The Disappearance of Toni Lee Sharpless The Nurse Who Drove Into the Night and Was Never Seen Again Little Dickies, Some missing person cases grow cold because the clues vanish. Others grow colder because the clues remain and still refuse to make sense. The disappearance of Toni Lee Sharpless belongs in that second category. A nurse. A mother. A woman rebuilding her life after years of personal struggle. On the morning of August 23, 2009 , Toni got into her car and drove away from a party in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. She has never been seen again. And perhaps the most chilling detail in the entire case is this. Her car vanished with her. Cars almost always turn up. Toni’s never did. Who Was Toni Sharpless Before she became the subject of a missing persons investigation, Toni Sharpless was living a life that many people around her described as complicated but hopeful. Toni grew up in Downingtown, Pennsylvania , a Chester County community west of Philadelp...
The Disappearance of Fawn Marie Mountain: The Silence Around Claysburg By RICHIE D MOWREY for The Sassy Gazette (The Gossip You Didn’t Know You Needed). Before we open this casefile: This article includes discussion of domestic violence, coercive control, possible sexual assault, trauma, addiction, and suspected homicide. Fawn’s story is not easy to sit with, and it should not be. Please read with care. Little Dickies, Some cases feel like fog. Others feel like blood on the floor that somebody tried very hard to scrub away. The disappearance of Fawn Marie Mountain belongs to the second category. Fawn vanished from Claysburg, Pennsylvania , in November 2012 , and what followed was not just silence. It was a silence shaped by fear, by control, by legal weaponry, by neglect, and by the kind of systemic indifference that too often settles over women whose lives were messy, complicated, traumatized, poor, queer, addicted, or all of the above. For years, Fa...