John Ottobre
Appearances
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: There and Gone
I woke up Sunday morning early and I took a ride to her house to fix the curtain. I saw her car out front. I knock on the door. She's not answering. I call her cell phone. It goes right to voicemail. So I called my mother. And I said, mom, I'm outside at Danielle's. I see her car here, but she's not answering. I have her key. I don't want to just walk in.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: There and Gone
If she's in the shower or something, I don't want her to get scared. And she said maybe she slept at Richard's.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: There and Gone
It was a typical ugly separation. You know, it was headed towards divorce. So I didn't think anything of it. I hung the curtains up and I left. It was obvious no one was home.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: There and Gone
That was until... I got a phone call around 3 o'clock. It was my mother. And she said, Danielle never came home last night. I'm at her condo now. I need you to come here. And my mother is in full-blown panic. She said, Joe's getting ready to drop the baby off in the next hour, and she's not here, and no one can get in touch with either one of them. I knew right there something was wrong.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: There and Gone
Throughout this entire time, Danielle's been missing. Trying to find her literally consumed me. Some psychic called my mother-in-law and said Danielle was dying in a boxcar. So in the middle of the night, I went down to Philadelphia and searched the train tracks under the bridge with a flashlight. Here I am scaling this fence at midnight with a flashlight looking in boxcars.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: There and Gone
My mother said, don't tell him what's going on. I don't want him to know because I don't want him to say, well, I'll keep the baby until she comes home. I said, mom, don't worry about it.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: There and Gone
And he kind of walked in, he looked confused and he said, where's Danielle? And my mother said, oh, she went to dinner with Christine. And then he said something like he mumbled under his breath. I guess telling a lie is better than telling the truth. Then he left. Like saying what we were saying was bullshit.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: There and Gone
She said, well, last night, Danielle and I and Marge and Christine went to Chicken and Pete's. And Richard called and said, hey, I'm at this bar, Abilene's on South Street. Why don't you come? Danielle said, she'll meet you as long as you can get her home at a reasonable time.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: There and Gone
I got in trouble for that one. The Mount Laurel police detective called me up screaming, telling me that they had to stop all of commerce in Pennsylvania to get me out of the railroad because I was looking in railroad cars. I just can't stop. It just consumed me.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: There and Gone
She was my sister. She was my friend. She was my blood. I would do anything for her. Throughout all these years, speaking with the FBI, I know my sister died that night. But to this day, I still don't know. I can't stop my mind from wandering to the darker things. Was she alone? Was she scared? Was she calling out for someone? For all I know, they have all this information, the FBI.