PART 1 Amanda Dean: Secrets forever no more
Sheriff Todd Corbin 'didn’t just fail to investigate Amanda’s death—he actively protected her killer'
SANDUSKY — Whatever it is state prosecutors and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost are hiding in the files of the Amanda Dean homicide investigation isn’t likely to remain secret much longer.
In 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled in Caster v. Columbus that the state cannot keep murder files secret forever. Yet a decade later, the AG’s office is still using the same old playbook to keep the Dean file in the dark—acting as if the law doesn’t apply when the truth is inconvenient.
There’s a federal judge in Toledo, however, who is about to remind them that it does apply, and it matters.
Subpoena power
Caroline Tokar, Amanda’s mother, contends in a federal lawsuit filed in Judge Jack Zouhary’s court that the Huron County Sheriff’s Office didn’t just fail to investigate Amanda’s death—they actively protected her killer. The lawsuit seeks to expose what the family calls a deliberate campaign of misinformation, alleging that Sheriff Todd Corbin and his deputies “repeatedly and recklessly told the Dean family that Amanda Dean was alive and well and staying in a domestic violence shelter.”
