AMANDA LYN WARD-ROMINE
Born: February 24, 1983
Last seen: July 7, 2013 — 300 block of Buxton Avenue, Springfield, Ohio
Last known contact: July 6, 2013 (a phone call to her sister)
Age at disappearance: 30
County: Clark County, Ohio
Status: Missing — investigators have ruled her disappearance a homicide. Reported missing August 9, 2013.
Investigating agency: Springfield Police Division — tip line 937-324-7680
Database references: NamUs MP23304 · Charley Project · Ohio Attorney General Missing Persons
Last updated: August 31, 2026
Amanda Ward-Romine vanished from Springfield, Ohio, in the summer of 2013. Weeks passed before anyone with a badge wrote her name on a missing-person report — and by then, the evidence had already begun to disappear with her.
They call Springfield the Champion City — a name forged in the clamor of the foundries that once built the machines that fed the world. This is the story of one of its ghosts. Amanda Ward-Romine was a daughter, a sister, and a wife who stood barely 5 feet 2 inches tall and lived her whole life inside a tightening circle of taverns, addiction, and a marriage that the record shows was violent long before it was over. When she vanished in July 2013, her disappearance was not treated as an emergency; it was treated as the predictable end of a “lifestyle.” Weeks went by before a report was filed. Two months later, forensic investigators would recover DNA matching Amanda from a crawl space beneath a property connected to her husband. For decades, women like Amanda have been vanishing from this same environment, their cases collecting dust in the cold, quiet archives of the unsolved. This is the case file. We will keep it open, and we will keep it current, until there are answers.
The Case File
This page is updated as each installment goes live, or when we have an update in the case.
The investigators’ journals
The Shield of Truth — Beth Donahue on how she investigates the Killing Fields of Springfield, and why the public record is her armor.
The investigation
This Is Not a 1951 “True Detective” Story — The prologue: who Amanda was, the world she moved through, and why her case belongs in Unsolved Ohio.
The Architecture of Ruin — The introduction: why police named Amanda’s husband a suspect, the eight theories for how she vanished, and the method behind the investigation.
Follow the White Rabbit — The Ward family tree: the parents, a half-brother next to Whitie’s Tavern, and Aliya’s four marriages, including the Indian Lake estate thread.
The Monster Under the Bed — Karla Ward’s seven marriages and the men around the case — a Tier II sex offender free in Springfield in 2013, and a wedding on the day Amanda was reported missing.
Anywhere But Here — Who Amanda was and the timeline of her final days: the life behind the case, and where she was last seen.
Three Vehicles and a Missing Woman — The contradictions in her final days: three conflicting vehicles, competing dates, and a clothing description the police report left blank.
Nobody Can Say When — The eyewitness gaps, the month-late missing-person report, and the questions no account in the record resolves.
Theories
These installments name individuals whose documented histories and proximity place them within the investigative scope of the case. Each carries its own editorial disclaimer; naming a person is not an accusation of guilt.
A Dark, Inexplicable Immunity — The Rowland sisters’ documented 25-year record and their ties to Amanda’s world.
A Hurricane Tracked by Its Wreckage — The labeled investigative theory surrounding Jessika Rowland, and everything it cannot establish.
The Predator on the Corridor — The convicted Tier II sex offender who lived on Amanda’s Warder Street corridor in 2013.
The Overlooked Predator — The convicted Louisiana offender who surfaced in Springfield the summer Amanda vanished.
The Other Amanda — Amanda L. Young, and the August 2010 night that placed her inside the Romine home.
The Master of Warder Street — Daniel Clifton Romine, the tavern owner and father-in-law at the edge of the case: foreclosure, a gambling raid, a quiet deed, and a gunshot.
Have information?
If you know anything about Amanda Ward-Romine’s disappearance — however small — submit it at tips@unsolvedohio.com, or contact the Springfield Police Division directly at 937-324-7680. Your name will never be published without your explicit written permission.
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Aliya Dancer quoted on Facebook "the one on warder isn't a crawl space...it was a whole basement and there was a tiny hole dug and they cemented the steps closed to get to it the only way to get in that basement is to pull the carpet all the way up then get into the floor that's legit a cut about 2 by 4 and there def a shallow grave not a crawl space basement is huge just concreted off suspicious..."