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Trace Evidence

223 - The Vanishing of Anthony Urciuoli Jr

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On a cold winter night in January of 2001, thirty-one year old Anthony Guy Urciuoli Jr left his family's Poughkeepsie home to go play pool with a friend. He never made it back. His family reported him missing the next day but were met with investigators who seemed disinterested and initially argued that Tony had left of his own volition.

More than twenty years later, the truth of Tony's fate remains unknown. While law enforcement says they have never found evidence to show he was the victim of a crime, his family believes his disappearance must be connected to foul play; possibly over a large sum of money.

The family believes their son's disappearance might be connected to an ex-girlfriend, or perhaps, a co-worker who paged Tony the night he vanished.

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Transcript

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0:20.8

On a brutally cold winter night in January of 2001, 31-year-old Anthony Urceoli Jr. left his

0:37.0

family's home for the last time. Driving away in his grey Nissan Maxima, Tony was headed to a

0:43.4

favorite pool hall to play a few games with a friend, or at least that's what he told his parents.

0:49.5

When he failed to return home, they filed a missing persons report and the true breath of their

0:54.8

nightmare loomed before them. Two days later, Tony's car was found abandoned at a local park.

1:01.6

Curiously, this spot was in the opposite direction he had planned to travel that night.

1:07.1

There were no signs of a struggle, and Tony's wallet was found inside with a small amount of cash.

1:13.0

These are some of the only pieces of physical evidence ever recovered.

1:17.8

While investigators found no evidence to support foul play, they also failed to find anything to

1:23.5

confirm that Tony had left the area of his own volition. While his family grew frustrated with

1:29.2

the lack of investigation by detectives, they dug in and worked the case themselves. What they

1:35.2

uncovered led them to believe that their son's disappearance might be connected to someone at a

1:40.3

diner where he had been working, the same someone who had paged him the very night he vanished.

1:47.5

This is Trace Evidence Episode 223, the vanishing of Anthony Urceoli, Jr.

2:01.8

Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco.

2:06.3

Today, we examine the mysterious 2001 disappearance of Anthony Urceoli, Jr.

2:12.3

Before getting into the case, just a few quick notes about the show.

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