Found Deceased ND - Amanda Stach Engst, 36, Warwick, 27 October 2015

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Amanda Stach Engst
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[B]Family looking for missing woman

Warwick, North Dakota -
The family of Amanda Stach Engst, 36, originally from Breckenridge, Minnesota, is reaching out to the public for help.

The last contact her family had with Stach Engst was Oct. 27, 2015 and her last known location was Warwick, North Dakota.

Stach Engst graduated from Breckenridge High School and her mother, Denise Stevenson, lives in Breckenridge. Her aunt, Jamie Anderson, said Stach Engst lived with her in Hallstead, Minnesota, for several months early in 2015.

“She always told me she would tell me if she’s OK,” Stevenson said. “On Oct. 12 she Facebooked me, and said she didn’t have her phone anymore and I never heard from her after that. Her mom got a Facebook message saying, ‘I’m good, hope everything is OK with you, I love you.’ Amanda would never say that.”

http://www.wahpetondailynews.com/ne...cle_70a10864-cc1e-11e5-beec-33f09848614d.html
 
I found her Facebook page, but the last update was in June 2015, when she changed the cover photo. Not much else is visible other than her friends list, which you have to be logged in to Facebook in order to see:

https://www.facebook.com/astach
(link contains explicit language)

Based on some public records at publicsearch.ndcourts.gov, she has been known by Amanda Jean Stach and Amanda Jean Engst; she has priors for harassment and NSF checks, and there are several civil cases, including child support. She also appears to have ties to Fargo (Cass County) and Wahpeton (Richland County).

I don't see a Namus case for her yet.
 
Also, two of the folks involved in her civil cases have many criminal convictions in their histories. One is a registered sex offender.
 
http://www.grandforksherald.com/new...may-be-connected-couple-charged-robbery-spree

“Amanda (Engst) is a very loving, giving person, … but her whole demeanor changed,” Denise Stevenson said of her daughter’s return to Breckenridge, Minn., for a family funeral. “Something was really off when she came here in September. She wasn’t right. She was angry, she just flew off the handle over anything, got mad at everybody. I don’t know what was going on.”
 
http://www.twincities.com/2016/02/07/minnesota-womans-disappearance-linked-to-robberies/

Her vehicle was discovered in the possession of Billy Joe and Crystal Marie Herman, both 36, when the two were arrested separately late last year on charges robbery and burglary. The Hermans were eventually sentenced last month in connection to an Oct. 30 bar robbery in Buxton, N.D., and still face multiple charges after police say they burglarized or robbed businesses in Perley, Minn., and Grandin, N.D.

Though Stevenson said she doesn’t believe Engst is responsible for the robberies, she said her daughter had mentioned befriending a man she referred to as “Billy” earlier this fall...

Contacted Saturday, an official with the Norman County Sheriff’s Department in Ada, Minn., said no further details would be released on the case, including how the string of robberies and Engst’s disappearance could be connected.
 
Body of missing woman connected to couple charged in robbery spree
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The body of a missing woman has been recovered and connected to couple charged in a robbery spree.
A body found in the Sheyenne River near Warwick, North Dakota is believed to be Amanda Engst. She has not been seen since October, after last living in Warwick. Engst’s family, who lives in Breckenridge, reported her missing last fall.
Eddy County Sheriff Paul Lies says the body was recovered from the Sheyenne River, just south of Warwick, North Dakota.
The Sheriff says there was no vehicle in the river where the body was found and would not discuss specifics of what lead them to search the river. He says an ROV, a remotely operated vehicle like this one was used to find the body.
Sheriff Paul Lies, Eddy County: “Based on information we had learned, we contacted the Jamestown Dive and Rescue Team. They came up and used on ROV to search that area of the river, where the body was located.”
Reporter: “Does it appear the cause of death was natural?”
Sheriff Lies: “No.”
Reporter: “The cause of death was not natural. But, it hasn’t been specifically determined?

http://www.valleynewslive.com/home/...dium=social&utm_source=twitter_valleynewslive
 
Body of missing woman linked to robbery couple found, death appears unnatural, sheriff says
By Herald Staff Report Today at 2:01 p.m.
WARWICK, N.D. -- A body found Tuesday in the Sheyenne River has been identified as Amanda Stach Engst, a 36-year-old missing woman who may have been connected to a couple police say went on a robbery and burglary spree.
http://www.wdaz.com/news/north-dako...-robbery-couple-found-death-appears-unnatural

RIP Amanda.
 
November 2017:

Minn. woman charged with accomplice to murder in 2015 beating death of woman in ND

According to court documents filed in Southeast District Court, Herman is charged with assisting her husband, Billy Herman, to kidnap Amanda Engst, 36, on or about Oct. 13, 2015.

The criminal complaint accuses Crystal Herman of opening a car door allowing her husband to strangle Engst, clearing the trunk of the vehicle to allow the transportation of Engst and holding a flashlight while Billy Herman beat Engst with a shovel.
 
https://www.inforum.com/news/crime-and-courts/4444377-minnesota-woman-gets-20-years-role-northeast-nd-murder

Crystal Marie Herman, 38, was sentenced Thursday, May 10, in Eddy County District Court after pleading guilty to a Class AA felony of accomplice to murder for the death of 36-year-old Amanda Engst. The crime carries a life sentence without parole, but a plea deal lowered the sentence.

Herman and her husband, 38-year-old Billy Jo Herman, were connected to Engst when investigators arrested the couple for a string of robberies in Minnesota and North Dakota. Officers said they found Engst's vehicle in their possession.

https://www.wdaz.com/news/crime-and-courts/4444348-why-has-mothers-killer-not-been-arrested

While the court papers say Billy did it. He's never been charged in the case.

“It's odd, it's very odd,” said Ted Sandberg of Olson, Juntunen & Sandberg in Grand Forks.

“Some reasons could be he's being pursued under federal charges,” he commented.

Billy Joe is not on the run. The 38-year-old is locked up in Minnesota until late next year on an unrelated assault case. But Sandberg says another puzzling question is why an arrest warrant has not been issued?
 
FBI solves murders of 2 different women years later
On Thursday, federal prosecutors charged this guy Bill Jo Herman with the murder (of Amanda Engst) that took place in this remote area near Battle Lake in Eddy County three years ago.

Herman then is accused of wrapping the body in a tarp while she was still alive - put her in the trunk of his car - turned up the radio to drown out the cries for help from the mother of three - before weighing down the tarp and throwing it in the Sheyenne River.
 
October 28, 2019
Billy Joe Herman gets life sentence - New Rockford Transcript



[...]

Billy Joe Herman, 40, of Warwick, N.D., appeared Monday morning at the federal courthouse in downtown Fargo to continue a sentencing hearing that began Friday, Oct. 18. In April, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection with Engst's death in October 2015.

[...]

They said Herman strangled Engst and assaulted her on Oct. 12, 2015, before putting her in the trunk of her car with the help of his then wife, now known as Crystal Johnson. Herman then drove to a bridge, beat Engst once more with a shovel before wrapping her body in a tarp and tying it with cinder blocks, and then dumping the body in the Sheyenne River, according to the prosecution.

Engst's body was found on Feb. 4, 2016. Johnson is serving 20 years in prison for her role in the murder.

[...]

Prosecutor Nick Chase said in court that Engst did nothing to warrant the attack, which he called unprovoked. "It was extreme, it was horrific, and it was prolonged," Chase said of the killing, adding that Herman hasn't shown "true remorse in this case."

[...]

Herman spoke prior to sentencing and apologized for his actions. He acknowledged he, Johnson and Engst were using meth a lot during the weeks before and leading up to the incident.

"Drugs and alcohol play a big part, especially meth," Herman said.

[...]

As he handed down the sentence, Welte said he agreed with the prosecution and said the killing was "unprovoked" and "a continued attack." He disagreed with the defense's notion that the murder was impulsive, pointing to the fact the car was loaded with a shovel, tarp, cords and two cinder blocks.

[...]

Chase said the case was prosecuted under federal Indian Country criminal jurisdiction because Herman, who's part of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe, identified as a Native American and the crime occurred on a reservation. Chase said under that jurisdiction, the death penalty is not available.
 

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