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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Thursday, October 23nd. Bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily news center, I'm Mac Watson. "Brought to you by the Wyoming Business Council. Wyoming youth are our future, but they're leaving the state at ALMOST TWICE the national average. What would bring them back home? Share your bold ideas with the Wyoming Business Council at wbc dot P U B forward slash story."

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A Wyoming woman who once housed killer Dale Wayne Eaton believes her family's Natrona County property may hold clues to the 28-year-old case of missing runner Amy Wroe Bechtel. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that the woman hopes police will bring cadaver dogs to search an old cabin there.

"Amy Wroe Bechtel went missing in 1997. She was a 24-year-old Olympic hopeful. She went running in the Shoshone forest and vanished, never to be seen again. One of the ladies I talked to mentioned that her sister owned a property where Dale Eaton had lived when Amy went missing and her sister had or her aunt. Rather, it was her aunt and her aunt, Tracy had been trying to get somebody out there with cadaver dogs to, explore that property, because she believes Dale Eaton may have buried somebody there…because he was living there. Dale knew her father. They were friends. They played cards together, you know, just he was a friend of the family, and they never could have imagined that anything like this was going on. But evidently, Dale had some dark secrets."

While the initial investigation into Amy's disappearance focused on her husband Steve, investigators eventually came to believe Eaton might have been involved, particularly after Eaton was found guilty in 2004 of murdering Lisa Marie Kimmel, a woman who disappeared while traveling from Denver to her family's home in Billings, Montana, in 1988.

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The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is now working closely with the FBI to investigate a suspected improvised explosive device discovered Tuesday morning outside the state Capitol. Cowboy State Daily's Jackson Walker reports what exactly was found at the capitol and how investigators are looking for a person or persons of interest.

"DCI commander Ryan Cox told Cowboy State daily that the item was likely not something a consumer could buy in a fireworks store, adding that this was something that they likely created on their own to cause a disruption at the Capitol…DCI, at this time, has identified two subjects of interest, which they believe may be connected to the incident, and they are working on reaching out to those individuals. Currently, the FBI is also involved in this investigation and is helping."

Cox tells Cowboy State Daily that authorities are investigating the incident as though the firework was placed there with malicious intent, describing the device as being cylindrical with no base, and less than a foot in length. If you have any information about this case, you're asked to call the FBI.

Read the full story HERE.

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The four-year war over a tipi retreat campground in Hot Springs County has escalated to the state's highest office. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports why seven county residents are asking Governor Mark Gordon to remove two-thirds of the Hot Springs County Commission from office.

"The claim is basically that the commissioners, that those two commissioners tried to go around a judge's order in order to accommodate the teepee retreat, which has been, you know, just was fraught with struggles,