Virginia Uden mystery solved – maybe some day we will learn about Amy Bechtel

After 33 years of one cold case and 16 years for the other, it has always been easy to believe that some unsolved disappearances will just never be explained.

In Lander, we have pondered about two gals who vanished. Virginia Uden and Amy Bechtel both disappeared and I wrote the news stories about them while I was the local newspaper editor.

Amy is still missing but the horrible fate of Virginia Uden and her two sons is now known.

Ironically, both women worked for me at my newspaper. It seemed odd to be writing these horrible stories about people you actually knew. It did make it easy to wri...