Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning

🚨 On a desolate stretch of rural Nevada highway in the spring of 1972, the body of a young woman was discovered beneath a barbed wire fence in Starr Valley. She had been brutally murdered and left in the dust—no ID, no name, and no justice. Over fifty years later, the world still knows her only as Starr Valley Jane Doe.

In this haunting episode of Dark Dialogue, John and Angela retrace the steps of investigators, unravel potential...

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 Angela investigate the tragic and unresolved case of Devil’s Gate Jane Doe—a young woman found murdered and partially burned in a remote canyon near Elko, Nevada, in 1978. She had no ID, no missing persons report to match, and no justice.

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 erased?

In this gripping episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning, we delve into the haunting 1974 discovery of the Thousand Springs Jane Doe, a burned body found in a lava rock alcove outside Elko County. With no skull, no teet...

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 grave marker that read “Jane Doe.” Her name was Tammy Corrine Terrell.

In this gripping episode of Dark Dialogue, we unravel the heartbreaking case of Tammy—how she left Roswell, New Mexico in search of something better, only to be silen...

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 Russell Long and center the lives stolen, the voices silenced, and the trails that vanished under carnival lights and diesel exhaust.

We examine the known and suspected victims connected to Long’s cross-country movements—from 12-year-o...

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 heard of—serial killers in plain sight, unsolved murders in forgotten counties, and missing persons left behind by broken systems.

From Wyoming to Nevada, we explore what justice looks like when the wilderness hides the truth.

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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 regular format on pause and turn their full attention to the monsters who stalked the Great Basin from the 1960s to the early 2000s. With names like Bundy, Long, Rhoades, Hall, Baldwin, and the Gallegos, this episode peels back the brutal t...

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 behind a baby daughter, a devastated family, and a trail of silence that lasted over a decade.

In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning, we unravel the heartbreaking story of Naomi Kidder—who vanished after hitchhiking out ...

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, planned her return—and vanished.

Two weeks later, her body was discovered on a desolate stretch of Muskrat Creek Road near Shoshoni. She had been brutally assaulted, strangled, and left in a shallow grave. The forensic evidence that could hav...

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 ...

🕯️ 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 w...

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 dea...