DOE ID 'The Lady In The Fridge' Amanda Deza
DNA: ID
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🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In March, 1995, 2 scrap scavagers found an abandoned refrigerator in a canal area known as 'Whiskey Slew' in Holt, California. As they tried to remove the fridge, it opened revealing it's ghastly contents; the decomposed remains of a young woman.
An investigation of the body revealed that the woman had been murdered; the victim of blunt force trauma to the head. Although she had no identification, police hoped that using the scant clues and items found inside the fridge, that they would be able to ID her. That didn't happen, and she became known as 'The Lady In The Fridge'. She was buried, and her skull was kept with hopes that it would one day help identify her.
Years later, DNA & genealogy would ultimately give 'The Lady In The Fridge' her name back. She was Amanda Deza, who would have been 30 years old when her remains were found. Despite having a name for her, police didn't have much else to go on. They learned she was the mother of three children and that her husband had disappeared leaving Amanda to care for her children alone. Before long, she struggled and apparently turned to drugs, ultimately having her children taken from her home. After Amanda's children were removed, Amanda seemed to vanish. While her family had some ideas of where she was at time, she didn't stay in regular contact and eventually vanished altogether. They didn't report her missing because they didn't think police would do anything.
Although they know who Amanda is, they don't know who her killer is and continue to dig for answers. It's theorized by some that Amanda fell victim to one of the countless serial killers that roamed the SF Bay area.
'The Lady In The Fridge' finally has her name back, it's Amanda Deza, and this is her story.
The sheriff's office encouraged any member of the public with information about Amanda's case to contact their cold case unit at (209) 468-5087 or coldcase@sjgov.org.
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| 0:45.3 | I'm On March 29, 1995, around 3.95, around 320 in the afternoon, Floyd Thomas and his buddy were scrounging around |
| 1:14.7 | next to an irrigation canal, known as Whiskey Slew. This was in the Delta area off Bacon Island |
| 1:20.8 | Road outside Holt, California, in San Joaquin County. They were looking for bottles and cans |
| 1:26.3 | to redeem for the recycling amounts and any other |
| 1:28.9 | junk worth salvaging when they noted an abandoned refrigerator sitting in the mud, partially |
| 1:34.0 | submerged in the shallow canal. |
| 1:36.7 | The 14 cubic foot frigidere was muddy, battered, and stained. |
| 1:40.9 | Curious, the scrappers attached a tow rope to the roping that tied the fridge closed and hauled it up out of the slew. |
| 1:48.2 | Then the roping around the fridge broke. |
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