Search of Bechtel's residence revels no clues to her disappearance.

    LANDER – Fremont County Sheriff Larry Mathews says a search of the home of a woman missing since she went jogging in late July has revealed nothing incriminating.

    The sheriff he isn’t surprised the search of the home Amy Bechtel shares with her husband Steve yielded little to help in the search for Bechtel. He says much of the evidence collected was taken only in case it has to be used to help identify a body.

    The 25 year old Bechtel disappeared July 24 after leaving home to go jogging in the Loop Road area.

    Two weeks ago investigators searched her home and the pickup truck of her husband. Steve Bechtel has stopped answering questions from authorities on the advice of his attorney, Kent Spence of Jackson, and has refused to take a polygraph test. The results of such tests are not admissible in court and Spence’s law firm has a blanket policy against allowing clients to submit to the tests, Mathews said.

    But Mathews added the tests are used around the world by law enforcement agencies. “It’s not like it’s voodoo or a witch hunt or something like that,” he said.

    Hundreds of searchers spent more than a week on foot and in the air searching the Loop Road for signs of Bechtel, a marathon runner.

    The search became a criminal investigation after authorities failed to find any sign of the woman.