Alexandra Cohen is the lovely wife of hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen, known in the industry for running SAC Capital, one of the most successful hedge funds ever. She called in at the Camera Connection photo store at 2.30 pm after teaching her class and then stopped by a store called Gallery 331. Eaton stopped his off-green ‘85 Dodge van and offered them assistance and asked Shannon to drive. Mr. Bechtel and his wife, Betty, have a large family of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. In college, Bechtel was a competitive long distance runner, and hoped to try out for the 2000 Summer Olympics.. I can remember the race T-shirt for the Amy Bechtel Hill Climb vividly. Coward. For three days.”. 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. Then she leaves out the back door. She was wearing yellow or gold tank top, blue or black shorts, Adidas Trail Response sneakers, a Timex Ironman Triathalon watch and a small double wedding band on her left ring finger. Dewan told John Cena on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in April that Kazee got her into wrestling. 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. But she says there’s one person who does the same thing for her: Portia de Rossi, Ellen's wife of nearly 12 years. He touched many with his passion and creativity for making beautiful things, and his legacy lives on through his company and the many motivational thoughts he shared with the world. Steve also operates Climb Strong, the world s leading source on performance climbing information. Steve: Ellen and I started dating in the spring of 2004 and got married about five months later. Eaton then pulled a rifle from the back of the van, kidnapped the family at gunpoint, and directed them south of the highway into the desert. “In my mind, there is only one person that I want to talk to, only one person who has refused to talk to law enforcement,” he said, “and that’s her husband.”, Murdered by Dale Wayne Eaton, the Great Basin Serial Killer. It would be years before this would become a common sight. The story was featured on Unsolved Mysteries, The New York Times covered it, and Runner’s World went so far as to put Amy’s photo on its cover in January 1998 for a story by John Brant. But in 1997, to some, the climbers who now in many ways give the town its identity were aliens, transients who didn’t appear to have real jobs. Around 1 a.m., Steve Bechtel's friends find her car, a white Toyota Tercel wagon, parked on the Burnt Gulch Road turnoff in the mountains above Lander, where she reportedly was to go running. “I’m impressed with him,” Steve says of Zerga, “because he’s taking, for all intents and purposes, this cold case and he’s really working on it. She’s excited, talking about her forthcoming entries in the Sinks Canyon Photo Contest. Amy’s father, Duane, told a news source years later, “I still feel angry, because if he’s not guilty of anything, the son-of-a-bitch should take the lie-detector test and give us some peace.” Her brother, Nels, was especially angry at Steve’s reluctance to take the test and cooperate fully with investigators. The fact that there was no body, no real sign of violence even, made Steve the go-to target in the fog of mystery. The Disappearance of Amy Wroe Bechtel Case File Overview. 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?”. 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Steve Bechtel is a nutrition expert, performance coach, and personal trainer. I’ve been following his logical training progression, and wanted to know a few more details about the man since I’ve dedicated so much time to his training plan. Steve Jr. then moved from project to project around the United States and Canada with his wife, Betty, and their children. It means everything to you. The address on file for this person is 134 Lincoln Street, Lander, WY 82520 in Fremont County. He has made nearly 300 first ascents on 6 continents and has been to the top of some of the world's hardest big wall climbs. The run was to be a steep, steady, warm, and dusty climb up the gravel switchbacks of the Loop Road that ended at Frye Lake, where divers had searched for a body. She knows as well as anybody the story of Amy.”. So what’s really fascinating and really sad was they were so cycloptically focused on ‘Let’s see if we can nail the husband,’ that they missed a lot.”, Steve estimates he hasn’t talked to his attorney, Kent Spence, in 10 years. Investigators determined that Eaton had kidnapped Lisa at a remote rest area in Waltman, then held her captive in a converted school bus and repeatedly raped her before murdering her. Steve, in conversation as on the page, was a cocky, wisecracking, superfit slam dunk. He was allowed to continue work on welding and construction jobs whilst in a half-way house due to prison overcrowding. He still refused to take the polygraph, and many people in town continued to believe he was responsible for Amy’s disappearance. You get here—this was a big error—we’re looking for a missing runner. “And they had good reason. Richard Eaton knew that Dale had been camping in the Burnt Gulch area at the time of Amy Bechtel’s disappearance, at an average elevation 7,860 feet, where she was marking her 10K running route, and coincidentally this was a favorite elk hunting and trout fishing spot of the Eaton brothers. It wasn’t long before Eaton was arrested, and he quickly confessed to the attempted kidnapping. The whole situation with Steve not being cooperative, that really caused frustration for the family.”. 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. He'd been using the car as a septic tank. “Nowadays, everything is viewed as a homicide. Maybe it was 2 o’clock. His wife, Marjorie has two children of her own. Amy also waited tables at the Sweetwater Grill and taught a youth weight-lifting class at Wind River Fitness Centre They had recently bought a house in Lander and planned to move in during the coming weeks. “She was so cool, Jon. Erdenetuya Batsukh, Actress: General Commander. A prominent New York attorney and his wife were killed in a plane crash in Genesee County on Friday afternoon. “What happened with these guys was that they decided what they wanted the answer to be and then tried to build the story around it.”. People Projects Discussions Surnames Genealogy for John Bechtel (Bealer) Wingard (1812 - 1875) family tree on Geni, with over 200 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. They found nothing. A confession by Eaton may resolve not just Amy’s case but numerous other cold-case mysteries swirling in the abyss of the Great Basin. They’d climbed throughout the West and in Asia, but just a year earlier, on a trip with Amy to Australia, the men were not getting along, and Lightner flew home early. Nearly two decades later, however, it appears that there were hardly enough facts to merit such an intense focus on Steve. Steve is also a well-known adventure rock climber. “Here’s the whole problem,” says Fremont County Patrol Sergeant John Zerga, who was assigned Amy’s cold case file in 2010 and remains the lead detective today. A plea bargain deal for the attempted kidnapping of the Breeden family meant Eaton would serve just 99 days in jail. We have started to train almost more climbers than normal people, which is really … She sits down to make her list. Amy’s not home for dinner. Her conversation with the owner, Greg Wagner, was the last confirmed sighting of Amy. Ellen DeGeneres hit it big as a stand-up comedian before starring on her own sitcom, Ellen. 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. One tip came from a man named Richard Eaton, who told investigators that his itinerant stumblebum of a brother, Dale Wayne Eaton, may have been involved. But Dale refused to speak with Zerga. “He and I haven’t talked in more than 15 years.” Steve talks about being interviewed by the FBI. He had been, after all, the one manning the phones and computers at the recovery center in his and Amy’s garage and kitchen, responding to leads that poured in from all over the country, none fruitful. In a scene straight out of a B-grade ‘70s chase movie, Shannon stepped on the gas 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. As was Steve, who by this time had come under intense scrutiny from investigators and a sizable segment of the Wyoming public as the number-one suspect in the case. I hope she didn’t break her ankle, I hope she didn’t run out of gas, those normal things where you’re like, this sucks. He has made nearly 300 first ascents on 6 continents and has been to the top of some of the world’s hardest big wall climbs. PASADENA, : Ellen DeGeneres (C), a nominee for an Emmy in the category of Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in 'Ellen,' stands with her mother (R) … Claim this Obituary. Eight days later, two fishermen found her body tangled in the weeds along the North Platte River near Casper, and an autopsy showed that she had been repeatedly raped, bludgeoned, and methodically stabbed. Detectives interrogated Steve on August 1, 1997, falsely claiming to have evidence proving he had murdered his wife. View guestbook. He had that type of capability. 4. He remembers the woman running uphill. By not pursuing the lead, they may have allowed the notorious Great Basin Serial Killer to get away. “We didn’t close off any routes out of here,” Zerga continues. You know what, let’s do the polygraph. He graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1995 with a degree in Exercise Physiology. We actually ruined it with the vehicle, because we allowed the Skinners to drive it home. Glenn Bechtel passed away 2013-10-28 in This is the full obituary story where you can express condolences and share memories. Eventually, Steve had Amy declared legally dead, and in 2004 he married Ellen Sissman, with whom he now has two children. Stephen Davison Bechtel Jr. (born May 10, 1925) is an American billionaire businessman, civil engineer, and co-owner of the Bechtel Corporation, with his son Riley.He is the son of Stephen Davison Bechtel Sr. and grandson of Warren A. Bechtel who founded the Bechtel Corporation. It's possible that Amy fell during her run or was attacked by wild animals whilst in the wilderness. The Bechtels were tenants of the neighbors who would eventually find Amy’s abandoned car, Todd Skinner and Amy Whisler. I brought sleeping bags and a cookstove and food—first-aid kit—we gotta find her. “To me, once Richard said Dale was there when she went missing—and he has those capabilities—immediately that went up on top.”. We raced up here. Police finally spotted his van more than a month later on a short dead-end spur road near Dubois in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The two had the appearance of happy young newlyweds. If he sees her on his way down, he’ll offer a ride. The next day horses and helicopters joined in, and by the third day, the search area had been expanded to a 30-mile radius—a big wheel of rough country. “We thought it was what we’d been looking for for a long time.” They sifted through every ounce of dirt in the hole and found only a single bread tie. And she still needs to design the fliers, plan for the road closure, measure the course…. That raised suspicions with many of the townies, fueled by frustrated questions in the newspapers posed by law enforcement and Amy’s family. “Just hiring those guys was controversial. You might recognize her from her recurring role on The Office as Carol Stills, Michael's realtor who first appeared in Season 2. The fact that they had no log showing that Steve phoned the hospital when he said he did. Steve Bechtel left Lander for Utah after Amy disappeared. Great job on the podcast and map. Everybody was crawling through that car. She was just a missing runner. Why perhaps at least nine other young women never came home. He remained Wyoming’s lone death row inmate until November 2014, when a U.S. district judge overturned his death sentence on similar grounds—though Eaton will never be released from prison, where he is serving a life sentence, plus 50 years. The narrative bent toward Steve. But the way polygraphs are, if you really wanted to rule yourself out, you’d take one.”, “This is a whole different generation,” Steve, now 46, says. When her sisters, Casey Lee and Jenny Newton, appeared on The Geraldo Rivera Show on February 3, 1998, the host made a plea for Steve to be more cooperative with authorities. Ellen and her wife Portia currently don’t have any children. He has been instrumental in developing climbing around the Lander area from the 1990s to present day. Genealogy profile for George Bechtel George Bechtel (1811 - 1866) - Genealogy Genealogy for George Bechtel (1811 - 1866) family tree on Geni, with over 200 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. But the investigators ignored the information as they were focused on Steve Bechtel at the time. “That’s exactly what attorneys do—the first thing they do is say, ‘Don’t take the polygraph.’ To me, I can understand it in a sense. The mysterious disappearance of Esther Dingley in the Pyrenees Mountains. Glenn E. Bechtel . Amy’s white Toyota Tercel wagon is parked by the side of the road where the Loop Road splinters out to the smaller, pine-shrouded Burnt Gulch turnoff. A large color photograph of smiling, blond-haired Amy had been hastily screen-printed on the front, along with the words HAVE YOU SEEN AMY? Burnt Gulch, average elevation 7,860 feet, is not far from where Amy was marking her 10K route, and was a favorite elk hunting and trout fishing spot of the Eaton brothers. Perhaps, in this age of ubiquitous information, people have grown increasingly intrigued by the questions that remain unanswered. The mysterious disappearance and death of Zigmund Adamski - murder or Alien abduction? He shows me the garage, where he and friends ran the recovery effort. Meanwhile, Steve, authorities, Amy’s family and friends—America—will rewind the clock on that single day, patching together hazy eyewitness accounts and scarce facts in hopes of uncovering what happened to the runner who never came home. Astonishingly, a plea deal for the attempted kidnapping meant Eaton would serve just 99 days in jail, where samples of his DNA were taken, before being paroled to a halfway house in Casper due to prison overcrowding. Bechtel Awarded $104M Modification to US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program Support Contract. The next day horses and helicopters joined in, and by the third day, the search area had been expanded to a 30-mile radius. “I don’t need people to be looking at Eaton,” he says. and a phone number: 1-800-867-5AMY. Additional Filming & Thanks To: Brian Hensien, Graham Kolb, Sophia Kim, Evan Horn, Jesse Brown. Steve Bechtel remained the prime “person of interest” in Amy’s disappearance for many years. 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