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MISSING: Danielle Imbo & Richard Petrone

Crime Junkie

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True Crime

4.7352.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In February 2005 Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone had been broken up for a number of weeks. But on February 19th the two met up spontaneously for a couple drinks and then were never seen again.

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0:00.0

Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

0:03.6

And I'm Brett.

0:04.5

And today, I want to tell you a story hand-picked by our fan club members.

0:09.4

A story picked because they, like me, can't let it go.

0:14.0

It's one of the most baffling disappearances we've ever talked about on this show,

0:18.2

because in this story, not one, but two people, along with a huge truck,

0:23.2

seemingly vanish into thin air right off a busy Philadelphia street.

0:28.0

This is the story of Richard Patrone and Danielle Imbo.

0:58.5

It was a chilly Saturday evening in Philadelphia on February 19, 2005.

1:09.5

34-year-old Danielle Imbo was having a nice night out at dinner with her best friend Christine and Christine's mom.

1:15.5

It was a little break from her day-to-day of being a working single mom.

1:19.3

You see, things aren't exactly easy for Danielle at the moment.

1:23.1

In 2001, she married what is now her soon-to-be ex, Joe Imbo.

1:27.7

And by 2003, the two had a child together, Joe Jr.

1:31.7

Danielle loved being a mother.

1:33.7

From the second Joe Jr. came into the world, she knew that this is what she was meant for.

1:37.7

But parenthood wasn't as all-consuming for Joe.

1:40.7

According to Steve Volk in an article for Philly magazine,

1:43.7

when Joe Jr. was still an infant and sick at the time, his dad left Danielle at home with the sick baby to fly to the Super Bowl.

1:50.7

What?

1:51.2

And, oh, hang on, it gets worse.

1:52.7

Not only was he not there to help his wife and his son.

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