- Back here behind this
industrial complex, there's just no reason whatsoever, for them and their vehicle to be here. I believe I have a vehicle,
right off the edge of this pier. We're right around 47 feet, makes sense. Drive it right off the edge of this pier. And I'll tell you right now, every vehicle that was put in here, at this location, is on purpose. And if this is the
vehicle we're looking for, now we're talking foul play. Right there, right there,
right there, right there. What is that? What is that? (electronic scraping) - [Reporter] But first, all
new on NBC 10 News at five, the search for a missing cold case couple takes a team of divers from YouTube to the banks of the Schuylkill
River this afternoon. - They renew their search for
a couple from South Jersey missing for more than 17 years. Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone, Jr. were last seen at a bar on South
Street in February of 2005. - They were here with friends
having a really good time, Saturday night, and at 11:30
PM they had decided to leave. They stated to friends, Richard did, that he'd parked nearby. They were leaving to their vehicle, and he was taking Danielle home to Jersey. Did they go to Jersey or did
they go to Richard's home, on top of Viking Bakery up in Ardmore, which is about 15 minutes away? I'm very hopeful for this location. This is a location that
we haven't checked. That's a wheel. That's a wheel. You see it, it's a wheel clear as day. This vehicle's been in here for a while. Danielle and Richard could be directly below us right now, Carson. (suspenseful music) There he's on it. I see him. (suspenseful music continues) - Debris is all around it. It looked black, but once I started
ripping on it, it's blue. - It's definitely not the
vehicle we're looking for, but we got to do it to find
out, you know what I mean? I am really optimistic that
everything we have done today, we are getting closer and
closer to Danielle and Richard. Just got out of the FBI meeting. As far as that goes,
it was off the record, 100% they are in support of us. I can tell you that the
theories that we are working and that you guys know that we
are working, they agree with. The very first location
we're heading to right now is Strawbridge Lake, which
we just pulled onto 38, which they would've been coming
to in this lane of travel towards the Mount Laurel
area where her home was. (haunting music) 38 is directly above us,
is the vehicle right here? Dropping back down, seven feet. This is the route they could
have come right off of here. Getting a really good image here. Seven feet, man. I'm
confident they're not here. (haunting music continues) All the way it's between
two and three feet. (haunting music continues) 3.6, 3.5 feet. All the way through here, it's 3.5, 3.6 feet. Way too shallow to conceal a pickup truck. You know, we're looking
for a 2001 Dodge Dakota, black in color. (haunting music continues) So, right now we are en
route to Cooper River Lake, which is going to take into the theory that they came across the Ben
Franklin Bridge down on 30 and 30 runs right along Cooper River Lake. (boat engine purring)
(ducks quacking) I'm just waiting for it to
pop up, man, any moment. Like this is prime, prime
location right here. This would make sense. It might be on the Delaware, man. It might be right where Jared started. We've done a lot of work on this case. I feel like we are
really on the right path to finding Danielle and
Richard, I really do. We have to stay another day. We got to continue to work on locations, really go over what we've done
so far, what we're missing, and really what we need to,
wake up tomorrow and knock out. (tense pulsating music) Over the past 48 hours, we have severely narrowed down
the scope of our search area, as well as dissected the entire case and the possible routes
Richard and Danielle could have taken to take Danielle home. And also, maybe they changed their mind and they went to Richard's house. As you see behind me, we have
everything marked on here. Everything in green are
possible routes, main routes, and everything that you see here in orange is everything that we have searched, including these ponds over
here near Danielle's home, the Cooper River Lake along Route 30, and the Schuylkill River. Basing our theory that maybe
they changed their mind and went to Richard's house
above Viking Pastries. With everything that we've compiled and done over the past 48
hours and the intelligence that we've received
from multiple agencies, we feel we are really close. Stay tuned, this is one episode you are not going to want to miss. (gentle music) (gentle music continues) (gentle music continues) (gentle music ends) - Of the people that I find
underwater, in my opinion, I feel as though 50% of
them could have escaped if they would've had a window breaker. Because a few things that I have seen, with my own eyes, over
time as we have done this, is I have found people
crawling from the front seat to the middle seat, trying to get out as they are holding on, looking for their last breath of air, looking for any way out. And if they would've just
had a window breaker, I feel like they could
have made their way out. So again, the link is in the description. Or jump over to adventureswithpurpose.com and pick yourself up a
window breaker or two today. (gentle piano music) - [Reporter] The volunteer
divers from the group Adventures with Purpose
are trying to solve the cold case involving Danielle
Imbo and Richard Petrone who disappeared in 2005 after a night out at a bar with friends. (gentle piano music continues) - Let's hurry up and get
this boat into the water. I'm very optimistic on how
far our search has come and what we are about to search. If there's a missing aspect of our search in these searches that
we have done so far, it's going to be exactly what we're about to get into right now. (gentle piano music continues) This is the Ben Franklin Bridge behind me, South Philadelphia, we're right
off of Columbus Boulevard. We're going to work
our way from right here all the way down to the Betsy Ross Bridge, which is just out of sight
around the bend up there that you're looking at right now. And on our way up, we're going to stay about 50 feet from the
shoreline over there. And then on our way back
down when we're done, we'll go out another 50 feet or so. That way we're covering
a big distance out. This current's moving. If they came in here during high tide, that vehicle could be
out really, really far and not where we suspect it to be. Got a parking lot right here on this pier. (gentle music) It's only two feet in here. Keep it moving. We saw the bottoms of
those piers over there. And another thing we have to
watch out for now we know is, and we learn every case
that we work, we learn. We're constantly learning and evolving, adapting and innovating. The Jimmy Amabile case, they
built a marina on top of him. We're talking about a case that's 17 years old here in South Philly. Are any of the new structures out here possibly built on top
of Danielle and Richard? That's one thing I'm definitely
going to be looking for, moving forward with this case. Any of these new piers, we've got to be really careful
with scanning in between them and, you know, getting
different angles to see, you know, the shadows. Sonar casts shadows behind objects. So we need different angles to, you know, get a good vision of what's
beyond those shadows, when we're scanning underneath these piers and structures out here,
along this river today. And then we just get so
shallow in here, three feet. There's nothing in here, which is going to save us a lot of time, in and out of these little pier areas. (boat engine purring) Right now, we're only at 2 feet, but we're coming up to an area where there's a overpass
at Columbus Street. Not even really an overpass. The water just comes right up to the edge of the road up here. And well, then we have to check to see if there's a hole down there. I mean, like we did yesterday when we were in Strawbridge Lake. You know, it was really shallow and then when we got right near the road underneath that tunnel, it
dropped down to 13 feet. I mean, you can see behind us, like how close the road gets
to the waterway right here. Is there a hole right there? Oh, we're hitting bottom a little bit. We're hitting bottom a little bit. We're going to have to
turn around right here. You can see that grate right
there, protecting that drain. It's only about 18 inches. (boat engine purring) It's like skeletal remains up here. What is that? (tense music)
(boat engine purring) Just a fish head. Didn't see the head,
all we saw was the ribs, so better safe than sorry. (tense music continues) You're getting back out
here into the current and knots are speed back up to right about four miles an hour. And that's a little bit faster than we've scanned in the past. However, you know, the way our
systems are calibrated now, it allows us to go a little
bit faster, which is nice. You know, the faster we can go and still accurately read the imagery that's being projected to us, you know, the more locations we could
possibly search within a day or a big location like
this, search it quicker. We're coming up right now
behind the Rivers Casino directly in front of us right here. We will have to pause
here in about two hours. We have a meeting with Rolling Stone. It's great that everybody's,
you know, reaching out and wanting to cover the amazing
purpose that we encompass. Absolutely amazing. I'm honored to meet with all
of the different networks and, you know, the journalists,
magazines and so forth. It's amazing. It is. I'm very proud to be
a part of it, honored. And anytime that we can
take a moment to, you know, meet with anybody that's
willing to cover our purpose, absolutely thrilled to be able to do so. Rolling Stone, they got quite a reach. I grew up reading their magazine, so who would've thought that, you know, I would be a part of a purpose that Rolling Stone would be interested in. It's pretty damn cool. Because of you guys, we
are in Rolling Stone. Without you, our supporters, none of this will be possible, none of it. You guys supporting Jared
in his early adventures, cleaning up the environment, pop cans, all of his different river adventures, embracing him and how awesome
he is, 'cause he truly is. Not only is he my best friend, but he's one of the
most influential people that I've ever met and that
has been a part of my life. And from the moment I've met him, he's made me a better person. I constantly learn from him. Everything I do here,
I've learned from him. I've digested it. And you know, we're on a
path to really big things and we're helping many
people along the way. I like it. I love it. (serene music)
(boat engine purring) Looks like we have some type of old, what, there's a old access here, it looks like. But we're only three feet deep in there. Not what we need, at all. What was that? What is that there, off to the left? It's just a ... - That looks like a car.
- No, it's not a car. - Are you sure?
- Yep. Just something from over
there, from one of the sites. And then right there in the
middle of the Side Scan, you can see the other image. It's not casting a shadow,
but it's another little rock. And there's another one
there coming up along. (pensive music) There's just so many different variables that we have to take into consideration when we're working these cases
and just keep track of them. This is a case that we've
done a lot of work on and I don't feel like
we're chasing a dead end. I don't feel like this is a
case that may be foul play or may, you know, not be the type of case for us. The more we work it, the more I really do feel
like we're getting closer. And I know that in my
heart that they're here. We just got to find them. They've just been in a
horrible accident. That's it. Horrible accident. And you know, if you do
want to consider foul play, they weren't killed for
their 2001 Dodge Dakota with a bunch of miles on it. I also consider that if it is foul play, it's possible their vehicle's underwater. Dumped here in the Delaware or
one of these bodies of water, we just haven't made it to yet. (pensive music continues) Seven feet. Eight feet. Wow, 10 feet! We just fell into a big hole right here. So you never know, you got
to check all of this stuff. 14 Feet deep right here. I have what I thought was a vehicle, so I'm just getting a better
position to come over it. Should be coming up on it right now. (eerie music)
(boat engine purring) Back up to four feet. It's a really big hole right there. Looks like a saw a wheel. (eerie music continues) Right there, right there,
right there, right there. What is that? What is that? (eerie music continues)
(boat engine purring) I don't think it's big enough. Right here on LiveScope, should be right coming up. What is that? What is that right there? I don't think it's big enough. (boat engine purr echoing) All right. If you guys haven't already done so, take the chance to subscribe to everything that it is we're doing. We're out here trying to
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subscribed, it's free. What are you waiting for? (upbeat music) I believe I have a vehicle, right here. I believe I have a vehicle. It makes sense. Drive it right off the edge of this pier. And I'll tell you right
now that every vehicle that was put in here at this
location, is on purpose. And if this is the
vehicle we're looking for, now we're talking foul play. This is not a good location
for their vehicle to be, if this is it. (edgy music) What is that right there? See it, see it?
- Yeah. - That's definitely an SUV. Like there's quite a few of them here. (edgy music continues) We might have a truck. There's just no reason whatsoever, for them and their vehicle to be here. Or, you know, if a vehicle's here, it's not for good reasons. This is stolen, dumped
vehicles or, you know, there's definitely some foul play aspects to what's going on here. We need to make sure that
we re-scan these vehicles and I'm taking these
vehicles very serious. However, we only have a
little bit of time left to search on this case
before we have to go and help the next family. So it's very important
that I'm not going to..., I want to use this very
carefully as not wasting our time because we care about what these are. And if these aren't a truck, if one of these vehicles is a truck, we're diving immediately. We're going to get some better scanning on to rule out whether or not these
vehicles are trucks or not. Or different objects that just
are looking like vehicles. And then we're going to keep it moving on. But regardless, the SUV that's
out here, we're marking it, we will be back. And I will also notify
the Marine Lieutenant who I'm working very closely with, so that they can come and
take care of this vehicle and figure out what it is. We need to really utilize our time as efficiently as
possible, that we have left on the case that we're working, now. We really want to find
Danielle and Richard and we really want to keep it moving. And I'd really hate to
waste the afternoon diving on just an SUV that we know is an SUV and most likely just a stolen dump. Let's go scan this a little bit more and see if one of these
are our pickup truck. (electronic music) Definitely a pile of debris down there. And I'm getting a really
good reading of the debris. We might be looking at a pile of debris. (electronic music continues) We got what appears to
be two really big chunks of concrete right there. Now we're going to... (electronic music continues) The structures that used to be
up there are no longer there. So is that what we're looking at? The structures that used
to be up here on the shore that aren't there anymore? (electronic music continues) It's definitely an SUV. (electronic music continues) And I'm working on this debris pile again, now that I floated back down here. That's like three feet tall right there. We know we have one
verified vehicle in here. (electronic music continues) All right. That is... definitely a very old car. You have a very old school car and a SUV. There's your old school car right there. Really long front end. It's flat on Down Imaging,
it's not that tall at all. You can see that it's flat. SUV is... see it?
- Yeah, I see it. - It's not a pickup truck. We're going to spin around it. We're going to spin around it. It's like a Suburban, Tahoe, possibly. Really good images of it. Not a pickup truck, definitely an SUV. (edgy music) Both of those are SUVs. We have two SUVs and a really old car. And then here's your
second SUV right here. Technology's amazing, you
can see the whole cab of it. We just need to set these way points. There we go, marking it right now, mark. And then here's another right there. See it, see it, see it, see it? That's another. (boat engine purring)
(water sloshing) And then we have the old car, two cars, there's an upside down car. Two SUVs, a really old car and an upside down car. So we have four cars here right now. Right there. (boat engine purring)
(water sloshing) Right off the edge of that. Now this is the one we
have to be careful with, the one that's upside down. (boat engine purring) We know the two are SUVs. We know that... this vehicle, upside down could be a pickup truck, absolutely. Should be coming up any moment... right there, right there. (tense music) It's just not tall enough. There's no way that that's a pickup truck. Absolutely no way, right there. Hold on, I'm coming over it. All right, here we go. Here we go. See that? I'm going to pivot around it. Five feet in height. This is the old, old car right there. And then old, old car and then right straight out here... Two SUVs, old old car, upside down car, and possibly a fifth car. (edgy music) Right there. Right there. That's the upside down car. Two of the vehicles we know are SUVs. One of the vehicles is an
extremely old car, big body car. The upside down car is just like a car. The other one is really messing with me. That fifth one, we got to get
some better imaging on it. If we're going in the water to dive a car, we're diving on them all. The only way we're not diving today is unless we get really good
imaging of that fifth car, upside down to prove it's not a truck. - [Marine Lieutenant] All
right, so I got your message. - Two of them I know are SUVs. One of them is a really,
really old, long, big body car. And I have two vehicles upside down. One of them looks like a pickup truck. So, you know, with the two
vehicles that are upside down, that's really what we want to focus on. Obviously, they could all
potentially lead to something, but you know, we're
looking for a Dodge Dakota. We know we're looking for that truck. And with the vehicles being upside down, I'm sure one of of them could be a car, but with this type of depth
and scanning, you know, we're definitely not going to... - You're not sure?
- Yeah. Yeah. - [Marine Lieutenant] Gotcha.
So, what are you looking for? What do you need? - If there's any assistance
you guys can give us on the water, that will be great. I can't get my RV and equipment
trailer anywhere near this. - [Marine Lieutenant] Close, gotcha. - Yes. If we can get, you know,
a boat in here to go off of, to dive these,
- I can do that. - I'll have them marked with a magnet. - [Marine Lieutenant]
When do you want to do it? - That is completely up to you. Having your involvement
makes things safer for us. - [Marine Lieutenant]
What's that, say again. - Having your involvement
makes this safer for us. So we want to be as safe as possible. If this is something that you guys don't want to do this
afternoon, we can do it... - [Marine Lieutenant] So, normally, especially with the Delaware River, we normally do is try to do slack tide. Because as I said even though
it may not be the channel, when that tide's moving, it's almost impossible to
get down to the bottom. - It's been ripping all day, man. - Exactly, so.
- It was rough. - [Marine Lieutenant]
And I'm sure as you know, you're only going to get slack tide for about maybe an hour, if lucky. Half hour on each side of the change. - Yeah. When is the next slack tide? - I'm sorry.
- When is the next slack tide? - [Marine Lieutenant]
So low tides at 2:45. So there's no way we're
going to make it today. - Okay. So do you we want to plan first thing in the morning? - [Marine Lieutenant]
We can probably do that. That would probably work out. Let's see, between, yeah, it's six of one, half-dozen
of the other, I guess. If it works better for you, we can do it first thing in the morning. - Yeah. Yeah. First thing in
the morning would be great. And then what that will
also do is allow me to continue to scan the
rest of the Delaware up to the Betsy Ross, just in case. Just so if these don't
turn out to be anything or they belong to something else... - [Marine Lieutenant] We've
actually pulled vehicles from there before and it
was a typical dumping ground back in the day for vehicles. - The location right where we're at? - Yes.
- Okay. All right. - [Marine Lieutenant] That's
why you got five right there. We stop when we start pulling pieces up. Once they start coming apart, we're done. There's nothing to hold.
- Yeah, yeah. Right, right. Exactly. And I was just sitting there telling our viewers the same thing. Is that, you know, typically, and as much as we've
scanned of this Delaware and you know, we haven't found anything. And then we come up to a pier like this and then there's five right
here, that's typical of just the dumping ground of somebody
who's been stealing cars. You know, but until we get
down there on these, I mean, you know, we don't know,
but it's a high likelihood that's what we're working with. I think right now really
what we need to do is put a little bit more
sonar on that fifth vehicle, you know, because that's going to be pivotal in us either wasting a lot of time from possibly finding something else. I mean, that's what we need to do. We need to put more sonar
on that fifth vehicle and see if we can do
what we were just doing, was ruling them out, getting
better images on them. That way we don't have
to waste any more time. Coming back out, so right out here. Right there, that's not a truck. That was a really good scan. So, we're like slack tide right now, so there's not a lot
of current pushing us, so our scanning is a lot clearer. That is not a pickup truck. The wheels are so close to
either edge of the vehicle. It's 100%, not a pickup truck. Not a pickup truck, definitely
a car, all day long. And we're coming up here on the really, really, really old... We came into this with one vehicle right here at this location and we ended up with five vehicles here. Two of them are SUV, two upside down cars, and a very old, old big body car. Five vehicles right here. Are these answers for a potential case? Absolutely, they could be. However, we know we're
looking for a pickup truck. None of these are a pickup truck and we're running out of daylight. We're running out of
time that we have left to work on this particular case, so we have to keep it moving. I've already spoke with
the Marine Lieutenant, they know these vehicles are here. They're going to authorize their dive team to train on all of these vehicles and they are going to let me know, so I can let you guys know exactly what happened with these vehicles. If I don't hear anything
from them, which I do, I fully expect to hear
something from them. They're completely, completely
open with working with us and making sure that these
vehicles are cleared. However, they did hint that
they knew about them already. So they're going to check with previous dive teams to make sure, but we have to keep it
moving or we have to continue to look for a pickup truck. That's what we're looking for right now. (calming music) (calming music continues) - [Carson] I'm ready to
go until nighttime, dude. Car. That's a car.
- 100% a car. - I saw two. I saw two.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's two cars right there. - I'm going to circle around it. Yeah, there it is. Definitely a old, old
school, like a Lincoln or... big body car, old Cadillac. And you got to think these apartments, they don't look 17 years old. They look brand new. So they were just built, not too long ago. I guarantee you they're
less than five years old. Oh, what's that? What's that? What's that? (boat engine purring) Some type of beam structure. Yeah, not a car. And they build these
buildings and they clear out what used to be there. A lot of times the construction
debris will fall in. And a lot of what we're seeing
right now on our imaging is a lot of debris, a whole lot of debris. And you got to understand, we're like on the backside
of the industrial area. Where this, none of this existed. You can see they're still building them. Like this used to be fields or warehouses. I don't know what used to be
here, I'm not from Philly. But obviously people
felt really comfortable coming out here, dumping cars. I have only been able to scan a mile of the Delaware River today and we've already found seven cars. Seven cars up near the
shoreline, basically. Imagine what has made
it out into the channel. We know we're looking for a
truck, so we have to carry on. But it's nice to know
where these vehicles are. I'm setting way points in the system on every single one of
these vehicles that we find. It's definitely a project for the future. (calming music) (calming music continues) - [Carson] Woo! (chuckles). Can you take them? (calming music continues) - We got another car. You got to be careful with that drop off, it's really deceptive. You can come through here and scan and not see anything at all. That's a boat right there.
- Oh yeah. - That triangle front end?
- Yep. - I think there's a car there too. There, right there on LiveScope, there's another car right there. See that? It's a car all day long. Right there? (boat engine purring) See it? Right there? Right there, LiveScope. Oh, there's another one. - There's a boat.
- There's another one, boat. Right off the edge of these piers, they're just dumping grounds. Right here. Coming up, coming up,
coming up, coming up. No.
(boat engine purring) Definitely a really old,
looks like a station wagon. You don't see station
wagons too often anymore. These cars are just dumped and
sinking right to the bottom. Right here, right here,
right here, right there. Mark, mark, mark, mark. Got it. There's two here. Completely deteriorated. Really, really old cars. One's upside down and then
bam, back right over it. And you can see the roof of this one. You on Live, right there. - Oh wow!
- Three. Three cars. Three cars. We just need a pickup truck. (edgy music) (edgy music continues) Our search and investigation
looking for Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone has come a long way over the last 72 hours. Not only have we been able to
rule out a lot of water here in the Philadelphia area, we
found 12 vehicles and a boat. Those vehicles could possibly
be connected to other cases. We are going to be back for
these vehicles to dive on them. It's going to be a big operation. Right now, we have to go. In the morning, we have another agency that's awaiting our arrival
to assist with a cold case, including the family on that one as well. This is one disappearance
that we are going to put a lot more work
in and I'm confident and very optimistic that the work that we've done over the last few days is leading us one step closer into solving the disappearance of Danielle
Imbo and Richard Petrone. (somber music)
