What happened to Jessica Goldsworthy? Authorities say 2018 case isn't cold 'just yet'

On Nov. 16, 2018, Jessica Lynn Goldsworthy got into a gray four-door car with four men who were planning to rob a drug dealer in Sutersville.

Two people were shot during the robbery. Goldsworthy, then 24, was never seen again.

Her brothers reported her missing days later, state police Cpl. Daniel Poponick said. Goldsworthy was somewhat transient — she’d come and go — but her brothers grew wary after her friends hadn’t seen her.

“They were concerned,” he said.

Goldsworthy, who lived in Elizabeth at the time, is still considered a missing person. Poponick suspects foul play.

But he doesn’t consider the case cold just yet, although six years have passed. No charges have been filed.

“I look at this pretty frequently,” Poponick said. “I try to do something with it a couple times a month.”

Goldsworthy’s twin brother Jerred Goldsworthy said the two had a close relationship growing up, but after graduation from Elizabeth Forward High School in 2012, she started to hang out with the wrong crowd.

“We kind of stopped talking for a little while but I always kept in touch with her friends,” he told the Trib.

Those relationships prompted friends to reach out to the brothers with concerns about Goldsworthy’s whereabouts, he said. That struck him as odd, as she was always with her friends. The brothers filed a report with state police.

Information has been scant since then.

“I just want answers, but I don’t think I’m going to get those answers until somebody starts talking,” Jerred Goldsworthy said.

Troopers arrested the four men Jessica Goldsworthy was with — Curtis Thomas Everett, 32, of Glassport; Chad William Wolfe, 40, of McKees Rocks; Aaron Devaugntae Brown, 32, of Jeannette; and Dylan John Vasko, 26, of Elizabeth — in connection with the Nov. 16, 2018, robbery on Butterfly Lane in Sutersville. Brown and Everett are serving state prison sentences.

Wolfe and Vasko were sentenced to terms in the Westmoreland County Prison.

Testimony from a preliminary hearing indicated that Goldsworthy went with a couple of the men to scout the Butterfly Lane home on the morning of Nov. 16, 2018, according to a court filing. Afterwards, they went to a Walmart, where Goldsworthy reportedly stole black sweatpants, gloves and ski masks.

Later, the group headed back to the Butterfly Lane home, and Brown supplied Vasko and Everett with an airsoft gun and firearm, according to prosecutors. It’s unclear from court papers if they made off with anything in the robbery or if Goldsworthy left Sutersville with the group.

Information about her disappearance was slow to get released publicly. A case was opened in February 2019 with the National Missing and Unidentified Persons database.

The case is included on The Charley Project website, which Meaghan Good said has documented more than 16,000 missing person cases.

Good said she sees running the website as a way to give back while potentially providing information to the public that could help solve a case. She does not investigate the cases herself, but rather pulls information about the missing person from a variety of Internet sources, such as national websites, law enforcement and social media, and puts in all in one place.

“I’m cataloging all this information like a librarian or like an archivist,” she said.

A cash reward is being offered by PSP Tips in Goldsworthy’s case for information that leads to an arrest, the solving of a crime or the location of a missing person. She was known to frequent the Elizabeth, Jeannette and Greensburg areas, police said.

She is described as standing between 5 foot 2 and 5 foot 4 inches tall and weighing between 150 to 170 pounds. She has blond hair, blue eyes and wears glasses.

Anyone with information can call state police in Greensburg at 724-832-3288 or PSP Tips at 1-800-4PA-TIPS. Messages can be sent online here.