Amanda Dean case: Indictment raises new questions about Huron County Sheriff's Office
· 14.02.2024 · 01:48:49 ··· ··· Wednesday ·· 3 (3)
WKYC Channel 3 The recent murder indictment in the case involving Amanda Dean's former boyfriend has prompted new questions about how the Huron County Sheriff's Office handled the case before handing it off to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI).
The Board president of Cleveland Missing says — based on what he's read, seen, and heard — he believes the sheriff's office had "dropped the ball" on Amanda's case.
From the beginning of her disappearance from Collins six and a half years ago, Dean's family knew something was off, but they said they struggled to get answers or help from law enforcement.
In a March 2020 interview with the 3News Investigates team, Amanda's mother Caroline Tokar said she believed her daughter's boyfriend — Frederick Reer — had abused her. Her worst fear was that Amanda was dead, even though the sheriff's office was telling her she was alive.
"I just don't believe my daughter would go this long without contacting her boys, her sisters, and her mom," Tokar said at the time, roughly two and a half years after Dean first went missing.
During that same investigative story in 2020, Sheriff Todd Corbin told WKYC his team was initially investigating Amanda Dean as a missing person's case. However, they stopped the investigation, he said, after a domestic violence shelter told him she was living there.
"[The domestic violence shelter] explained the protocol is that they don't normally relay that information, 'But for purposes of what you're doing, we'll just say that [Amanda's] fine,'" Corbin told 3News at the time. "'She's in a good place and she's okay and she's being cared for.'"
But that timeline doesn’t add up to the dates in recent court documents obtained by 3News over the weekend. Matt Rascon reports.
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