r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/Visible-Function-958 • Oct 13 '24
POTM - Oct 2024 Missing teens remains found in freezer
UPDATE: Looks like Amanda's Mother and Father (stepfather) moved into their home after she disappeared. Their names are Leanne Overstreet Imer and Bradley Overstreer Imer and Leanne is still a Grand Junction resident though no charges have been filed.
Link below for further details:
Amanda Overstreet, a 16 year old Colorado teenager last seen walking to school in 2005, has been found after someone found hands and a head in a freezer that was left in a home that the new homeowner's placed for sale. Apparently the freezer was left in the home after it was sold and the people who purchased the freezer found the body parts when they picked it up. DNA testing was performed and authorities determined they belonged to Amanda, who was the daughter of the previous owner of the home. According to police, no missing person's report was ever filed and it appears no one was ever looking for Amanda.
I think it's pretty clear that Amanda was killed by someone close to her, whether that be her parents/guardian or another family member who had access to the home. Not sure if the original homeowner is alive or why they left the freezer behind when the home was sold but I'm sure we'll have more updates in the coming weeks and months.
https://www.livenowfox.com/news/amanda-overstreet-missing-body-parts-freezer-colorado
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u/wildwackyride Oct 13 '24
The most obvious suspects are her parents or caregivers??
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u/Visible-Function-958 Oct 13 '24
It would be the most reasonable assumption because I can't imagine why they wouldn't report her missing đ
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u/wildwackyride Oct 13 '24
Is there any mention of who or where they are? Neither article had much info to go off.
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u/Visible-Function-958 Oct 13 '24
I couldn't find any articles that contained anymore information than what was in those two articles, unfortunately. I'm sure there'll be more information coming soon, now that we have a name of the deceased and a direct relationship to the home.
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u/tenderhysteria Oct 13 '24
If a parent or guardian doesnât even bother to report a child missing, especially after years have passed, they should be aggressively investigated by police, first and foremost.
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u/rowanstars Nov 04 '24
The sad fact is the USA doesnât care about children in the slightest despite hemming and hawing about protecting kids and them being the future all the time.
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u/Try2MakeMeBee Oct 13 '24
Haven't scrolled enough to find sources but this one gives a lot of info
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u/coffeelife2020 Oct 16 '24
In particular, this was quite an insight: https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1g1r3eh/dismembered_remains_found_in_freezer_identified/lrjw5sx/
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u/Unique-Calligrapher5 Oct 13 '24
Dumb question: how do they have her DNA to compare to if she was never reported missing?
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u/Visible-Function-958 Oct 13 '24
I questioned that as well and since there is very limited information on this case, I can only surmise two things: they received a voluntary or court mandated DNA sample from the previous homeowner or other occupants after the body was discovered in January or they used familial DNA to make the match. I think either option is feasible, but no way to know for sure yet.
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u/tehanichance Oct 13 '24
IIRC They use forensics genealogy to try and match a DNA sample to any possible family members who have DNA in a system somewhere. This essentially means that the police can identify a lot of people from their DNA, so long as they get legal access to the right databases.
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u/Recent-Locksmith9806 Oct 14 '24
The mother of Amanda says somewhere on fb assuming she is the mother that there house was flooded and the insurance company were not helping out and due to financial reasons they lost there home and basically it sounds like it was some kind of forced mortgage sale ect and that they were horders and the next person who had to clean up the mess maybe kept the freezer they found that was maybe still plugged in to the electricity who knows Maybe when they left there they knew Amanda was in there but didnât care as Amandaâs mum said she had run away so they maybe figured that the freezer maybe would have been taken to the dump unfortunately and Amanda would probably never be found so sad
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u/Visible-Function-958 Oct 14 '24
This is pretty much one of the scenarios I had in my mind: a foreclosure or being forced to perform a short sale on the home. They couldn't take their belongings for one reason or another (foreclosure prevented it, didn't have the resources to move everything, etc) and that's why the freezer was left behind.
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u/Recent-Locksmith9806 Oct 14 '24
Exactly I have known people by living in a big complex building that when there home was a forced mortgage sale they had left brand new washer machine still in plastic and brand new oven still in packaging.Also left a lot of other stuff as well,Iâve seen an older person not being able to afford his mortgage so his home was sold and he had just spent thousands of dollars on a new kitchen,flooring and total new bathroom.These units at a forced mortgage sale sell for a totally low amount and the people that lived there basically leave everything there and just take what they can carry with them.
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u/Recent-Locksmith9806 Oct 14 '24
Yes a foreclosure will also prevent you from taking anything that the bank can recover costs from
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u/boxofsquirrels Oct 13 '24
Didn't neighbors say they remembered seeing Amanda outside the house from time to time? Now it sounds like she never lived there.
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u/Visible-Function-958 Oct 13 '24
There is so much conflicting information out there right now. I'm wondering if the reports that she hasn't been seen since 2005 was by her friends/relatives in TX before they moved to CO?
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u/PsychoFaerie Oct 13 '24
In regards to the school not calling a welfare check they may have but If the local children/family services didn't have the resources they may not have been able to (I remember when the one in my hometown had almost no one in the office due to budget cuts and it took them several years to recover) Or just didn't notice .. or didn't make any effort because she was 17 and in the teacher's mind could have left for a myriad of reasons if the parents didn't call the school. I know teachers are mandated reporters but once they make the phonecall its out of their hands.
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u/Visible-Function-958 Oct 13 '24
I don't hold the school or teachers responsible for not reporting. They might have and like you said, they may have been dismissed. This was almost 20 years ago and timed truly were different so it's very possible that multiple people tried to report Amanda missing and it just fell on deaf ears. It's truly sad all the way around.
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u/captainp42 Oct 13 '24
You're looking to sell an old freezer.
You don't remove the contents?
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u/Visible-Function-958 Oct 13 '24
There's a lot about this that doesn't make sense. It appears Amanda's family purchased the home after she disappeared. So that means they brought her remains with them when they moved...and then left her when they sold the home in January? Did they forget about her remains being in the freezer? Were they forced to sell the home and couldn't take their belongings with them? I'm very confused.
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u/nupaqk Oct 13 '24
This is pretty much the way quick flippers of goods, properties and assets think and operate. Especially applies for home flippers/resellers. They generally don't go through the time to sift through and process everything. The goal is to move the house the soonest and with the least time and money spent; bigger priority in that case is any necessary house remodeling. This family's home, in particular, had been a hoarder house. So the reseller who bought it from the family was pretty much trying to get rid of all the junk as quick as possible, which means giving away most/all of the excess for free; including the freezer. Handling the freezer properly before moving it would require waiting for all of the ice to melt, cleaning it up thoroughly, checking for defects, and of course, handling any leftover content. Not on their dime, especially since they were giving it away for free.
I read in another post that the reseller very much proved to be the stereotype, despite the gruesome discovery. They did their due processing with the police and as soon as they were cleared, finished their work with the house and sold it, and moved onto the next property.
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u/blacksheepandmail Oct 14 '24
Darn, I would not want to purchase a place that holds such tragic history.
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u/theresajays Oct 14 '24
They only found the head and hands?? Where is the rest of the poor girl?
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u/Visible-Function-958 Oct 14 '24
I read ssomewhere that the police had already searched the property for additional remains and found none. My best guess is they kept the head and hands to prevent identification and discarded the rest of her remains somewhere. This was back in the mid-2000s and forensics identification wasn't as advanced as it is now and CSI was big on TV so a lot of people knew you could identify decedents using fingerprints, dental work, facial reconstruction, and hair samples.
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u/Recent-Locksmith9806 Oct 14 '24
Probably in the backyard unfortunately they will have to dig it all up
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u/Wooden_Airport6331 Oct 30 '24
Iâm guessing they disposed of her a little bit at a time. The head was in a garbage bag filled with fish filets at the bottom of a freezer. Iâm guessing they had other pieces of her similarly packed and just threw them in the trash little by little over the course of the last 20 years. Itâs sad and scary to think how easily they could have done the same with her head and she could have never ever been found at all, and since she wasnât reported missing, no one would even know she was gone.
My heart breaks for this poor little girl.
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u/ClimateAntique1225 Oct 14 '24 edited Oct 14 '24
Why did the school never inquire about her just randomly not showing up for school and no one at the school or in the community or friends thought it was odd that this girl randomly disappears without warning or a word and the parents are still living in the house? I have tried to find out more info, but there's not a lot. I feel like I am learning more about this from this thread vs the news.
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u/Visible-Function-958 Oct 14 '24
From what I've gathered, the family moved to Grand Junction from TX and her friends/loved ones in TX were trying to report her missing but the police wouldn't file the report.
From this information, I'm guessing that when they moved to Grand Junction Amanda was already deceased OR she was never enrolled in school there to begin with. If the latter is correct then the school district would not know to check on her. If she were enrolled, it's possible that an overburdened system prevented them from properly reporting her disappearance or the school did report her absence and it got lost in the mix.
Regardless, I'm thankful the events transpired as they did with the foreclosure or else we may not have discovered her remains until every person responsible for her death or who was at least aware of it were deceased.
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u/ClimateAntique1225 Oct 14 '24
Thank you for the information, I appreciate it. Also, I completely agree with you, on being thankful that she was finally found.
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u/sheepnwolf89 Oct 20 '24
Why didn't they have any pictures of the poor girl?! đ
Why is it taking so long to arrest the mom? Is it because she is disabled?
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u/Visible-Function-958 Oct 20 '24
I genuinely don't know on either accounts. This case hurts my â¤ď¸
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u/SissyWasHere Oct 13 '24
This is the craziest story. The mother has to be in on it, right? Because otherwise she would have reported her missing!
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u/graceandguilt Oct 13 '24
Yes. Friends looking for Amanda even messaged her on FB and she said things like âI havenât spoken to her in years. I think she lives in another state and changed her name.â
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u/trashpandaexpress90 Oct 13 '24
Do you think she was in on it, or maybe brainwashed/ believing what she wanted to believe under the influence of an abuser who killed Amanda? Without knowing her, I can see both possibilities.
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u/black_cat_X2 Oct 13 '24
Since Amanda lived with her grandmother from age 3 until the grandmother died, I'm going to assume she was never mother of the year.
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u/wolf_at_the_door1 Jul 04 '25
This case is wild. From everything Iâve seen, Leanna looks extremely guilty.
She never filed a missing persons report
She was the last to see her and talk to her
Shes very insistent she ran away while family members say she overdosed and they had a secret burial
Leanneâs history with CPS for neglect and sexual abuse. She moved to CO so she could have custody of Elsie, her second child. She was unable to have custody of a child in TX.
Amandaâs hands and head found in her deep freezer in her home. I donât know how this isnât the smoking gun that it is and why Leanne hasnât been charged yet mystifies me.
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u/Exotic-Professor5570 Oct 13 '24
âIt appears no one was ever looking for Amandaâ fuck this world
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u/devsmess Oct 13 '24
Her friends were looking for her, the people who loved her were. Those people just weren't her family. the ones that control the narrative... so horrible...
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u/TTEH3 Oct 14 '24
Do you have a source?
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u/peach_xanax Oct 31 '24
I know daily mail isn't the best source, but they're the only site that has some of this info. Friends of Amanda's have been looking for her since at least 2017, there are messages from that time between a relative of Amanda's and a friend.
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u/rowanstars Nov 04 '24
My god, itâs glaringly obvious the mother killed her. How the fuck isnât she in prison? She claimed the girl ran away before she bought the house, and yet the body parts were found in the house. Itâs so clear itâs almost bringing me to tears how enraged I am. Why do people not care about children and teenagers. Why are so many adults absolutely evil and why the hell are NO police doing their jobs???
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u/rowanstars Nov 04 '24
My god, itâs glaringly obvious the mother killed her. How the fuck isnât she in prison? She claimed the girl ran away before she bought the house, and yet the body parts were found in the house. Itâs so clear itâs almost bringing me to tears how enraged I am. Why do people not care about children and teenagers. Why are so many adults absolutely evil and why the hell are NO police doing their jobs???
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u/SeeYouInTrees Oct 13 '24
That means they got rid of her body parts and kept those so she couldn't be identified. So sad!
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u/Cat_o_meter Oct 13 '24
She was murdered by her parents. I can't imagine killing my child much less doing that to their body .. What the hell
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u/Glittering_Speech_24 Oct 13 '24
Your description confused me a little bit so what happened was the body was found after the new owner had given the freezer away for free. The person picking it up was discarding the left over meat, andâŚ
Anyways, the current buyer (who was giving the freezer away) bought it from Amandaâs mother, who seemed to be a hoarder.
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u/devsmess Oct 13 '24
Did... did the guy... still take the freezer?
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u/Accomplished_Cell768 Oct 14 '24
Iâm gonna hazard a guess that the police took it as evidence, along with all of the contents.
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u/Sci_Insist1 Oct 13 '24
Considering the change in ownership of the house and its contents, it's likely that they've been waiting for identification before filing charges.
Now that this information is public, investigators need to move quickly. There is likely only one person left alive who can tell Amanda's story, and if that person dies, it may never be solved.
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u/cocoabeach Oct 13 '24
Is there anything saying what state of mind she is in? Maybe she lost her mind, and actually had no idea or memory of her dead daughter in her freezer.
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u/ed8907 Oct 13 '24
Amanda Overstreet, a 16 year old Colorado teenager last seen walking to school in 2005, has been found after someone found hands and a head in a freezer that was left in a home that the new homeowner's placed for sale.
This stuff is straight out of Criminal Minds, absolutely horrible.
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u/Visible-Function-958 Oct 13 '24
Could you imagine going to someone's house to buy a freezer and you find body parts in it? I would INSTANTLY be terrified that these people lured me to their house to kill me.
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u/ed8907 Oct 13 '24
I found this on another subreddit
In January, according to a neighbor, the new owners of the Grand Junction house held a garage sale to get rid of things that the previous owners had left behind. Among those items they were looking to sell was a deep freezer.
The neighbor said some people showed up to buy the freezer and when they opened it up to remove the meat, a human head fell out of a plastic bag.
This is horrible
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u/naalbinding Oct 13 '24
Could you imagine being a murderer and just forgetting that there were human remains in the freezer you're selling?
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u/mikareno Oct 13 '24
And they asked to use her restroom. I can't believe they wanted to go inside that house after finding body parts in the freezer.
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u/orange_jooze Oct 13 '24
It was a neighborâs restroom, not the same home. Probably needed to barf.
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u/ed8907 Oct 13 '24
I found this on another subreddit
In January, according to a neighbor, the new owners of the Grand Junction house held a garage sale to get rid of things that the previous owners had left behind. Among those items they were looking to sell was a deep freezer.
The neighbor said some people showed up to buy the freezer and when they opened it up to remove the meat, a human head fell out of a plastic bag.
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u/Dependent-Bike-8122 Oct 13 '24
Everyone in this thread assumes the head and hands were the only things in the freezer. If it had tons of stuff in it, then the body parts may not have been visible on a cursory glance. If I didnât plan keep it and was going to sell it as is, why would I search through a bunch of old crap?? Thatâs the new ownerâs problem ;)
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u/Electronic_Many_7721 Oct 13 '24
Who leaves behind a freezer with their murder victim still in it? And, who doesn't open a freezer received in a home sale before selling it?
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u/Molliver_twist Oct 13 '24
I think the previous owner/possible murderer passed way in 2021. Maybe he was the only one who knew she was in there?
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u/graceandguilt Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 13 '24
Stepdad died in 2021. Mom lost the home and everything was sold as-is. It was a hoarder house.
ETA: Bio mom is still alive. Grandmother who raised her from age 3 on died in 2005 which is when Amanda moved in with bio mom and stepdad.
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u/fidgetypenguin123 Oct 13 '24
Geez I guess it's safe to say either one of them or both of them were the murderers then. Mom has some explaining to do. And it would suck if the stepdad evaded justice all those years and not be able to face time if he was involved. So sad for Amanda, first losing her grandmother that raised her then having her life taken (and who knows what else was going on before that) by her mom and/or stepdad.
On a side note, I'm wondering what made her have to be raised by her grandmother to begin with only for her to be sent back to her mom after the grandmother was gone anyway.
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u/hereandspinch Oct 13 '24
How do you know it was a hoarder house? That makes a lot of sense cause so much stuff is forgotten about in those. (Genuinely asking, I'm not being bitchy lol)
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u/partialcremation Oct 13 '24
If that's the case, I wonder why the mother never reported her missing.
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u/xCeeTee- Oct 13 '24
She was in on the murder. Ain't no way a parent's going to not report them missing unless they told them they're running away. And since they was sighted walking to school, it doesn't seem like she was running away. Although she would've done if she knew what was going to happenâšď¸
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abusive men will target single mothers with history of abuse or mental health issues for access to their finances, free labor and access to their children so they can abuse them. they create an insular environment that can breed denial, resentment and competition between the mother and children. and the cherry on top about this story is living in a hoarder house (I lived in a hoarder house) where they don't care about hygiene and clutter and will actively fight you if you try cleaning or getting rid of stuff. you literally can't invite people over or study which isolates you more and sets you up for failure so you have to stay with dysfunctional people longer than necessary or forever.
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u/mysteriouscattravel Oct 13 '24
The same type of person to leave behind a barrel with the body of your former pregnant mistress when you sell a home.
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u/Nearby-Complaint Oct 13 '24
Amanda was dearly missed, and had friends looking for all these years, yet LE apparently wouldn't let them report her missing as non-family members.