Ohio Mom of 4 Predicts Her Own Murder

(dramatic music) - If you would've gone 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? - Yeah. - Okay. Who else did Fred stay here? - Yeah. - Fred stay here. - They believed because the sheriff told them that she was still alive. They held on to that hope. - Where was the bedroom? Do you know? - Back there? - Yep. - I like Amanda and so did Paul. - Okay. - We don't have nothing bad to say. He would never charm anybody, either way. - 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 they're missing loved one was and they wanted help and they weren't getting it. - What happened in the camper? - Uh. (upbeat music) ♪ ♪ - Amanda 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 in 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. There are no real close neighborhoods, houses on top of another, anything like that. Not very congested, minimal traffic. Not really a crime ridden in the area, if you will. - When 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 weeks, but then I got a text from Ren saying no Amanda in the cabin. Ren is Fred's mother. Fred is 34-year-old Fredrick 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 persons 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 had been living on his parent's 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 parent's 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 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, 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 I definitely had a lot of energy. And she was always there when he needed her to help with anything. And she never made anything boring, that's for sure. - She was a fun one. - She was very, she was very fun. Every time she'd come over, she's always taking us somewhere. - Really don't even have any bad memories with my mom. - Yeah, me neither. - It's 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 Rear. - I'm not 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 10 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. 'Cause 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 here in County Sheriff's Office. And they said, can you please come to Sheriff's Office? We have some information about your daughter, Amanda. And we didn't know what we were gonna hear. So that was the longest journey for me. 'Cause I, you know, just traveling, they're 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. He told us that she had been located and she was in a safe house and she has been all taken care of. - Nothing else mattered, you know, it didn't. Because I needed to know my girl was 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. So I just was like, okay, cool, she's safe. 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 safe. And so, you know, they're going to believe them because that's law enforcement. - The Sheriff even calls off the bull. 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 why, 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 Corbin a 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. Shane and 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 long force and perspective, you know, 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's still holding out hope that she will come home. And this is Amanda's mom, Caroline Tokar, 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 present at Cleveland Missing, and so I was working with Sylvia Cologne on the case, and trying to do my part as a liaison to law enforcement. And 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, at somber moment, because somebody's finally listening to them. When Cleveland Missing stepped in, when chief John Majoy got involved, got BCI to step 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 hoped one day they'll be reunited with her. But before the family could 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 person's 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. Cleveland Missing had flyers, very beautiful done flyers of Amanda, that we could put out at local locations to try and search for. 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 happen 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 that 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 almost looking for a needle in a thousand haystacks. But they did give it a good effort. When police interview Frederick Rear's family members who still live at the property, they get what may be a clue. Was it Amanda ever back here? Yeah. She was? Yep. Where are 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's friend's brother, with going around like when they interviewed him saying that they asked what happened to Amanda like this. Yeah. And he visualized it. Because he can't speak very well. He saw a test day. Now 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 texted me when she had the chance and she said you made the situation a little bit worse, 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 of the 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 revealed 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 end up always going back. Now these new investigators have a clear 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 the 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 out the mess, the bloody mess with rags. There was another witness. They said he was burning at a burn pile for four days. And that he was burning a man for four days. After he chopped her up. He chopped her up. And then it remains he took it in the bucket and took it to the creek. There was a comment about putting her in a blue barrel and things like that. Those comments can't be dismissed. Although there's no smoking gun, police have gathered enough circumstantial evidence to arrest Fredrick Rear. 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 with the Sheriff's Department, never did. Fred Rear was indicted. So years after a man to went missing, investigators go to the rear property and take Fredrick into custody. Hi, Miranda. This is Fredrick Rear. - She's good. - That's all right. You got some shoes? - Yeah, a nerry. - Okay. - What is up? - I don't have a warrant for your rest. - I've got it. - I've got some shoes. - I've got it, I've got it, I've got it. - What'd you stay right here for? - Did you get anything with you? - Oh, no. - It's super. - Okay. - Why don't I warrant my rest? - Yeah. - That's a lie. - Why do you think? What are we been talking about? - To see something that had been going on and working with us family and getting as close as I've gotten with the 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 us later 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 gonna get caught. His general demeanor was, you know, I got away with this, prove it. - Yeah. - How long you been in it? - 36 years. - What the hell don't you read that? (laughing) - I'm still having fun. - You're having fun, you're killing me, huh? - I don't think so. - All right, so I come on outside. - In terms of a sigh of relief from the family, 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. - Well, that's something that's a jail thing, but they'll be doing that once he gets to the jail, he gets booked in, okay? - Okay. (waves crashing) - Investigators never stop looking for Amanda Dean, and with the help of Cleveland Missing, her family is getting answers. Newberg 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 were tears, there were smiles, there were hugs, and there were 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 piles, rags and disposing of the bloody sheets from the bed at or near the shack that Fred Rear lifted in with Amanda Dean. It is not my investigation, my suggestion is to consult your attorney. - You know, he's gotten away with it for years. He knew what he did, and so he was gonna 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 arrangement for murder, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence from this case back in 2017. - The evidence had shown that that he killed her, he dismembered her, he burned her for over three days, and when he found out that these bones are not gonna disintegrate, then at that point, he decided to take the bones, throw them over a bridge into a river, to a stream, and then done and done. - So we'll never have, or 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, didn't care. He wouldn't even look up at anybody. - I've been to every single pre-trial. 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. - As hard, there's a lot of emotions going around. Obviously I couldn't do anything to him. I've wanted to, but I couldn't do. - I could tell by it just his face alone, when we first seen him, he did not care about what he did. There was no, nothing behind those eyes. - They didn't look at us the whole time. - Here are 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 as Cleveland Missing was trying to prepare the family because they look at this and they're like, well he's pleading not guilty. Well, he's gonna plead not guilty. Forrest the prosecution to make their case. - Prosecution does have strong circumstantial evidence, but they are missing that one thing that would help them clinch this case. - The prosecution knew 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, some 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 a man to deal. - You know, Fred Rear was given a proper and basically the proffers 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 man his 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, so, 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. They had like this emotion coming over them that 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. 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 use originally charged with, went to an involuntary manslaughter charge and handed up with two counts of tampering with evidence and one gross abuse of a corpse charge. So, it did definitely reduce the sentence, but he didn't met he killed her, and he could told him what date and what he did. (soft music) - Counting five involuntary manslaughter, a felony of the first degree, how do you wish it could go to him? - Rear pleaded guilty to four felonies, including involuntary manslaughter, tampering with evidence and gross abuse of a 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, fast up and plead guilty, and plead 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 it's terrible, it's not good, it just sucks. - Rear 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 judge. as she deserves. >> [INAUDIBLE] >> Your honor, we don't have very many clips of Amanda Dean. I want you to hear her voice. Hear what you sounded like. We'll never see her again. We'll 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. So. >> It was always nice to see her walking in smile and always be happy no matter what was going on in her life. She just always made sure her way out felt good and happy and she wanted to make people laugh and she did. >> I miss that too. >> I wish the best. >> What do we want to take a picture of you? >> Can I be a friend for you? >> Yes, please. >> I have done my best to take Stephanie and her baby. >> If most people in that courtroom are moved, there is one exception. >> Throughout everything, he just acted like he didn't care about anything. >> It pissed me off 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 the terrible human being. 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 are 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 present 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 believe that she was coming home. Sadly, later we discovered she was never coming home. >> She was a little nervous, but 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 or 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 imagined I'd lose my sister so early. And this is fucking too, 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 cold-blooded murder. A peer 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 in high school. I had just graduated. She wasn't able to make it to that. 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 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 requests that you sentence the defendant to prison. >> Your Honor, I knew that the family was going to be asking for a maximum sentence in 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 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. >> This is the defendant who should arrest the court? >> I'm not sure. I would just like to say I'm sorry to the family. I'm sorry to the community. Thank you, Your Honor. Go. We'll be sure you come. >> You know, on a scale of one to one hundred for a sense of sincerity, I would put it about a negative fifty maybe. It was a facade at best. It was arrogant. It was not from the heart. There was no regret. There was no remorse. There's not anything. The court would impose the following sentence as to count one, tampering with evidence of felony of the third degree. Of course, going to impose a two-year prison sentence. I count two gross abuse of the course of felony of the fifth degree of one year of prison sentence. To count five, an involuntary manslaughter of felony of the first degree. Then, of course, going to impose a nine-year prison sentence. As far as counting six, tampering with evidence of felony of the third degree, the court is going to impose a two-year prison sentence there as well. The court isn't going to run those sentences consecutively to each other on the course for a few years. That was a 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 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 Rear is going to be out of prison. Chief John Mahjoy 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. Fredric Rear adds insult to injury. Now, anything further than that? We repress a contact with this woman, brother. I think that determination up to this year. As far as the institution, I believe it up to their discretion. When he said, "Can I have a hug from my mother?" Yeah, that was just like that. 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 Fredric Rear may not get the last word. As soon as Fred sentencing the next day, a couple investigators from Penel's County for it came in to question about another missing person's case. In fact, Rear is currently a person of interest in two Florida cold cases, that 2018 missing person's case, and that 2020 death of a former business partner. As for Amanda'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 my safe representatives on a new long, hopefully revised long. And it is, I'm not gonna 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 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 tackling Amanda Dean's law, and we hope with that law, to strengthen penalties when someone commits. Are these unspeakable acts of my life? It will help in this situation, but going forward and we get this cast will 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 a man's death was convicted and sentenced. And 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. 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 to spread awareness to any person of like a domestic violence 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, and even though our mom did not find a way out, there is always someone you can go to, you 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. [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO]