Canadian Amanda Antoni mysteriously died in her home in October 2015.
Nearly 10 years later, investigators and her family still have questions about how it happened.
Antoni’s case is the subject of Netflix’s The Unsolved Mysteries episode Body In The Basement, which is now streaming.
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Who was Amanda Antoni?
Amanda Antoni was born in Calgary, Canada, and raised in Carstairs with her foster parents and two older brothers.
“She just loved being around the family and friends and being that person that walks in the room and lit up the room every time she came in,” her brother Daryl Hog told Global Newslast month.
Antoni loved animals and was a playful prankster with a kind heart, according to Netflix’s blog Tudum.
Antoni married her husband, Lee, in 2009. He said the two of them were inseparable and rarely apart – like they were on the weekend of her death.
Antoini’s brothers claimed the couple did have their problems, including how her husband struggled to keep a job while she ran a housecleaning business.
She was 31 at the time of her death.
What Happened to Amanda Antoni?
Amanda Antoni’s husband found her dead in the couple’s basement on October 26, 2015. He had returned home from visiting his mother in Saskatchewan when he found his wife on the basement floor.
Police said she appeared to have suffered a severe head injury.
“This was the bloodiest scene I’d ever walked in on,” says Sgt. Trent Petersen of the Calgary Police Service, one of the first officers who responded to Lee’s 911 call. “Quite frankly, it was gruesome.”
Amanda Antoni was supposed to join her husband for the weekend trip but stayed home due to a migraine. The couple were in communication while her husband was away. Neighbors reported hearing a dog barking around the time of the couple’s final phone call was abruptly disconnected. The couple’s neighborhood had a statistically higher level of crime, and transients had previously entered their backyard to collect recyclables.
Lee Antoni was never considered a person of interest in his wife’s death.
Amanda Antoni’s was eventually ruled an accident by presumably falling down the stairs. Investigators came to this conclusion mostly based on the fact they did not find any evidence that someone else had been in the home at the time of her death.
Amanda Antoni’s family doubts she fell to her death.
Details including a chair flipped upside down in the dining room and fragments of a broken piggy bank – the rest of which were at the top of the stairs – found suggest there could have been a struggle. However, analysis showed that only her DNA was found at the scene, making the possibility of an intruder less likely.
What did Her Autopsy Reveal?
Her autopsy by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that blunt force trauma caused her to bleed to death. The report concluded that she died between 7 and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, nearly two days before she was found.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact police by calling 403-266-1234 or by anonymously contacting Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or visiting its website.
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