Amy Wroe Bechtel, Loop Road
A 24-year-old runner vanished on 24 July 1997 while checking a race course on the Loop Road above Lander, Wyoming; her car was found at Burnt Gulch.
1997 CE · 42.69, -108.87 · status: unexplained
The account
Amy Bechtel, a competitive runner and climber, was last confirmed in Lander that afternoon before driving into the Shoshone National Forest to plan a 10 km race. Her car was found in the early hours with her keys inside. Large searches of the mountains found nothing. Her husband was questioned early in the investigation; the Fremont County Sheriff has named a convicted murderer as a person of interest, without charges. She was declared legally dead in 2004.
The sceptical view
Investigators treat it as a probable crime; it appears in wilderness lists only because it happened on a forest road.