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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