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...
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