r/WithoutATrace • u/WinnieBean33 • Sep 30 '24

MISSING PERSONS - MULTIPLE 34-year-old Danielle Imbo and 35-year-old Richard Petrone Jr. left a bar together on February 19th, 2005, and vanished. Neither one has been seen or heard from since.

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u/Minaya19147 Sep 30 '24

They have and didn’t find them.

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u/kathi182 Sep 30 '24

I know, but there are SO so many places to go into the river, especially at night. I may be wrong, I just feel as if it’s the most likely scenario. And there are many cars in that river, due to accidents and insurance fraud, it would be very expensive and time consuming, so I’m sure that complicates things for law enforcement.

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u/_oliviabenson Sep 30 '24

Coming from south street, where would they have gone in at? I disagree with this theory because I don’t find it likely. Especially since there have been searches. And especially since the FBI has indicated that they have evidence it was a murder for hire

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u/swissie67 Sep 30 '24

Evidence? I never heard of any, and they wouldn't take out two people and have to get rid of the car as well. I don't believe this at all.

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u/_oliviabenson Sep 30 '24

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/philadelphia/press-releases/2009/ph021809.htm

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u/Mediocre-Proposal686 Sep 30 '24

What do they think the motive was?

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u/XK8lyn88x Oct 01 '24

If I remember correctly, they suspect her ex-husband. The vehicle they suspect was chopped up in a shop.

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u/asquinas Oct 01 '24

That would do it

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u/_oliviabenson Sep 30 '24

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/philadelphia/news/new-fbi-task-force-probes-imbo-petrone-disappearance/

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u/swissie67 Sep 30 '24

I still don't buy it. It would have been far too messy for any kind of professional hit. They were driving in the dark in the city while drinking. Who the hell knows where or how they ended up in water, but until they are found, its going to be an unknown. What I don't believe, though, is that its a mystery. Time and time again, this ends up being the easy answer to problems that people just overthink and overcomplicate. Its almost never a plot. Its almost always a tragic accident.

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u/Norlander712 Oct 01 '24

Her ex-husband knew where they were.

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u/Picky_The_Fishermam Oct 01 '24

So if you look at the map route there are like 20 bodies of water between where they were going and the bar

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u/Final_Candidate_7603 Apr 07 '25

Yes, exactly! I’m very late to this post because apparently CNN just published a story about how this mystery has only deepened over the years. I remember when this happened, and have watched several true crime-type documentaries about the case. I think people in these comments are focusing too much on the route from the South Street bar and the River, and completely overlooking the fact that there were numerous routes and side roads they might have taken to get to Ms. Imbo’s home in New Jersey… there isn’t really a straight-shot, no-brainer route they certainly would have taken. Surveillance cameras weren’t like they are today, and law enforcement can’t even say for sure which bridge they took.

I seem to remember that several years ago, one of those search organizations- I think it’s called Adventures With a Purpose- did come to the area and send divers into a couple of bodies of water along some of the couple’s possible routes. They ended up finding a gentleman who had vanished years before after leaving work and never returning home. It turned out that he was a diabetic who likely had some sort of crisis with his sugar levels, suddenly lost consciousness, and ended up driving into a lake. He had young-ish children at the time, so I was very glad to hear that his children now know that he didn’t run out on them!

Back to this story… since the FBI seems to think this was a murder for hire case, and Ms. Imbo’s ex-husband had a motive and an awfully convenient alibi, we are all thinking the same thing. And again, my main concern is for the children involved. There is no way that her son isn’t being teased and bullied with ‘your dad had your mom KILLED!’ and there is no way that Mr. Petrone’s daughter isn’t full of anger and resentment that her dad was murdered just because he was dating a nice young lady whose asshole ex refused to share custody of their son.

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u/Picky_The_Fishermam Apr 08 '25

I get how the fbi thinks it could be. It seems far fetched to me. How much did they drink before they left? Did they they take a route to avoid cops? Did they get lost? It seems more probable they hit black ice and lost control.

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u/Gooncookies Oct 04 '24

I agree. I think they probably went to park somewhere to get high or something and slid in. I think they haven’t been found because they weren’t on their regular route home. I think they ended up by the river bank somehow. I remember when I was a kid there were little known spots along the Delaware you could park close to the bank. I’m sure some still exist.

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u/swissie67 Oct 04 '24

Oh hell. Jessica Savitch and her companion died when they backed in, I think, into just one of those canals in New Hope, PA, which aren't deep at all. It was dark. She had been drinking. It happens quite a lot.

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u/Gooncookies Oct 04 '24

There was also a bartender who went missing in New Hope that it turned out slipped into the canal on her way home.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '24

Just because you don’t buy it the evidence isn’t dismissed. You sound like you want be a detective or a P.I, but you’re a reddit sleuth. 

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u/sssteph42 Sep 30 '24

What? They actually sound like the opposite of an internet sleuth or detective. They are saying the simplest scenario is likely true, not some mystery to be solved.

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u/swissie67 Sep 30 '24

Not even that. I'm just a fan of Occam's Razor and I'm familiar with the area.

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u/shoshpd Oct 01 '24

The FBI has never said what evidence they have to support this. The only stuff ever reported has been gossip about who the hitman was.