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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 485: The Disappearance of Toni Sharpless

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Toni Sharpless, a single mother who was having a fun night out in Philadelphia, PA in August 2009, seemingly vanished into thin air. She drove away from her friend in the early morning hours and was never seen again. Despite an extensive investigation and a letter being written 3 years later with information about what happened to her car, Toni remains missing to this day. Did she meet with foul play? Did she get into an accident that was covered up? Was she trafficked? Her case remains open to this day. If you have any information about Toni Sharpless’s disappearance, you can contact the West Brandywine Police Department at 610-380-8201. Click here to join our Patreon.  Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group.  To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, you guys? I'm Haley. And I'm Andrea. And this is Inhuman, a true crime podcast. Welcome back, everybody, happy day whenever you are listening to this episode.

0:33.9

Today, we are going to be talking about an unsolved disappearance case, and it is a very bizarre one.

0:42.2

And there's just not a lot of, not even information, but just there's not a lot of leads

0:49.5

because this person seemingly vanished into thin air and it makes zero sense.

0:55.8

These kind of cases just drive me nuts because it's like people don't vanish into

1:00.6

thin air.

1:01.5

Yeah.

1:02.0

Like what explanation is there though?

1:04.0

Because there's probably not any evidence leading to what evidence.

1:07.6

Yeah.

1:07.9

Exactly.

1:08.7

So it's one of those.

1:10.3

And this case was suggested by one of our listeners anonymously. So thank you for the suggestion because I had never heard of this case. Tony Lee Sharplist was born on December 27, 1979, in Dowington, Pennsylvania, which is a suburb of Philadelphia.

1:26.5

Tony and her sister Candy were raised primarily by their mother Donna and their stepfather,

1:32.4

Peter Nebel, after their father died when Tony was just six years old.

1:38.2

And Peter raised the girls as his own.

1:41.1

He was their father.

1:43.4

It wasn't until adulthood that Tony was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but it affected

1:49.2

her life starting from a young age.

1:52.4

So she was experiencing symptoms of bipolar disorder from a young age.

1:57.4

And even though she wasn't officially diagnosed, she was still suffering from that

2:00.8

as a child and an adolescent and a young adult. Right, because back then there probably wasn't a lot

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