Episode Details

This episode recounts the tragic disappearance and eventual justice for Amanda Dean, a mother of four who vanished from Collins, Ohio, in 2017. For years, local law enforcement neglected the case, falsely assuring her family that she was safe in a shelter and refusing to investigate further. It was only after the advocacy group Cleveland Missing and state investigators intervened five years later that the truth emerged regarding her boyfriend, Frederick Reer. Reer eventually confessed to the brutal killing and dismemberment of Dean, admitting he burned her remains to hide the evidence. Despite the family's grief over the lack of a body for burial, the legal proceedings concluded with a guilty plea and a fourteen-year prison sentence. Currently, Dean’s relatives are channeling their pain into activism by supporting Amanda Dean’s Law to increase penalties for the abuse of human remains.

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