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February 21, 2008

Update: 'Missing' students found: 1 in jail, 1 at home

missingstudents.jpg Amy Scott and Daniel Querzoli

Police now know the whereabouts of two college students who didn’t return home after borrowing a friend’s car to run errands last week.

Twenty-two-year-old Daniel Querzoli is in state police custody in Pennsylvania, and 21-year-old Amy Scott is in New Jersey with her mother, Laura Tool.

Tool said her daughter and her daughter’s roommates were all in danger, but would not elaborate to police.

The car Scott allegedly left Providence in -- her roommate's Honda, which has been reported stolen -- was found in a parking garage in mid-town Manhattan.

Querzoli, a student at Bridgewater State University, was arrested in what Pennsylvania state police say was a different stolen vehicle with stolen plates.

Providence Police Det. Sgt. Carl W. Weston Jr. said he had an unusual series of conversations with Tool, who reported her daughter missing last week.

--projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson, with reports from journal staff writer Gregory Smith

Tool said her daughter had been in touch and that she and her husband were going to pick up Scott, Weston said. But, he added, she was not forthcoming in answering all of his questions.

At one point, Weston said, Tool remarked that Scott said she and her roommates were in danger. Tool said police should send an officer to the apartment, but would not tell Weston the nature of the danger.

Out of an abundance of caution, police sent an officer to the house yesterday to check on the eight residents of the multi-family house. No one was home, Weston said.

A police sergeant in Beach Haven, N.J., went to Tool’s house and confirmed that Scott was OK. But the sergeant did not get much more information, Weston said, because the two women had a lawyer with them. Tool did say that her daughter and Querzoli were no longer dating.

Querzoli was arrested at about 3:15 a.m. today when a state police trooper reported seeing a vehicle being driven erratically on Interstate 81 in Cumberland, just outside of Carlisle, Penn.

According to Sgt. Jonathan Mays, Querzoli was driving a stolen Buick Century with stolen plates.

Querzoli is currently being held on $50,000 bail while he awaits his hearing.

On cable television last night, Querzoli's father, Brian Warren, said he had received a postcard from his son that said the two college students were on a “road trip.”

Weston said the case reminds him of the runaway bride.

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 1:49 PM | Permalink

Comments

Looks to me like somebody's been watching too much reality TV and needs a bit of attention.

Jeremy | February 21, 2008 11:28 AM link

Was one of the questions: Where is Daniel Querzoli??
what is the answer??

Dee | February 21, 2008 11:34 AM link

Was one of the questions: Where is Daniel Querzoli??
what is the answer??

Dee | February 21, 2008 11:34 AM link

wierd!!!!!

syreeta | February 21, 2008 12:26 PM link

They'v enow found the guy Daniel Querzoli in Harrisburgh PA. He's in police custody for possession of a stolen vehicle. Apparently the roomates in the Providence apt. have moved out or are in the process of moving out, telling neighbors they now fear for their lives. We may never find out what's up...

cayo | February 21, 2008 12:45 PM link

This is bogus. Here we are watching this unfold on national television, and now nobody is talking. What are they in danger from? An angry drug dealer? A rabid dog? This story needs a quick ending. The boyfriend is in jail in PA right now. He's been picked up and booked on stolen car charges. This story needs an update fast.

Trixie | February 21, 2008 1:22 PM link

sad state of affairs. Let's see, mom begs for help , then finds her nitwit daughter and ceases to cooperate with the police .. Hey mom " get lost" !

Marcus | February 21, 2008 1:25 PM link

There are way too many unanswered questions..

Was this a 'planned' trip?

Where is Daniel? Why didn't his parents report him missing? Did they know where he was all this time?

Where are the roomates? Did the officer return to make sure someone returned to the home?

There is either a story here or there isn't - and someone needs to fess up!! Eiher the two were really missing and in possible danger or the media jumped on a non-issue story and is trying to make something out of nothing!!

San | February 21, 2008 1:25 PM link


All of you in your ivory and glass towers should not cast aspersoins. I'll be watching...
The Monitor

The Monitor | February 21, 2008 1:37 PM link

This whole story is ridiculous. The girl's mom knows more than she is letting on. I feel bad for his father. He was on CNN last night. The poor man is scared to death that something has happened and rightfully so. If the situation was reversed she would have the police questioning everyone and their grandmother as to her daughter's whereabouts. Also, what do they have a lawyer for? Guilty much?

Cyndi | February 21, 2008 1:50 PM link

I cannot believe I actually felt sorry for this girl. Now I have reversed and feel sorry for the boy and his father. The whole Scott family sounds like a bunch of wackos that are hiding something. It is not fair to that boy's father - HE HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON! I hope they charge Amy with something, and let Dan off because it sounds like he was dragged into this by Amy!

bobby | February 21, 2008 2:14 PM link

Maybe I am just being naive because I do not have any children. But if my daughter was in "gave danger", I would be cooperating with the police so much that they would be sick of me.

bobby | February 21, 2008 2:29 PM link

I would hope that these losers get a bill for all the time spent in searching for them, in addition to community service.

Lydia | February 21, 2008 2:34 PM link

Is anyone else sick of this yet?
Not news.

Shawn | February 21, 2008 2:54 PM link

It sounds like Amy dragged Daniel into some dangerous "stuff". As a mother, she should be cooperating fully with the police. Because she is not cooperating, she looks just as guilty as the daughter. Bunch of wackos!! I hope the truth comes out and that Daniel is innocent.

Chris | February 21, 2008 2:59 PM link

Spoiled little college kids go missing and cost police manpower and taxpayer money and now mommy hires a lawyer and her nut job daughter doesn't need to talk to the police and provide any answers. Unreal. Great state of the world these days.

Rob | February 21, 2008 5:38 PM link

Do a search on "Audrey Seiler" - a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student, who faked her own abduction in Madison, Wisconsin.
There see to be some striking similarities...
If this gal is innocent, then why "lawyer up"??
At last check, persons over the age of 18 do not have to tell anyone where they are going or what they are doing...after all, college students are adults - or at least that's how they want to be treated...

R! | February 21, 2008 6:23 PM link

Typical. They were both apparently involved in something illegal. If nothing else, she is clearly guilty of obstructing justice. But the guy will go to jail and she will be let off the hook since she is a woman and therefore a "victim".

Steve | February 21, 2008 7:08 PM link

Is someone making a movie? it was funny to me that even though they both had cars of their own they took the roommates honda! and than they leave their phones and wallets behind? now the mother has a lawyer? but the boys dad just wants them back home! yeahhh!! mother and daughter!
something is going on! cant wait to hear whats next! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!

dee | February 21, 2008 10:50 PM link

dan querolli is bad news. amy is not the guilty party. he has a bad record and the news twisted the story to make him look innocent. why the lawyers??? daniel got her involved in something wrong probably really really wrong. i can not think of a single parent out there who wouldnt do anything possible to do what they believe is best for their child. thats what her mom did

u | February 22, 2008 12:18 AM link

to everyone pointing the finger at Amy's family for getting a lawyer, grow up. of course they hired a lawyer, this is a legal situation. the two took off in a friends car, which was later reported stolen, and the boyfriend was arrested driving a DIFFERENT stolen car, with stolen license plates. the kid is now in jail, do you think his family hasnt contacted any lawyers? to all the 'concerned parents,' if your children were in a similar situation, you would do the same thing to help your child deal with the legal ramifications of their actions. and yes, sorry to say, cooperating fully with the police without an attorney present is not always (read never) a good idea.

tom | February 22, 2008 12:34 AM link

Dan Querzoli is not a bad kid. I feel bad for him,and his father. I do not know Amy, but I feel he family is being unfair to Dan's family. They are just as worried about their son. I also do not understand why the police can't pick he up and put her in jail until she talks. She wa in the first stolen car and maybe in the second one. Why can't the police put pressure on her to speak, while she sits home and Dan is in jail.What about these roommates being in danger? Time to bring all of them in before someone gets hurt and then it is too late. Pleae, let Dan come home to his family and let's find out what happened. Her mother was talking to the police constantly while they were missing, but now clams up. How would she feel if Dan's father would not tell her where her daughter was. Time to bring all involved in to be questioned and get ot the bottom of this.

joanne | February 22, 2008 8:22 AM link

This is ridiculous, she is being portrayed as the victim in all this. People are trying to say he got her into bad stuff but as you may recall from previous news reportings, he was the one who was concerned about her drug use. So maybe its like someone else said, maybe things went sour and she got herself into a dangerous situation causing her to run from something or someone. Her mother is being inconsiderate to Dans family, and its wrong. If you aren't guilty of anything, then there is absolutly nothing to hide. No need to stay quiet and not cooperate. There is another party involved and he is being percieved as the one guilty of wrong doings. Until the WHOLE story comes out we cant make any definite assumptions.

Ali | February 23, 2008 5:07 PM link

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