On December 4, 2003, James Amabile disappeared near his home in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania. For more than 18 years, the case remained unsolved. Then Adventures with Purpose decided to have a look.

Adventures with Purpose (AWP) is a YouTube channel that has received more than 300 million views and brought in more than two million subscribers since launching in 2018. AWP is well known for pursuing unsolved incidents, and the channel’s work has led to breakthroughs in 26 different cold cases, according to diver Doug Bishop.

AWP’s specialty is diving, and the Amabile case allowed the channel to show off its underwater skills. Ridley Township is a suburban community on the outskirts of Philadelphia, right next to a body of water called Darby Creek. Amabile’s last-known contact was with a babysitter who lives near the creek, which suggested to Bishop and co. that the then-38-year-old man had taken a wrong turn (due to the effects of diabetic shock) and drove himself into the water.

Using technology that was not available in 2002, AWP identified a car at the bottom of the creek. The channel’s dive team went to check out the wreck and came back up with the license plate, which matched Amabile’s missing vehicle. Human remains were also found in the car, though their identity has not yet been made public.

“Honestly, I wasn’t expecting anything. I’ve gotten used to not expecting anything, and I tuned a lot of things out,” Amabile’s brother Stephen told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “But it didn’t take them very long to figure out there was an SUV down there.”

AWP posted a fully-edited vlog video detailing the search effort. To tide viewers over until that video goes up, the channel hosted a live stream, in which its members thanked the local police department and Amabile’s family for their assistance with the case.

In addition to the 26 cold cases AWP has cracked, Bishop noted that the channel’s community has contributed to breakthroughs in eight additional cases. He could not offer details about the projects AWP will work on next, as much of that information is confidential. However, he noted that his team is always looking for new cases to explore, and he prompted anyone with a tempting lead to email [email protected].

James Amabile Found in SUV

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 SOLVED: Missing 19-years Underwater | James Amabile Found in SUV [Ep 2]
THIS EPISODE – Episode 2… March 19, 2022, we began our case investigation into James “Jimmy” Amabile’s case meeting with family and listening as they lay out all of the circumstances leading up to Mr. Amabile’s disappearance 19-years earlier.
Amabile, 38, vanished on the afternoon of Dec. 4, 2003, after leaving his home in Folsom, PA to go pick up his two daughters from a babysitter in his 2002 green Ford Explorer.
Jimmy had overslept and called the babysitter at 5:13 p.m. to say that he was running a few minutes late.
This 4 part series documents Adventures With Purpose’s search for James Amabile, following the clues left behind, from a cell phone ping, last phone call, information from his family about insulin levels, and knowing that James woke up in a panic that he was late picking up his daughters from the babysitters, all playing a role in leading to the discovery of where James Amabile and his SUV had gone missing in the river 19-years earlier.

 Episode 3… Now that we’ve found 38-year-old James “Jimmy” Amabile at the bottom of Darby Creek in his 2002 Green Ford Explorer, it’s time for the long and meticulous recovery of Jimmy before the SUV can be pulled from 24′ below the Ridley Township Municipal Marina.
This 4 part series documents Adventures With Purpose’s search for James Amabile, following the clues left behind, from a cell phone ping, last phone call, information from his family about insulin levels, and knowing that James woke up in a panic that he was late picking up his daughters from the babysitters, all playing a role in leading to the discovery of where James Amabile and his SUV had gone missing in the river 19-years earlier.

Final Episode 4… Adventures with a Purpose used sonar equipment to locate a submerged Ford Explorer found Saturday in the murky waters of Darby Creek.
The Explorer and tags matched the entry on a missing person report from Dec. 4, 2003, for James “Jimmy” Amabile, solving a 19-year missing person case in Pennsylvania from December 04, 2003.
This 4 part series documents Adventures With Purpose’s search for James Amabile, following the clues left behind, from a cell phone ping, last phone call, information from his family about insulin levels, and knowing that James woke up in a panic that he was late picking up his daughters from the babysitters, all playing a role in leading to the discovery of where James Amabile and his SUV had gone missing in the river 19-years earlier.

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