Watch: Justice comes Monday for Fred Reer Jr.?
He admitted killing Amanda Dean; 8 years after he did it; many questions remain unanswered
NORWALK — Amanda Dean’s killer could get a 20-year prison sentence on Monday when he faces a day of reckoning many believed would never come.
Fred Reer Jr., 42, was convicted on Dec. 2 of involuntary manslaughter in the July 17, 2017, death of Dean. She was killed inside a shack on property off Wells Road in Collins, Ohio, where they were living at the time. Reer dismembered Dean’s body and burned the evidence, according to the bill of particulars in his indictment—the only granular detail of the crime released by investigators since Reer’s arrest in February 2024.
Huron County Sheriff Todd Corbin for more than five years refused to investigate Dean’s disappearance, claiming an unidentified witness—a director of a domestic violence shelter—was protecting her. Corbin maintained this stance even as years passed and Amanda was never seen alive again.
Reer’s sentencing on Monday comes after a series of remarkable developments:
