Motion filed to revoke Green’s release order

Anita Green, the mother of accused murderer Amanda Hovanec, was called a “danger to the community” and a “flight risk” in a motion to revoke her release order. Green is accused of being an accessory after the fact in the murder of Timothy Hovanec. The motion further alleges Green obtained her job at the Farm Service Agency under false pretenses. Green is attempting to pay a $100,000 bond by leveraging property; a release order is currently stayed pending review by a lower court.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Baeppler writes that when Amanda Hovanec and Green were initially interviewed by the Auglaize County Sheriff’s deputies, they both lied profusely, and suggested that they may be the victim of Hovanec’s aggression.

“Specifically Green asked the Auglaize County Sheriff’s Office if she and Amanda needed to be afraid of T.H. and wanted to highlight that T.H. had a gun, knowing that T.H. was dead and buried in the woods,” Beappler said.

Green continued to lie to law enforcement during an interview on April 27, 2022, but she eventually admitted that she talked to Amanda about her de

sire to kill Hovanec before the murder. Green knew that Amanda had poison minutes before Hovanec arrived at her house and that her role was to usher the children into the house.

Amanda allegedly entered the house and told her, “It’s done.”

Beappler calls the nature and circumstances of the case as serious as they come.

“After the murder, Green went to great disturbing length to conceal the murder,” Baeppler writes, describing how Green drove the corpse of her own son-in-law to be buried in a remote wooded area and then repeatedly lied to law enforcement about his whereabouts.

Baeppler said Green showed her true colors in this case. She questioned why Amanda would pick Green’s house for the location of the murder and feel comfortable storing a dead body in the garage for hours, knowing her mother was home.

“The only logical inference is that Amanda knew her mother supported her actions, or at the very least, knew she would allow it to occur without interfering. Put another way, Green’s daughter knew her mother lacked integrity, honesty and a conscience, and therefore would allow and conceal such a heinous crime. When Green thought no one was watching she engaged in a cold calculated and heartless plot that cost someone their life,” Baeppler said.

She added Green had the power to intervene in the murder and her actions demonstrate callousness and disregard for human life.

Part of the integrity and honesty Baeppler questions is Green’s employment at the

U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“She obtained and maintained her job through false pretenses,” Baeppler said. “She claimed to have graduated from the Ohio State University in the 1980s on her initial application, and then in every subsequent background renewal as recent as 2015, reaffirmed such

a fact. Despite the numerous assurances, Green attended, but never graduated from the Ohio State University.”

The attorney said that although the information is minor it demonstrates a long history of untruthfulness, adding that the job provided substantial income to Green as her estimated net worth is over $700,000.

“Her wealth and resources, coupled with her age and potential sentence in this case make her a flight risk,” Baeppler said.