Head and Palms Present in Freezer Given Away Belong to Unreported Lacking Teen from 2005: Police

“Via DNA testing, the sufferer is recognized as Amanda Leariel Overstreet,” stated the Mesa County Sheriff’s Workplace in Colorado in a assertion acquired by ABC Information on Friday. Overstreet was roughly 16 years previous when she disappeared.

The surprising revelation started January 12 when the sheriff’s workplace obtained a name a few “suspicious incident” in Grand junction. Once they arrived they found what another person had discovered whereas selecting up a free equipment from a brand new house owner.

“Upon arrival, deputies discovered the top and fingers of a human had been found in a freezer,” police stated of their assertion. 9 months later, and thru DNA, the sheriff’s workplace was in a position to positively determine the stays as Overstreet.

The Mesa County Coroner’s Workplace advised NBC Information that they have been investigation the teenager’s dying as a murder. Other than her head and forearms with fingers nonetheless hooked up, the remainder of her physique has not been discovered.

The organic daughter of the house’s earlier proprietor, officers acknowledged there’s nor document that Overstreet was ever reported lacking in 2005. Solely by means of present investigation after the invention have been they in a position to decide that she’d not been seen or heard from since April 2005.

Talking with Phoenix Fox affiliate KUSA in January, a neighbor reported that the person who’d confirmed up that day to select up the free equipment dropped by their home to make use of the restroom. Whereas there, the neighbor requested what was happening.

“I allow them to in and cautiously I used to be like, ‘What is going on on?’ They usually continued to inform me that they opened the freezer to empty it so they might transport it they usually stated a head fell out,” the neighbor advised the information station. “A human head!”

Talking with ABC Information, one neighbor talked about strolling his canine by the home and encountering a scent “like a mildew, and it was simply totally disgusting, ilke really would make you sick simply strolling by.”

“The circumstances surrounding her disappearance stay beneath investigation, in addition to ongoing forensic testing of proof,” the sheriff’s workplace stated of their assertion.

The Mesa County Sheriff’s Workplace additionally emphasised residents to notice that the house concerned is beneath new possession utterly unrelated to their ongoing investigation, per ABC information urging them to “respect the present proprietor and their neighbors’ privateness and keep away from driving by the house or taking images.”