Into the Night: The Toni Lee Sharpless Disappearance

The True Crime Times
13 min readJan 11, 2020
Toni Lee Sharpless

Toni Lee Sharpless was a daughter, a sister, a friend, and a mom. After years of personal struggle, things appeared to be improving for the 29-year-old Downingtown, Pennsylvania, woman. But after a tumultuous night of partying, Toni drove off into the darkness and was never seen again.

Did the young nurse leave her old life behind? Did she commit suicide? Was she involved in an accident? Was she abducted? More than 10 years after her disappearance, what happened that night is still a mystery, and no one knows if Toni Lee Sharpless is alive or dead.

Toni Lee Sharpless

Toni the Warrior

Life hadn’t always been easy for Toni. Her father died when she was just six, but she had the love and support of her stepfather, Peter Knebel, who had been married to Toni’s mom, Donna, for 21 years.

Donna and Peter Knebel — Source: Lancaster Online

Toni suffered from bipolar disorder, a condition that causes rapid mood swings. A person with bipolar disorder can be euphoric one day and suicidal the next. In severe cases, a…

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