Amy Wroe Bechtel

This morning when Jennifer woke me up to ask to borrow a hair clip and I couldn't go back to sleep, I sat and wrote an entry by hand that I was planning on typing this evening and sharing. However, current events back home in Wyoming have left me thinking a great deal today. I feel that it would be a better thing to share what I have been thinking about today, than to complain about the things that Johnny has been doing that drive me nuts still.

This summer there have been fires back home in Wyoming, close to my home town of Lander. A recent discovery had been made in one of the burn areas that could be coincidence or the solution to a mystery that began in July of 1997.

This is the link to an article that appeared in Outside Magazine in March of 1998.

It is a fairly long article but interesting. You can learn about the community I was raised in and about the disappearence of a young woman.

That being said, in an area that has recently been ablaze a pair of running shoes and bone fragments were found. How much of that last statement is correct I am not sure, I was unable to find an information on the article online. What I am saying is coming from my parents of which only one actually read the article in the local paper. I know there were running shoes and bones.

My hometown is going a little crazy again I guess with all the spectualtion. I need to call my mom and ask her to send the paper up here so we can read it for ourselves.

My mom is up-in-arms because nothing was found earlier. If you read the article that I linked above you may remember the name of the officer who was the head of the search Deputy David King. My mom feels that if those are Amy's shoes it is his fault that the evidence wasn't found earlier.

If you have any knowledge of Wyoming/Fremont County news of the last few years you would know that Deputy King became our Sheriff and was then charged with stealing Cocaine from the evidence locker for his personal use.

My mom feels that he was drugged up during the the search efforts and that is why nothing was found and why the area in question was not searched all those years ago.

Last night while I was on the phone with my dad I got a run down of all the names of these places and exactly how Amy could have ended up where the shoes and bones were found. What I don't see is why she would take off running on her own into areas of rough terrain, filled with rattlesnakes and mountain lions. She was a small woman a mountain lion could have drug her for quite some distance.

Jennifer needs a ride home from work so I must go. I may come back and finish this if I get the chance, if not I am sorry I left you hanging.

added at 11:56 on 09.08.02

When I talked to my mom the other day to ask her to send the newspaper article she told me that one of her co-workers had heard that the bones were just deer bones. My mom isn't so convinced that they are Amy's anymore. We will have to see what else shows up in the newspaper.