Prime Crime: Solved Murders - Ohio Mom of 4 Predicts Her Own Murder

Episode Date: June 14, 2026

A mother of four vanished from her rural Ohio home, leaving behind a family desperate for answers and a community shrouded in mystery. Amanda Dean had seemingly disappeared into thin air, cutting off all communication with her beloved sons. But as investigators began to piece together her final days, they uncovered a trail of alarming warnings she had left with her closest friends, including messages that explicitly predicted her own tragic fate. Find out what happened to Amanda Dean on this episode of “Prime Crime with Jesse Weber.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you would walk with us, are you okay? Paul, can you show me where Amanda stayed when she was here? It's hard to believe, but the woman that police are looking for, Amanda Dean, has been missing for more than five years. So here? Amanda stayed here? Okay. Who else? Did Fred stay here?

Yep. Fred stayed here. They believed because the sheriff told him that she was still alive. They held on to that hope. Where was the bedroom? Do you know? Back there? Yep.

I like them and so they're tall. We don't have nothing bad to say. He would never harm anybody, even with I. This has been devastating to our family. Why is our question why? It hurt deep down inside because this was a family that just wanted to know where their missing loved one was and they wanted help and they weren't getting it.

What happened in the camper? Uh... Dean was 36 years old, a mother of four, and she went missing on July 11th, 2017. Her family was concerned. It wasn't like them to not hear from Amanda. Her boys were still on junior high school when she came up missing, and her oldest boy, Joshua, he had just graduated high school. Back in 2017, I had just turned 18.

I got the call. We were like freaking out that she was missing. In the tiny Midwest town of Collins, Ohio, it is very unusual for anyone to disappear. It's a very rural, very remote, some farmland that's out there. They'll know real close neighborhoods, houses on top of another, anything like that,

not very congested, minimal traffic, not really a crime-ridden area, if you will. Then you look up a crime report, I mean, it gets an A as far as safety. It's a tiny, tiny rural town. And yet in this place where everyone knows their neighbors, Amanda Dean is nowhere to be found. I had gotten a text message on July 11th, and I hadn't seen her for like a couple of weeks. But then I got a text from Wren saying, no Amanda in a cabin.

Wren is Fred's mother. Fred is 34-year-old Frederick Rear, Amanda's longtime boyfriend. She continued saying, no Amanda in the cabin, and I hope she's okay. Her and Fred just weren't meant to be, and that alerted me because I'm like, no. My sister wouldn't just get up and leave, and so I knew something was wrong. So clearly her family is concerned. They go immediately and make a missing person's report. On July 11th, Shannon did report to the sheriff's office Amanda was missing.

They did go out to the rear property And Fred was not there at the time they went out So Fred and Amanda have been living on his parents' property This is the place that we saw earlier on in that body camp She lived in the cabin that's right next to the parents' house in the same yard Like a little shack Shack actually a cabin would probably be nicer It didn't have a restroom or anything in there

There was no indoor plumbing So if Fred or Amanda needed to use the restroom, they would have to go up to Fred's mom's house. There was a room, a living room, and then as you walk in, that would be like a little bar kitchen kind of area, not even a kitchen, but where she would eat. They did have a refrigerator.

Didn't have much to it, but that's all she wanted for space. She wanted to do her own thing. She was a very wild spirit. Amanda was my baby girl. was my baby girl, daughter number three. Amanda was just beautiful. And she was a songbird. She was friendly.

She was outgoing. She's a little spitfire. I'll say that. But definitely had a lot of energy. And she was always there when you needed her to help with anything. And she never made anything boring, that's for sure. She was a fun one.

She was very interesting. She was very fun. Every time she'd come over, she's always taking us somewhere. Really don't have any bad memories with my mom. Yeah, me neither. It was just all good memories. I only had my mother. I never had a father figure in my life, so it was just me and my mom for a long time.

Then a day, that was my best friend. Now Amanda's oldest son, Josh, had lived with Amanda and then with his grandma. Her other three children had lived with their father. This was Amanda's ex before she got involved with Frederick Greer. I'm not for sure when they first met. What I was told is that they were dating at one point. Then they split up. And then a year or two, he went back to Fred.

I was still a very young kid at the time. And we would go over there and Fred has a daughter. So me and her would hang out. his nonverbal autistic brother would come play with us too. When Amanda goes missing, of course the question is, did Fred Rear have anything to do with this? Or at the very least, does he know where she might be? So they head on over to his property.

On July 12th, we wanted to put together a small search team. They're probably six to ten of them searching for Amanda. Well, I grabbed a couple of my buddies, and we all stormed out there, trying to find her. They want to search near the property where Amanda lived with Fred Rear. However, there's a huge sign posted on that property. The rear property had signs up, no trespassing, violators will be shot on July 12th when

we went out there. Because we had talked to the sheriff told him we were putting together a little search team and he said, well, don't go on properties that you're not wanted. So this makeshift search party visits other neighbors who are a little more. welcoming and it's when they're out there that something remarkable happens. In the middle of the search, I got a call. It was the Heron County Sheriff's Office. And they said, can you please come to the Sheriff's Office?

We have some information about your daughter, Amanda. And we didn't know what we were going to hear. So that was the longest journey for me because I, you know, just traveling there not knowing. It's a 20-minute drive from Collins where the cabin was to the sheriff's department. It felt like an eternity if you talk to Amanda's mom. They get to the sheriff's office and they're holding their breath. And you're thinking yeah the worst could be said to me as I walked into that sheriff's office. But it wasn't. They told us that she had been located and she was in a safe house and she was being all taken care of. Nothing else mattered. You know, it didn't

because I needed to know my girl is safe. But what the sheriff says next is kind of disturbing. He says they can't make contact with Amanda, that it's up to her to reach out to them. She can come home or call her family if she wants. She's an adult. She's being well taken care of. Once I heard the sheriff say that she was safe and okay,

I'm a very optimistic person, so I believed everything that they were saying at the time. saying at the time so I just was like okay cool she's safe where we're doing okay you know she'll come back in like a year or two after she gets the help that she needs at that point we really didn't know what was going on but we were just glad that we were told that she was found that's what we were happy about I think that the family really just put their trust in law enforcement they were being told that you know Amanda was in a safe house that she was And so, you know, they're going to believe them because that's law enforcement.

The sheriff even calls off the bowler. So the police will no longer be on the lookout for Amanda. And then it was close case, done, boom, it's over. Years go by and I start calling safe houses to be like, hey, she's been gone for years, what's going on? I start wondering, maybe that's not right. This is not right. Amanda just didn't seem like that person who would just simply abandon her mom, her sister, her children to do that.

So she didn't really fit that norm, if you will, of a person that didn't want to be found. It was almost like we were being told she doesn't want to contact her family. And that hurt. And it hurts the boys. The boys are still young and going through school and to be told your mom's coming home when she wants. When she wants to come home, if she wants to call you, so call you. That's hurtful. Over the years, the family continues to do everything they can

to track down Amanda and get in touch with her. I had sent Sheriff Corbyn the demand for proof of life letter. If he could not show me that she was alive, proved to us that she was alive, the family, then we need to reopen the investigation. and he didn't want to talk to me. In 2020, you know, they hired a private investigator to do some legwork on the case. It didn't go very far. The family goes to the Sheriff's Department on Amanda's birthday at Christmas, and they give them cards.

For Amanda, please give these to Amanda. I don't know what happened to those cards. Five years after Amanda disappeared, this family has. finally had enough. December of 2022, Cleveland Missing was contacted by the family of Amanda Dean. It's an organization who advocates for families with missing loved ones. When Cleveland Missing stepped in, someone finally listened. Shannon Dean and I actually talked and then pretty quickly we had the family come on into the Cleveland

Family Center and we were able to spend some time with them. Cleveland Missing starts making a plan But by now, this is a very cold case. So this is going to be an incredibly steep hill to climb. From a law enforcement perspective, here we're handing you a case that's five and a half years old, you know, in a lot of missing pieces parts. And so, you know, imagine trying to pick up the pieces when a whole lot had not been done. It's been nearly six years, six years now, six tough years since Amanda Dean's family has heard from her. Of course, her family is still holding out hope that she will come home. And this is Amanda's mom, Caroline, Toccar.

And Caroline, of course, you still have hope that we're going to see Amanda again. We did this press conference, and we just drew a ton of attention to this case and blew it wide open. The idea and the premise behind this was simply to just get the word out there. At the time, I was president of Cleveland missing, and so I was working with Sylvia Colon on the case. and trying to do my part as a liaison to law enforcement. In John Majoy's role as local police chief, he gets in touch with BCI. This is the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

When I met Caroline and Shannon, one of the things that we were able to tell them is that BCI is now taking the case, and the tears just flowed. It was a happy yet somber moment because somebody's finally listening to them. When Cleveland Missing stepped in, when Chief John Majoy got involved, got BCI to stepped in, that is when this investigation really took on a whole new life.

Amanda disappeared in 2017. Now after nearly six years, the BCI has reopened her case. Just praying that BCI can find those answers for us because our family, this is long overdue. I just can't believe the progress they've made for us so far, opening doors. resources. Amanda's family has hope one day they'll be reunited with her. But before the family can get any closer to finding Amanda, whether she's dead or alive, this investigation basically has to go back to step one. The first thing we want to do is be able to say, let's do a missing persons flyer. Who should we have them call? Well, Amanda wasn't even listed as a missing person. When the sheriff told the family that Amanda,

was safe her name was taken out of the missing person database the clean one missing had flyers very beautiful done flyers of Amanda that we could put out at local locations to try and search for her because in our eyes she was still missing and from that point it just took off the question after all these years is whether Amanda is really safe in a shelter or did something else something worse happened to her. So BCI goes back and they cover ground that was basically ignored the first time. And that includes doing a thorough search of the rear property. The search warrant was in November of 2023 when they went to the property and did the dig there.

They brought in excavators, hand tools, search dogs, and they went through the house. They were executing a full search warrant. And so they're looking for evidence of a crime that potentially happened five and a half years earlier, which is, you know, almost looking for a needle in a thousand haystacks, but they did give it a good effort. When police interview Frederick Rears family members who still live at the property, they get what may be a clue. Was Amanda ever back here? Yeah.

She was? Yep. Where at? In the camper? Yep. What happened in the camper? That's what happened in the camper? Yep.

Okay. Who did that? And Polly was even... Polly is Fred's brother. Was going around, like, when they interviewed him, saying that... They asked what happened to Amanda. He was going like this. Yeah.

And he'd like... Because he can't speak very well. He's autistic. Now, investigators talk to both families. The investigators talk to both families, and that is when they realize there was a smoking gun in Amanda's relationship with Rear. There was a police report that was filed. Fred gave her a black eye. I'm the one who reported her black eye when she had texted me and left a message on my voicemail.

Amanda said she did not want to press charges. She texts me when she had the chance and she said, you made the situation a little bit worse, but at least, but at least they know what he's doing to me. And it was kind of like a relief for her like they know now. Well, still didn't seem to help. It was pretty clear that Amanda was the victim with a mess of violence. And it baffles me why they didn't arrest this guy.

Would it have made a difference? We'll never know. But it may have. Amanda's sister Shannon reveals something else that puts an even stronger spotlight on Fred Rear. Fred always got rid of her phones. So a lot of times she would have to wait until Fred went to sleep or passed out for her to text me and call me. And she'll tell me racist message or don't text me back. I'll text you later.

And so I always would have to wait for her to text me. She tried leaving him a few times. But she ended up always going back. Now, these new investigators have a clearer picture of Amanda's life back in 2017. This is a woman who was caught in a deeply troubled relationship, and she has been missing for six years. They leave no stone unturned as they dig into this cold case. They just started putting pieces of a puzzle together and then get a list of potential witnesses,

people who had tips, who had information. Okay, so there was one witness that said he went to Fred's cabin. It was in July of 2017, and he saw blood everywhere. He was cleaning up the mess, the bloody mess with regs. There was another witness. They said he was burning at a burn pile for four days, and that he was burning a manhood. for four days.

After he chopped her. He chapped her. And the remains, he took it and put it in a bucket and took it to the creek. There was a comment about, you know, putting her in a blue barrel and things like that. And, you know, those, you know, those comments can't be dismissed. Although there's no smoking gun, police have gathered enough circumstantial evidence to arrest Frederick Greer. They believe that he killed her in that shack where they were living together, that he

cleaned up the crime scene, that he burned the mattress that he killed her on, that he dismembered her body and then burned it to hide the evidence. So in one and a half years, BCI was able to do what the sheriff's department never did. Fred Rear was indicted. So years after Amanda went missing, investigators go to the rear property and take Frederick into custody. Hi, Lurinda. spread home?

My son? Yes. You got some shoes? Yeah, I'm there. Okay. Why's that? I'll have a warrant for your arrest. And you get some shoes.

Can you get some blocks for him? We're in the, why don't you stay right here. Do you get anything with you on you? Just you. Okay. I'm arrested. Yeah. I said, why?

Why do you think? What do we've been talking about? To see something that have been going on and working with us, family and getting as close as I've gotten with a family to see that happen was just it was very surreal in my opinion I've got an arrest warrant for your son okay okay call this lawyer then so where's all this information coming from from a year's worth of investigation I think his general demeanor was that he wasn't going to get caught his general demeanor was you know I got away with this prove it yeah how long you've been

in 36 years. Why the hell don't you retire? I'm still having fun. You're having fun, you're killing me, huh? All right, Fred, come on outside. In terms of a sigh of relief from the family, it was, it was a night and day. Sitting on the edge of your seat and all of a sudden, you know, all that you would hope for for years and years and years has finally happened. That's up to that, That's the jail thing. They'll be doing that. Once he gets to the jail, he gets booked in. Okay. Okay. Investigators never stopped looking for Amanda Dean. And with the help of Cleveland missing, her family is getting answers. Newburgh Heights Police Chief John Majoy was with them when the

news came out that there was an arrest in her case. Once the news came out, there was tears, there were smiles, there were hugs, and there was some high fives. This was just a huge, huge, huge mountain to climb and they had reached the top of that mountain. Count two is dismemberment of the body of Amanda Dean. Count three, this count refers to the burning of a mattress which Amanda Dean died on July of 2017. Count four. The count refers to Fred Rear cleaning up the bloody scene with towels, rags,

and disposing of the bloody sheets from the bed at or near. or near the shack that Fred Rear lived in with Amanda Dean. It is not my investigation. My suggestion is consult your attorney. He had gotten away with it for years. He knew what he did. And so he was going to play the role, if you will, to try to cover up what he had done

or at least good luck trying to catch me kind of thing. But he may not be so confident when he sees the evidence. that police have collected. It was announced this weekend by the Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost that charges had been filed. This is going to be his arraignment for murder, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence from this case back in 2017. The evidence had shown that he killed her, he dismembered her, he burned her for over three days, and when he found out that these bones are not going to disintegrate,

then at that point he decided to take the bones, throw them over a bridge into a river to a stream, and then, you know, done and done. So we'll never have her home. We'll never be able to properly bury her because he made sure that we couldn't have nothing. As much as the family is glad to see Rear in court, facing justice, seeing him again brings back all that pain.

Everything in me just, it was so many different. I was sad, I was upset, extremely angry, just seeing the person I did that, and that's the last person she saw. And it just hurts me to my core. I feel like he was soulless. Nothing was there. Like he didn't care.

He wouldn't even look up at anybody. I've been to every single pretrial. I've been through everything. When I first saw him, he looked insane. He had that big bushy beard. It looked completely different from how I remembered him. It was hard. There's a lot of emotions going around.

Obviously, I couldn't do anything to him. I wanted to, but I couldn't do. I could tell by just his face alone, when we first seen him, he did not care about what he did. about what he did. There was no, nothing behind those eyes. They didn't look at us the whole time. Are you the purposes of a ring?

And are you aware of the charges that you're facing here today? Some what? Frederick Rear pleads not guilty to all counts. I think it's a very common thing for him to plead not guilty from the get go. Our role is clearly missing was trying to prepare the family because when they look at this and they're like, well, he's pleading not guilty. Well, he's going to plead not guilty. You're going to force the prosecution

to make their case. The prosecution does have strong circumstantial evidence, but they are missing that one thing that would help them clinch this case. The prosecution knew if they didn't have a body, it makes their case twice as hard, even hard, to get a conviction. Homicide or murder prosecution without a body is an uphill battle, but there was a lot of overwhelming evidence that pointed in his direction. In order to avoid, a challenging trial, but to make sure that Rear is still held to account, the prosecution considers offering him a plea arrangement. But first, they want something from him.

They want an honest account of what he did to Amanda Dean. You know, Fred Weir was given a proffer, and basically a proffer is when the defendant will tell the prosecution certain things, and it won't be used against them. And so he had admitted that he burned a manna's body, put her bones in a bucket, and then took him to this creek and jumped him off a bridge. Then he took him to where he placed her at the creek. Told him what he did to her.

We were able to go there. There was a lot of emotion there for the family, but I also think that there was a lot of relief a little bit. You know, they had like this emotion coming over them that, you know, this is where Amanda's remains were put in this creek. And so kind of a surreal, sad moment. But I'm very glad that they were able to take the family out there and do that for them. You know, again, another small sense of closure, if you will. With that admission from rear, the prosecution offers him that plea arrangement.

Given the fact that the trauma that this family had gone through for so long and to bring that back out and have to testify, is that something that you want to go through? And so they all came to the conclusion like, we support a plea arrangement here. The murder charge, which we was originally charged with, went to an involuntary manslaughter charge. and he ended up with two counts of tampering with evidence and one gross abuse of a corpse charge. So it definitely reduced his sentence. But he did admit he killed her and he told him what date and what he did. Count five, involuntary manslaughter, a felony of the first degree. How do you wish to plead guilty?

Rare pleaded guilty to four felonies, including involuntary manslaughter, tampering with evidence and gross abuse of a crime. corpse. A killer now facing nearly two decades in prison for killing Amanda Dean, a 36-year-old mother of four. There's no amount of time or effort or anything you can say that can be replacement of listening to the individual who killed your loved one finally fess up and plead guilty and pled guilty because he did it. It was very emotional. I think for everybody in the room, I think the family felt that they had so much love because so many people, family and friends came out to support them. Dean's family was in tears as they listened to 42-year-old Frederick Rear admit to killing his girlfriend Amanda Dean back in 2017.

But there's one haunting question still unanswered. What happened to Amanda's body? We don't even have a single piece of her. Not at all. Nothing. So, I mean, it's just. It's terrible.

It's nothing. It just sucks. Rare will be sentenced on January 5th, but today's outcome of victory for Amanda Dean's family who still hasn't given up on getting Amanda the justice she deserves. Court of all the case of Ohio versus Frederick Rear 2024-0991. Your Honor, we don't have very many clips of Amanda Dean

I wanted you to hear her voice, hear what she sounded like, We'll never see her again, listen to her again, talk to her again. You can't even visit a grave site. So the prosecution plays a video of Amanda, and it's of her celebrating the birth of her sister Stephanie's baby. I'm very, very happy and overwhelmed that we have a new baby. I have a new baby niece. It was always nice to see her walking and smile

and always be happy no matter what was going on in her life. She just always made sure everybody else felt, and happy and she wanted to make people laugh and she did. So I miss that too. I wish the best. I want to take a picture of you. Very beautiful. Yeah, perfect.

I have done my best to take Stephanie and her baby. If most people in that courtroom removed, there is one exception. Throughout everything, he just acted like he didn't care about anything. It pissed me off so bad. so bad the way he just wasn't caring about anything. But now is the time for the family to look at Amanda's killer in court and tell them how much they care, how much they feel.

It was hard for me to say anything. I struggled. I just, I was angry and just didn't know what else to say besides He's a terrible human being. Just, I got so mad, I just couldn't speak anymore. You killed her. You dismembered her, and you burned her precious body for days. Everyone was holding up a picture of Amanda.

Everyone. That courtroom was packed. Standing room only. There were people standing in the back, and every single one had a picture of Amanda. And I asked the family, why? Why was that so important to have Amanda so president? in that courtroom. And they said, because we wanted the last thing Fred Rear to see when he left that courtroom was Amanda. Your Honor, I stand before you today as the mother of Amanda Dean. Amanda was the youngest daughter of my three girls. She was my baby. For five and a half years,

we believed that she was coming home. Sadly, later we discovered she was never coming home. She was a little nervous, but, you know, I said to her, I mean, this is for you to deliver what you've wanted to say, because for the longest time, she's like, we want the world to know. We want the world to know Amanda. We want the world to know what happened to Amanda. And now is your opportunity. To Fred Rear, I cannot begin to describe the magnitude of what you took away when you killed my daughter. You took her away from all of us. Four sons must live without their mother.

Why, Fred? Why? We could not bring any part of my daughter home. We are loved with nothing. We cannot properly bury her. I can't even begin to tell you how bad this all hurts. I never imagine I'd lose my sister so early. I miss walking to Amanda. Forever is broken.

Fred didn't just take Amanda's life. He destroyed ours. I will never get the closure. I will never feel complete. And I will always carry this anger and sadness. Her death was not an accident. It wasn't an illness. It wasn't a freak accident.

It was the... It was cold-flooded murder. A pure monster did this. I had a whole thing prepared, and I ditched it last second, and I laid into him about him not caring. He shows no remorse for anything that he's done. He acts like he could care less to be here. When I used to come around there, he was a jerk.

He treated not only my mom bad, but me bad. She never saw any of us graduate. My brothers were still in middle school and freshmen's in high school. I had just graduated. She wasn't able to make it to that. She wasn't, she's not going to be able to make it when we get married. She's not going to be able to see any of her grandkids. When we have them, I have some right now. I have kids.

She won't be able to see that. He deserves everything he gets. I have no remorse for him. remorse for him whatsoever. I haven't forgiven him. I don't know if I will. Your Honor, the state echoes what you heard from the victims today and request that you sentenced the defendant to prison. Your Honor, I knew that the family was going to be asking for a maximum sentence than the state was. I'm not going to sit here and argue for probation or a minimum sentence. He acknowledged what

he did. He accepted responsibility for the crimes that he pled guilty to. Those Those are the crimes that he committed. So I would submit to you that a fair and just sentence is eight years with credit for time, sir. Thank you. Mr. Well, no, sir, I would just like to say, I'm sorry to the Dean family, sorry to my family, I'm sorry to the community.

Thank you, Your Honor, Coach. You know, on a scale of 100 for a sense of sincerity, I would put it about a negative 50 maybe. It was a facade at best. It was arrogant. It was not from the heart. There was no regret. there's no remorse, there's not anything.

I would impose the following sentence as to, count one, tinkering with evidence of felony of the third degree, that the court's going to impose a two-year prison sentence. On count two, gross abuse of a corpse of felony a fifth degree, a one-year prison sentence. Count five, an involuntary manslaughter, a felony of the first degree. Now the court's going to impose a nine-year prison sentence. As far as count, count,

six tampering with evidence of a felony to the third degree. The court is going to impose a two-year prison sentence there as well. The court is going to run those sentences consecutively to each other, the total of 14 years and that was the total sentence. It feels like a slap on the wrist for what this man did to Amanda. To kill someone and then to mutilate their body, to cut up another human. human being and put him on a fire? That is a different kind of evil.

That wasn't justice. Anybody else would have got way more time. I don't understand that. Amanda did not get justice like she should have got. And it's not fair. It's not right. In 14 years, Fred Rearer is going to be out of prison. Chief John Majoy says he is a threat. He's a killer. He's a cold-blooded killer. and he deserves to be locked up. But as if that's not enough, Frederick Greer adds insult to injury. Now anything further than the time.

We request a contact visit with his loving brother. I leave that determination up to the sheriff. As far as the institution, I will leave it up to their discretion. When he said, can I have a hug from my mother? Yeah, that was a slap on the face. Knowing my sister was not ever going to be able to hug her mother. Why should he get to hug his mother? Make sure to ask for it in front of everyone.

But Frederick Rear may not get the last word. As soon as Fred's sentencing the next day, a couple investigators from Pinellas County, Florida came in to question him about another missing person's case. In fact, Rear is currently a person of interest in two Florida cold cases, that 2018 missing persons case and that 2020 death of a former business partner. As for Amanda's story and her family's story, and her family's quest for justice, that too is far from over.

I am very honored to be able to work with two of our state representatives on a new law, hopefully revised law. And it is, I'm going to let them speak of it, but it is the gross abuse of a corpse. Now as far as the gross abuse of a corpse, what he did to her body, in Ohio, the the max you can get is one year for that. And it's Amanda's family who is fighting right now to have that punishment be changed, to have that be up to eight years in prison.

We're titling it Amanda Dean's law, and we hope with that law to strengthen penalties when someone commits these unspeakable acts of violence. It both help in this situation, but going forward, if we get this cast, we'll help. If I walk away from this job today, I would just be thankful for to have the opportunity to help these guys and to get to know them.

And I'm just glad to have had that opportunity to see that the person responsible for Amanda's death was convicted and sentenced. And again, you never get full closure, but at least they got another sense of closure where they can begin to move on with their lives. It's been a battle and uphill climb for us for eight and a half years.

Thank God we're at this point now, but there's just so much more to do in honor of Amanda that I know we can do as a family. I want her story to be out there and I want them to know how wonderful and beautiful this girl is and how loving she was and her smile and how it just brought smiles to the room. I want this has spread awareness to any person of like a domestic violence to situation. It's very unfortunate what happened to our mom, but I don't want anyone else to go through with that. I want people to know there's always a way out in the end. Even though our mom did not find a way out, there is always someone you can go to, he can talk to, and that you can get help.

This is an incredibly sad story, but it's also an inspiring one. When you think about the Dean family's perseverance to get answers. When you think about those around them who help them to get these answers, maybe this will give another family hope who is going through that pain of a missing loved one.