After 8 years, can murder trial bring answers?

Botched investigations pile up; sheriff, chief deputy offer no explanations

Jun 24, 2025

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NORWALK — Seventeen months after being indicted — and more than eight years after he allegedly brutally killed Amanda Dean — Fred Reer will go on trial in August.

Fred Reer, who is accused of murdering Amanda Dean in 2017, was arrested on Friday, Feb. 9, 2023.

Count 5 of his indictment states: “On or about the 11th day of July 2017, (Reer) did purposely c…

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