Fears Fred Reer Jr. killed others after he murdered Amanda met by wall of silence
Attorney General Dave Yost won't answer questions about whether he's a serial killer, or about police accountability; officials round up wagons; Dean family awaits 'another day in court'
NORWALK — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost was a no-show Tuesday for a news conference in hosted by Cleveland Missing for what the nonprofit called a major announcement related to the Amanda Dean homicide.
Yost is keeping a tight grip on nearly all state records and public information related to the BCI investigation of Fred Reer Jr., a man who is now suspected in at least one other suspected homicide and is being looked at as a potential serial killer. Reer was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison on Jan. 5 after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Huron County Common Pleas Court late last year.
Yost has refused to be interviewed or provide any comment about whether state investigators determined why there was no homicide investigation after Amanda Dean was killed in July 2017. Huron County Sheriff Todd Corbin and deputies spent years ignoring or disparaging the Dean family and misleading the family and the public, according to a pending federal lawsuit filed by the family. They were hoping to cover up how they mishandled things after Reer assaulted Amanda Dean in January 2017 and killed her later that year, the lawsuit contends.
