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Wolf, Diane missing January 29,1999; Hanover,Pennsylvania
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Judge declares missing woman legally dead


Diane Wolf was last seen leaving a bank in Hanover in 1999.

By SHARI SANGER
For the Daily Record/Sunday News



Jun 2, 2006 — On Jan. 29, 1999, Diane Louise Wolf worked an 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift at Hanover Foods on Route 116, relieving her mother, Shirley Althoff, who ran the same machine on the 3 to 11 p.m. shift.
She left work, went to her Conewago Township home in Adams County, put her lunch box on the kitchen table, and went to the bank. Surveillance cameras at the bank on Dart Drive in Hanover confirmed Wolf deposited $300 at 7:33 that morning.

Wolf, who was 45 at the time, hasn't been heard from since.

Although the missing-persons case remains open, investigators have exhausted all avenues of their work, Trooper Curtis Whitmoyer, with Pennsylvania State Police in Gettysburg, testified Wednesday in the Adams County Courthouse at a hearing to declare Wolf legally dead.

"There is no current information on her whereabouts," Whitmoyer said. "At this point there is no investigation. There's nothing to actively follow up on."

After hearing testimony from Wolf's husband, son and two investigators on the case, Adams County Judge Robert Bigham declared Wolf deceased. Her date of death will be listed as Jan. 30, 2006.


Death declaration

If someone disappears for a period of time in excess of seven years, they can be presumed dead, said Steven McKonly, the Hanover lawyer hired by Wolf's husband, Merle Wolf. The date of death can't be before the seven-year mark, he said.

The judge's decision will allow Wolf's husband to move forward with various legal issues, including assets that were in both their names, McKonly said.

Merle Wolf's home and vehicle are in both his name and his wife's name.

"He can't do anything with those assets because no one can locate his wife," McKonly said. "The only way to move forward and clear up the life choices he has to face, he has to come to a decision as to whether she's alive."

Merle Wolf had told the judge there could be $150,000 at stake with two life insurance policies that he believes covered Diane.

Police have been searching for clues since Diane Wolf's disappearance.

Family members have said Wolf left behind her cell phone, which was uncharacteristic of her. And none of her clothing or personal belongings were missing from her closet.

Her purse has never been found, and her credit cards have never been used.

The Monday morning following her disappearance, her turquoise 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix was found locked and frozen over at a grocery store on Baltimore Street in Penn Township where her sister worked.

At Wednesday's hearing, Merle Wolf said he found Diane's pink and white lunch box sitting on the kitchen table.

He couldn't recall how long he waited before notifying police, but he said Diane's entire family came the next morning to help look for her.

He's heard nothing from his wife since.


The investigation

Detective William Hartlaub with the Conewago Township Police met with Merle Wolf, then went door-to-door and interviewed neighbors and friends. The investigation was then turned over to state police.

At that point, Whitmoyer began interviewing the woman's co-workers, friends, relatives and acquaintances.

Wolf was entered into a national database as a missing person and also in a national DNA data bank, Whitmoyer testified.

Because she is listed as a missing person and in the DNA database, information will be relayed to state police if an unidentified body that matches her description ever turns up, Whitmoyer testified.

Diane Wolf has two grown children - Holly Albrecht and Corey Althoff.

Althoff, 27, of McSherrystown, testified that several days before his mother went missing, his grandmother told him that his mother was upset because she had not written a will.

"That whole statement there says something is wrong," he said. "If we could have just went back to that Monday and found out what was wrong."

Dealing with her disappearance has been "a day-to-day thing for the last seven years now," he said.

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Diane Louise Wolf
· White/ Female
· Date of Birth: 05-19-53 - 46 years of age
· Height: 5'6"
· Weight 180
· Hair: Short brown with reddish tint
· Eyes: Brown
· Scars: Abdomen
· Tattoo: Purple Rose on left ankle
· Other: Both ears triple pierced

Investigating Station: Troop H, Gettysburg

Date of Incident: January 29, 1999

Location: 19 Sycamore Lane, Conewago Township, Adams County, PA

Case Synopsis:

The Pennsylvania State Police Gettysburg, Adams County, are investigating the disappearance of Diane Louise Wolf.

Authorities state Wolf was seen on January 29, 1999 at 7 a.m. leaving her place of employment in Hanover, Pennsylvania. On February 1, 1999 at approximately 6:50 a.m. Wolf's 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix was discovered locked and secured in the parking lot of the Weis Market located on Baltimore Street in Hanover Pennsylvania.


Contact Information:

Trooper Curtis A. Whitmoyer
Pennsylvania State Police Gettysburg
3033 Old Harrisburg Pike
Gettysburg, PA 17325
(717) 334-8111

Or

Corporal Julio C. Mendez
Pennsylvania State Police
1800 Elmerton Ave.
Harrisburg, PA 17110
(717) 705-0340

Incident Number: H6-1051426

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Diane Louise Wolf


Above: Wolf, circa 1999


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: January 29, 1999 from Hanover, Pennsylvania
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: May 19, 1953
Age: 45 years old
Height and Weight: 5'6, 180 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair with red highlights, brown eyes. Wolf has a scar on her abdomen. She has a purple rose tattooed on her left ankle. Wolf's ears are triple-pierced. She wears eyeglasses. Wolf's maiden name is Althoff.


Details of Disappearance

Wolf worked the third shift at Hanover Foods on Route 116 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Her husband and mother were also employed at the company. Wolf departed from the business at approximately 7:00 a.m. on January 29, 1999. She returned to her family's residence on Sycamore Lane in Conewago Township, Pennsylvania shortly afterwards. Wolf left her pink and white lunchbox and several Avon products on their kitchen table, then drove to the Allfirst Bank on Dart Drive in Hanover. A security camera recorded her $300 deposit at the drive-through automated teller machine (ATM) at approximately 7:33 a.m. Wolf normally filled her car's gas tank on Fridays and also visited a local tanning salon during the evening hours. She never canceled her appointment scheduled for that night. Wolf has never been heard from again.
Wolf's sister was employed ar Weis Market on Baltimore Street in Hanover. She discovered Wolf's turquoise 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix locked and abandoned in the parking lot on February 2, 1999 at approximately 6:50 a.m. There was no sign of her sister at the scene. Another store employee reported that the vehicle had been parked in their lot since the previous morning. Wolf's dry cleaning was hanging from the interior hook and the car's locks were frozen.

Wolf's loved ones said that she normally searched for the closest possible parking space at any establishment. Her Grand Prix was parked on the outskirts of Weis Market's lot, which was uncharacteristic of her. There has not been any activity on Wolf's credit cards since January 1999. She left all of her clothing behind at her residence, as well as her cellular phone, which she normally carried everywhere. Only Wolf's purse was missing; it has never been recovered.

There were two unconfirmed sightings of Wolf since her disappeance. One took place in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on Stratton Street on the same morning Wolf's car was discovered. Another sighting took place near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in March 1999.

Wolf's family members said that she was looking forward to visiting her pregnant daughter during her four weeks of vacation from Hanover Foods. Wolf was reportedly excited about becoming a grandmother and planned the baby shower. Her mother said that Wolf was upset several days before her disappearance. She was concerned that she neglected to create a will. Her mother calmed her down and Wolf appeared to be fine afterwards. It is not known if the incident is related to her case.

Wolf was declared legally dead in 2006, seven years after she went missing. Her disappearance remains unsolved.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Pennsylvania State Police
Gettysburg Station
717-334-8111
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Pennsylvania State Police
Harrisburg Station
717-705-0340



Source Information
The National Center for Missing Adults
Pennsylvania State Police
The Gettysburg Times
The Missing Persons CyberCenter
The Evening Sun
The York Daily Record



Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated June 12, 2006; details of disappearance updated.

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Diane Wolf missing since 1999
By ANGIE MASON
Daily Record/Sunday News
Article Launched: 01/21/2007 03:22:01 AM EST


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Jan 21, 2007 — Holly Albrecht's daughter, Alexis, will be 8 years old in June. She knows her grandmother only from photos. When the little girl asks where her grandma is, Albrecht doesn't have a good answer.
"I never know what to tell her," Albrecht said.

Albrecht's mother, Diane Louise Wolf of Conewago Township, hasn't been seen since Jan. 29, 1999, when she seemed to vanish into thin air.

Today, her family still wonders what happened to her.

"I still have hope for her," said Wolf's mother Shirley Althoff. "It's just so peculiar."

In 1999

Family and co-workers began to worry when Wolf didn't show up at work that night. She worked at Hanover Foods, where she always relieved Althoff, who worked the earlier shift.

After 18 years with the company, it wasn't like Wolf to be a "no show, no call," her family said.

The police were called the next day. Two days later, Bonnie Leister found her sister's car in the parking lot of the Weis Market, where Leister worked. She still remembers seeing the iced-over car and frantically scraping off frost to make sure it was Wolf's.

"It just goes through you like a knife," said Leister, of Penn Township. She called police, who checked the car out, found nothing, and told her to drive it home.

Wolf's case is still open and will remain so indefinitely, but there is "very little or no direction" to go on, said Trooper Curtis Whitmoyer of Pennsylvania State Police in Gettysburg.

"The best case scenario is she's still alive. In the event she's not, you hope someone starts blabbing about it," he said.

Her family doesn't think she left on her own.

Wolf left her cell phone behind, something she'd never do. She never again used her credit cards, and she couldn't live without those, her daughter said.

Wolf's car was found parked in the back of the Weis parking lot. But Wolf was known for driving around until she found the closest spot, Leister said. Her sister always packed too much for a trip, but none of her clothing or jewelry went missing with her.

Besides, Wolf had plans. Albrecht, then pregnant with Alexis, was supposed to move from Virginia to her mom's home. Wolf had arranged a baby shower and put a crib on layaway. She'd already scheduled the four weeks of vacation she'd take from work that year.

Merle Wolf, who married Diane in 1985, said he's still hoping to find out what happened to his wife.

"You can't close on it until you find out what the h**l happened," he said. He doesn't think she left on her own either, he said.

"She was a talker. She loved her kids beyond belief, had to see them all the time. To never have contacted them ..." he said, his voice trailing off.

Several family members made a trip to Montel Williams' television show in January to meet with psychic Sylvia Browne. Browne told them Wolf could be in Omaha, Neb. But they have no connections to Nebraska. Leister has written to "Unsolved Mysteries" and "America's Most Wanted."

Her missing persons poster still hangs in locations around Hanover. But her family said people tend to pass right by them. Wolf was declared legally dead last year, but that was mainly so her husband could handle legal issues - items such as their house that was in both their names, Leister said.

The family sympathizes when they hear of cases such as Jennifer Kruszynski, a Dallastown woman who had been missing since Jan. 10 and was found dead Friday.

"It's so sad," Leister said, before Kruszynski's body was found. "I know what that family is going through."

But stories such as the boy found in Missouri after being missing for more than four years inspire them.

"That was such a miracle," Leister said, her face lighting up at the thought.

It makes Althoff think her daughter could be anywhere.

"She could be right under our noses in Hanover," she said.

They've all had encounters with women they thought looked like Wolf.

Albrecht has followed women around stores, called people of the same name. Leister has said hello to women she thought looked like her sister. It never turns out to be Wolf, but the family has not given up.

"I still feel she's alive," Leister said.

Reach Angie Mason at 771-2048 or amason@ydr.com.


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Anyone who has information about Diane Wolf should call Pennsylvania State Police in Gettysburg at 334-8111. On the Web

Diane Wolf's profile is available on the National Center for Missing Adults Web site, http://www.theyaremissed.org.\\&...92;\\



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Next week marks a somber anniversary for a Hanover family. They're mother, sister and daughter has been missing for eight years. Diane Wolf was last seen in January of 1999. Her car was found in the Weis grocery store parking lot in Hanover, and police haven't found any other clues since.

"I used to dream about her, one dream was she was sitting on my bench and I went out there when I woke up and she wasn't there, but it felt so real," said Bonnie Leister, Wolf's sister. The family follows the recent high-profile missing person cases locally and across the country. They say it gives them hope that they may have answers someday. "Somebody knows something. You just don't vanish right here in Hanover, this small town," said Shirley Althoff, Wolf's mother.

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Family still clings to hope
Diane Wolf missing since 1999

By ANGIE MASON
Daily Record/Sunday News
Article Launched: 01/21/2007 03:22:01 AM EST

Jan 21, 2007 — Holly Albrecht's daughter, Alexis, will be 8 years old in June. She knows her grandmother only from photos. When the little girl asks where her grandma is, Albrecht doesn't have a good answer.

"I never know what to tell her," Albrecht said.

Albrecht's mother, Diane Louise Wolf of Conewago Township, hasn't been seen since Jan. 29, 1999, when she seemed to vanish into thin air.

Today, her family still wonders what happened to her.

"I still have hope for her," said Wolf's mother Shirley Althoff. "It's just so peculiar."

In 1999

Family and co-workers began to worry when Wolf didn't show up at work that night. She worked at Hanover Foods, where she always relieved Althoff, who worked the earlier shift.

After 18 years with the company, it wasn't like Wolf to be a "no show, no call," her family said.

The police were called the next day. Two days later, Bonnie Leister found her sister's car in the parking lot of the Weis Market, where Leister worked. She still remembers seeing the iced-over car and frantically scraping off frost to make sure it was Wolf's.

"It just goes through you like a knife," said Leister, of Penn Township. She called police, who checked the car out, found nothing, and told her to drive it home.

Wolf's case is still open and will remain so indefinitely, but there is "very little or no direction" to go on, said Trooper Curtis Whitmoyer of Pennsylvania State Police in Gettysburg.

"The best case scenario is she's still alive. In the event she's not, you hope someone starts blabbing about it," he said.

Her family doesn't think she left on her own.

Wolf left her cell phone behind, something she'd never do. She never again used her credit cards, and she couldn't live without those, her daughter said.

Wolf's car was found parked in the back of the Weis parking lot. But Wolf was known for driving around until she found the closest spot, Leister said. Her sister always packed too much for a trip, but none of her clothing or jewelry went missing with her.

Besides, Wolf had plans. Albrecht, then pregnant with Alexis, was supposed to move from Virginia to her mom's home. Wolf had arranged a baby shower and put a crib on layaway. She'd already scheduled the four weeks of vacation she'd take from work that year.

Merle Wolf, who married Diane in 1985, said he's still hoping to find out what happened to his wife.

"You can't close on it until you find out what the h**l happened," he said. He doesn't think she left on her own either, he said.

"She was a talker. She loved her kids beyond belief, had to see them all the time. To never have contacted them ..." he said, his voice trailing off.

Several family members made a trip to Montel Williams' television show in January to meet with psychic Sylvia Browne. Browne told them Wolf could be in Omaha, Neb. But they have no connections to Nebraska. Leister has written to "Unsolved Mysteries" and "America's Most Wanted."

Her missing persons poster still hangs in locations around Hanover. But her family said people tend to pass right by them. Wolf was declared legally dead last year, but that was mainly so her husband could handle legal issues - items such as their house that was in both their names, Leister said.

The family sympathizes when they hear of cases such as Jennifer Kruszynski, a Dallastown woman who had been missing since Jan. 10 and was found dead Friday.

"It's so sad," Leister said, before Kruszynski's body was found. "I know what that family is going through."

But stories such as the boy found in Missouri after being missing for more than four years inspire them.

"That was such a miracle," Leister said, her face lighting up at the thought.

It makes Althoff think her daughter could be anywhere.

"She could be right under our noses in Hanover," she said.

They've all had encounters with women they thought looked like Wolf.

Albrecht has followed women around stores, called people of the same name. Leister has said hello to women she thought looked like her sister. It never turns out to be Wolf, but the family has not given up.

"I still feel she's alive," Leister said.

Reach Angie Mason at 771-2048 or amason@ydr.com.


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Diane Louise Wolf
Missing since January 29, 1999 from Hanover, Pennsylvania
Classification: Endangered Missing



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Vital Statistics

Date Of Birth: May 19, 1953
Age at Time of Disappearance: 45 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'6"; 180 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown, short hair with reddish tint; brown eyes. Glasses.
Marks, Scars: Tattoo of a "purple rose" on left ankle, scar on abdomen. Both ears triple pierced.
DNA: In CODIS


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Circumstances of Disappearance
Diane Wolf was last seen on January 29, 1999.
That day Wolf had worked an 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift at Hanover Foods on Route 116, relieving her mother, who ran the same machine on the 3 to 11 p.m. shift.
She left work, went to her Conewago Township home, put her lunch box on the kitchen table, and went to the bank. Surveillance cameras at the Allfirst bank on Dart Drive confirmed Wolf deposited $300 at about 7:33 a.m. that morning. Wolf hasn't been seen or heard from since.
Family and co-workers began to worry when Wolf didn't show up at work that night. The police were called the next day. After family members notified 911, the Conewago Township Police was dispatched to Wolf's home at 19 Sycamore Lane. The investigation was then turned over to Pennsylvania State Police.
Her vehicle, described as a turquoise 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix was located, locked and secured, two days later, in the Weis Market parking lot, where her sister worked, in Hanover, PA.
Wolf left behind her cell phone, which was uncharacteristic of her. And none of her clothing or personal belongings were missing from her closet. Her purse has never been found and her credit cards, which Wolf often used instead of cash, have never been used.
Her family doesn't think she left on her own. She also had plans at the time. Her dauhter, then pregnant, was supposed to move from Virginia to her mom's home. Wolf had arranged a baby shower and put a crib on layaway. She'd already scheduled the four weeks of vacation she'd take from work that year.
She was declared legally dead in 2006. After hearing testimony from Wolf's husband, son and two investigators on the case, an Adams County Judge declared Wolf deceased. Her date of death is listed as January 30, 2006. Her husband testified they never had any serious marital problems that would have caused her to leave. And Diane had never been unaccounted for before.



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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Pennsylvania State Police
Troop H, Gettysburg
Trooper Curtis A. Whitmoyer
717-334-8111

Agency Case Number: H6-1051426

NCIC Number: M-188208156
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

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If you believe you have any information regarding this case that will be helpful in this investigation please contact:
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Name: Diane Louise Wolf

Classification: Endangered Missing Adult
Date of Birth: 1953-05-19
Date Missing: 1999-01-29
From City/State: Hanover, PA
Age at Time of Disappearance: 45
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 66 inches
Weight: 180 pounds
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Complexion: Medium
Identifying Characteristics: Tattoo of a "purple rose" on left ankle, scar on abdomen, pierced ears.
Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Diane was last seen leaving her place of employment. Her vehicle, described as a 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix was located locked and secured in the Weis Market parking lot located on Baltimore St. in Hanover, PA. Her whereabouts remain unknown.
Investigative Agency: Pennsylvania State Police
Phone: (717) 334-8111
Investigative Case #: H6-1051426
NCIC #: M-188208156

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Hanover-area woman missing 10 years
State police investigate decade-old, mysterious disappearance of Diane Wolf
By STEVE MARRONI
The Evening Sun

Posted: 01/28/2009 09:34:42 PM EST


Trooper Scott Denisch, a criminal investigator with the Pennsylvania State Police in Gettysburg, leads the 10-year-old investigation of Diane Wolf s mysterious disappearance. Today is the 10-year anniversary. (Evening Sun Photo by James Robinson)
Wolf It's a mystery that has haunted state police for a decade now.
Even though she went missing 10 years ago, and was declared legally dead in 2006, state police are continuing the investigation to find out what happened to Diane Wolf.

And they think someone in the Hanover area knows what happened, or at least has a key piece of information that could lead to solving the perplexing missing-person case. Wolf was a laborer at Hanover Foods along Route 116. She worked the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift, and had relieved her mother, Shirley Althoff, at the same machine earlier that night.

She went back to her home in Conewago Township at 19 Sycamore Lane, where she lived with her husband, Merle Wolf. She set her pink-and-white lunch box on the kitchen table, then went to the bank to deposit $300.

That was around 7:30 a.m. Surveillance cameras at the Allfirst Bank on Dart Drive in Hanover show her in the bank.

And, that's the last time anyone reported seeing Wolf.

That was Jan. 29, 1999 - 10 years ago today.

Criminal investigator Scott Denisch of Pennsylvania State Police at Gettysburg hopes a combination of the anniversary and re-investigating old leads and re-interviewing old sources will lead to solving the case.

"We're confident that she was a victim of foul play," Denisch said.

Wolf had seemingly no reason to leave without word to anyone, investigators say, and her family had no reason to believe that she left on her own. She was planning a baby shower for her daughter, and had a crib on layaway. She was supposed to help her daughter move from Virginia. She had recently scheduled four weeks of vacation.
Wolf's car was found two days after her disappearance. The turquoise 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix was found locked in the Weis parking lot on Baltimore Street in Penn Township, where her sister worked. In a new detail released by state police Monday, public information officer Karl Schmidhamer said there was a fine, rocky dust coating the vehicle, as if the car had been on a gravel road or in a quarry.

Inside her car was her cell phone. According to police, it was uncharacteristic of her to leave that behind. Her purse was not found and her credit cards were never used. No clothing or other belongings were taken from her home.

Her husband had said the entire family came the next morning to help look for her.

She was just gone. And, no one knows where, why or how.

"My opinion is this case is very solvable," Denisch said. "People just don't up and vanish into thin air."

Wolf was declared legally dead three years ago. While that might bring a certain amount of closure and may finalize some legalities, it doesn't change anything for investigators.

"We're still treating this as a missing-persons case," Schmidhamer said Investigators periodically open old cases and continually follow them. With the 10th anniversary of her mysterious disappearance, Denisch and state police are re-interviewing many of the 100-plus people they talked to a decade ago.

Police are talking again to family members and co-workers and other associates. Maybe someone knew some seemingly minor detail that might seem more important with the passage of time. Or, maybe 10 years ago, someone was unwilling to step forward with an important piece of information.

"Our feeling is someone in the Hanover area knows something about this," Denisch said. Two posters, donated by Lamar Advertising, will be put up soon in Hanover to remind people of the case.

Wolf was born May 19, 1953. She was 45 at the time of the disappearance, and would be 55 now. She was 5 feet 6 inches tall, and was white with short, brown hair with a reddish tint. She had brown eyes and wore glasses. Wolf had a tattoo of a purple rose on her left ankle.

Her DNA an dental records are stored in national databases.

Anyone with information about the case can call Adams County Crimestoppers at 1-800-869-8057, and can leave information anonymously. They can also call state police, 334-8111.


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By STEVE MARRONI
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Posted: 02/21/2009 10:32:39 PM EST


Billboards picturing a Conewago Township woman who went missing more than 10 years ago is the latest step in a renewed effort to solve the case.
A billboard picturing Diane Wolf recently went up in Cross Keys at routes 30 and 94, and two more were to pop up in the Hanover area within the next few days.

The billboards, donated by Lamar Outdoor Advertising and with a contribution by the Adams County District Attorney's office, were put up with the hope of solving a decade-old missing person's case.

Trooper Scott Denisch of the Pennsylvania State Police at Gettysburg has picked up the investigation into Wolf's disappearance on Jan. 29, 1999.

Denisch and state police are re-interviewing hundreds of old sources, trying to find something in the baffling case.

"Our feeling is someone in the Hanover area knows something about this," Denisch previously said.

The billboard reads "Do you know what happened to me?" and lists Wolf's name and the date she disappeared. They advertise a cash reward for information leading to the resolution of the case.

Wolf worked as a laborer on the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift at Hanover Foods on Route 116.

After work, she went back to her home at 19 Sycamore Lane and left her lunch box on the table. She then went to the bank to deposit $300 around 7:30 a.m.

That's the last time anyone reported seeing Wolf.

Her car was found two days after her disappearance in the Weis Parking Lot on Baltimore Street in Penn Township. The car was locked,


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and her cell phone was left inside. Wolf seemingly had no reason to disappear without word to anyone.
Police are confident that she was the victim of foul play.

She was declared legally dead in 2006.
Lauran

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Family hopes for solution to case
By STEVE MARRONI
The Evening Sun

Posted: 03/07/2009 10:42:42 PM EST


Bonnie Leister s sister, Diane Wolf, disappeared 10 years ago. Police are continuing the investigation, and she hopes the case will be solved. (Evening Sun Photo by James Robinson)"I don't think you can move on," Merle Wolf said.
He lit a cigarette. Through the conversation, he occasionally brought it to his lips, but it mostly hung in his right hand by an ashtray.

The rising plume of blue-gray smoke warbled around a framed photo of his wife, Diane Wolf, in her wedding gown.

It has been 10 years now since his wife, Diane Wolf, disappeared.

"I stay at home, I go to work, and I come back home," he said. "My thoughts are, there is no way she is alive."

State police have reignited their investigation. Troopers are re-interviewing hundreds of sources again. Police are confident that Diane Wolf was a victim of foul play and that someone in the Hanover area knows something about her disappearance.

Do you know what happened to me?

That's what three billboards that popped up around the area are asking. As the investigation became re-invigorated with the 10-year anniversary, Lamar Advertising donated two billboards, located on Route 116. A third, electronic billboard at Cross Keys flashes the same image among several advertisements. It shows Diane Wolf's picture and a number to call with information about her disappearance.

Jan. 29 marked the 10-year anniversary of when Wolf went missing. She seemingly had no reason to go. Her husband said there's no way she just skipped town. She loved her family and could never be away from her kids, said her sister, Bonnie Leister.

Here's what investigators know.

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her husband and her mother Shirley Althoff, worked at Hanover Foods along Route 116. Diane Wolf's husband and mother both worked second shift, and Diane worked third. On Jan. 29, 1999, Diane Wolf relieved her mother on the machine both operated at the plant.
She went back to her Conewago Township home at 19 Sycamore Lane. She set her pink-and-white lunch box on the kitchen table and then went to the bank to deposit $300.

Surveillance cameras show her making the deposit at the Allfirst Bank on Dart Drive in Hanover.

That's the last time anyone reported seeing Diane Wolf.

Some family members hold out hope that she can be found. Others believe she is no longer alive. But all want closure. They just want to know what happened.

Diane's husband

Merle Wolf, 54, has worked for 36 years at Hanover Foods.

That's where he met his wife. At work.

He started working there in 1974, and she came on board in 1980. She was married, he said, and had two kids. But her then-husband died of a heart attack two years after she started working there.

Merle Wolf said, in time, they started talking, and a relationship grew. They married in 1985.

One of his fondest memories was a weeklong trip the family took to Florida to visit one of Diane's uncles. They visited Sea World, they went on a glass-bottom-boat ride, and they took in all the sites they could.

"It was a special week," he said with a smile.

Both worked a lot. In their free time, they enjoyed going to antique steam tractor shows together. While Diane Wolf did not share her husband's fascination for steam tractors, she loved the yard sales that seemed to pop up around a tractor show.

"Oh, she enjoyed shopping," he recalled. She loved finding hidden treasures at yard sales.

And she was happy. She loved her kids, who are now 30 and 27. They were her life, he said, which is why he is completely confident that something happened to her. She did not just run away, family members say.

At the time of her disappearance, her daughter was expecting a child and was moving back home from Virginia. Diane Wolf was planning a baby shower, had a crib on layaway, and that weekend was supposed to help her daughter move.

None of her belongings were missing. Diane Wolf's sister said that even on a weekend trip, she would pack at least two suitcases. She was at her job for close to 20 years. Just leaving was totally out of character.

And she was a family person.

"She was a big talker," Merle Wolf remembers. "If I play one of our old tapes, you'll hear her constantly talking to everyone."

She would engage the family in conversation and just loved being around everybody. Her kids were everything to her. So what happened?

It just doesn't make sense, Merle Wolf said.

Diane Wolf's granddaughter, Alexis, was born 4 ½ months after her disappearance.

Merle Wolf said they tell her stories about her grandmother, and they tell her the truth. She disappeared. No one knows what happened.

Diane's sister

Bonnie Leister had a dream not so long ago that her sister was sitting there, at her house on a bench out back.

"It seemed so real," Leister said.

Right away, she got dressed and went around back.

No one was there.

But she still holds out hope that one day she will again hear her sister's laugh and her voice that's carried so many friendly conversations.

Leister, 54, is an office manager at the Weis Markets on Baltimore Street. That's where she worked 10 years ago, too. When Leister got to work two days after Diane Wolf's disappearance, she saw her sister's car in the parking lot.

Leister got excited for a moment - maybe her sister was inside waiting for her. But when she got to the car, no one was inside. The car was locked and frozen over. Her car was covered in a light, dusty coating, as if the car had been on a dirt road or in a quarry.

But what was strange to her is that the car was parked back a few spaces in the parking lot.

"Diane would drive around for 10 minutes until she found a spot close to the store," Leister recalled.

She keeps reminders of her sister all around. There are photos of Diane Wolf at different stages of life on an end table. There's one of Leister and Wolf as little girls with big smiles and rosy cheeks. Another with a younger Wolf and her daughter, smiling at the camera. And yet, another photo of Diane Wolf at the age of 45 - when she went missing. That photo is one familiar to anyone who saw the billboards around the area.

Leister and Wolf grew up in Littlestown in a family of seven children. She was close to Diane Wolf. There were three sisters in the family, and they shared a room. Diane was 17 months younger, so the two of them ran around together a lot.

As adults, they had their own families, but they still enjoyed getting together.

"Diane was always there with the video camera," Leister remembers. "She was a people person."

And like her husband said, Diane Wolf loved to talk. She's someone you definitely notice is missing when you're at family gatherings, Leister said.

In the days after her disappearance, family members did what they could. They were in constant contact with the police. Some relatives searched the woods near Weis, and others looked in quarries where the dust may have come from. Mostly, they stuck together and prayed.

In the following years, Leister periodically called state police. Trooper Scott Denisch started the investigation again at the 10-year anniversary mark, and it gave Leister hope that the case would be solved.

Denisch said last month he believes Diane Wolf was a victim of foul play and that someone in the Hanover area knows something.

Leister believes someone in the area knows something, too. She keeps a sign with her sister's picture up on a bulletin board in the front lobby area at Weis. The picture went missing recently. She replaced it. Another time, it was pinned on the bulletin board, but backwards. She thought that was suspicious.

"Sometimes I feel like she could be alive, but sometimes I don't," Leister said. "It's too hard to think somebody nearby knows something."

If her dream came true, and Wolf came back, Leister said, she would tell her sister she loved her and she missed her, no questions asked.

But most of all, she just wants to know what happened to her sister.

Her whole family just wants an answer.

"We'd all like to know what did happen," Merle Wolf said. "It's what everyone is calling 'closure.' It's something that's just up in the air every day of my life."

MISSING

Diane Wolf disappeared 10 years ago. Police are opening the investigation again, hoping to find what happened. Wolf was born May 19, 1953. She was 5 feet 6 inches tall, and was white with short, brown hair with a reddish tint. She had brown eyes and wore glasses, and she had a tattoo of a purple rose on her left ankle. Anyone with information can call Adams County CrimeStoppers, (717) 334-8057, or state police, (717) 334-8111. The call can be anonymous, and there is a cash reward.

Lauran

"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente.


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Police continue 11-year-old missing-person case
Diane Wolf has been missing since Jan. 29, 1999.
By STEVE MARRONI
The Evening Sun

Posted: 01/19/2010 01:00:00 AM EST





What do you do with a missing-person case that's more than a decade old?

The trail has gone cold. Time passes, and memories get hazy. But that doesn't mean you quit.

Criminal investigator Scott Denisch of the Pennsylvania State Police at Gettysburg is continuing the investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Diane Wolf, of Conewago Township, who has not been seen since Jan. 29, 1999.

Last year, on the 10th anniversary of Wolf's disappearance, state police re-ignited the investigation into what is perhaps Adams County's most perplexing missing-person case. Billboards with her image and the caption "Do you know what happened to me?" went up, and police re-interviewed hundreds of sources.

But those interviews turned up nothing that would help them find Wolf. Denisch said he received a few calls and tips, and some looked promising at first, but ultimately led nowhere.

Denisch is still looking for anyone with any information to step forward.

"Even the littlest thing that people think might not be important might be what we need to move the case along," Denisch said.

Wolf has been missing for 11 years. She was declared legally dead in 2006. While police don't know for sure what happened to her, Denisch said her disappearance is being treated as a crime. There was no sign that she had any reason to leave her family without a trace, the investigation showed.

According to police, Wolf worked as a laborer at Hanover Foods


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on Route 116, where she worked 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. On the day she disappeared, she had relieved her mother, Shirley Althoff, who had worked at the same machine earlier that night.
In the morning, Wolf went back to her Conewago Township home at 19 Sycamore Lane, where she lived with her husband, Merle Wolf. She set her pink-and-white lunch box on the kitchen table, then went to the bank to deposit $300.

According to police, surveillance cameras at the bank on Dart Drive in Hanover showed her there around 7:30 a.m. That's the last reported sighting of Wolf.

Her car was found two days later in the Weis parking lot on Baltimore Street in Penn Township, where her sister, Bonnie Leister, worked. The car had a fine, rocky dust coating on it, as if it had been on a gravel road, or at a quarry, according to police.

The car was parked toward the back of the parking lot, which was uncharacteristic for Wolf, her sister had said. Also unusual was that in the car was her cell phone, which she rarely left behind. Her purse was not there, but her credit cards were never used after her disappearance. No clothing or personal items had been taken from her home.

She had no apparent reason to leave, police say. She was planning a baby shower for her daughter, and had a crib on layaway. She had just scheduled four weeks of vacation.

Her family says that her kids were her life, and she would never run away.

Wolf was born May 19, 1953. She was 5 feet, 6 inches tall, and had short brown hair with a reddish tint. She had brown eyes and wore glasses, and had a tattoo of a purple rose on her left ankle.

What happened to Wolf is a mystery. What police are sure of, however, is that she was a victim of foul play.

A case like this is a challenge to investigators. A lot of time has passed. People tend to forget things. But someone out there knows what happened to Diane Wolf, Denisch said.

"There is no perfect crime," he said. "There is someone out there with information who can help us."

Anyone with tips or information about the Diane Wolf disappearance should call Adams County CrimeStoppers, (717) 334-8057, or state police, (717) 334-8111. The call can by anonymous, and there is a cash reward.





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Midstate Mysteries: The disappearance of Diane Wolf
Posted: Jul 14, 2014 10:22 AM EST Updated: Jul 15, 2014 6:13 PM EST
By Ali Lanyon

HANOVER, Pa. (WHTM) - For the past 15 years, Bonnie Leister has lived with agonizing, unanswered questions.

"I hope she's alive, but I don't really know," Leister said.

In January of 1999, her sister, Diane Wolf, vanished.

"There's not one day that goes by that I don't think of her, miss her," she said.

At 7 a.m. on a Friday morning, then 45-year-old Diane finished her shift at Hanover Foods, where she had worked for 18 years. At 7:30 a.m., a grainy surveillance photo from an ATM confirms she cashed a check at a bank in Hanover.

"From that time Diane went missing Friday at 7:30 at that bank, that's the last time she's been seen," said Trooper Scott Denisch who is heading the investigation into Diane's disappearance.

At 6 a.m. the following Monday, Leister went to work at Weis Markets in Hanover and found her sister's car parked in a remote section of the lot.

Denisch said the fact that the vehicle was found where her sister worked was likely not a coincidence.

The car was locked with nothing apparent missing. Dry cleaning was hanging in the back. But the vehicle that had recently been washed was now covered in a powdery, white dust. Police became concerned and began to speculate how that came to be.

"That the vehicle was somewhere remote," Denisch said. "Somewhere where someone was trying to hide something? Maybe near a quarry?"

Quarries and other remote areas were searched but nothing was ever found.

"Somebody had to see her out there," Leister said. "I feel somebody knows something."

"We'd like to think she's out there living a life, but statistically she probably met evil and unfortunately she's probably deceased," Denisch said.

Denisch said over the years, there have been several persons of interest in the case and numerous search warrants and polygraph tests.

"And we keep coming back to square one where we're unable to find Diane," he said. "It's like she dropped off the face of the earth."

From the start, Trooper Denisch said police ruled out Diane's husband as a suspect. Instead, they focused their efforts on rumors of alleged affairs and workplace conflicts.

Her husband has since passed away from natural causes.

"Do I think that there's someone out there that knows where she's at? Yeah. Probably a few people," Denisch said.

Police said Diane changed her cell phone number shortly before her disappearance. Denisch said she was being harassed by a female co-worker, but that person was also cleared as a suspect.

What's more, police said they found a hotel card on Diane's dresser at her home in Conewago Township, Adams County. One one side of it was a hand-written phone number that was registered to a man in Maryland.

"This gentleman denies ever knowing Diane and doesn't know how his phone number got on a card in her bedroom," Denisch said. "So that's something we're looking into."

Today, Diane Wolf would be 61. She has a granddaughter she never got the chance to meet. In fact, she was planning her daughter's baby shower when she vanished.

"She loved life," Leister said. "She loved her kids."

Leister said she can't give up hope that her sister is still alive. And she has a message for anyone who has information and isn't sharing.

"I would forgive them," she said. "We just want somebody to come forward and help us."

Anyone with information about the disappearance of Diane Wolf is asked to call Trooper Denisch at 717-334-8111.
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