Episode #165: Tonee Turner - Missing (2019)
- keystonecoldcases
- Aug 22, 2025
- 1 min read
Tonee Turner, a 22-year-old artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, disappeared on December 30, 2019. She was last seen getting off a bus near her home. Later that evening, her belongings—including her backpack, shoes, and a ceramic pot—were found abandoned on the Homestead Grays Bridge. Despite investigations, no evidence of foul play has been found, and her case remains unsolved.
Tonee Turner
Birth: 06/10/1997 – Date Last Seen: 12/30/2019
Ethnicity: Biracial (African American/Caucasian) Sex: Female
Height: 5 ft. 2 in. Weight: 130 lbs.
Last seen wearing a black zip-up jacket, a gray shirt with "Habla Espanol" in orange lettering on the back, grayish-colored cargo pants, and possibly a black head wrap.
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA – Allegheny County
Last Known Location Alive: Tonee was last seen at exiting a bus at the bus stop near her home
Additional Information: Her belongings were found a few miles away on the Homestead Grays Bridge
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I keep coming back to the geography in Tonee’s case, especially the Hazelwood/Nansen/OWL Hollow area.
Her belongings being found on the Homestead Grays Bridge does not, by itself, prove that Tonee herself was ever on that bridge. Publicly, her last known movement was getting off the bus near Hazelwood/Giddings and heading toward the Nansen/OWL Hollow area. That is a very different location from the bridge.
I have personally been up around Nansen/OWL Hollow, and I think the nature of that area is important. It is not a normal residential block where everything is visible from the street. It feels like another world up there — steep, wooded, overgrown, semi-isolated, with vacant or semi-vacant structures, old paths, hillside remnants, and the…