Missing Colorado teen had bullet hole in her forehead when severed body was found in freezer after 19 years

Sixteen-year-old Amanda Overstreet, whose severed caput and hands were discovered successful her mother's freezer, had a 'bullet hole' successful her forehead, a witness successful her gruesome execution probe has revealed.

Amanda's whereabouts had been a enigma for almost 2 decades until a existent property investor successful Grand Junction, Colorado, purchased a filthy 'hoarder house' from Leanne Imer, 55, successful January this year.

When clearing it out, she recovered nan severed caput and hands successful a thorax freezer successful nan garage. The find launched a homicide investigation by nan Mesa County Sheriff's Office.

This month, rule enforcement announced that DNA testing helped determine the remains belonged to Leanne's girl Amanda Overstreet, past seen successful 2005 erstwhile she was 16.

In a caller twist, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively that nan Grand Junction homebuyer has claimed location was a 'bullet hole' successful Amanda's forehead making it look she had been killed 'execution-style'. 

The shocking declare adds to a increasing number of contradictory tales astir nan teenager's tragic demise.

The existent property entrepreneur, who has asked not beryllium be identified, shared her communicative pinch Amanda's precocious schoolhouse friend Rachel Valentine, 36, in messages obtained by DailyMail.com. 

'No she didn't OD. Girl location was a weapon changeable to nan halfway of her forehead execution [style],' she told Valentine. 

The woman's first revelation was that aft Amanda's remains were discovered, Leanne allegedly told constabulary that Amanda had been connected a roadworthy travel pinch her stepfather, Leanne's precocious hubby Bradley Imer, erstwhile she ran away.

Bradley died from Covid-19 successful 2021, according to his decease certificate.

'One of nan investigators told maine Leanne had Bradley return Amanda to Texas,' nan Colorado female said successful connection screenshots obtained by DailyMail.com.

'When Bradley came location he told her Amanda had tally away. He besides told her he had changeable a cervid and he was going to put [it] successful 1 of nan freezers and she wasn't to look astatine it.'

Mesa County Sheriff's Office told DailyMail.com they person recovered nary records of Amanda ever being reported missing successful Colorado aliases elsewhere.

In her matter speech pinch Valentine, nan existent property businesswoman besides revealed that she had witnessed thing moreover much disturbing.

'I bought [the house] from Leanne. I spen[t] astir 1 ½ months moving pinch her. I spent a batch of clip successful nan location because she didn't person a telephone and she [had] 13 liens and judgements against her,' she said successful nan matter messages.

'I gave her $1000 and she hired immoderate meth addicts who walked disconnected nan [cleanup] job. The location was disgusting. One of nan worst I've seen.

'Her boy was sever[e]ly overweight. He ne'er had apparel on, only boxers. They some hadn't showered [i]n complete 2 years.

'When we moved his mattress it was evident he wouldn't moreover move to spell to nan bathroom. The bathtub was filled pinch poop.'

Others who had been wrong nan location painted a likewise grim picture. 

Emily Leftwich, nan Imers' erstwhile neighbor, told DailyMail.com that she saw food, boxes, bags and trash piled precocious successful each room, and that nan thorax freezer successful nan car shed wherever nan assemblage parts were recovered was buried successful junk.

'My contractors recovered a family image pinch Amanda successful shoved in-between immoderate boards successful nan walls successful Leannes room,' nan existent property entrepreneur said successful her matter messages pinch Amanda's friend Rachel.

'She told maine nan nighttime earlier [the location sale] they were going to return nan freezers. She asked if it was good if she put nan nutrient that was successful location successful a heap truthful my junk guys could return it. At that constituent I was truthful done I conscionable didn't care. I told her yes, it was fine.'

The female said that nan adjacent time she was 'standing connected nan beforehand section talking connected my telephone and nan man runs retired and says, 'We recovered a head!'

'I ran into nan car shed and location was a achromatic trash container pinch a caput connected it connected nan backmost of nan tail gate. There was different achromatic container astatine nan bottommost of nan freezer.

'It was PERFECTLY preserved. I couldn't judge it was 20 years. I though[t] it was from 2016 because that's really aged nan nutrient was connected apical of it,' she said.

'She didn't OD [overdose]... There was a weapon changeable to nan halfway of her forehead execution style.

'We had nan full location and gait searched up and down by cadav[e]r dogs and nan location they lived successful before. There was nothing.

'There was nary burial. I deliberation Bradley was cutting Amanda up and utilizing her for bait. He was a large fisherman.'

Photos of Bradley that Leanne posted connected her Facebook page show nan Colorado begetter posing pinch large food he caught.

Coloradan Vern Anderson, 77, claimed that he was progressive successful nan cleanup astatine the home connected Pinyon Avenue connected January 12 and 'found nan head'.

'I americium nan 1 who recovered Amanda!' he wrote successful a remark connected Facebook, adding that he was location erstwhile a cleanup unit – who were wearing hazmat suits owed to nan filth successful nan location – carried retired a container pinch nan remains.

'The hazmat suits had thing to do pinch nan incident,' Anderson said. 'There was a room successful nan location that was afloat of canine s*** and feces.

'After an hr aliases hr and a half, [t]hey came retired of nan car shed pinch a for illustration sixteen by sixteen Cardboard Box rolled retired a assemblage container successful nan drive[way] and put nan container successful nan assemblage bag.

'About a 1/2 hr [t]o an hr later. They came retired and unrolled different assemblage container and put immoderate much boxes and worldly successful different assemblage bag.

'What they loaded successful nan assemblage bags was a batch much than caput and hands.'

Anderson declined to remark further erstwhile contacted by DailyMail.com.

The anonymous homebuyer added that she believed constabulary were stumped – hence their 10-month probe pinch nary arrests.

'They had nary matches. No leads. No missing person's reports. Just a brace of hands,' she said.

'They're closing nan case. Bradley is dead. There's nary 1 to travel after,' nan female added. 'I still don't really cognize if Leanne knew.

'I kept checking successful connected her and past I heard she was being checked into mindsprings, nan intelligence institution.'

Leanne and her boy Anthony are presently surviving successful an flat successful a low-income lodging improvement successful Grand Junction.

When approached by DailyMail.com, Anthony said stories astir his mother were 'lies', and that she would only make a connection erstwhile she had a lawyer.

Leanne did not respond to requests for comment. 

Nobody has been arrested aliases charged successful nan execution probe. 

This week DailyMail.com revealed that Leanne's aunt, Pam Overstreet, told 1 of Amanda's precocious schoolhouse friends successful 2017 a communicative astir the teen fatally overdosing connected drugs, and her mother secretly disposing of nan body. 

'She complete dosed astir 10 … 12. Yrs back,' Pam, 73, told Amanda's adjacent friend Tasha Hester successful backstage Facebook messages obtained by DailyMail.com – placing her decease astir 2005 to 2007.

'She was successful Colorado erstwhile it happened,' Pam said successful nan 2017 messages.

'She complete dosed and alternatively of getting her help, she was conscionable allowed to die, past she was secretly buried.

'I'm ashamed of myself for doing nothing, I person not stopped crying because she was conscionable dumped. I had nary proof, conscionable bits and pieces and what her aunt told me.'

Court records show Amanda was raised from property 3 by her maternal grandma Nelda Overstreet, successful nan mini municipality of Kountze, Texas.

Public records propose Leanne had 2 different children complete whom she did not look to person custody: Michael, calved successful 1993 according to Texas commencement records, and Madison, calved successful 1999 according to a Facebook station by Leanne.

Leanne had different kid successful 2003, Elsie Belle Imer, fathered by Bradley. She is now enrolled successful a Colorado assemblage and surviving pinch her father's family.

Macy Coulter, an simple schoolhouse friend of Elsie, said location was besides different son, Anthony, but he only came to unrecorded pinch nan Imers respective years aft she met Elsie.

'In simple schoolhouse [Elsie] recovered retired she had brothers from her mom's erstwhile marriage,' Macy, 20, told DailyMail.com.

'Anthony came to unrecorded pinch them erstwhile she was successful simple school. He was a small strange, but still beautiful nice.'

Records show Anthony Bradley Imer was calved successful 1993 nether nan sanction Anthony Leallen Giacin, to Leanne and Joseph Giacin III. Anthony changed his sanction to Imer arsenic an adult.

He is pictured connected Facebook pinch his stepfather Bradley successful nan beforehand gait of their Pinyon Avenue erstwhile home.

Leanne's Facebook profile, now scrubbed aft her daughter's remains were identified, listed astir a twelve awesome life events connected her 'about me' page, but neglected to mention nan commencement of her oldest girl Amanda.

'My life could beryllium a Jerry Springer show, hellhole it beryllium a full series,' Leanne wrote connected her profile.

In nan miniature curriculum vitae she listed her 2 assemblage degrees and nan decease of her mother and grandma successful 2005, and said that she 'had nan champion small woman successful 2003', referring to her younger girl Elise.

Amanda was obscurity to beryllium recovered connected nan page.