Nov 21, 2009 3:07 pm US/Eastern
Family Pleads For Answers In Woman's Disappearance
LOWER MERION, Pa. (CBS 3) ―
A Chester County family is pleading for the public's assistance in finding a young mother who went missing after a night out on the Main Line earlier this year.
"Somebody has to know something out there, somebody has to have seen something," the missing woman's mother Donna Knebel said.
Donna Knebel refuses to believe her 29-year-old daughter Toni Lee could just vanish from a Main Line neighborhood.
"To sum it up, it's been a living hell," Toni's father Peter Knebel said.
Toni and a girlfriend started the evening at a King of Prussia night club and then traveled to the home of a Philadelphia 76ers player on Bobarn Drive the night of August 23.
Investigators say the athlete, who they emphasized had nothing to do with Toni's disappearance and is cooperating fully, then asked the pair to leave.
Moments later, Toni told her girlfriend to get out of the car and pulled away.
Since her car, a black 2002 Pontiac Gran Am with Pennsylvania tags DND-7772 disappeared into the darkness, there has been no trace of the 29-year-old nurse and mother.
"It's a very empty feeling, very empty," Donna said.
"At this point, nothing else has turned up to indicate her whereabouts since the night of her disappearance," Lt. Frank Higgins of the Lower Merion Police Department explained.
Reported sightings as far away as Camden and Lancaster have proven unfounded. And now as Toni's birthday and the holidays approach, the Knebel's struggle more each day with helping Toni's 12-year-old daughter come to grips with her mom's disappearance.
"She keeping it all in, and I worry about that because I don't want her to break down later," Donna said.
"We're just hoping and praying somebody out there knows something and comes forward," Peter said.
If you have any information, you are urged to call
610-388-1776 or
800-796-9042 or please visit
www.missingtonisharpless.com.
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