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Family of Harrisburg woman missing for 20 years asks for help solving case

Family of Harrisburg woman missing for 20 years asks for help solving case
ABTOU DIANE THOMAS SCOTT WHO HAS NOT BEEN SEEN FOR 20 YEARS. >> WE HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION SHE IS A VICTIM OF MURDER. THE PERPETRATOR GOT LUCKY. TWO THERE AND ARE PERFECT CRIMES BUT NOT PERFECT CRIMES. COAL ENFORCEMENT ON THE CUSP OF FINDING JUSTICE. WHILE A SHAKEN FAMILY WAITS FOR CLOSURE. AND THEY NEED YOUR HELP. >> PLEASE COME FORWARD. >>HE S WAS SWEET. 24 FOOT EIGHT AND FIERCE. >>HE S WAS THE KINDEST PERSON EVER. >> DIANE THOMAS SCOTT WAS KNOWN TO BE A CHURCH GOING WOMAN AND A GREAT MOTHER. SHE WAS ST SEEN DROPPING HER KIDS OFF AT SCHOOL. DOUG I WOULD HAVE HELD HER CLOSE AND TOLDER H I LOVE R.HE AND I ALWAYS WOULD BE THERE FOR HER NO MATTER WHAT. >> GIANTS GOT DISAPPEARED IN MAY OF 2001. >>RO FM HER INVESTIGATOR VICTOR RIVERA SAYS THE CASE WAS SUSPICIOUS FROM THE START. >> SOME NEIGHBORS WHO HEARD HER ON THE PHONE ARGUING WITH SOMEBODY. BOKO WNHE DIANE DID NOT SHOW UP TO PICK UP HER DAUGHTER FROM SCHOOL, HER BEST FRIEND KNEW SOMETHING WAS NOT RIGHT. SHE WENT TO DIANE’S HOME ON JEFFERSON STREET IN HARRISBURG DOUG FOR THE WHITE SETTER -- WHITE SWEATER S WAON THE FLOOR AND HER SLIPPERS WERE IN THE LI VING ROOM. THE TV WAS ON TRADING HER PEERS -- HER PURSE, HER KEYS. EVERYTHING WAS TREHE. THIS WAS NOT A PERSONHO W LEFT THAT HOM VOLUNTARILY. >> INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY HAVE A PERSON OF INTEREST IN THIS CASE WHO WE WILL NOT NAME SINCE THEY HAVE NOT BEEN CHARGED. >> THE COMNMO STATEMENTS MADE THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE INVESTIGATION WERE COMPLETELY OUT OF PLACE FOR A PERSON WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONE.RSON WHO >> INVESTIGATORSIN FD SUSPICION IN MISSING COOLER FROM THE PERSON OF INTEREST’S HOME. >> IT IS LARGE ENOHUG YOU COULD FIT SOMEONE IN IT IF THEY WERE SMALL. >> HER FAMILY FACING TORMENTING ESQUTIONS FOR DECADES. >> I NEED TO KNOW. I REALLY DO. >> I THI TNKHE PERPETRATOR GOT LUCKY AND DEPOSITEDER H REMAINS IN SUCH A WAY WHETHER IT IS A LANDFILL OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHERE SHE IS NEVER GOING TO BE FOUN D.>> NONETHELESS, INVESTIGATORS CRAVE TO CLOSEHE T CASE THAT HAS TAUNTED THEM FOR YRSEA. >> WE THINK WENO KW WTHA HAPPENED. >> WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY OF SOLVING THE CASE. >> NO ONE NEEDS ANSWERS MORE THAN DIANE’S LOVED ONES. >> PLEASE GIVE WHATEVER YOU C
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Family of Harrisburg woman missing for 20 years asks for help solving case
Decades have passed and a family is still left with a tormenting question: What happened to their loved one?Diane Thomas Scott has not been seen in 20 years and her family is asking for help to give them closure.Meanwhile, law enforcement is also still searching for answers."We've come to the firm conclusion that she is the victim of murder. We're never going to let it go," Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo said."There are near perfect crimes, but there are not perfect crimes," Harrisburg Police Commissioner Thomas Carter said.Scott was known to be a church-going woman and a great mother."She was thunder but she was a sweet person," Scott's pastor, Winston Palmer, said.She was 4 feet, 8 inches tall, and fierce."She was a little bit of a fireball, but she was still the kindest person ever," her son, Kenneth Magobett, said.Scott was last seen dropping her kids off at school in May 2001."I would have hugged her tight, held her close and tell her that I love her and that I will always be there for her, no matter what," Magobett said.Former lead investigator Victor Rivera said the case was suspicious from the start."Some neighbors heard her on the phone arguing with somebody," he said.When Scott didn't show up to pick up her daughter from school, her best friend, Sonya Palmer, knew something wasn't right. Palmer went right to Scott's home on Jefferson Street in Harrisburg."The white sweater was on the floor, and her slippers were kind of askew in the living room. The TV was on. Her purse, her keys, everything was there," Palmer said."This was not a person who left that home voluntarily," Rivera said.Investigators say they have a person of interest in this case. The person has never been charged."The comments, statements that were made throughout the course of the investigation were completely out of place for a person who lost a loved one," Rivera said.Investigators said they are suspicious of a missing cooler from the home of the person of interest."It's large enough that you could fit someone in it if they were small, and this was a very small woman," Chardo said.Chardo said he believes the perpetrator got lucky and deposited Scott's remains in such a way that she will never be found.Investigators want to close the case that's taunted them for years."We think we know what happened," Chardo said."We have an excellent opportunity of solving this case now," Carter said.But no one needs answers more than Scott's loved ones."Please just give them whatever you can so we can bring closure to my family. I just need to know. I really do. I need to know," Magobett said.Police said no detail in this case is too small.If you saw Scott before she disappeared or have any information that could help, you're asked to call Harrisburg police at 717-558-6900.

Decades have passed and a family is still left with a tormenting question: What happened to their loved one?

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Diane Thomas Scott has not been seen in 20 years and her family is asking for help to give them closure.

Meanwhile, law enforcement is also still searching for answers.

"We've come to the firm conclusion that she is the victim of murder. We're never going to let it go," Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo said.

"There are near perfect crimes, but there are not perfect crimes," Harrisburg Police Commissioner Thomas Carter said.

Scott was known to be a church-going woman and a great mother.

"She was thunder but she was a sweet person," Scott's pastor, Winston Palmer, said.

She was 4 feet, 8 inches tall, and fierce.

"She was a little bit of a fireball, but she was still the kindest person ever," her son, Kenneth Magobett, said.

Scott was last seen dropping her kids off at school in May 2001.

"I would have hugged her tight, held her close and tell her that I love her and that I will always be there for her, no matter what," Magobett said.

Former lead investigator Victor Rivera said the case was suspicious from the start.

"Some neighbors heard her on the phone arguing with somebody," he said.

When Scott didn't show up to pick up her daughter from school, her best friend, Sonya Palmer, knew something wasn't right. Palmer went right to Scott's home on Jefferson Street in Harrisburg.

"The white sweater was on the floor, and her slippers were kind of askew in the living room. The TV was on. Her purse, her keys, everything was there," Palmer said.

"This was not a person who left that home voluntarily," Rivera said.

Investigators say they have a person of interest in this case. The person has never been charged.

"The comments, statements that were made throughout the course of the investigation were completely out of place for a person who lost a loved one," Rivera said.

Investigators said they are suspicious of a missing cooler from the home of the person of interest.

"It's large enough that you could fit someone in it if they were small, and this was a very small woman," Chardo said.

Chardo said he believes the perpetrator got lucky and deposited Scott's remains in such a way that she will never be found.

Investigators want to close the case that's taunted them for years.

"We think we know what happened," Chardo said.

"We have an excellent opportunity of solving this case now," Carter said.

But no one needs answers more than Scott's loved ones.

"Please just give them whatever you can so we can bring closure to my family. I just need to know. I really do. I need to know," Magobett said.

Police said no detail in this case is too small.

If you saw Scott before she disappeared or have any information that could help, you're asked to call Harrisburg police at 717-558-6900.