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

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An unusual case, not reported for over 5 years due to unusual circumstances:

Cleveland Missing joins search for Huron Co. woman who’s been missing for 5 years

The Cleveland Family Center for Missing Children and Adults is joining the Newburgh Heights Police Department in the search for Amanda Dean, who has been missing from Huron County for five years.

fox8.com

"Dean was last seen in Collins, Ohio, on July 11, 2017. She went missing at age 36, but would now be 41 years old.

"Dean is described as being 5 feet 7 inches tall, 134 pounds, with blonde hair and green eyes."

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[GuyfromCanada]

JAN 4

CLEVELAND (WJW) — The family of Amanda Dean, a mom who went missing five years ago, is bringing her case to light in hopes she can finally be found and brought back home to her loved ones.

The Cleveland Family Center for Missing Children and Adults hosted a press conference Wednesday morning featuring members of Amanda’s family, who says Ohio BCI has taken over the case.

More at Family calls for search of mom missing for 5 years

 

[GuyfromCanada]

JAN 4

“She’s a family person. I just want her home," Dean's mom, Caroline Tokar, said during the press conference. "This is out of character for Amanda. She’s never gone hardly any time without a phone call, without communication of some sort with her family. I love her. Love you, Amanda. I hope you’ll come home soon and meet the new additions to the family.”

Officials connected with the press conference say "her disappearance is under unusual circumstances where the family was initially told by law enforcement that she was at a safe house and not missing,” officials connected with the news conference said in a press release. “However, as time has passed, the family still has no answers and is seeking help in locating their loved one. Amanda was the victim of domestic abuse and has been missing since July 2017.”

More at Case of Amanda Dean: Family holds press conference amid search for answers years after woman reported missing in 2017

 

[megs1477]

This is a bizarre story. I’m surprised it is not getting more attention.

Sheriff's office opens investigation after family of woman missing 5 years demands answers

HURON, Ohio — Amanda Dean’s family is pleading for answers.

“I know, I just know, she would not leave, she would not,” said Shannon Dean, Amanda’s sister.

The then-36-year-old was last heard from July 11, 2017 in a text with her sister. Her family said she was involved in an abusive relationship. She was living with her boyfriend at the time. Her sister said the last text was about a plan to leave.

“We were going to remove her from that home, from that cabin,” explained her sister.

After they didn’t hear from Dean again, the family became concerned and filed a missing person’s report. But it was canceled a day later, her family said, because of what the Huron County Sheriff’ told Amanda’s mother, Caroline Tokar.

“Sherriff Corbin told us she was in a safe house, and as a mother, I lived on that,” Tokar said.

But then just weeks ago, Tokar couldn’t take the not knowing anymore, and set a letter to Huron County Sheriff Todd Corbin demanding answers.

“He was telling people and the media that she’s safe up to two and a half weeks ago. So I send a demand letter. And the demand letter said you have seven days to give proof to our family, Amanda’s family, that she’s safe, alive, and OK, or if you can’t prove this within seven business days, then I would like to open the investigation,” Tokar said.

News 5 went to the Huron County Sheriff’s Office to speak with Corbin. We were told he was in a meeting and couldn’t speak with us. The Huron County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release last month confirming they have reopened the investigation into the whereabouts of Amanda Dean.

It also said they have requested the help of BCI. The family has sought the help of Cleveland Family Center for Missing Children and Adults, the organization co-founded by Gina DeJesus.

“Our organization will supply resources to the family as much as we need to do to bridge that gap between law enforcement, the family and the investigation. This is a one-of-a-kind organization in the country,” said John Majoy, President of the Board of Directors, Cleveland Missing.

A lot has changed since Dean disappeared; the mother of four is now a grandmother of two. What hasn’t changed is that her family misses her every day.

“She wasn’t just a mom to me, she was my best friend,” said Joshua Dean, Amanda’s son.

 

[Laura456]

So tragic <modsnip - not LE friendly>

 

[imstilla.grandma]

"I'm stuck in hell until the devil kills me," Amanda D. Dean, 41, texted a friend just weeks before she was reported missing after returning to Ohio in July 2017.

Amanda Dean Provided

Just three weeks earlier, Dean made the brave decision to escape. She sold her car and purchased a one-way airline ticket out-of-state. She stayed with a longtime friend who was trying to help Amanda.

When she arrived, she was covered with bruises from head to toe, her friend said.

Search continues for missing Ohio woman

Plenty of leads on the table

thecourier.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The family of Amanda D. Dean has waited five years and seven months to get some answers about where Amanda is at and if she's safe. Finally, after the Register picked up their story in December and the Cleveland Center for Missing Children and Adults agreed to help the family, the Huron County Sheriff's Office and the state agreed to search for Amanda.

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sanduskyregister.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

NORWALK — An anonymous donor pledged up to $5,000 for a reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Amanda Dean, the Cleveland Family Center for Missing Children and Adults announced on Tuesday.

Ogden Ohio Newspapers first reported about Amanda Dean's family's desperate search — stymied for years by the Huron County Sheriff's Office — in December. The center, also known as Cleveland Missing, picked up the story and publicized it garnering media attention from most, if not all the broadcast channels in Cleveland and others across the state.

Dean, 41, has been missing for five years and seven months. Her family filed a missing persons report on July 11, 2017, but the search for her was called off less than 24 hours later after Sheriff Todd Corbin confirmed her whereabouts through a domestic violence advocacy agency.

The agency told Corbin that Amanda was safe but did not want to be contacted by family. There were sheriff's reports, however, that indicate Dean had been the victim of domestic violence, and Dean, in a text to a friend, said she feared for her life.

Find Amanda: $5K reward offered

Donor wants to help in search for missing woman

thecourier.com

 

[PommyMommy]

Amanda Dorine Dean – The Charley Project

• Missing Since 07/11/2017
• Missing From Collins, Ohio
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Date of Birth 02/03/1981 (41)
• Age 36 years old
• Height and Weight 5'7, 134 pounds
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, green eyes. Dean's ears are pierced.

Details of Disappearance​

Dean was last seen on July 11, 2017 in Collins, Ohio. She was being abused by a boyfriend at the time of her disappearance. She left behind four sons has never been heard from again.

Her family reported her missing that same month, and the Huron County Sheriff's Office looked into the case, but then declared it closed less than 24 hours later after they got word that Dean was alive and well and staying in an unspecified domestic violence shelter, and that she did not want to contact her family.

Dean never resurfaced, however, and her family doesn't think she would have gone this length of time without contacting them. The missing persons case was reopened and authorities are attempting to verify Dean's whereabouts and well-being.

 

[dalsglen]

Gosh, this is awful. That poor family.

 

[PommyMommy]

Last updated January 31, 2023; details of disappearance updated.

Amanda Dorine Dean – The Charley Project

Details of Disappearance​

Dean was last seen on July 11, 2017 in Collins, Ohio. She was being abused by a boyfriend at the time of her disappearance. She left behind four sons has never been heard from again.

Her family reported her missing that same month, and the Huron County Sheriff's Office looked into the case. Less than 24 hours later, Sheriff Todd Corbin declared it closed after the department got word that Dean was alive and well and staying in an unspecified domestic violence shelter, and that she did not want to contact her family.

Dean never resurfaced, however. She was supposed to appear as a witness in the felony trial of South Carolina man who had been charged with domestic violence and sexual assault, but she never showed up that. Her family never heard from her either, and they don't think she would have gone for this long without contacting them.

The missing persons case was reopened and authorities are attempting to verify Dean's whereabouts and well-being.

 

[Laura456]

So tragic <modsnip - not LE friendly>

I'm sorry but how can I possibly be LE friendly to the sheriff's office here?

 

[imstilla.grandma]

A Facebook page dedicated to finding Amanda Dean shut down overnight after the director of Cleveland Missing scolded people there for being too harsh and judgmental about how the Huron County sheriff and BCI have handled the case.

"This Group is temporarily paused for seven days," states a message at "Help Find Amanda Dean!" The pause began Thursday. The page will resume Feb 24.

The BCI is a professional law enforcement agency. They are not on TV doing policing like TV," Sylvia Colon, the director of Cleveland Missing posted early Thursday morning, responding to another commenter. "Search warrants are tricky. There have to be some things to get a warrant. The focus MUST be on Amanda."

BCI agreed to help find Amanda in December, but there's little known about what, if anything, has been done since then. The agency has not interviewed anyone associated with the case, and has missed appointments with family members.

Colon also praised a paid Zoom call Cleveland Missing organized that took place on Wednesday. "It was great job," she said, referring to the phone call hosted by Newburgh Heights police Chief John Majoy, board president of Cleveland Missing.

"Due to recent conflicts ... we will be pausing this group for a week and let everything cool off," Joshua posted. "I can’t begin to thank everyone who has been involved in helping find my mom.

Amanda page shut down

Cleveland Missing director objects

sanduskyregister.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Callers to a crime tip line continue to be frustrated weeks after it was first reported they weren't getting calls back.

A woman spoke to the Register on Wednesday said she called the tip line managed by the state but gave up out of frustration after getting placed on hold twice with nobody picking up.

Amanda Dean

She was able to leave a message at 1-855-BCI-OHIO the third time she called, but nobody called her back.

"'Do your job,' is all I could think when nobody picked up and they didn't call back," she said

The woman said she has information about the disappearance of Amanda Dean, 42, who vanished more than 5½ years ago.

She is the second person in recent weeks to complain about the tip line not being monitored, or not getting a call back. A man who said he called several times but didn't get a call back until after a third party intervened was similarly frustrated.

A spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who is the boss at the state crime lab, said the tip line is monitored but he offered no explanation for why there have been complaints.

The woman who spoke with the Register said she was finally able to talk with the state investigator assigned to Dean's case after a third party provided her with his direct line phone number. The conversation with the special agent didn't give her any confidence, however, that a legitimate investigation is being conducted.

"He said he's done some door-knocking but nobody answers the door," she recalled him telling her. "He hasn't interviewed any of the people who were the last people to see Amanda alive. 'Park your car and wait there,' I said. 'Don't just knock on the door.'"

The state crime lab special agent was assigned the missing persons case in December, but there's no indication he's spoken with any of the people who lived on the same property where Amanda lived with a boyfriend who, according to past sheriff's reports, had been physically abusive toward her. More:

Tip line problems persist

Woman with info on missing persons case can't get through

sanduskyregister.com

 

[PommyMommy]

MAR 21, 2023

Park and protest

Protestors in cars 'harassed' residents

sanduskyregister.com

A caravan protest outside a home where Amanda Dean last lived before she vanished more than 5½ years ago drew a police response on Saturday after residents there said they were being harassed and stalked.

Deputies "were dispatched for people honking horns and screaming (at the caller) calling her a 'killer and a 'murderer,'" a sheriff's deputy's report states. "(The resident) reported to dispatch that she is worried for her safety."

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The deputy spoke with the drivers of each of the first three vehicles and they were given a verbal warning, according to the report. The residents did not want to file charges.

SD, 43, Sandusky, Amanda Dean's sister, was inside one of the vehicles.

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The property where the caravan was at on Saturday is the same property family members and friends tried to search back in July 2017, when they were ordered to disperse after the sheriff closed down that first missing persons case.

 

[MajorHoople]

Report with video:

Where is Amanda Dean? Huron County mom missing for nearly 6 years

It has been nearly six years since Amanda Dean’s family has heard from her.

www.cleveland19.com

May. 1, 2023

"The Huron County Sheriff’s Office reported Amanda was found at a safe house for abused women.

Her missing person’s case was closed, but her family still has not heard from her since.

In December, the BCI reopened Amanda’s case.

Her mom, Caroline Tokar, hopes the investigation will help bring the family closure.

“Just praying that BCI can find those answers for us because this is long overdue,” Tokar said.

 

[MajorHoople]

Where is Amanda Dean? Huron County mom missing for nearly 6 years

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[PommyMommy]

JUL 12, 2023

Where is Amanda Dean?

Sheriff's gives no indication he's looking for her

sanduskyregister.com

"I am sure she is safe and alive," Corbin told the Register in late December, providing no other information for why he believed that.

After the Register reported about the sheriff's refusal to help the family, the Cleveland Center for Missing Children and Adults agreed to help the family, which led to the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation agreeing to help. The sheriff agreed to reopen the investigation.

But there's been almost no comment from anyone since then, except for some individuals who contacted a state hotline where tips and other information are received. Some of the callers to that line complained they left numerous messages without getting any callback.

 

[PommyMommy]

JUL 14, 2023

Dead or alive?

Sheriff Corbin won't say

sanduskyregister.com

[...]

On Wednesday Corbin would not confirm if there is still an active search or what, if anything, is being done to find Dean.

[...]

There also is no information to suggest the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation is doing anything to find Dean since it became involved in January. The bureau, or crime lab as it is often referred to, usually acts as a support system for local investigators and local agencies take the lead in investigations.

Deputy Shannon Lyons, Corbin's cousin, was the detective for the sheriff's office. But Corbin has refused to comment about Lyons' employment status or say if he is the investigator assigned to the Dean case — if it is still active.

[...]

A state agent with the bureau and supervisors at the Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office also declined to say whether there was an ongoing search for Dean or comment on whether she is believed to be alive or dead.

Dean would be 42 if she is alive. She has four young sons and other family members in Sandusky.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

Ohio BCI executes search warrant in case of missing Huron County woman Amanda Dean

The Ohio BCI confirmed to 3News that they executed a search warrant outside of Collins related to the case of Amanda Dean.

www.wkyc.com

Nov 16, 2023

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On Thursday afternoon, The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation confirmed to 3News that they executed a search warrant related to the investigation of Dean.

The BCI's Special Victims Unit executed the search warrant at a property on Wells Road outside of Collins in Huron County. Search activities concluded at approximately 3:30 p.m.

The Cleveland Family Center for Missing Children and Adults released the following statement on Thursday following the news:

"There have been new developments happening today in the case of Amanda Dean who has been missing in Huron County since July 2017. Cleveland Missing remains committed to Amanda’s family and at this time the family has asked for privacy as the investigation continues to unfold. The family renews its unwavering support of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office and Bureau of Criminal Investigation."

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