did you find out
that Dale was a killer?
[Tracy] When he was charged in 2003.
And what was
your initial reaction to that?
He was definitely not somebody
I would have thought
that would have done that.
When he was holding Lisa Marie,
he actually had dinner here
with my family.
-Makes you wonder, right?
-[Tracy] Yeah.
In the years that he lived here,
there would have
been a lot of potential victims,
and we think that Dale buried the bodies.
-Here, on this property?
-[Tracy] Yeah. Mm-hmm.
[Connie] Dale came and went as he wanted
while everybody was in bed sleeping.
He could very easily have
just brought anybody out there
and dug a hole and put them in it.
[Tracy] My brother and sister-in-law
used to live on a ranch
just down the road a ways,
and they came out one morning,
and they found Dale
in one of their reservoirs.
[Connie] And she looked out at him,
and she said,
"What are you doing
in the middle of my reservoir
at 6:00 in the morning?"
And she said he hesitated
and looked at her, and he goes,
"I just came down to take a bath."
-[Tracy] And it was October. So very cold.
-[Chamberlain] Cold.
The reason we think there's a body there
is their reservoir quit working,
and they never could use it again.
And in about 2012,
I dreamed that Amy was here
somewhere on the property.
I'm like, "Okay."
Dale's vehicle's right there.
-I'm just gonna go look in it.
-Yeah.
There was some stuff
that I found out here.
It was Dale's.
So, I just started looking through it,
and I found a pair of boots.
I just grabbed the boot.
And in the toe of the boot,
he had a receipt for gas near Lander
close to where Amy was jogging.
And he had four little newspaper articles,
tore out on the corner,
so you could see the date,
and I took those dates
and just searched the Great Basin Killer,
and they were very close to dates
that other women went missing.
Wow.
You know, I took it into the FBI
and left it with them.
But I kept investigating around here.
So I went digging underneath…
…where Dale's trailer used to be.
And that's when I found…
…the bones.
[tense music playing]
[Chamberlain] So over here is
where the trailer was, right?
[Tracy] Yeah,
and here's where the outhouses were.
This is one of the platforms.
The other one has gotten
eaten up over the time.
So where I found the bones was
right here in this area.
They were actually underneath a trailer
at the time.
We've tore that trailer down since then,
but, you know, I just went under,
then started digging,
and then I found the bones.
-It's kind of, like, a lower spot too…
-It is.
…which is something that often happens
with, like, burial sites.
Mm-hmm. Absolutely.
It can sink down
when there's decomposition.
-Yep.
-So, that is interesting
-that there's an indentation there.
-There is.
[Tracy] And I found
a couple of different bones.
But one, when I looked at it,
it just looked like a clavicle bone to me.
So I actually held it up
to my own clavicle bone,
and it was just a little bit shorter,
which she was 5'6". I'm 5'9".
So it seemed like the right size to me,
and it laid right along there
just like a clavicle bone.
-Wow.
-I don't believe it was an animal bone.
And I left the bones with the FBI.
-Okay.
And then never really heard anything
after that.
So anyway, let's go on in here…
…and I'll show you
where I found some jewelry.
-[Chamberlain] Okay. It's this shed?
-Yes, it is.
-This was my dad's garden shed.
-[Chamberlain] Okay.
[Tracy] Dale was very active at night.
I think he could have come in here,
run a light and…
-Yeah, no one would have known.
-No one would have ever known.
[Chamberlain] Well…
Do you believe
that we could find answers here
for more than just Amy's case?
I do. Because
we found jewelry but
it didn't belong to anybody here.
And we handed that over
to the FBI, too.
You found that in here
when you were digging?
-Not like up on a shelf in a can.
-Yeah, yeah.
[Chamberlain] Yeah. Oh, wow.
You know, serial killers usually keep
a piece of something.
Right. It's plausible that he could
have buried a victim right here.
Absolutely. And in my gut feeling is
that if he killed any other people,
they're probably buried.
[Chamberlain] So, there could be answers
for not just Amy,
but many other cases.
[Tracy] Many other cases.
I think maybe he puts bodies in places
that they're not gonna be found.
-Right.
-And I-I hope that they find her,
and I hope that she's returned
to her family.
[Chamberlain] Yeah.
[ominous music playing]
[line ringing]
[iPad chimes]
-Hey, Stephanie.
-Hi, Kara.
I've visited with family,
the investigators,
and I think
for the first time in 30 years,
investigators have
some real concrete leads.
Oh, amazing.
Steve's not ruled out, but her husband is
a lesser person of interest at this point.
But one of the things
that is new information that I got
from the law enforcement side of things is
that there was this guy,
and people believe that this guy
actually followed Amy and Steve
-to Lander and lived on the same street.
-[gasps]
As of right now, law enforcement is saying
that he is a person of interest.
That is not in any reports I've ever read.
So, they must really have
been keeping that under wraps.
They searched his house.
They won't say what they found,
but he showed up on the search for Amy
and signed in under a false name.
He also lied to the police
about his relationship with Amy
and Amy's family.
He did drive a truck
that could match the witness description
of the truck that was on Loop Road.
Wow, wow.
That's really big news.
It seems like the search was
highly concentrated
around where her car was.
If I was an investigator,
and I had that person of interest
that was stalking her,
I would look at any kind of hunting cabins
that he could be associated with,
any kind of smaller towns
or hiding places,
you know, a state away,
no one's looking over there.
Yeah.
And then I found this woman Tracy Sve.
Tracy lived fairly close to Lander, uh…
[chuckling] …by Wyoming standards anyway.
Her father became friends with Dale Eaton,
and Dale had a camper
that was actually on her family property
right there behind the home.
So she starts looking around,
and she finds a boot that belonged to Dale
with a receipt in it
that put him in the Lander area
around the time that Amy was missing.
It makes me wonder, could something
be buried on Tracy's property?
What's your biggest hope
for sharing Amy's story?
For me, it's obvious.
To find-- help find answers.
-Where is she? You know, what happened?
-[Joanne] What really happened? Yeah.
It would just be nice
to have the closure of that chapter.
[Nels] You know, I ask myself
a lot of questions around, you know.
"What do I want here?"
There's a significant part of me that is,
you know, I do want closure,
but then I'm really afraid of closure
because it might mean that we hear things
that we don't wanna hear.
Amy wouldn't give up on me ever.
That's why I'm not giving up on her,
and she's gone, but she's also inspiring.
She always had just that drive
and that determination.
[Nels] For those people watching from afar
or just fascinated by this case,
just remember: Live in the moment,
and love who you have around you.
[Joanne] Absolutely.
I miss everything about Amy.
Don't let them go.
-[Casey] Mm-hmm.
-Mm-hmm.
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[Chamberlain] When I think
about Amy's disappearance,
I feel like
there's still many possibilities.
There's the possibility
that someone intended to harm her,
that they planned this out.
And there's also the possibility
that she was a victim of opportunity.
In a small town, you really never know
what someone might be hiding.
I know that Amy's family would love
nothing more than to get answers
about what happened to Amy
and get some peace.
If you saw something on that mountain
the day that Amy disappeared,
or if you have any new information
about Amy's case,
please call the County Sheriff's Office.
For further discussion about Amy's case,
visit the Somebody Knows Something channel
on abcnews.com.
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