Amanda Dean Part 2: What Sheriff Corbin can’t ignore
He and up to 10 deputies likely to be deposed under oath in Dean family lawsuit; federal judge to pin back OAG Yost's ears
COLLINS, Ohio — Todd Corbin was a brand new sheriff in January 2017 when deputies responded to a domestic violence call that brought them to an outbuilding on a property off Wells Road, a shack where Fred Reer and Amanda Dean lived.
When deputies arrived, Dean was injured and Reer, quite obviously, had assaulted her, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by the family of Amanda Dean against Huron County, Sheriff Todd Corbin, his cousin, former Deputy Det. Sgt. Shannon Lyons, and 10 other deputies.
Despite the obvious injuries and true cause for them, Reer was not charged although state law required that he should have been, the lawsuit asserts. The failure to arrest Reer — the failure to protect Amanda Dean from him — led to her eventual murder, the lawsuit claims, right there in that same shack where deputies were dispatched to just six months earlier.
Amanda’s family warned deputies in January that Fred would kill Amanda. Her sister played a voicemail for the sheriff in which Amanda “was crying saying she had a black eye and that Fred was going to kill her,” according the sheriff’s own report.
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They lived in fear, and just six months later, Fred again threatened to kill Amanda. The family reported her missing and they told Sheriff Corbin they feared Reer acted on his threats. A relative of Reer’s also contacted the sheriff’s office and warned the sheriff about death threats Reer made, and how he planned to dispose of Amanda’s body using blue barrels on the property.
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In all, the sheriff was told at least three different times that Fred would kill Amanda, but Corbin determined there wasn’t any real threat, despite the black eye and Amanda bleeding when deputies responded in January 2017. The sheriff, according to his report, said he spoke with the director of a local domestic violence shelter and was assured Amanda was alive and safe, but did not want to talk with her family.
That’s a lie, according to the lawsuit.
