Episode 168: Amanda Dean (Part 1 of 2)

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Hello, and welcome to the Catch
Might Killer Podcast. Thank you for listening.

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My name is Mark. Since twenty
fifteen, I've written a weekly newspaper

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column about true crimes and unsolved toomicides
for the Claremont Sun newspaper in Ohio.

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On July eleventh, twenty seventeen,
Caroline Tokar and Shannon Deane reported Amandadeane missing.

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Caroline is Amanda's mother and Shannon is
Amanda's older sister. They were deeply

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concerned about Amanda. She had disappeared
without a trace from Huron County, Ohio.

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Besides her mother and two sisters,
Amanda also had four sons. Those

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who knew her said that she would
not just leave without saying anything to anyone.

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The next day, Huron County Sheriff
Todd Corbyn assured the family not to

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worry about Amanda. They had found
her and closed the missing person's case because

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she was in a safe place.
Over five years later, Corbyn would admit

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that he had not seen or spoken
with Amanda and had no idea where she

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was. Amanda's family now wants to
know why Corbyn failed to produce her or

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even lied about her whereabouts. Amanda
Dean a forty two year old mother of

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four, disappeared in twenty seventeen.
She was extremely close to her mother and

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sister Shannon. Despite her best efforts, Amanda wasn't very successful with men.

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A Florida native, Amanda eventually moved
to Ohio. Between her time in Florida

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and Ohio, she had also lived
in South Carolina. While living in South

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Carolina, she had found herself in
an abusive relationship and was beaten. She

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was supposed to have returned to South
Carolina to testify against her abuser. It

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was her intention to return, but
unfortunately, she disappeared before doing so.

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While living in Collins, Ohio,
Amanda became involved in another abusive relationship.

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Amanda's family had convinced her to leave
her abusive relationship, However, she would

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disappear before she was able to leave. On July eleventh, twenty seventeen,

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Amanda Deane's mother, Caroline Tokar,
and her sister Shannadine, both of Sandusky,

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reported Amanda missing and they were concerned
about her welfare. The next day,

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Kieran County Sheriff Todd Corbyn had told
them that Amanda had been located and

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that she was safe and the missing
person's investigation was closed. Corbyn had told

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the fan that Amanda did not want
to speak to them. Caroline gave the

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sheriff her phone number and asked him
to make sure that Amanda had it.

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To make sure that Amanda had it
so that she could contact the family.

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Unfortunately, no one has ever heard
from Amanda in over five years. Today,

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no one knows why Sheriff Corban claimed
to have conversed with Amanda and then

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later admitting to having no idea where
she was. Local media sources like the

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Sam Dusty Register have tried questioning Corbyn
for answers, but he has been tight

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lipped about the case. He would
eventually turn the case over to the Ohio

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BCI. Amanda's mother, Caroline has
refused to give up on finding her daughter.

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She's spoken to the media and anyone
else who is willing to listen to

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her share the details about her youngest
daughter's disappearance. Caroline has also publicly said

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that Sheriff Corban won't provide her with
any answers about her daughter. Before Amanda

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disappeared, she has sent a series
of troubling text to her sister Shannon that

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she feared her abusive boyfriend and was
also a fear of being killed. A

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group called the Cleveland Family Center for
Missing Children and Adults have assisted the family

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in their efforts to find Amanda.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has since

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taken over Amanda's case. Since Amanda's
disappearance, She's become a grandmother and her

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son, Joshua, now has two
children. He has said publicly that he

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misses his mother and that she doesn't
even know that she's become a grandmother.

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The family has since learned that an
anonymous caller had contacted law enforcement claiming that

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Amanda's boyfriend was involved in her disappearance. For now, her former boyfriend,

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Fred Rear, has not been charged
with having anything to do with Amanda Deane's

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disappearance. For this story, I
spoke to Caroline car and she Na Deane

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about the disappearance of Amanda Deane.
This is the first part of a two

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part story. Be sure to listen
to the conclusion next week. So tell

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me about Amanda and what it was
like having her as a daughter. Amanda

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was born their great third nineteen eighty
one in Roxco, Florida, which is

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close to Tampa. All my girls
were born in Florida. Amanda's my youngest.

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She was a firecracker. She was
lively and conboy as he would climb

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trees and do everything that a little
boy would do. She was the boy

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I never had because I wanted the
boys so bad, and she was my

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last one. But it was a
girl. And now it's fine with the

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accause she's so beautiful that she was
always healthy and smiling. Nothing, I

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don't think anything he kept her in
a depressive state. When she was at

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home, she was always laughing,
always making jokes, always getting room.

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She had two other sisters. They
were older, so she strived hard to

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become worthy of the liking her and
also stuff. She had one sister that

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like too. They don't play in
my room today, I'm not going to

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like you. And so Amanda would
just listen to that, and she would

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just do whatever she could to satisfy
her older sister just to get her like

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like her. It was just kind
of was just sisterly. So were they

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all close, Yeah, they were
close and close in age as well.

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They were from anywhere from fifteen to
eighteen months apart. I know, I

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was like having triplets basically for me. But yeah, they were cloth crew

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and it's just they grew up that
way. And her sister, Shanna especially,

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she was very close to Stephanie got
married, moved away, and those

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flung to Shannon a lot, and
I don't know, they just had a

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good connection with each owner. Now
what did they grew up in Florida or

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in Ohio. Well, on nineteen
eighty nine, we moved from Tampa to

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Ohio. She was in first or
second grade when we moved here, and

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so she went to a smaller school
let's called New London, Ohio. She

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went there and to the other sisters
and authored basically we end up moving to

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Sandusky, Ohio from my job later
on, and so that's where they all

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went to high school, Sandusky High
School. Now what brought you from Florida

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to Ohio? I was so originally
from Ohio and I grew up near New

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London, Ohio. My father had
a house here in wakemant Ohio, and

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so he had offered me because there
was so much crime in Tampa, Florida

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close to where we lived. Our
neighbor girls. It's my girl played with

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was kidnapped and they never found her, and so the girls would always ride

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the big wills up and down the
driveway with her, and so when that

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happened, I just kept thinking it
could have been one of my girls.

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And so I contacted my dad and
to see if I couldn't move back into

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the family house. I know he
wasn't living there at the time, so

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he sauggests. So I moved back
with the girls and end up their dad

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was with us too when we moved
back. He died in nineteen ninety ninehistophical

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cancer. So were you in a
pretty tight knit relationship with all three of

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your daughters? Yes. With me
and Amanda, our relationship got worse as

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she got older because I was worried
about her making wrong choices with guys,

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because she had had some abusive relationships
before this, and so I was getting

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onto her about that. But you
know how his daughters are. They want

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to be independent and find out life
for themselves, and that's just exactly what

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she was doing. She was being
the very independent she's always wanted to be

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an adult at a very early age, and I was concerned for his well

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being. And I think this last
time, I don't know what to think.

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All I know is my daughter's missing. Now. You said that she

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had a history of dating bad guys, Well, she had a couple of

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instance before this one where she was
in an abusive relationship which she got out

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of trying. I think the year
it was those in the Cyrus, Ohio

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she was living with somebody who was
abusive to her, and I got her

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out of that situation. And then
she moved to South Carolina and she had

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a trial going on there with a
guy who tried to stab her or he

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did stab her hand, cut her
hair off with a knife, and just

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beat her up really bad, I
guess. And the prosecutors from South Carolina

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had contacted here in cound of Sheriff's
office about six months after she had come

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up missing and requested information about her
whereabouts because she needed to stand trial because

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she was the primary witness in her
own trial. Otherwise this guy would walk

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and he was facing a life sentence, and he ended up walking because the

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sheriff wouldn't turn her over as far
as where she's at. Even though the

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sheriff was stand she was safe,
he would not. I don't even know

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if he called the prosecutor back.
There's no reports on file that he actually

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called them back to say, hey, she's in a safe house. That's

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how you contact her. So that
never went any further. And then this

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one was this recent most recent one. She just never came out of it.

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We don't know where she's at now. I was a little confused about

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her being in a safe place.
So from what I understand, she had

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made contact with the sheriff's apartment and
they knew where she was, but she

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didn't want to have any contact with
her family. But they wouldn't tell you

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where she was because she requested that. And they knew where she was supposedly

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all the way up until December of
last year. So for five years supposedly

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they knew where she was but could
never produce her. Well, first off,

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if you read the newspaper articles,
all right, it states that Manda

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never came to us, so therefore
we could not press charges. So that's

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one story from the parent town of
sheriff's office. So she never came to

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them to press charges. Then how
they didn't even talk to her? Okay,

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now you have to read the papers
and figure out what he's saying different

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stories. And then March of twenty
twenty, he does an interview with Channel

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three News, and that's on file, and he's saying something totally different.

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So if a victim does not contact
them first, they cannot file charges.

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He said that she had not contacted
them, but then he's saying that she's

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in a safe house. Don't have
answered, So he's saying different things.

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So when's the last time that the
sheriff or anyone from his office has allegedly

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seen Amanda physically? According to the
sheriff? And I asked him this direct

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question the day before the Channel three
interview. I caught him and I asked

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him, I said, I answer
me something I said because I told him,

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I said, Channel three is coming
out to interview me tomorrow and then

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they're going to you. I said, I want you to answer me a

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question. I said, have you
ever seen my daughter or even heard her

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voice? He said, no,
it's been How in the world can you

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go out there and tell the public
that, she said? How do you

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know that? Did your deputies talk
to her or see her? No?

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And so that's still an answer.
He's never seen her or talked to her,

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but she's fife. How can tell
us that? Pach? So,

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how did he respond to that?
When you asked him that question. He

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said, no, he's never talked
to her and never seen her. Then

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how could he possibly say that she
was in a safe place. Then that's

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what I said to him, And
I said, you're my only answer,

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You're the only link between me and
my daughter. I said, you need

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to tell the truth. I said, how do you know someone safe if

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you've never even talked to her or
even laid eyes owner, how do you

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know how badly she would beat up? He told the paper she was very

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bad, but you've never seen her
talked to her. So, based on

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what I've seen in the media,
your daughter got beat up by her abusive

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boyfriend and she was going to press
the charges against him. Supposedly, she

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went into hiding and only the sheriff's
apartment knew where she was at, and

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she continued to stay in hiding because
she wanted to get away from the boyfriend.

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Do you believe any of that?
I don't believe any of that.

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I don't. I'm sorry, but
I don't feel that. And if I

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don't think Manda ever went to a
safe house, I don't think Manda ever

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called the shaff's office for some safe
phone number one Manda didn't have a phone

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number two. Nanda didn't have a
car, So how did she get from

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point A to point B? How
did she make a call to anybody?

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And also from what I've read,
I'll say his name because it's a public

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record, Fred Rear the X he
monitored her phone calls, He monitored what

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she was doing, so she may
not have been able to call for help

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anyway if he took her phone,
so it would have been pretty hard for

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her to do anything without him knowing. He stroyed her phoned at any time

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that he found out she had a
phone, so he would destroy them.

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And if he found out she was
talking to somebody, she would get punished

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for that. Now, how did
she meet this guy? For I understand

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my nephew introduced them a few years
back, and she dated him at one

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time, stopped and then just more
a year or two before she has come

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up Miss saying that they started seeing
each other again. And I'm assuming that

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you did not approve of this relationship. Absolutely? Did you tell her that

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you didn't approve of the relationship?
Yeah, And I tried to get her.

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She did come stay with me for
a while because he was getting abusive,

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and I tried to get her to
stay here away from that. She

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didn't deserve that, and he end
up brought back to him because I asked

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her not to smoke him my house. Don't all smoke, and may smoke

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him house. I'm a next smoker
and I can't stand it. But her

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son, Joshua was loving here too, and I didn't want any smoke around

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him, and she didn't like that, so she ended up going back to

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friends. You mentioned her son.
So she had four kids, Is that

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correct? She has four boys?
Yes? Okay, so you had all

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daughters and she had all boys.
She got all the boys that she wanted,

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right, that's what it sounds like, right, right? I love

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those boys. Yeah. So your
grandsons have not seen their mother in over

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five years and Amanda has since become
a grandmother and she's never even seen her

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grandchildren. Correct, she has two, a boy and a girl. Since

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it's been over five and a half
years since they've I mean her sons since

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they've seen her, but the younger
ones, there's a set of twins,

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identical twin boys that are her youngest
and their Christmas babies. They were boring

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Christmas Day and they're now twenty years
old, and so they were all in

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high school. Even Josh, the
oldest, was in high school at the

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time of her disappearance. Now,
how have they handled not seeing their mother?

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I imagine it has to be tough
on all of her sons. I

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think they felt abandoned because we didn't
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was in a safe house and I
don't know all the boys except for Josh,

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maybe it just felt abandoned because they
had no mother all of a sudden,

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since they all eve knew that he
would call or something, they she

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would have communication with them because they
were living with her dad at the time,

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and she would never go without talking
her boys. And she loved those

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boys. I'm sure she loved them
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Then, No, So then you
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that her disappearance would be out of
character for Huh. She's definitely out of

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character for her. And she was
so close to her sister, and they

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talked every day and not every other
day, you know, text channel,

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Tod always check on her and stuff
like what they were doing. She hadn't

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had the plan to go get her
and take her to my sister's house.

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That's what there had been planning to
get her out of there, and my

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sister says, yes, bring her
over here. She can still have me

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as lash one and so she can
get on her feet and everything. And

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so that's what was in the work, and then we just didn't make it

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in time. She came out missing. Before that happened, Channel was working

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as a nurse and she was trying
to get her next day off, and

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she was been a mover and they
had text back and forth about that,

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and so we were trying to just
get her on that situation. After Amand

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had disappeared, her family became concerned
about her well being. They all knew

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that she would never abandon her children
or her life, but they were specially

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concerned because they knew that she was
in a visive relationship. We're going to

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take a short break in return with
Caroline's thoughts about her youngest daughter's disappearance and

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when she last saw Amanda. Now, when was the last time that you

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physically saw your daughter or talk to
her. I can't give you the exact

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date, but I do know it
was probably within a month of her disappearance.

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Do you remember the last conversation that
you had with her. Yeah,

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that's hard, and like your standing
and wanted her out of there. I

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didn't feel good about her standing.
It was my last composition to me.

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It sounds like you had some serious
concerns about her living situation. What about

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her? Did she just blow you
off or did she take it seriously that

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you were concerned about her? She
she was taking of you. She knew

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that and as a mother, and
she knew something and then a very independent

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person. And I don't know,
I felt like she felt I was like

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they and I told you, so'll
get out of that relationship. You're in

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another abusive relationship. And I don't
think she wanted to hear that from me.

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But I was worried. I was
concerned, and she just didn't want

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her mom to be hurt and worried. I definitely understand. You love your

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shoulder no matter what they do or
what kind of mistakes that they make.

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You're always mom or you're always dad. And I think she wanted to be

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strong and act like she was stronger
than what she really was. I didn't

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want me worrying about her and her
lifestyle and all that's him. But I

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was so concerned, But that's a
man does. She wanted to be your

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own person. She wanted to make
her own decisions and right or wrong.

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She but do you know what,
I think she's getting really weak towards the

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end because she was getting beat up
so badly. And I'm assuming that you

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saw the results of the physical of
use. They saw some of it,

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heard things. When did you find
out that she was gone? And how

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did you find out that she was
missing? It was some way to a

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doctor's appointment was July eleventh, and
she had my daughter. Shannon had received

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a text from Fred's mom. I
don't even know how she got Shannon's number,

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but it was she sent her a
text instead of oh, I walked

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out to the cabin and there's no
Amanda. We're going to miss her,

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or something like that. I'm not
sure the exact words. Shannon has the

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actual text, but that she said
something about Fred and Amanda weren't good together.

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And she says, but I hope
she finds my boyfriend who would treat

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her good or something like that,
and shenn't texts me right away, and

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his mom all called me. She
says, Mom sellings her own she's not

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just patch this weird text from friend's
mom. She's never texted me before and

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she's a mason. I said,
been called the sheriff right away, and

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my phone was not ready to go
dead. So Janna went ahead and text,

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I'm called the sheriff or local police
in her area. She lived in

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Greenwich and did a missing person's report
with them that she was missing, and

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then they, I guess, dispatch
it to her In County sheriffs because that's

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the county that she hannont called from. And that's where Amanda's last seen was

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Colin, Ohio, and that would
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Yeah, Harron County and it's Collins, Ohio's is the little town that she

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was last seen, and so she
was porter. I asked them to found

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miss in persons report on her.
And I went into my doctor's office and

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I asked my doctor, I said, can I please borrow your phone?

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My phone? Nice and my daughter
just came up missing, And so she

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went and got her phone and let
me use it so I could call she

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Hanna back and she said she did
report it and that you're waiting for somebody

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to respond to her. So they
did here in county did go ahead and

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bow the report, but within twenty
four hours canceled it. We were we

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did a search team. We had
set that up ourselves here in Canada not

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assist. We got some friends and
family to go out there with us to

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help search for Amanda. Near the
area that she was seeing last, which

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was the Columns Wells Road, all
in Ohio, and were signs help at

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the home of Fred were his family
put up signs no trust passing, the

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vicilators will be shot. So we
couldn't search that property. So we went

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next door to another neighbor and they
asked if we could search the property.

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They said no, So then we
went to another neighbor and they suggest so

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we started searching, and about on
the four o'clock in the afternoon, somewhere

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in there, we got a call
from the Hern County Ship's office asking us

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to come in behind information update for
Amanda. So did we stopped searching.

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We went in there and they told
us that man had been found and was

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in a safe house. What happened
after Amanda's disappearance was highly disturbing. After

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she disappeared, the family immediately began
searching for her. They searched for her

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in areas near her boyfriend's home.
Unfortunately, they were met with uncooperative neighbors

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who wouldn't allow any one to search
their property for Amanda. The search would

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end when Sheriff Todd Corban told Amanda's
family that he had located Amanda and that

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she was in a safe place.
At first, I mean his family felt

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some relief, but looking back,
the family believes that the Sheriff's office did

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not want Amanda's family searching for her
at the time, so they intentionally made

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up the story about locating Amanda to
stop the search. Eventually, their concerns

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were founded, because over five years
later, Sheriff Corbyn would admit to the

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family and media that he had never
actually found Amanda and he had never known

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what had happened to her. We'll
take a quick break and be right back

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with Caroline's spots on her daughter allegedly
being found safe by Sheriff Todd Corban.

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Now, after he first learned that
Shriff Corbin claimed that he had located Amanda

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and that she was in a safe
place, you must have felt some kind

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of relief. It was relieved because
I had been searching under weeds and bushes

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and thinking, I'm going to see
my daughter's body there, and that was

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a big relief to me, and
I was happy, but I was sad

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that she had to even do that. And that's why I had asked,

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if you know, we could go
since she was in a safe house,

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if we could get her belonging,
and we went rounded that we'd never have

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We never got her stuff that was
in that cabin and there allowed us to

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go in there. And I don't
believe for a minute that just even happened.

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I don't believe that she was in
a safe house. Ever. I

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don't believe that the sheriff even knew
where she was at that time. And

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there's some connection here that I just
don't know what it is, but I

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just can't figure it out. Now. Did you ask, Okay, you've

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got my daughter, can you set
up a way that I can speak to

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her. I'm sure that she tried
to set up communications with her, Is

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that correct? I asked? Then
I said, can you give her my

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phone number? Because I who remembers
phone numbers? I said, so,

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can you get my phone number to
her? And I said, I said,

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even if she's in a place where
I'm not to know her where about,

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I understand, I said, but
please make sure she has my phone

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number because Fred destroyed every I said
that her cell phones were all destroyed,

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and I said, so please get
her my phone number. They said they

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would. The sheriff Corvin said he
would get it to her. If he

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did, I'll never know. But
but she never called. And they have

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a way of just blocking the phone
number they're calling from, so there's a

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way tough doing things. But I
never got a call, never, So

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your family is pretty much in the
dark about everything. Then, for what's

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been going on for the past five
years? Is that correct? Correct?

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Five years? Seven months? And
apparently the Sheriff's apartment doesn't know anything either.

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Sheriff, I think he knows more
than he's being to you, tris,

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because there's too many difference of stories
that he's putting out there to the

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media. And then all of a
sudden, why is BCI now in charge

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of lead And they've taken the Sheriff's
number off as far as anybody calling in

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leads. The Sheriff's office number is
now off from those posters and stuff,

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just the BCI is on there,
and that would be the Ohio Bureau of

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Criminal Investigation. That's correct there,
it's what the Attorney General's office. Now,

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what's going on with them? Have
they been helpful? Absolutely? They

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call me today as a matter of
fact, for just a touch base with

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us, and they won't tell me
everything. Of course, there's certain things

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they can't tell me, and I
understand that because they're in all the investigation.

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But they wanted to let me know
that they are working on it very

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diligently and hoping that they'll a lot
of tips have come in and hopefully they'll

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have some answers. You know,
can't guarantee when, but hopefully that's forthcoming.

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To feel confident with the team we
have now, we have police Chief

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Majoy and working on it with the
BCI. Police Chief Majoy is chief of

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Newburg Heights, Ohio Police Department,
but he is also chief board of directors

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of Cleveland Missing. Cleveland Missing is
what's founded by Gina Dejasus. I've heard

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about that group. I've heard that
they're very helpful for families that are seeking

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their loved ones that are missing.
Yeah. Oh yes, so they took

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us under their wings and that's why
we're getting help now. So I give

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them all the credit on this opening
doors and God, of course, God

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number one, but they've just kinda
I mean open doors for us when nobody

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was listening. And it's been a
long process. But feel more confident now

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and I think BCA, we have
good agent, special agent on it,

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and I think pretty soon there won't
be Like I said in my press conference,

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that there won't be another five and
half years for sure and finding her

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and I have his prayer, so
that's what I stick to, and I

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even feeling we'll know something soon.
Okay, So I have a question that

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may be hard for you to answer, but is there any possibility in your

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mind that Amanda is still alive?
There's always that glimmer of hope. But

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I've got feeling now, And tell
me, what do you think happened to

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her? In your opinion, I
think she was I think she guided the

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hand to somebody, and that's really
unfortunate because I can tell by the way

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that you speak about your daughter that
she means a lot to you and a

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lot to your family. Yes she
does. She was your youngest and I

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guess if you want to try to
find anything positive out of this situation,

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if at all possible. That her
four sons are still alive and you now

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have great grandchildren. So this means
that Amanda's legacy will carry on through her

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sons. And with that being said, the last thing that I'd want to

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ask you is if you could speak
to the person who harmed Amanda, what

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would you say to that person?
I hope you find God, because no

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one forgive you but God. I
have to forgive, but I can't forget.

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And I just pray for yourselul because
God doesn't like murders. And that

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concludes the first part of this story. What happened to Amanda Dean when she

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disappeared back in twenty seventeen. In
a series of phone texts, Amanda told

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her sister Shannon that she had feared
for her life. This case has been

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extremely disturbing. After Amanda disappeared,
Sheriff Todd Corvin told the family that Amanda

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was alive and in a safe place. It brought them a brief moment of

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comfort thinking that Amanda was safe.
However, they would eventually learn that Amanda

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was not in a safe place and
that the sheriff had never actually seen or

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spoken to Amanda. If you are
interested in learning more about this story.

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There is much information on the Internet
about this case. There is also a

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Facebook page called help Find Amanda Dean. There is also a ten thousand dollars

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reward for any information leading to Amanda's
whereabouts. If you know anything about this

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case, you can provide tips to
the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation by calling

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them at one eight five five BCI
Ohio one eight five five two two four

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six four four six. You can
also remain anonymous. I will be sure

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to provide this information in the case
story notes, and please be sure to

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listen to the conclusion of this story
next week, where Amanda's older sister Shannon

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shares her thoughts about her missing younger
sister. And if you are a parent,

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law enforcement official, friend, or
relative seek injustice for an unsolved pump

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