Former classmates of Amanda Overstreet, the teen whose head and hands were found in a freezer in Colorado and recently identified, told Newsweek there was no indication that the then-16-year-old high school student who went missing in 2005 would disappear. In January, the new owners of a home on Pinyon Avenue in Grand Junction listed four freezers left behind by the previous owners for free on Facebook . Upon taking meat out of one freezer, they found human remains, which through DNA testing, were confirmed this month to be Overstreet.
Overstreet's biological mother Leanne Imer, previously lived at the residence where the remains were found. Despite being last seen at age 16 in 2005, Overstreet was never reported missing, the Mesa County Sheriff's Office says. The rest of Overstreet's body has not been recovered.
Overstreet 'Was Super Bubbly' Ashton Knox spoke to Newsweek about her memories of Overstreet when they attended middle and early high school together in Kountze, Texas. "She was extremely loud, quirky, spunky, and unapologetically herself in a way that most 15-year-old girls are not. She wasn't a loner.
She was strange and quirky, but she was known," she said of Overstreet. "She wore really bizarre, just sarcastic, smart-ass sayings on her T-shirts," Knox remembered. "She was very unique.
" Knox said she lived across the street from Amanda Overstreet who was raised by her grandmother Nelda Overstreet, a math teacher at the nearby Warren High School in Warren, Texas, f.
