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Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningLisa 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 Eaton’s initial death sentence to the 2014 federal ruling that overturned it, the failed attempts to seek capital resentencing, and the final 2022 judgment that ensured he will die behind bars.
We break down:
How Eaton’s death sentence fell apart through years of appeals, constitutional hearings, and mental competency eva...
2025-12-051h 29
Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningLisa Marie Kimmell 6: Judgment and JusticeSixteen 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 Kimmell, known to millions by her car’s haunting license plate: LIL MISS.
From the emotionally charged jury selection to the forensic testimony that sealed his fate, this episode retraces each day of a landmark capital trial. Hear how science, law, and the unwavering resolve of a family collided inside Casper’s histor...
2025-11-181h 35
Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningThe Secret Graveyard: Unearthing the Truth Beneath Eaton’s LandIn 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 Kimmell’s black Honda CRX — buried six feet beneath the dirt, still marked with the plate the world had been searching for: LIL MISS.
What investigators found beneath that earth rewrote a fifteen-year mystery. From the chilling excavation to the forensic science that proved Eaton’s guilt, to the strength...
2025-11-0559 minDark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningLisa 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 predator who had stalked its plains for decades.
From the quiet hum of the crime lab to the empty desert where a family once fought for their lives, John and Angela retrace the chain of events that turned a forgotten rape kit into the voice that...
2025-10-271h 19
Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningLisa Marie Kimmell Part 3: A Cold SilenceSilence 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 lived with grief and questions while investigators faced false leads, dead ends, and mounting frustration.
You’ll hear about:
The dead-end years (1988–2002): false confessions, cult rumors, and missed opportunities that let Lisa’s killer walk free.
The Stringfellow Hawke letter: a cryptic note lef...
2025-10-031h 22
Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningLisa 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 the horror of what was done to her—and the haunting silence that followed.
We unpack:
The forensic evidence recovered in 1988—and what it couldn’t yet reveal
The iconic “LIL MISS” license plate that became a symbol of both heartbreak and hope
The...
2025-09-091h 47
Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningThe Lisa Marie Kimmell Case, Part 1 - Vanished on the Road to CodyWhat 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 job in Aurora, Colorado, and set off for a weekend road trip north. She never made it.
With no signs of a crash, no frantic calls, and only a fleeting last sighting by a Wyoming Highway Patrol officer, Lisa’s disappearance stunned investigators and devastated her family. Th...
2025-09-021h 01
Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningModel Dreams, Monster Road: The Murder of Janelle JohnsonIn 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 Muskrat Creek Road near Shoshoni. She had been brutally assaulted, strangled, and left in a shallow grave. The forensic evidence that could have identified her killer was collected—then destroyed in a failed police refrigerator. Forty years later, her case remains unsolved.
In this episode of Dark Dial...
2025-08-161h 41
Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningHitchhiked Into Oblivion: The Forgotten Death of Naomi KidderNaomi 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 episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning, we unravel the heartbreaking story of Naomi Kidder—who vanished after hitchhiking out of Rawlins and was later found strangled with barbed wire in a remote patch of Natrona County. For 12 years, she was a Jane Doe. Her...
2025-08-061h 02
Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningWelcome to the Kill Zone: Serial Predators of the Great BasinHow 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 the 1960s to the early 2000s. With names like Bundy, Long, Rhoades, Hall, Baldwin, and the Gallegos, this episode peels back the brutal truth of just how many sadistic killers were prowling the very same highways, truck stops, and rural corridors — often at the same damn ti...
2025-07-232h 03Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningTrailer – Rocky Mountain Reckoning: Crime in the Forgotten WestIn 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 left behind by broken systems.
From Wyoming to Nevada, we explore what justice looks like when the wilderness hides the truth.
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2025-07-1901 minDark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningShadows at the Fairground: The Victims of Royal Russell LongThey 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 carnival lights and diesel exhaust.
We examine the known and suspected victims connected to Long’s cross-country movements—from 12-year-old Sharon Baldeagle, a Lakota girl who accepted a ride and was never seen again, to Lisa Kimmell, the young woman whose personalized license plate became a haunti...
2025-07-162h 41Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningThe Desert Didn’t Forget: The Murder of Tammy TerrellIn 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 Dark Dialogue, we unravel the heartbreaking case of Tammy—how she left Roswell, New Mexico in search of something better, only to be silenced in the desert outside Henderson. We dive deep into her movements before death, the suspects last seen with her at a Carson Ci...
2025-07-102h 00
Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningAshes of Absence: The Thousand Springs Jane DoeBuried 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 haunting 1974 discovery of the Thousand Springs Jane Doe, a burned body found in a lava rock alcove outside Elko County. With no skull, no teeth, and no match in missing persons databases, she became one of the West’s most tragic and overlooked mysteries.
Through forensic...
2025-06-252h 44Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningCrossroads and Canyons: The Devil’s Gate MysteryA 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 murdered and partially burned in a remote canyon near Elko, Nevada, in 1978. She had no ID, no missing persons report to match, and no justice.
Could she have been a hitchhiker? A local runaway? A forgotten victim of a serial killer operating in the shadows of the...
2025-06-202h 14Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningDesert 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 as Starr Valley Jane Doe.
In this haunting episode of Dark Dialogue, John and Angela retrace the steps of investigators, unravel potential links to long-haul truckers, serial offenders, and overlooked clues from the early ‘70s. Was she a runaway? A hitchhiker? Or another...
2025-06-062h 54Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain ReckoningUnveiling the Rockies' Shadows: The Great Basin KillingsDark 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 desolate highways from the 1970s to 2000. Unlike Dark Dialogue’s national, victim-centric storytelling, Reckoning dives deep into forensics, investigative failures, and regional darkness with a gritty, multi-episode format. Hosted by Wyoming natives John and Angela, this podcast exposes sheriffs’ blunders, leverages DNA tech, and rallies listeners to name Jane Does and cage killers...
2025-05-291h 28