New Details Emerge In South Jersey Missing Persons Case

ALONG THE DELAWARE RIVER — A search and recovery team based in Oregon has joined the search for Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone, the Mount Laurel Township woman and Pennsylvania man who went missing after a night out more than 17 years ago.

Adventures with Purpose said it recently searched several Delaware River locations in the proximity of where the couple was last seen.

The search was spurred by a man who told the group he was aware of a location along the river that may offer clues into the couple’s disappearance, Jared Leisek, a member of the group said in a video on the group’s Facebook page.

Although the search turned up nothing relevant in the Imbo and Petrone case, the group is not giving up their search for the missing couple, he continued.

“We are still working [on] this case,” Leisek said in the video. “We're done with it for this year. But we're back again next year.”

That search may involve the northern parts of the Delaware River in the Philadelphia area, he added.

Adventures with Purpose found 11 of the 36 missing persons it had tasked itself to investigate in the fall of 2021, according to the group’s website. Over the weekend, the group found human remains in a Philadelphia-area creek that it said might be those of a man from that area who disappeared in 2003.

The investigation into Imbo and Petrone’s disappearance remains open and active, the FBI stated on its website. Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact the Citizens Crime Commission tip line at 215-546-TIPS (215-546-8477). Callers do not have to give their names.

There is a $50,000 reward for information that leads to finding Imbo and Petrone, or the arrest of those person or persons responsible for their disappearance, the FBI continued.

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