In early 1990, Patricia “Candy” Candace Walsh and Douglas Scott Zyskowski were a young married couple traveling across the United States with a shared sense of purpose. As devoted members of an evangelical church in Seattle, they believed their journey itself was a form of ministry — hitchhiking from state to state to share their faith with those they met along the way.

After a final phone call from El Paso, Texas, the couple vanished.

Months later, their bodies were discovered in two different states: Douglas in rural Sutton County, Texas, and Patricia in Millard County, Utah. At the time, investigators had no reason to believe the cases were connected. Different jurisdictions. Different landscapes. One victim unidentified. No shared investigative framework.

This episode of Rocky Mountain Reckoning returns listeners to a different era — 1990, before cell phones, GPS, NamUs, or integrated national databases. It is a time when the world felt larger, movement was freer, and the distance between answers could stretch for years.

Episode One focuses on:

• The couple’s documented missionary journey and method of travel
• The discovery of their remains in separate states
• The geographic and jurisdictional barriers that delayed investigative linkage
• How forensic identification unfolded over more than a decade
• Why these crimes initially appeared unrelated

This episode does not center on a suspect or arrest. Instead, it establishes the world these victims lived in — and the limitations investigators faced at the time.

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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 evaluations.
• Rumors and suspicions of Eaton’s involvement in other Great Basin disappearances — and why investigators, advocates, and we believe he was almost certainly a serial predator.
• The lasting impact of the “Lil Miss” case, including forensic breakthroughs, policy shifts, investigative reform, and the unwavering strength of the Kimmell family.
• A final tribute to Lisa, honoring the life that became a catalyst for justice, science, and—personally—John’s lifelong commitment to true crime advocacy and the birth of Dark Dialogue.

This episode closes one of Wyoming’s most defining cases… and opens the door to the next.

Next on Rocky Mountain Reckoning: The 1989 disappearance of Kathleen Hazel Pehringer of Riverton, Wyoming — a robe left behind, a car still in the driveway, and a case that has haunted Fremont County for more than 35 years.

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Sixteen 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 historic Natrona County Courthouse — where Lisa’s voice echoed once more after sixteen years of silence.

We examine the DNA breakthroughs, the psychological unraveling of Eaton’s defense, the rare death sentence handed down by a Wyoming jury, and the extraordinary civil judgment that gave Lisa’s family ownership of the very land where her car was buried. What they did with that land — and why — became one of the most powerful acts of reclamation in true-crime history.

This is justice, Wyoming-style: unflinching, human, and long overdue.

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In 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 of Sheila Kimmell’s unbreakable advocacy, this episode chronicles how truth can survive even when it’s buried in silence and dust.

You’ll walk the property, feel the tension of the dig, and stand in the quiet moment when the earth itself gave up its secret. Because sometimes justice doesn’t speak — it rises.

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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 finally spoke for Lisa. This episode uncovers how Eaton’s violent past, his near-fatal 1997 kidnapping of a Michigan family, and his drifter existence all converged to expose a killer hiding in plain sight.

With cinematic storytelling and investigative precision, Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning brings you inside the case that proved justice can rise from silence — and that sometimes, survival itself is the key to solving a murder.

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Silence 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 left on Lisa’s grave that haunted her family for years—later tied directly to the man who murdered her.

• The emotional toll: how birthdays, holidays, and long nights of waiting wore on Lisa’s parents, sisters, and community.

• The broader pattern: a chilling reminder that Lisa was not the only woman to vanish across the highways and plains of the American West.

This is the story of frustration, silence, and resilience—the fight of a family who refused to let Lisa be forgotten, even when the system faltered.

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🕯️ 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 media storm that swept through Wyoming and Montana, changing public fear forever

• The critical investigative failures that let a killer walk free for 14 years

• The family’s courage in demanding answers when no one else could deliver them

💔 Lisa’s story wasn’t just a headline. It was a reckoning. And in this episode, we begin to understand what the river gave back—and what it couldn’t wash away.

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What 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. This episode takes you deep into her early life in Montana, her move to Colorado with her mother, the final drive she planned—and the tragic silence that followed.

Hosts John and Angela peel back the layers of this real-life mystery, exposing how jurisdictional gaps, vast Western landscapes, and lost hours contributed to one of the most baffling disappearances of the 1980s.

🎧 Tune in as we retrace her final moments, explore what was known and what was missed, and pay tribute to a life interrupted far too soon.

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