Body parts in freezer identified as girl missing since 2005

What a confusingly-written article. She's been missing since 2005 but she was never reported missing? Huh?

She hasn't been seen or heard from since 2005. Her mother and step-father never filed a missing persons report. Her friends have been searching for her but since they're not family members the police wouldn't take a report. Stepdad died in 2021 and mom sold the house including the freezer and skipped town.

[quote] She hasn't been seen or heard from since 2005. Her mother and step-father never filed a missing persons report.

Isn't that kind of suspicious that her own parents wouldn't report a minor as missing?

Meh, things like this happen sometimes.

They killed her. I read in another article that the mom told people Amanda had moved to another state and changed her name.

Patsy, care to weigh in?

Atta, girl. We Colorado moms get things done.

Sounds to me like the parents just accidentally froze their daughter and forgot about it.

^They sent her into the basement for some Klondike Bars and she just never returned...

Bet the stepdad was diddling her, mom found out and blamed her daughter for "tempting her man", stepdad killed the abused kid, they cut her up together and tossed her in the deep freezer.

Oh my God!!

So the mother is out there, somewhere,?

Bio mom on the lam.

Deranged and disgusting to think that the mother and stepdad were living their lives in this house with the daughter’s severed head and hands in their garage freezer for almost two decades. I cannot fathom it. It’s also insane that the mother would sell the house and leave it behind to be discovered by the new owners. I hope the police are able to track down this sick cunt and lock her away.

R14 where does it say when the new owners bought this house with the macabre deep freezer? Maybe they are the ones who lived 10-20 years with the unknown surprise. At the very least, they paid to run that machine all the time they lived in the house and never thought to empty it?

There’s a lot to unpack here

I can imagine the mom doing her daily errands, driving, sipping her Starbucks coffee - then her eyes bugging out after remembering she left her daughter’s head in the freezer she just gave away. Like she left the stove on or something. She probably merged onto the interstate and kept driving south to the border.

Fred and Rosemary West infamous UK serial killers buried their daughter Heather in the garden and Fred built a patio over her. They would scold the other kids saying, "smarten up or you'll end up like Heather".

R16 and a lot to defrost.

Oops. Would you mind mailing that back to me?

How can a house that has been “completely remodeled” still have a freezer with a body in it?

People just don't completely remodel like they used to.

There are a lot of fun and beautiful Halloween crafts you can make at home with a frozen head

Do you think they still used the freezer all that time? Like every night they'd go to grab a frozen dinner and say hello to their daughter's head?

Martha - do I need to thaw it first?

Like a lot of things that accumulate in a garage or basement, they forgot probably the freezer was there and piled stuff on top of it and around it.

You should always wrap food with aluminum foil to avoid freezer burn. Never plastic bags

This is no longer a cold case.

[quote]they forgot probably the freezer was there

In the twenty-first century, is it possible to "forget" that you have a freezer with a severed head and arms (hands attached)?

Does anyone else have a recurring dream that they’ve left a body somewhere like a closet and it’s gonna be discovered?

When pressed by the police, the mother described the relationship with her daughter as frosty. But friends closer to the family said the mother often described her daughter as a stone cold bitch.

I feel guilty for laughing at r31's post.

Wouldn’t a welfare check resolved this a lot earlier? Maybe you don’t need to provide evidence the person is ok

stone cold cadaver

R29: They murdered and dismembered here. I doubt that that guilt is a major emotional force their lives.

It is a bit surprising, but this is far from the only case in which homeowners left behind stored evidence of a murder.

Nobody noticed her absence? Her teachers, friends, neighbors... What was their cover story?

People did notice but if the parents don't care and the cops won't investigate what else can they do?

They didn't investigate because she was never reported missing by anyone.

Because the cops would only file a report if a family member requested it. But her family members were the ones who killed her so that obviously wasn't going to happen.

You cannot convince me there isnt a portal to hell in Colorado. Way too much weird evil shit happens there.

Superior staging on the part of the real estate agent. Two thumbs up!

I rolled a snowball down the mountain that turned into an avalanche, Oui?

[quote]They didn't investigate because she was never reported missing by anyone.

They didn't investigate because she was never reported missing by anyone [bold]with legal standing.[/bold]

The weird part is that in 19 years they never disposed of the body. Makes me think this wasn't the result of an accident but something very sick and twisted.

[quote]Fred and Rosemary West infamous UK serial killers buried their daughter Heather in the garden and Fred built a patio over her. They would scold the other kids saying, "smarten up or you'll end up like Heather".

They should've planted heather with a sign stating what it was. Talk about hiding in plain sight.

R45. It’s not without precedent. There was a Nee Jersey businessman who kept his mistress’s body in a barrel in his basement for 50 years. He left it there when he moved. The new owners obviously didn’t want a barrel cluttering the basement and quickly discovered the body. The killer committed suicide to avoid prosecution.

There are several cases of women keeping dead babies in freezers for several years at least. Véronique Coujault is one example, but there are several others.

What the hell is going in in this thread? Some of the comments here are srsly fucking moronic. Did a bunch of ditzy Fraus stumble upon DL for the first time because of the publicity this story is getting?

[quote]The weird part is that in 19 years they never disposed of the body. Makes me think this wasn't the result of an accident but something very sick and twisted.

How does one's severed head and hands "accidentally" end up in a deep freezer?

[quote]Isn't that kind of suspicious that her own parents wouldn't report a minor as missing?

I think you're onto something, Columbo!

R48, you're calling out others, but you're being pretty dumb yourself. I obviously was referring to her death when I used accident. Chopping her up and putting her in a freezer was of course not accidental. JFC.

A girl in the freezer? Ewwwwww….

Wait - so the girl didn't go to school? Dropped out? How does a 16 year old disappear and no notice? No investigation?

Well lest we forget, our community's own Dorian Corey had a mummified body, wrapped in saran wrap, in a trunk in her closet for decades until it was discovered upon her death in 1993.

I don't think enforcing the truancy laws is much of a thing in Colorado. Most people in a mountain town probably don't understand the value of education anyway.

Sometimes small foreign factions are very active

Freezer? JHC , Helen I thought you were going to take care of the freezer. Did you leave a forwarding address?

Will an average head fit in an Instant Pot? Thinking Thanksgiving ideas, here. . .

R56, you can add a decorate touch and fill the head with raisins and rice pilaf!

[Quote] They killed her.

Nothing gets past you.

[Quote] I can imagine the mom doing her daily errands, driving, sipping her Starbucks coffee -

Daughter’s corpse in a basement freezer is more McDonald’s coffee than Starbucks. Maybe Dunkin.

She never got to see an iPhone.

[quote]when they opened it up to remove the meat, a human head fell out of a plastic bag

If I had a dime for every time...

[quote] They didn't investigate because she was never reported missing by anyone with legal standing.

Seems like a teacher, who would be a mandated reporter, could have reported the child missing.

They almost got away with murdering their own daughter.

I believe in most states R62, people can drop out of high school at 16. At least That is the way it used to be.

Thanks, R63, didn't realize she was 16+.

[Quote] They almost got away with murdering their own daughter.

Hr actually did.

I assume he killed her. Of course who knows? But I wouldn’t be surprised if her subconscious was at play here, leaving the body there because she subconsciously wanted it to be found.

I'm sure it was just an accident.

Yes, an accident, just like Madeilyn McCann.

Amanda was raised by her grandma until about two years before her death. She was sent to live with her step mom and dad after that. The couple were hoarders. The step dad died in 2021. The house was foreclosed on so the mother was evicted. It seems some friends tried to report her missing but couldn’t.

Did they charge extra for the body parts, or was it considering part of the sale price for the freezer?

Did they leave it plugged in during the garage sale? THey must have.

Don't tell me things like this, OP. I'm sensitive.

Is this on bad real-estate photos, r42?

Did they forget they had body parts in the freezer when they sold the house? And who buys a house without inspecting everything? They just assumed they got a free freezer full of frozen foods with the house? WTF?

Hmm, I know I'm forgetting something.....What could it be????

The new buyers wanted to flip the house. They were trying to sell the contents asap.

Reddit thread on the case

Is it too late to return them to Costco?

Mom said the freezer is the first place they'd look.

[quote]Does anyone else have a recurring dream that they’ve left a body somewhere like a closet and it’s gonna be discovered?

No, just you. Is there something you want to tell us?

I doubt the Mother knew.

Was this an upright freezer or a chest freezer? Also what brand?

Can you boil down the head and make a nice broth? I'll have to try this.

They probably just told the school she was being homeschooled. And told her friends that, too. Homeschooled kids back then were freaks so that her dropping all of her public school and childhood friends after starting homeschooling would seem more "acceptable" than telling everyone she ran away, while would necessitate at least one call to law enforcement.

R81 yes you can make a flavorful stock. You just have to make sure to remove to pituitary gland first or it’ll make the whole thing bitter.

R81, the broth is great for a head-cold.

[quote]They probably just told the school she was being homeschooled.

I think you mean home-cooled.

What a horrific story. Who did it? It had to be a family member. Poor girl.