On the third anniversary of her disappearance, Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck said his office “certainly hasn’t forgotten about the victim,” Cassandra Gross of Unity, who was last seen meeting a friend for lunch in April 2018.
Tammie Klingensmith of Jeannette, cousin to Gross’s father, wants to make sure it stays that way.
Klingensmith and her husband Patrick have continued to try and draw attention to the Gross case in multiple ways.
“We’ve done several rallies and done lots of searches,” said Klingensmith, who organized two afternoons of rallies April 18 and 19 outside the Westmoreland County Courthouse. “We just want to keep her name out there.”
On Sunday afternoon, the Klingensmiths were joined by a small group of about a half-dozen people, who were reciting the Rosary. Passing cars occasionally honked in support of their signs, bearing messages like “Help bring her family peace! Missing but still in our hearts!”
Klingensmith said she and her husband have held placards twice along Route 30 in Latrobe, and plan to return to the area near the courthouse in the next couple weeks “just to try and nudge things along.”
“It’s time for things to get moving. We don’t want her forgotten,” she said.
Gross called her mother on the afternoon of April 7, 2018. She was driving on Route 30, headed to her apartment after meeting a friend for lunch in Southwest Greensburg. She was never heard from again.
Baxter, her blind, diabetic dog, was found two days later wandering alone in the Beatty Crossroads area. On April 10, 2018, Cassandra’s Mitsubishi Outlander was found burned along a rail line near Twin Lakes Park. State police conducted several searches in the immediate aftermath and in the years since. The case has been classified as a homicide.
Investigators have focused their searches on two properties belonging to Thomas G. Stanko, 50, of Unity, who has been jailed for the past three years on unrelated state and federal charges. Stanko, who at one time dated Gross, has repeatedly maintained his innocence.
Gross’s mother Kathe said she’s glad to see people still drawing attention to her daughter’s case.
“I’m grateful that people care and will take their weekend to do it,” she said of the weekend’s rallies.
Klingensmith said Cassandra Gross was “such a fun-loving person, and she could be a bit of a comedian.”
“But most of all, she was a good person and didn’t deserve this,” Klingensmith said.
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