Shane Allen Workman disappeared from Lewistown, Pennsylvania, on April 25, 2017, after leaving his family’s home and reportedly saying he was headed to a nearby Sheetz. SHANE ALLEN WORKMAN The One-Block Walk That Became a Nine-Year Mystery A Dicking Around With Richie Case File By RICHIE D MOWREY for The Sassy Gazette Some disappearances begin with violence. Some begin with an abandoned car, a phone suddenly going dark, or a front door standing open when it shouldn’t be. Shane Allen Workman’s began with something painfully ordinary. A short walk. A father sitting at home. A son asking whether he wanted anything from the store. And a promise nobody had any reason to remember. “I’ll be back in a minute.” Shane did not come back. On April 25, 2017, the 31-year-old father walked out of his family’s home in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, reportedly intending to visit a nearby Sheetz convenience store. He was never seen by his family again. For more than ni...
VANISHED IN PLAIN SIGHT: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JEANETTE DUPRIEST A neighborhood bar. Two houses around the corner. A mother of eight. Sixteen years of silence. By RICHIE D MOWREY for The Sassy Gazette’s Dicking Around With Richie: A True Crime Feed West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 2010. A neighborhood bar reaches closing time. Glasses are cleared. Lights come up. People drift out onto Springfield Avenue and disappear into a patchwork of rowhouses, side streets, parked cars, and familiar neighborhood corners. Somewhere inside that ordinary end-of-the-night ritual is Jeanette “Nette” DuPriest . Jeanette is 41 years old. She is a mother of eight. She reportedly leaves Wanda’s Lounge , a neighborhood bar near 55th Street and Springfield Avenue, with people she met there. Not long afterward, she is reportedly seen around the corner on Belmar Terrace , where she may have visited two homes. Then the trail dies. Not gradually. No...