Toni Lee Sharpless /// Part 2 /// 327 | Forensic Files

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crime after a night of drinks and dancing on August 22nd 2009 29 year old mother and nurse
Tony Sharples disappears after leaving a party in the early morning hours of August 23rd now let's get back to the
house where Tony was last seen the people whom we know to be at the home that night according to crystal Jones
who was with her at the party police lieutenant Frank Higgins said that they interviewed all the people at the house
that night and I believe he said that all of them were cooperative as well so this included Willie green remember he's
the owner of the house right and they all seemed to back up Crystal's story that Tony left the home under her own
power the police stated publicly that there was no indication whatsoever of foul
play no one at the party was a suspect and there were no persons of interest that they had uncovered in their
investigation I wonder if they let them search the property from everything that
I have seen there was never a search of the property or the house specifically lieutenant Higgins said quote nothing
took place there that would lead us to believe that something happened there and quote so we don't know how in-depth
any of these quote-unquote interviews with the people at the house were it was Elaine law a private investigator on
this case whom we discussed we'll discuss her more in a bit she is under the impression that Willie green
basically told the cops that it was mostly just his family there that night and that they didn't really know
anything and she says they weren't really questioned in this case to be clear as we pointed
out just a minute ago Willie Greene's home was not subject to any kind of search and none of the people at his
house that night aside from crystal have spoken about the events of that evening publicly which is
I find ridiculous because this is our last night and we're about so searched the property yeah so for
many people interested in this case the quick dismissal of the partygoers as potentially involved parties does not
sit well in the failure to investigate a possible crime scene is I think inexcusable
Willie Greene we are told as you said he fully cooperated it does seem that the fact that a woman went missing after
being at his home in a compromised state should warrant further investigation long there was a conflict as well right
I always wondered if that conflict had truth or merit to it or if it was something that that everybody was making
up to cover up something else yeah so Tony's friend Gigi haze right she's the one who organized the Texas Equusearch
search of the river yeah she regularly contacted the police demanding that Willie green and all the others be
formally questioned she is under the impression that Matt green somebody else who was at the party and the uncle of
Willie and Matt green both have criminal histories and she says these two should
have been looked into very closely repeated attempts by private investigator Elaine law to contact
Willie green have been completely disregarded she did not even get a return call from his attorney if he is
at all concerned about the fact that a woman disappeared from his home he certainly is not showing it so now let's
ask the question captain is crystal telling the truth she's the only one that we've heard speak publicly about
what happened that night why I think like you said earlier she's been pretty cooperative and she's also been very
eager to talk and to get the story out there and as the years go by she's kind of now more reluctant to to talk about
the case is that fair to say Oh agreed 100% and and here's here's the problem with crystal it's hard for me to really
get a fix on her I can't I can't figure her out because we have the situation as
you said where early on in this case I mean we're coming up on ten years now she was at one point talking and very
active and vocal about what happened that night and about her missing friend and yes that has tapered off over the
years some of that might not be because she is hiding anything or because she isn't telling the truth she has taken a
lot of flack on the Internet a lot of people have gone after her yeah and it could just be for that I mean at
some point when you're trying to help a situation you know you and I jokingly say it sometimes no good deed goes
unpunished right if she in fact is out there trying to help find her friend and she's getting [ __ ] on for it one can
only take that one can only take that for so long it only takes so much [ __ ] and here's
the other thing that makes it hard for me to get a real good handle on her is that in the beginning not only is she
talking but she seems to be doing things that are helpful to the search for Tony
Sharples she is one that is reported to have called and report Tony is missing she is one that is reported to have
helped the family print flyers and distribute flyers looking for Tony right and this is also your with your friend
she might not even a known that Tony was going through these battles with her mental illness
switching up medications she might not have known any of that well according to crystal she said she did not know any of
them but he didn't know that Tony was not supposed to be drinking and crystal almost gives the suggestion that had she
known had she been aware of what was going on in Tony's life that she likely wouldn't have asked her to go out
dancing and drinking and partying with her that yes you probably want to ask that and then when you go back to this
party and there was a confrontation that's probably seems a little strange but again she's probably just going okay
well we had a couple drinks but you would have way more knowledge about this situation then you get into the car with
her and you get in our argument and she tells you to leave one you're probably not gonna be let in our drive to you're
not getting out of that car and let's be clear if you're drunk at a party or not
drunk let's say you're tipsy at a party and you guys decide to leave but you're forty minutes away from where you know
your safe area and your friend drops you off and they don't come back to get you
you're gonna be pissed and you have every right to be pissed and she she hasn't been and she's been champion to
go hey we want to figure out what happened to my friend and she probably feels a little bit responsible because
she didn't know about these things like you said she invited her out probably one enough and probably would have
invited to hang out with her but one enough went to a party went to a club so she's been a champion to keep the story
and the limelight but you see this with like when Brian Schaeffer went missing last person one of the last people to be
with him is Clint he gets thrown under the bus in the Tyler Davis case you know his wife and his friend are now being
thrown under the bus so you just become that part of the story so crystals being
thrown under the bus and again how much [ __ ] can you take well and then you have
the flip side of that same coin and on the flip side of that coin what do we see we see people that say
Christel went out of her way to make sure that she was one of the people that reported Tony missing that she helped
create the story and helped to give credence to that story by making two phone calls to Tony's phone so you're
saying that people are saying that she's creating the narrative correct and Tony's friends
Tony's longtime friends they say they believe crystal is lying and they believe it's very strange that the
police have put all of their trust into Crystal's story about what happened right but one of the reasons why they
put their trust into her stories because she did something that we never advised
and that is to ask for a polygraph so she takes a polygraph which I don't think any lawyer wouldn't tell you to do
but I think she was pretty adamant on trying to clear her name yes I have that she offered to take a polygraph did so
and passed the polygraph test the polygraph examination the the other thing too is there are questions about
what her relationship is with Matt green and there's still questions about what exactly went down at the party even if
you believe crystal or not that's just my opinion she was the first to call police
when Tony failed to show up the next day as I pointed out she did help in the searches for Tony putting up the fliers
she did talk to media I have a question for you I don't know if you can answer this because I couldn't figure it out
are the initial reports when when they're talking about the events of that night are the initial reports are they
talking about the conflict that happened at the house and why they left the house
because it doesn't seem that clear and I always wondered what you know which came
first you know dude that did they not talk about why they left and then once crystal figures out that
her friend was dealing with some mental issues is that when the story of the conflict came out because I just think
that would be kind of telling know the story of the conflict that the house came out once it was known that the
otoni was missing right so it came out right away it came out fairly early yeah yes not to
the general public but to the enforcement the people searching for Tony but you know here's the thing while
crystal has put up publicly anyway put up a good front as being a concerned friend and maybe she is legitimately a
concerned friend as you pointed out she did pass that polygraph and she has generally stuck to her story again it's
the it goes back to social media and things that I've seen on the Internet she clearly has not come out smelling
like a rose during this whole thing Elaine law the private investigator who is searching for Tony
she says she interviewed Krystal for four hours and her statement is is this she feels that while Krystal was not
straight up lying about the situation she says that she believes that she is not being fully truthful either and
missing because he could take a polygraph test and tell the truth but but be omitting things so the right and
the thing here is that the private investigator basically believes that Krystal knows more than what she is
saying to law enforcement and to the public and she cites that she really does not like the fact that Krystal
refused to show her her phone records from that time period yeah the private investigators looking
for confirmation of the two calls correct she wants to line those up with what she
knows about Tony's phone why not and I would also want to know who she called after that because he she claimed that
she calls Tony's phone twice doesn't get a reply then she is calling multiple people to get a ride I want to
know who's calling after that did she call Matt green I'd be interested in that but also maybe those two calls
never happened but wouldn't they be able to get Tony's cell phone records at some
point oh they do have them the private investigator has them and so that's where I question are they only
simply coming up as incoming calls right I doubt that I'm guessing that part of the reason why maybe police are really
going on crystals story is two reasons one the other people at the party that night
according to here's the other thing we don't really fully know a full list of the people at the party right all we
have is the people that that law enforcement spoke to saying yeah but this is it this is all the people that
were there that night and then on top of that they they may have Tony's records saying that it was in fact crystal that
called her on those two times six minutes apart around the time that she vanished and so
that kind of backs up crystals story as well I think what a lane law is saying here is exactly what you just said she
wants to know what other activity was going on with crystals phone before those calls between those calls and
afterwards who is she talking to and one thing that would would cause a big shake-up and a big wrinkle in her story
would be if in fact she did phone anybody that was still at that party at that time her or believed to be at
Willie Greene's house at that time because that doesn't seem to gel with with her actions of what she said to the
public you know that I called I called my friends my family looking for a ride home because I was dumped on the side of
the road well again it's strange though too because we have the last person supposedly with her you wonder how much
she was questioned when they when people are people are questioning how much people were questioning at the party how
much was crystal questioned and she was the one that came forward and said I'll take a polygraph test
they didn't ask her to she was the one willing to so then you wonder if they even how much they've checked her phone
records or did they just go while we we talked to the cousin so we know that the
cousin came and picked her up so I know that we're kind of spinning our tires on
this here a bit but before do whatever we want I want to make sure that everyone has their seats in the full
upright position because this is where the story starts to get weird okay on September 14th this is about
three weeks after Tony disappear authorities in Pennsylvania got word that the New Jersey State Police had a
possible hit on Tony's car on September 8th a stationary New Jersey State Police
vehicle parked in Camden had seen something an automated license plate reader mounted in the police car
recorded the plate number on each car passing it a car bearing plate number DND seven seven seven two passed and was
recorded the automated plate reader ran the plate and because Tony's car was listed as missing remember they reported
it as missing it would have notified the officer Manning the vehicle that it was
possibly her car but the police car was parked and no one was in it so no one noticed the license plate number hit
until a week later right now it's worth noting that I have read that these license plate readers are not 100% 100%
of the time I've seen some people point out things that they're more likely closer to 90% accurate the other thing
that we got to keep in mind too is it's possible that it was not Tony's car that
was seen but simply a car with the license plate number DND 777 to Wright was in Camden on September 8th that the
plate was on a different vehicle now private and ball where you have that idea but you
serve the other idea that you can have the same license-plate number but a different state hmm so-so
Elaine law who is working on this case the private investigator yeah and who I spoke with briefly for this episode she
actually is the one that told me to cover this case I approached her about a different case that she was working
there there's a case out there and I won't go into specifics specifics about it because the family asks that we not
cover it the victim's family it was a case that I had wanted to cover for some time
there's very little information out there in the newspapers and in the public about it and I saw Elaine law's
name in one of the newspaper articles so I contacted her thinking well if we're gonna learn anything about that case we
need to get it from her to which she says look the family doesn't really want it to be covered why don't you take a
look at and she tossed out a few other cases that she had been working on that really need the public's help and and
really need a voice thrown out there and the story told one more time in hopes that it hits the right ears so she told
us that a Camden police officer this is a little this is a little off the record
here then a Camden police officer told her that a car with Toni's plate number also got a parking ticket in the city
around that same time period but he didn't go into further detail about that whole situation I could not find that
anywhere so it seems like at least that plate number has popped up twice on Camden police radar so the New Jersey
State Police says both that they and the Camden police scoured the area but never
found any other trace of the car with that plate on it now lieutenant Higgins of Lower Merion Township Police
Department says quote cars don't usually disappear entirely at some point in the
future they turn up whether it's a junkyard or somewhere else and quote but we know Tony's car has never turned up
and the idea that her car may have been in Camden in an area riddled with drugs prostitution and crime has led to a
predominant theory of what possibly could have happened to Tony now we also have private investigator Elaine law she
talked about tips that came in and also about possible sightings of Tony so about a month after well six weeks a
month and a half after Tony vanished yeah a former detective private investigator
Elaine law offered her services to the family for $1 she saw Tony's case on the news and felt that it was something that
there was possibility based on the amount of sex trafficking in the area and tips about possible sightings of
tony that tony was still alive and possibly either involved in drugs and prostitution or she had been trafficked
so Elaine started a website to gather tips she met with both Krystle and the family tried to contact Willy green held
a town meeting about the case she kept Tony's picture in the media even going around Camden with a picture of Tony
asking pimps dealers working girls and residents if they had seen her right because you have a individual that again
is struggling with mental illness shouldn't be drinking but was drinking has had some struggles with addiction in
the past is it possible that this she gets in this conflict that kind of pushes her over the edge and when she
leaves her friend she doesn't really know where she's at but then she goes hey you know maybe I can get some drugs
by going to Camden and if you go there then who knows what bad things could happen Elaine says that she has gathered
50 plus tips to track Tony from initial sightings near or in Lancaster where she worked to
Camden and then to Philly saying it's almost as if Tony was being moved around some of these tips placed Tony in the
presence of a large black man and a skinny Hispanic man with a goatee and there was a sighting of a woman having
very dark under eye circles almost raccoon eyes something that apparently Tony struggled with since her teen years
and then one guy said he had seen Tony four times in candid and that they had the same heroin dealer
another tip came from a security guard that placed an abandoned dirty scraped up black sedan with tinted windows so a
vehicle matching a similar description to Tony's under the Ben Franklin Bridge between Philly and Camden shortly after
she went missing it had no plates in the Camden police never disclosed whether they followed up
on that vehicle sighting or the sightings of possibly Tony now of course we also have no idea whether any of
these tips are correct and if Tony was actually seen and many of these tips do come from people that I would consider
to be less than reliable and if it was Tony that was seen then you have other things to wonder about was she abducted
or did she go willingly yeah it's and it's very hard to I feel for this whole situation because of her struggles with
the mental illness if she hits a point of a manic state and then she's using drugs the drugs could can you know have
her continue to stay in a manic state and and and who knows where she's at so one thing I do know though too is that
police they say that they looked into whether Tony ever purchased drugs in Camden they came up with nothing
regarding that and they also said that there is actually no evidence at all that she even knew anyone in that area
the other thing too if it was drugs that she went after that night or or if that's the reason that kept her away it
seems a little strange to me it seems like there would have been a lot of other places closer to home to make that
score the case did start to grow cold after these tips were coming in these were pretty early in the investigation
pretty early in Elaine laws investigation I do want to get to some other interesting tips in this case okay
a call that was made to West Brandywine Township Police Department this is a call where a man claimed to be from the
Canadian Security Intelligence Service this is an agency similar to the CIA in Toronto
the man said agents found a car parked on their lot and traced the car to Tony and the agents also found someone who
they believed to be Tony matching her description the man provided an email address and a phone number where he
could be reached and requested photos of Tony the address and phone number however turned out to be a fake Chief
Warner said police called the Toronto Police Department and was told the call must have been faked
chief Warner said that the caller was quote the guy had all the right answers he was talking the police lingo and he
knew what to say and quote several days later an officer in West Brandywine Police Department's radio room took a
call from a sheriff's deputy in South Dakota the deputy claimed the officers found Tony's car there the man promised
to fax information over but never did officers contacted the man's alleged department but personnel there had no
knowledge of the vehicle or of the man who made the call we have chief Warner again who says look we got
a copy of that recording and he says it was the exact same guy that he talked to
the the guy that claimed to be from Toronto he said that the reason why he could identify the caller as being the
same is he described this man as having an interesting voice it was something about the way that this man sounded the
chief Werner was able to believe that the caller was in fact the same the thing though that's weird
here and just kind of really blows my mind is why would somebody bother to stage these two hoaxes this is four
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stay filthy you Annalee he filtered well you know we were talking about this on Saturday at our presentation meetup
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yes or cheesy in late 2013 something happened that could give us a significant clue into Tony's
disappearance private investigator Elaine law received a letter at her office the one paged unsigned letter
postmarked in Trenton New Jersey on November 29th arrived in her mail December 1st
she didn't initially notice the letter in the pile of mail and she was shocked when she observed the return address it
was from Toni Sharples now toni is typically spelled t o n I was T ony Sharples now here is the text of the
letter dear Elaine law the police and PA do not have a tip line I tried calling the Philly police where I live but they
said it was not in their jurisdiction one of the detectives pulled me aside and gave me your name and address in the
last few days of September 2009 a friend in Camden called me and offered me money
to move a car from Brooklyn New Jersey to Boston Massachusetts he told me he would pay me $5,000 cash plus I could
have the plates he asked if I knew anyone 27 or 29 that wanted to pay per trip so he gave me a social security
card I drove the car a black four-door pontiac grand prix and drove to an auto body shop outside of boston
massachusetts i took off the plates and with a black magic marker wrote down the
last five digits of the VIN number and cleared out the glovebox I came back to Camden a day later and he told me that
the car was not stolen but missing he said a friend of his a cop in Camden got into a fight with a girl she died and he
needed to get the car out of Jersey about a month ago my daughter was playing in the garage and found the box
with the plates and social security card I had forgotten all about it the plates are DND seven seven seven two
the social security card and this is where Sharples his cell phone number was written in this spot and the last five
digits of the VIN are the person wrote the last five digits of Sharples vehicle's identification number in this
mine no I think some of this stuff was actually reported or public knowledge but I think it's definitely that VIN
number would be hard to get the writer goes on to say because of Hurricane sandy I had to visit Jersey to help
friends clean up I decided to drop you this letter what happened to Tony I don't really know all I know is that she
had a run-in with the police and I was paid much-needed cash to get the car to a shop in Boston again the the letter is
not signed it's a one-page letter and as you said captain yes the we do know that
the plate number was readily available this was not only I mean it was on the internet plus it was on flyers looking
for for Tony because her vehicle was missing as well the difficult thing as you said are the
five digits of the VIN number and we could speculate day and night how difficult it could have been or how easy
it could have been to get Tony's cell phone number that may have been difficult we do know that it was
a relatively new phone I don't know if that came with a new number but we should point out the VIN number and the
cell phone number were both correct they were tony's now Alain turned over the letter to the West Brandywine police
and also notified the New Jersey State Police and the New Jersey Attorney General's Office she also gave the
letter to the media in hopes that it would keep Tony's case alive later she learned that police believe
the letter to be a hoax probably because it was sent in close proximity to the to
hoax phone calls she's not certain why they came to this conclusion but that's what they have said publicly that this
letter is is a hoax what are you feeling about this letter because you're your captain letter man we will cover every
case that involves a strange letter yeah so I have a lot of questions about this
letter I think that most of the information in so this is not the same as like the zodiac who who kills Paul
Stine and then provides you a bloody torn off piece of his shirt right in a letter this is very different this is
somebody who is claiming to have done something been paid by somebody else possibly limiting their involvement
limiting their involvement and then my proof of you to believe my word is I'm gonna provide you with these three
things these three pieces of information and they could have obtained these in the exact manner that they said that
they took the plates they wrote down the VIN number they cleared out the glovebox
that easily could have obtained all these things from that exact action however I believe that somebody could
have got this information if they looked and spent a little bit of time on it I don't think it would have been extremely
difficult to find all three of these things and provide it one thing that I find interesting is that when with the
claim of having the Social Security card this individual then provides her cell phone number in
place of what what he or she probably should have put the social security number brilliant so that makes me wonder
well why have a hoax why write this letter well those are things that point to me point to me that it could be a
hoax okay before we move on I do want to clear one thing up because some people might be asking themselves this of some
of the wording in the letter when he says that he was asked if anyone if I knew anyone 27 or 29 that wanted to pay
per trip so he gave me a social security card what they mean by this is somebody
that wants to steal an identity to to take somebody else's information all right yeah that's that that's the paper
trip that he's talking about or she so here's where I have a different issue with it where I questioned the validity
of of the letter I'm also a bit horrified and terrified by the letter there's something very strange going on
here if there were to be three hoaxes and then we had the the one of the police officers the chief of police
saying he believes just by listening with his own ears that that the the caller of those two calls were one in
fact the same so if though if the two calls that come in that are hoaxes that try to put Tony in her vehicle in
Toronto and then the other call tries to put Tony's vehicle somewhere in South Dakota and now this letter is stating
that hey I live in Philadelphia right somebody from Camden hired me to do this I had to move the car from Brooklyn
Brooklyn New Jersey to Boston Massachusetts we have six different cities named in three different hoaxes
and then on top of that if it's not that big of a leap to go okay well if the same person made those phone calls did
then the same person write this letter and that's where I get horrified and terrified at the same time there's
there's something very strange there if one person is responsible for all of these communications yeah but to me it's
like what is the hoax trying to prove it's trying to prove that she left the area that she was last seen by her
friend that's to me what these are trying to prove so that he's trying to steer the direction of the investigation
like throwing them off the trail if they were in fact that's that's the other problem I have with this whole thought
it's four years later the only conceivable reason that I can come up with this somebody would would make
these communications would be just that to throw them off the trail but but we're under the belief that the case had
gone cold by this time so there is no trail what trail are they on were they even on a trail at the time right but
maybe I'm just saying if something happened bad at that party that they're still you know they feel guilty they
feel paranoid maybe they're creating this hopes for that reason let's keep you away from thinking about that party
unless you cuz they don't know the leads but again that doesn't make a lot of sense to me because you'd think unless
the cops were constantly beating down their door and asking for information why would you involve yourself anymore
why not just stay away right and if you had nothing to do with it why involve yourself at all that's why I'm saying
this it's all weird man it's all weird and and then then you are if you weren't involved you I don't think you would
create the hoax I'm saying but again that the other possibility that I haven't really thought about till now is
the idea of when when she says crystal said while she I thought she would come back for me and
it's like what if at some point Tony did come back and she went back to the party
without crystal hmm you know this is not you know we're just basing off of if the
cops might believe crystal and she might be telling the truth about that but that
does not mean that Tony didn't go back to the party yeah and but you know if we haven't done any search of this property
III just don't know how again and we also don't know how many individuals were at that house so is it there were
but I do know there was enough individuals that something bad could have happened and somebody could have
disposed of her car it would appear that something happened to this car in actually Tony's car going to a Chop Shop
out of state makes some sense why her car has never been located you know after this point I I do want to throw
this information out there and I have names here but I've I've purposely removed them because I question how how
true this this information is this is but but it does cite several of the things in the letter that we just talked
about so an estranged wife of an ex Camden police officer okay remember in the letter the the letter writer claimed
to have been paid by somebody that said that that Tony had a run-in with a police officer right so an estranged
wife of an ex Camden police officer who was fired after falsifying reports in order to get this estranged wife
arrested this wife comes forward talks with the private investigator Elaine and tells her that her ex who lived in
Brooklyn I keep wanting to say Brooklyn it's Brooklyn New Jersey right again the
town mentioned in the letter also ran an auto business where he would repo cars and resell them including the
area of Boston she claims that at one point she saw a black four-door Pontiac with tinted windows in their driveway
one day and assumed it to be one of these vehicles one of his cars that he repossessed or that took possession of
to resell so again that's information that was provided to us yeah it's it's always difficult when you have these
these marriages that go south that go away bad what the hell go south it's tough to whether or not you get a
divorce that's a different thing but they all go south it seems like he was definitely up to no good because we do
have the Camden police department who claims he was fired for falsifying reports now you're a liar right I mean
that's in I want to believe the letter it seems like it makes sense it seems like just with the VIN number it's not
the full VIN number rights as part of the VIN number five numbers the last file but it's enough for me to go okay
that's information that's not easy to get my issue with it is if you're gonna come forward with this letter why not
just come forward altogether because you see I mean like I feel like by sending this letter whoever paid you could come
after you could come after you and if you don't go and tell them your full story then you've offered yourself no
protection from that person right it's not only you know it's like oh yeah well they but they didn't put their
identification in the letter well no but no but the person of the person that real the person that paid this person
like well where you are according to the letter it was like a person that there was a middleman right
so right so the police officer if in fact the letters correct may not exactly know who
ultimately was paid to move the vehicle who ultimately wrote the letter right but it it's but some it won't work that
hard for him to figure it out right it wouldn't be that hard for him to figure that out so I are you ready for another
twist here captain sure all right on May 15th 2014 Tony's mother Donna received a
check in the mail from the Department of Revenue state of Indiana for jest it was
a little over a thousand dollars this check this was a tax refund check what's notable is that the check was made
payable to Tony Lee Sharples and Robert E Morales husband and wife this Tony and
robber apparently filed joint state returns on earnings of forty six thousand six hundred and twenty five
dollars from Johns Hopkins University Tony's occupation was listed as a nurse and Roberts as a doctor a bogus phone
number was on the return now this is mind-boggling for many reasons but mainly because a man named Robert E
Morales went missing from Phoenix Arizona two weeks before Tony did on August 8th
2009 he is still missing to this day you can see his Charley project page on their website I wonder if somebody is
trying to scam the system and going hey let's put these two missing people together you know but how would you file
a tax return so the the private investigator Elaine contacted the Department of Revenue in Indiana and she
said that she learned it was a legitimate refund check and that the tax returns Antoni and Roberts joint names had been
filed electronically as for why the check was sent to Tony's old address instead of the address listed on the
turn Elaine said she was told that whenever the address is less than one year old that they just send it to the
former address who knows how this happened but significantly someone had stolen Toni's identity and yeah but they
could have nothing to do with her disappear you could have nothing to do with the case but then you also wonder
if in fact that person had access to her social security card and we know that the anonymous letter writer mentioned
that he had the card Donna her mother believes that Toni kept her Social Security card in her wallet which of
course has never been found but this is what drives me just absolutely insane about these missing
person cases the investigation should have been harder on these people at the party they should investigated that
property period did the cops know did law enforcement know that should be going missing for the rest of her life
that would be sitting here ten years later wondering where she's at no but you got
to start by assuming that you need to assume that the worst case scenario is going to happen and you need to make
sure that you do your due diligence don't be a piece of [ __ ] right well here's here's the thing I see two things
kind of going on here there are points in this investigation where me on the outside looking in it appears to me that
they are doing their due diligence that they are working the case hard but there
are other times where I have a completely different feeling and this is not a small case this is an
investigation that's been 10 years now how many how long and good have they worked on it through the course of that
time is certainly up for the for debate and and my own opinion is at times it was not good on their end that could be
that we have multiple jurisdictions involved in this I will say that the local police investigating the case gave
the impression pretty early in what I would consider to be a very unprofessional manner that they believed
Tony was simply on drugs and/or crazy so when you have that coming out of their department you really have to wander and
I'm sure a lot of people close to Tony are wondering the same thing is in fact if they were investigating the case
thoroughly if they were giving her disappearance the appropriate due diligence as you were saying law it's
pathetic that they would call her crazy because look if you break your arm what do you do you go to a doctor got
something broken in your brain you go get help for that so that to me that's a sign of somebody trying to get help I
think my gut is telling me that this there's more truth to this letter than not and and I couldn't tell you why but
it's like yeah I'm not ready to dismiss it as quickly as what it appears law enforcement has yeah the VIN number I
can't get over that and then also I don't know how much I buy the the ex-wife of the cop coming forward and
saying hey I saw a car similar to this I don't know but but those are two things
that line up mm-hmm and and that needs to be followed and it's sad because like you said this car
probably went to a chop shop there was probably evidence of there's probably evidence of what happened to
her and and that's gone forever and I I do know that some of that for her daughter
I do know that some of Tony's friends absolutely believe that Tony never left Willie Greene's house that night that
something happened to her there and it could be any number of things an overdose died in an accident was killed
as the result of some kind of physical altercation there was a pool there maybe maybe she drowned in the pool but you
know their belief is that in order to protect Willie Greene MBA salary and reputation that she and
her car were later disposed of and that's and we don't have the whole story there
well like Forrest Gump said it maybe it's both happening at the same time hmm is there a possibility that something
happens at this party they know a shady cop they call the shady cop hey we need your help
right or they call their lawyer their lawyer knows a shady comp that could shop the cop comes the cop that knows
some bad people that can help take care of this problem it could be both happening at the same time is anybody
there that night in some shape or form of a police officer right even from another city we again we don't have the
full list of names we actually had two people that were unnamed in our list and we're going off and saying that that is
an accurate list of people there could be additional people that were there that were conveniently left off of the
list provided to law enforcement my only issue with all that it's like I said she
would have had to drop her friend off and somehow circle back around because I do think that her friend started out
being a champion for finding her friend and so that's the part that doesn't line
up and unless possibly unless she drops her off and circles back round but you'd
have to obviously it would not be that hard to fabricate and manufacture the story of of Tony leaving ditching her
friend and her phone conveniently being off all at the same time right and and to work that into her story but to be
the one to come forward and ask for a polygraph test again I I we don't know what questions were on that test we hear
from law enforcement that she passed but we don't know what questions it's just a
sad scenario for for whatever reason once you put mental health in it it's I think people I think people were a
little too dismissive of of things regarding the private investigator Elaine law she is no longer so certain
that Tony is still alive she does still believe that Tony was that something happened to her and she was trafficked
she does believe that the sightings of Tony in the area were legitimate she does continue to follow up on leads and
tips to this day speaking there are there is some movement on this case as far as the private investigator is
concerned there are still some leads that she is working on it would be it wouldn't be appropriate to discuss those
here today because it's not something that we have a lot of information on but regarding Tony's parents her mother and
her stepfather they say they don't know what to think quote it's like a rollercoaster of
emotion Donna told one reporter they aren't sure that Krystle is telling the truth and they say that they have had no
contact with her but they also know that Tony should not have been drinking and could have been disoriented and gotten
lost and ended up in the river or elsewhere okay both of them feel strongly that it's a that a search of
Willie Greene's home should have been conducted when asked if she believes that her if her daughter is still alive
Donna says honestly no Tony would have called by now she always did well my granddaughter is the same way if she
doesn't call me I know something is wrong no one knows a child like a mother Tony stepfather agrees with his wife and
he has also stated that someone must know what occurred the night of August 23 2009 and he adds that she didn't just
vanish into thin air that there must be more to this story now Tony is still listed as a missing person the 10th
anniversary of her disappearance is next week we will have a photo of Tony on the
blog at true-crime garage dot-com tony's DNA has been entered into a national database so if at some point a body is
found she will be identified hats go off to her our friends and family and and then her parents you know now looking
after her her child and and and then also what an awesome individual to take on their case
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Brief Summary

Tony Sharples vanished after a party in 2009; investigation raises questions about friend Crystal and possible trafficking connections.

Key points

The Disappearance of Tony Sharples. On August 22, 2009, 29-year-old Tony Sharples vanished after leaving a party. The investigation reveals troubling details about the night she went missing.
Conflicting Accounts. Crystal, the last person with Tony, has faced scrutiny regarding her truthfulness. Her cooperation raises questions about the investigation's depth.
License Plate Hit. Three weeks after Tony's disappearance, a possible sighting of her car was recorded, but no one noticed until a week later.
Elaine Law's Involvement. Private investigator Elaine Law offers her services for $1, believing Tony may be alive and involved in sex trafficking.
The Mysterious Letter. A letter from a supposed witness raises more questions than answers about Tony's disappearance.
Hoaxes and Confusion. Multiple hoaxes complicate the investigation into Tony's case, leaving detectives puzzled.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Nothing took place there that would lead us to believe that something happened there.

A police statement about the investigation's findings.

4:00WatchAug 14, 2019

Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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