Amanda Dean Part 3: 'Phantom phone call' is the smoking gun
She was never located; she was brutally murdered, dismembered and disposed
NORWALK — In the initial reports about the short-circuited 2017 missing persons investigation for Amanda Dean, Huron County Sheriff Todd Corbin’s key contribution is an alleged phone call.
He spoke with a staff director for a shelter, Corbin reported, who assured him that Amanda was safe and alive but didn’t want to talk with her family. He kiboshed the investigation, closing it down less than a day after her family reported her missing, in July 2017. For more than five years he refused to help them find Amanda.
One knock on this door
WATCH: All the evidence ever needed was right there, behind the door in a shack off Wells Road in Collins, Ohio, where Fred Reer killed Amanda Dean. Huron County Sheriff’s deputies were there that day, but they never knocked on his door, or went inside…
Not what happened
A lawsuit in federal district court in Toledo on behalf of Dean’s family — first filed in 2023 — contends it’s a lie.
“Corbin never contacted any domestic violence shelter in July of 2017 to locate Amanda Dean, nor did any domestic violence shelter ever contact him,” the complaint states.
