OH OH - Amanda Dean - 41 - Chronic DV Victim - Collins - 11 July 2017 *ARREST*

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Amanda Dorine Dean – The Charley Project

Last updated November 1, 2024; details of disappearance updated.

 

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OCT 31, 2024

MSN

According to a brief statement from BCI, agents searched the Reer family property on Wells Road near Collins, something they had also done multiple times prior to Reer's arrest this past February. Officials did not specify what investigators may have been looking for.

NOV 15, 2024

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15th, 2024 – K96 Country – WKFM 96.1

40-year-old Fred Reer was arrested for Dean’s murder in February of 2023.

In other developments, prosecutors say that Reer has admitted to disposing of Dean’s body…this coming from court papers opposing a request to reduce a $1 million bond by Reer…according to Norwalk Ohio News.

 

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NOV 17, 2024

Fred Reer wants out

Court denies his request for reduced bond

norwalkreflector.com

State agents found witnesses Corbin and his detective at the time, his cousin, Shannon Lyons did not.

"The weight of the evidence is against the defendant," a prosecutor's brief filed last month in opposition to Reer's request for reduced bond states. "(The witness) saw Reer strangle or choke Amanda Dean."

Last week's delayed final pre-trial hearing was rescheduled to Dec. 16. A jury trial is scheduled to begin March 10.

 

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DEC 16, 2024

https://fox8.com/news/family-of-amanda-dean-sues-huron-county-sheriff-claims-botched-investigation/

Dean’s mother Caroline Tokar, along with Dean’s four sons and two sisters, on Monday filed the Huron County Common Pleas Court civil lawsuit against Sheriff Todd Corbin, current and former sheriff’s deputies and other unnamed sheriff’s office employees.

Corbin named in lawsuit

Dean family seeks to hold sheriff, deputies 'accountable'

norwalkreflector.com

"The sheriff violated the Dean family’s right to equal protection under the law under both the U.S. and Ohio Constitutions because his office failed to, and refused to, investigate the disappearance and murder of Amanda Dean.

"The lawsuit also holds individual members of the sheriff's office accountable for causing emotional distress from years of fraudulent misrepresentations made by Sheriff Corbin and his office to the family and the media in maintaining that Amanda was safe and residing in a shelter while her murderer, Frederick Reer, lived freely in the community."

 

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The 40-page lawsuit is linked in this article

DEC 17, 2024

Family of Amanda Dean files lawsuit against Huron County Sheriff as her alleged killer awaits trial in 2017 murder case

The lawsuit says 'the family was left in perpetual suspense, uncertain if Amanda was alive, but fearing that she was not, for years.'

www.wkyc.com

Within days of her disappearance, the lawsuit states the Huron County Sheriff’s Office “received an anonymous call reporting that Reer had made statements indicating he intended to commit these crimes against Amanda. And yet, no investigation into Amanda’s disappearance happened for more than five and a half years.”

“Over the next several years, defendant Corbin and his HCSO staff repeatedly told both the Dean family and members of the public, including the press and media, that Amanda was safe and staying in a domestic violence shelter..."