Body components found in a freezer earlier this yr after a Colorado house was offered have been recognized as these of the 16-year-old daughter of the house’s earlier proprietor, authorities mentioned Friday.
The dying of Amanda Leariel Overstreet is being investigated as a murder and an investigation is ongoing, the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office mentioned.
The grim discovery was made in January, after the house close to Grand Junction had been offered to a brand new proprietor, and after that proprietor supplied a freezer that had been left behind at no cost, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
Inside the freezer there was a head and forearms with arms connected. Deputies have been known as on Jan. 12 after the one who claimed the freezer made the invention.
The final time Amanda had been seen or heard from was in April 2005, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
“The circumstances surrounding her disappearance stay beneath investigation, in addition to ongoing forensic testing of proof,” the sheriff’s workplace said in a statement in regards to the case. “There is not any file that Amanda Overstreet was ever reported lacking.”
The Mesa County coroner’s workplace mentioned Friday that the stays had been recognized and that the style of dying was being investigated as murder. The remainder of her physique has not been discovered.
The coroner’s workplace didn’t checklist a explanation for dying however mentioned there’s an energetic investigation and no additional particulars can be launched. DNA evaluation helped to substantiate the identification, the workplace mentioned.
Amanda lived within the Grand Junction and Harris County, Texas, areas, the coroner’s workplace mentioned.
The sheriff’s workplace careworn once more Friday that the house is beneath new possession, and the present proprietor of the house is “utterly unrelated to the earlier case.”
“The home was bought, absolutely reworked, and offered to the present proprietor,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
