Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning

Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning

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Episodes 22
Avg. Duration 1h 37m
Activity Highly Active
Since May 2025
Latest Episode Apr 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Serial
Consistency
40%
Hosting
feed.podbean.com

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About This Podcast

Where the mountains remember everything—even the secrets buried in their shadows. Season by season, Rocky Mountain Reckoning takes you deep into the heart of the American West—uncovering the most haunting unsolved cases, from desolate canyons to forgotten ghost towns. Each season focuses on a different mystery rooted in the rugged terrain of the Rocky Mountain region. Season One: The Great Basin Serial Killer. A chilling string of Jane Doe cases across Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming suggests a pattern too precise to ignore. Are we looking at the work of a long-elusive serial killer? Or a tragic series of coincidences in some of the most isolated corners of the country? We dig into forensic evidence, FBI profiling, survivor stories, and possible suspects. In future seasons, we’ll tackle new cases—but always with the same depth, compassion, and determination to uncover the truth behind the silence of these mountains.

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Recent Episodes

Vicky Lynn Perkins: The Distance Between

Apr 03, 2026 31m

Somewhere between Portland, Oregon… and a remote stretch of desert off Interstate 70 in eastern Utah… a 19-year-old disappears into a gap no one has ever been able to explain. No confirmed route. No…

Without A Name In Wyoming

Mar 25, 2026 1h 13m

In the spring of 1992, two young women were discovered along the highways of Wyoming—one near Bitter Creek along Interstate 80, the other in a drainage ditch beside Interstate 90 near the Montana…

A Name, A Number, and a Silence

Mar 11, 2026 1h 4m

In 1990 and 1991, three women were found along the highways and desert corridors of the American West. One was discovered in sagebrush near West Wendover, Nevada — known only as Unidentified Person…

The Murder of Patricia and Douglas Zyskowski Part 3 - Faith on the Open Road: The Reckoning

Feb 26, 2026 1h 32m

In March 2012, more than two decades after Patricia “Candy” Walsh and Douglas Scott Zyskowski vanished while hitchhiking near El Paso, Texas, Robert Ben Rhoades stood in a small West Texas courtroom…

Faith on the Open Road: The Disappearance of Patricia Walsh and Douglas Scott Zyskowski – Part 1

Jan 29, 2026 1h 28m

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…

Lisa Marie Kimmell — Episode 7: Echoes of the Forgotten | Eaton’s Overturned Death Sentence, Unanswered Victims & The Legacy of “Lil Miss”

Dec 05, 2025 1h 29m Transcript

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…

Lisa Marie Kimmell 6: Judgment and Justice

Nov 18, 2025 1h 35m Transcript

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…

The Secret Graveyard: Unearthing the Truth Beneath Eaton’s Land

Nov 05, 2025 59m Transcript

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…

S1E13 Lisa Marie Kimmell Part 4: DNA and the Man in the Desert

Oct 27, 2025 1h 19m Transcript

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…

Lisa Marie Kimmell Part 3: A Cold Silence

Oct 03, 2025 1h 22m Transcript

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…

S1E11 Lisa Marie Kimmell Part 2: What the River Gave Back – The Discovery of Lisa

Sep 08, 2025 1h 47m Transcript

🕯️ 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.…

S1E10 The Lisa Marie Kimmell Case, Part 1 - Vanished on the Road to Cody

Sep 02, 2025 1h 1m Transcript

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…

S1E9 Model Dreams, Monster Road: The Murder of Janelle Johnson

Aug 16, 2025 1h 41m Transcript

In 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,…

Hitchhiked Into Oblivion: The Forgotten Death of Naomi Kidder

Aug 06, 2025 1h 2m Transcript

Naomi 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…

S1E7 Welcome to the Kill Zone: Serial Predators of the Great Basin

Jul 23, 2025 2h 3m

How 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…

Trailer – Rocky Mountain Reckoning: Crime in the Forgotten West

Jul 19, 2025 1m Trailer

In 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…

S1E6 Shadows at the Fairground: The Victims of Royal Russell Long

Jul 16, 2025 2h 41m

They 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…

S1E5 The Desert Didn’t Forget: The Murder of Tammy Terrell

Jul 10, 2025 2h

In 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…

S1E4 Ashes of Absence: The Thousand Springs Jane Doe

Jun 25, 2025 2h 44m

Buried 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…

S1E3 Crossroads and Canyons: The Devil’s Gate Mystery

Jun 19, 2025 2h 14m

A 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…

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Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning has published 22 episodes since May 2025, covering topics in Documentary, History.

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