Still missing
Here's a look at some of the city's more notable long-term missing-persons cases: _ Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone disappeared Feb. 19, 2005, after visiting Abilene's, a bar on South Street near 5th.
Here's a look at some of the city's more notable long-term missing-persons cases:
_ Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone disappeared Feb. 19, 2005, after visiting Abilene's, a bar on South Street near 5th.
Imbo was 34, and Petrone, 35, when they left the bar, supposedly heading for Imbo's Mount Laurel home in Petrone's 2001 black Dodge Dakota.
The FBI earlier this month announced that the couple may have been victims of a murder-for-hire plot, although agents declined to divulge details.
A $100,000 reward remains available for information leading to their whereabouts. Call the Citizens Crime Commission at (215) 546-TIPS or the FBI at 418-4000.
_ Maria Procopio vanished on Sept. 24, 1999. The single woman from South Philadelphia was 35 when she was last seen in a Newtown Square shopping center.
Although she worked at QVC, authorities wondered if her extracurricular job - working as a dominatrix who was known as Mistress Maria and who had a 900-number sex line and a client list numbering in the hundreds - played a role in her disappearance.
Police also examined her on-again, off-again boyfriend as a possible suspect.
Friends and relatives had suspected an abusive relationship, and Procopio had told authorities, just before she disappeared, that the man was a welfare cheat who had manufactured thousands of dollars in counterfeit money in his high-rise, Center City apartment.
_ James T. Boozer vanished on June 22, 2006, after going to an appointment at Wills Eye Hospital at 8th and Walnut streets.
Boozer, who was 80 when he vanished, lived on Montrose Street near 58th in West Philadelphia.
He was suffering from dementia, required daily heart medication and had gone missing previously. Boozer, a World War II veteran who worked 40 years for Campbell Soup in Camden, had no family problems or prior contact with police.
_ Michelle Hatchell disappeared on her 37th birthday on July 19, 2003. Hatchell, a divorced mother of two, was last reported seen arguing with her longtime boyfriend about money outside his home on Warrington Avenue near 54th Street in West Philadelphia.
Hatchell, a military veteran who struggled with substance abuse, also used her married surname of Cotton and her boyfriend's surname Henderson.
A $1,000 reward has been posted through the Citizens Crime Commission for information leading to her whereabouts.
_ Christina Crespo was last reported seen by her boyfriend on May 27, 2005, leaving her home on 6th Street near Clearfield in North Philadelphia, en route to checking into a drug-rehab program. Crespo, who was 26 when she vanished, was suffering from depression and had a drug dependency.
She was known to frequent the area of Kensington and Allegheny avenues and the Gallery mall in Center City. *
