Wearing black running shorts, Bechtel, a competitive long-distance runner, was believed to be going to the Shoshone National Forest to practice the course of a 10k run she’d be competing in later that year.Amy was never seen again.

The last capital punishment case in Wyoming that was carried out was that of Andrew Pixley in 1965, and the story of how he ended up sentenced to the gas chamber is a chilling true crime story in Wyoming history.

An FBI Cold Case unit would find that DNA from the suspect in both cases was an identical match and that both women were murdered by the same man.

Polly saw the boom as an opportunity, seeing the transient miners as vulnerable and thus, easy to exploit. Bartlett started an inn in South Pass, Wyoming’s most famous ghost town today, and when men would check in, often they wouldn’t check out.