MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Amanda Wienckowski

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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When 20-year-old Amanda Wienckowski vanished one night in Buffalo, her mom, Leslie, refused to sit back and wait for answers. She begged police to listen and even parked outside the house where Amanda was last seen — for weeks — hoping her daughter would walk out the front door. What followed would test every ounce of a mother’s strength: a case full of contradictions, silence from the system, and a fight that would stretch on for more than a decade. This is the story of a mother who wouldn’t let the world forget her daughter — no matter how long it takes for justice.

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0:00.0	Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And this story today begs the question, what would you do if you knew your missing daughter went into a house and never came out? Would you camp out in front of it all day and night? Refused to leave. That's what Leslie Brill Messerol did. Her instincts told her that her daughter was inside
0:24.3	this one particular house. Police told her not to go in. She didn't realize that the man who lived
0:30.0	there was dangerous. So she waited for weeks outside. And after a month, on the very night she left,
0:40.4	her daughter's frozen body turned up,
0:42.5	just yards from where she had been camped out.
0:45.7	Is that a coincidence?
0:47.2	I think not.
0:48.3	And now, Leslie is on a hunt for justice.
0:53.3	This is the story of Amanda Winkowski.
0:57.2	This is the story of Amanda Winkowski. Thank you. It's early January 2009, and Leslie Brill Messeral is sitting in her yellow Monte Carlo
1:34.5	shivering. It is freezing cold in Buffalo, New York. The ground is covered in snow as she
1:40.9	keeps her eyes trained on the house across the street.
1:45.1	She's been staked out here for the last four weeks just looking for a glimpse of her
1:49.9	20-year-old daughter Amanda Winkowski.
1:52.7	Now, there's a moment when someone peeks out from behind some blinds in one of the upstairs
1:57.1	windows.
1:58.3	Whoever's there, they know she's here.
2:00.3	They know that she's watching,
2:02.6	and she feels them watching her too. It's a bit of a standoff, but she doesn't want to leave
2:08.2	because she is sure that her daughter is inside. You see, a month before in December, Leslie began
2:14.2	not hearing from Amanda, who she normally talked to like every day.
2:23.2	She had tried calling her several times, left her plenty of voicemails, but was not hearing anything back.
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