Episode 441: Amanda ‘Mandy’ Deza

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In March 1995, a body was discovered in a fridge in an irrigation canal in northern California. Unfortunately, the female victim of the blunt force trauma homicide couldn’t be identified… and it remained that way for nearly 30 years. In 2023, thanks to genetic genealogy, the victim was identified as Amanda Lynn Schumann Deza. Mandy was last seen in 1994, but her whereabouts before her death were unknown. Thankfully, her family finally knows what happened to her, but her case remains unsolved and she does not have justice. There is a $10,000 reward for any information leading to her killer’s arrest. Anyone with information about Mandy Deza's death or possible details about her murder can contact the sheriff’s office at (209) 468-5087 or by email at coldcase@sjgov.org. Click here to join our Patreon. Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group. To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, you guys?
0:01.3	I'm Haley.
0:02.5	And I'm Andrea.
0:03.7	And this is Inhuman, a true crime podcast.
0:29.3	You know, Welcome back, everybody, happy day.
0:34.5	I hope you're having a wonderful, fantastic, amazing day whenever you're listening to this.
0:45.5	Today's case I found because of the Terry Rasmussen case, because he is like a potential suspect in this case, although I don't think there's really any real connection.
0:53.1	It's kind of just like a couple investigators suspected it.
0:57.1	But either way, yeah, exactly.
1:01.2	But either way, I started researching this case and there's just not a lot of information
1:08.6	out there about it.
1:10.5	And it's unsolved.
1:11.9	But it recently had some movement.
1:15.2	And I really think this is one of those cases that can be solved one day.
1:18.9	So this is going to be a little bit of a shorter episode because like I said, there's just not a lot out there about this.
1:25.4	But she deserves her story to be told and she deserves justice
1:28.8	because this is still unsolved.
1:31.2	Yeah.
1:33.5	So with that, let's just get into it.
1:37.1	On March 29, 1995, a group of people searching for recycling in an irrigation canal
1:43.3	in San Joaquin County, California, made a very odd discovery.
1:50.0	In the canal, they found a partially submerged refrigerator that was tied shut.
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