Amanda Wienckowski: A Decades-Long Fight for Truth
24m | Mar 22, 2024Life was not always easy for 20-year-old Amanda Wienckowski. At one point, her friends and family had to watch her struggle with an addiction that had her spending time with undesirable people on the wrong side of town. But she was trying to get her life back on track, even enrolling in a criminal justice course at her local community college. However, on the evening of December 5, 2008, her life was cut short. According to Adam Patterson, Amanda was dropped off that night at Antoine Garner’s home, which was located in a dangerous neighborhood.
When a few days passed and she failed to return home, her mother reported her missing to the police. They interviewed Adam Patterson, the man who allegedly dropped her off at Garner’s home and he said initially he was going to wait for her to return to the car, but she called and told him he could leave - so he did. However, Antoine Garner, the man Amanda was seeing that evening, claimed she only stayed for a few minutes and then left with Patterson. Their stories did not match up and investigators believed Amanda may have been a victim of foul play.
Then, approximately five weeks later, the police received an anonymous tip pointing them to a parking lot where they would find Amanda’s body in a garbage bin. She was found nude, face down, with her hair shaved off and covered in bruises. What looked like an apparent murder would be ruled an accidental opiate overdose, sparking a decades-long fight for truth.
It has been over 15 years since Amanda’s battered body was found in that garbage bin and her family continues to push to have her manner of death changed to homicide. Many believe that there is police corruption and a cover-up at play, and once we go through the details - I think you’ll see why.
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https://gavinfish.com/cases/amanda-wienckowski/
https://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/Stories/2015/SEP29/AmandasRole.html
https://artvoice.net/issues/v10n5/amanda_wienckowski.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htMuLb6VpgY
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/ns9spr/amanda_wienckowski_was_a_heroin_addict_but_she/
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