CO Grand Junction - Human remains found in freezer - 12 Jan 2024 (Amanda Leariel Overstreet)

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I'm also leaning towards Leanne being Amanda's biological mother and Nelda being her adoptive mother/biological grandmother. Grandparents legally adopt their grandkids all the time, for a variety of reasons.

I wonder if Nelda was in poor health before she passed and Amanda was sent to live with Leanne due to that. Nelda had lived in Texas since 1988 according to her obituary, so it seems unlikely she owned the house in Colorado. Nelda and her husband may have not been aware of Amanda's disappearance to begin with.

Of course, this is all speculation.
 
iamshadow21 said:
Head and hands removed suggests they dumped her somewhere else and they were trying to conceal identity.

But the description of the property as being a "hoarder" situation makes me wonder if she's still on the property somewhere.

MOO
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I'd be surprised if she's on the property. The house was flipped by the intermediate owners and sold in March of this year.

I also think Nelda is the grandmother of our victim, Amanda, and that Amanda's daughter Leanne is the mother. I base that on this "Find a Grave" entry: Nelda Ann Owings Overstreet (1945-2005) - Find a...

ETA: Lots of info in the Daily Fail: Colorado teen whose severed head was found in freezer is identified
According to the DM, the deceased Bradley Imer is the stepfather of the victim.
 
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Amanda's story is getting picked up by national news outlets:
www.eonline.com

Amanda Overstreet Case: Teen Girl’s Remains Found in Freezer After 2005 Disappearance - E! Online

Amanda Overstreet was identified by the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office as the victim whose head and hands were discovered in a freezer in January. She had been missing since 2005.
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www.khou.com

Body parts found in Colorado freezer identified as Harris County teen who hadn't been seen since 2005

Investigators said the body parts belonged to 16-year-old Amanda Overstreet, who was last seen alive in 2005.
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www.huffpost.com

Teen Girl’s Dismembered Remains Found In Freezer Left Behind By Home’s Previous Owner

DNA testing identified the girl as Amanda Overstreet, who was last seen in 2005 when she was 16, authorities in Colorado said.
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Swirlz said:
Authorities in Colorado have identified recently sold remains that were found stored in a freezer nearly ten months ago.

The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office said the grim discovery was made shortly after a home in Grand Junction had been sold in January.

According to deputies, the remains of a human head and set of hands were found by someone who arrived to claim the freezer, which was being offered for free by the new owner of the recently sold property.

Investigators have confirmed the remains belong to Amanda Leariel Overstreet, a girl who had not been heard from since April 2005.

They estimate she was around 16 years old at the time of her disappearance.

“I mean, she was a child. She was 16 years old. She was still a child,” Wendy Likes, information and communications manager for the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office, said.

According to the sheriff’s office, Overstreet was the biological daughter of the previous owner of the property where her remains were found.

Neighbor Jameson Perez said there was a foul smell coming from the house when he would walk by. He also shared that the last time he saw the little girl was when she was on her way to school.

Police records indicate Overstreet was never reported missing.

The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office is continuing its investigation.
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Amanda was never reported missing. :'( I hope she didn't suffer through years of abuse.

Rest in peace Amanda. I wish the world had known more about you. I'm sorry your life ended in tragedy.
 
Lore Listener said:
I'd be surprised if she's on the property. The house was flipped by the intermediate owners and sold in March of this year.

I also think Nelda is the grandmother of our victim, Amanda, and that Amanda's daughter Leanne is the mother. I base that on this "Find a Grave" entry: Nelda Ann Owings Overstreet (1945-2005) - Find a...

ETA: Lots of info in the Daily Fail: Colorado teen whose severed head was found in freezer is identified
According to the DM, the deceased Bradley Imer is the stepfather of the victim.
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It's entirely possible that the rest of Amanda's body was left in Texas, horrible as that sounds. She disappeared in 2005, the Imers bought the house in Grand Junction in May of 2006. She may not have been missed in Colorado because she was never alive in Colorado.
 
I found a free genealogy page that's just a list of data it pulled from public records. There's an entry for Leanne M Overstreet (born about 1969) having married August 1, 1988 in Harris County TX and then again on Feb 14 1993 in Hardin County TX. There's also an entry for Leanne and her first husband divorcing in 1992. That entry states that they had one child under 18.

Every family obituary I turn up, though, lists Amanda Overstreet in the same generation as Leanne Imer (both children, both grandchildren, etc.)
 
About to photobomb y'all with screen shots from the Harris County Municipal Court records. Interestingly I found this by searching Nelda's name. Leanne did not pop up at all when I searched with her maiden name.

So I guess this would be divorce #1?

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Beginning of child support payments. Looks like Leanne was the one making the Child Support payments to her ex hubby.

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hmmm.... "9/16/93 - grandparents conservator" ??? Could this be referring to Amanda?

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Couple of references in this to CPS (child protective services), and there was an order signed terminating SOMEONE'S parent child relationship in 1998. There is another page of judgements on the website prior to these but none of them appear to reference a minor child.

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Oh and this last one looks useful.

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Ryan1271 said:
It's entirely possible that the rest of Amanda's body was left in Texas, horrible as that sounds. She disappeared in 2005, the Imers bought the house in Grand Junction in May of 2006. She may not have been missed in Colorado because she was never alive in Colorado.
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Where did the Imers buy the freezer, in TX or in CO?
 
Exactly why have there been no arrests? So the rest of the body was dumped as it couldn’t be traced without head or hands. What would any defence be to the body parts in your freezer for 19 years. Oh we didn’t notice? They must have fallen in there? The cat brought them in? Bizarre!
Was this poor girl unwanted and replaced by the new family ?
Absolutely awful
Jmo

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Grandmother of Amanda, died in 2005. Amanda referenced in obit as her DAUGHTER. The grand childdren are listed separately, and Amanda is not in that grouping.
However, I believe Leanne is the actual bio mother. moo moo moo

www.findagrave.com

Nelda Ann Owings Overstreet (1945-2005) - Find a...

Nelda Ann, of Kountze, passed away Wednesday at her residence. Born in Arkansas, to Sam and Juanita Owings, Nelda graduated from Kountze High School in 1963 and has been back in the Kountze area since 1988. She was a math teacher who retired after thirty two years of service to Channelview...
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CNN online October 12, 2024 article by Zoe Sottile entitled ‘Body parts found in Colorado freezer identified as 16-year-old girl, missing since 2005’:


Quoting from that article:

“Overstreet, believed to be “approximately 16 years old at the time of her disappearance,” had not been “seen or heard from since April 2005,” according to the sheriff’s office. She was the daughter of the home’s previous owner.

There is no evidence Overstreet was ever reported missing, and the “circumstances surrounding her disappearance remain under investigation,” the sheriff’s office said.”

And the article also states:

“One neighbor recalled seeing Overstreet walk to school before her disappearance, according to CNN affiliate KJCT.”

Good to see some additional national focus on the story. There was also some information on FB sources IIUC that some former classmates were intending to go through school year books for pictures. Hope that will prove fruitful and help with other possible timelines in this case. MOO
 
I am not Sherlock H. said:
CNN online October 12, 2024 article by Zoe Sottile entitled ‘Body parts found in Colorado freezer identified as 16-year-old girl, missing since 2005’:


Quoting from that article:

“Overstreet, believed to be “approximately 16 years old at the time of her disappearance,” had not been “seen or heard from since April 2005,” according to the sheriff’s office. She was the daughter of the home’s previous owner.

There is no evidence Overstreet was ever reported missing, and the “circumstances surrounding her disappearance remain under investigation,” the sheriff’s office said.”

And the article also states:

“One neighbor recalled seeing Overstreet walk to school before her disappearance, according to CNN affiliate KJCT.”

Good to see some additional national focus on the story. There was also some information on FB sources IIUC that some former classmates were intending to go through school year books for pictures. Hope that will prove fruitful and help with other possible timelines in this case. MOO
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April. That's months before the death of Nelda in July.
 
And a third photo of Amanda
Gosh this case is crazy, the comments in fb are quite interesti g…

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Source. FamilySearch.org


So to summarise, and apologies if I get sth wrong as trying to catch up, Amanda was born in Harris TX on 04 Mar 1989 from L.M.Owho was 21. The bio dad is unknown. The grandparents N.A.O.O and J.F.O adopted her as theirs and raised her. They married in 1965 and had only 1 bio child born in 1968, L.M.O.I.
The O family is Texas based. I suppose Amanda grew up in Texas, Kountze. It is not clear when N.A.O.O fell sick, but Amanda must have moved to CO to her bio mum because of this.
Maybe N and J moved temporarily to CO to get help.
Amanda went missing sometime in April 2005, N. died in July 2005. We do not know where, but maybe in TX not CO.
There are some traces of an Amanda Overtsreet in Kountze as far as 2007, even though the transcript records have different dob (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6YD8-CGK3, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJT1-Z8PY).

I’ve seen often mistakes in transcripts for other people so there is a possibility that Amanda may have still been alive, and gone back to TX as her grandmother was dying.
And there is a possibility that while she may have run away in 2005 to go back to TX (to her grandparents in Kountze), she may have come back to CO after her grandmother’s death and be murdered by someone then.

What I do not get is how it is possible that any murderer would sell a house and not remember to move human remains from a freezer therein ??!!

And to finish a little curiosity on red hair and blue eyes, i find it intriguing as it is extremely rare so most probably one of the parents must have it as dominant gene. Very rare to have two parents both with recessive genes but my biology dates from very long ago :)
www.healthline.com

Red Hair, Blue Eyes: How Common Is the Genetic Combination?

How common is it for someone to have red hair and blue eyes? What causes these unique traits? And are people with red hair and blue eyes going extinct? Find out here.
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