The head and hands of a 16-year-old girl who was last seen in 2005 has been discovered in a freezer by someone who was collecting the free appliance by the new owner of a recently sold home, police said.
The incident initially took place nine months ago on Jan. 12 when the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado received a call regarding a “suspicious incident” in the 2900 block of Pinyon Avenue in Grand Junction, approximately 240 miles west of Denver near Colorado’s border with Utah, according to a statement from the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office.
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“Through DNA testing, the victim is identified as Amanda Leariel Overstreet,” law enforcement announced. “Amanda is believed to have been approximately 16 years old at the time of her disappearance. Overstreet has not been seen or heard from since April 2005.”
That’s crazy. They killed their 16-year old daughter 19 years ago and kept her head and hands (to prevent ID of the body I presume)?
And then what, forgot? Or was it probate? Just so weird.
Also…
“The house was purchased, fully remodeled, and sold to the current owner."
Someone managed to “fully remodel” a place without checking a freezer that was there? Remodeling might be one thing, but selling the whole place, and no-one checked?
Not that there isn’t a lot of creepiness going on with this in general, but it wouldn’t be crazy to remodel without emptying a freezer. Assuming they weren’t on top of the rest of the food, stuff in the bottom of a freezer can easily be overlooked for years
Maybe not “crazy” but definitely unusual.
Could be an interesting short horror story in that idea: toward the end of the lockdown, primary character is notified that their aunt and uncle are dying or have died. Took everyone by surprise since they were generally healthy but it was a sudden decline that put them both out of commission almost simultaneously. Aunt and uncle were a couple newspaper stacks shy of being full-blown hoarders before the pandemic but supply chain disruptions and panic-buying had sent them over the edge. Now their living space is dominated by buckets of freeze-dried macaroni, tubs of horse de-wormer and mountains of toilet paper.
Primary character takes the lead on cleaning out their home, doing some minor repairs and finding the appropriate assortment of tradespeople to handle the specialized work before putting the property up for sale. Slowly but surely, the hired crew and relatives conquer the clutter and find themselves having a good time working together in spite of the family’s grief and the enormity of the task.
Last minor details before putting it on the market are nearly done so to celebrate, primary character fires up the grill for a proper Fast and Furious family and friends finale. They’ll probably still end up throwing out most of what’s in the big freezer chest but this would make a dent at least.
In this comment section, it’s pretty obvious where the story is going. End with a big reveal to the crowd from a deep-diving freezer-rummager or let the primary character discover the truth alone afterward so they’re stuck with the knowledge of what happened and a decision to make on how to handle it.
It’s possible they just died and a relative sold the house without knowing anything about the freezer. The article doesn’t mention anything about cops looking for a suspect, so they probably just closed the case.
From the article:
The investigation into Overstreet’s death remains ongoing.
pokes at internet. If my random poking at the internet is right, the mom had her when she was about 20, and later married a new guy who became the stepfather. The new guy was about ten years older than the mom (they were about 36 and 45 when Amanda disappeared). He died of covid in July 2021; I couldn’t find anything on whether the mom is still alive today (she was alive in 2021).
The interesting thing to me is Amanda disappeared in 2005, and the house was sold in 2013. I’m not interested enough to pay for the sequence of ownership, but it means that either the parents moved into that house and brought the freezer with them, or that someone bought the house from the parents and didn’t touch the freezer for over a decade. Or they opened it, ignored what they found, and kept living there for another decade? This is weird.
Disclaimer: I’m not an murderer of step children, but … If I were to commit an illegal act and had evidence of it, I wouldn’t just leave frozen hands and a head around. It would make the most sense to me that he moved it around with him.
discovered in a freezer by someone who was collecting the free appliance by the new owner of a recently sold home
Well… someone just ended up needing a lifetime of psychotherapy…
