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Thin Air later her vehicle turns up under mysterious circumstances this case is not without Witnesses nor
evidence in fact some of the items found in Tracy's vehicle provide much concern but
could also provide some answers a strange mystery couple is linked to this case but are overshadowed by a violent man
then a body is found by pure happenstance in rural Indiana The Remains are unidentifiable so
decompose the detectives cannot determine the gender of the remains but detectives were convinced they were
dealing with a homicide the body was wrapped in a quilt and tossed into a wooded ravine
someone discarded this individual out there in the woods like garbage who could do such a thing
and why now it's 17 years later in this case is still unsolved this is true crime garage and this is
the case of Tracy Sisson [Music] thank you let's go back to Thursday October 7th
2004 this week's True Crime Story takes us to a rural area of the great Hoosier State Indiana today we will be starting
off in Brown County Indiana near the Bartholomew County Line Brown County is in the southern portion of Indiana but
Brown County is pretty much in the center of the state on this Thursday we have a man named Pete Jones driving on
Nelson Ridge Road East of the town of gnawbone that's an ominous sounding Town name it was nighttime and it was dark
suddenly his heart jumped as a deer leapt into the road he slammed on his brakes his tires Screech as the brakes
locked up but it was too late deer versus truck is never good for the vehicle or the deer the two collided
with a loud crash the truck came to a stop and the deer somehow managed to run off Pete was
shaken and stirred cautiously he drove off glancing around to make sure there were no more oncoming Bambi's when he
got home he got out of his truck and he realized that one of his running lights was missing of course it must have come
off in the Collision he decided mainly because these lights are 75 dollars a piece he would be going back during
daylight hours in hopes that he could recover the missing running light and that it would be in working order when
he locates it so the very next day Friday October 8th Pete drove back to the area where he thought he had hit the
deer looking for the car part so he could possibly have it reattached he parked so he could get out on foot and
look around for this missing piece but just as soon as he got out of his truck he noticed a foul odor and his first
thought was that of the deer but quickly he thought to himself that smells like Decay and a deer could not have decayed
that quickly now here's one of those heart-stopping life-changing moments Pete saw something
unusual lying in the Ravine next to the road and it was not his truck light that
he was hoping to find this was something large wrapped up in some kind of blanket
when he opened it to take a look and wish that he had not he saw death because unfortunately it was a very
badly decomposed body rolled up in a quilt and tossed into the wooded area along the roadside
the authorities were called in immediately because the call came in from a location so close to the county
line officers from both Brown and Bartholomew counties arrived on the scene and worked the scene together yeah
I think I would have just called law enforcement I don't think I would have had the guts to open up the blanket what
we have here is basically an unidentifiable murder victim the county officers know that immediately this
person did not kill themselves then roll themselves up in a quilt and get to that
wooded area but what happens here Captain is that the remains are so badly decomposed in
such a advanced stage of d-comp that the detectives from the sheriff's department
can't make out the gender of the victim or an age so not much really to go on as
far as the initial investigation goes the body was removed and taken off to the Brown County Morgue the scene was
roped off and secured and again officers from both jurisdictions blocked off the
road and scoured the scene for any possible evidence that they could find now I'm playing devil's advocate here
Captain when I say this but I've seen some photographs of this location where they recovered the body from
and this is an ideal location to dump a body this is as country road as it gets Brown County only has about 15 000
residents for the entirety of the county which is 216 square miles well you're saying this body is very badly
decomposed what makes you think that they think it's a homicide because it could be like an accidental death or
maybe even a overdose where somebody then takes the body and dumps it out into the woods those are all certainly
possibilities but what everything that is going to point to for the detectives is they know somebody else knows
something somebody out there placed this body in this location how the person died could be a mystery
and is a mystery at this point in our timeline but we know somebody put them there now Bartholomew County
is much more populated with about 72 000 residents back in 2004 for 409 square miles but that is still not a lot of
people so you have this area where there's not really anybody living in the immediate area and not a whole lot of
people that live in either County but this Nelson Ridge Road is as said very country I'm talking no
street lights no signage there's Woods on both sides of the road so if you needed to dispose of something or wish
that you could do it under the cover of Darkness that sort of thing could easily
be achieved at this location the other part of it too Captain is that one might expect something to sit there
and go undetected for a good amount of time as well is this a road that people would travel often or is this some place
that maybe only locals would know this is a road that's kind of by the wayside that you wouldn't you wouldn't need to
travel this road if you were just passing through the area right the other thing jump off of the interstate and hit
real quickly correct and the other thing too is there's no reason there's nothing
on this road in this location that would make anybody want to stop there right there's not even a stop sign placing
something here is good for the offender or for whoever needs to dump this body because a
if you were doing this at night time you could see headlights off in the distance
right you would have minutes notice not seconds minutes notice that somebody will be coming your way soon and so you
could stop what you're doing or move on and again there's no reason to stop in this location so if you're looking for
something to go unfound this is where you put it you lose it right here and hope nobody ever finds it
now we said that the body was taken to the Brown County Morgue but the autopsy was actually performed at the University
of Indiana School of Medicine forensic pathology division in Indianapolis try saying that three times fast
now here is what they were able to determine our victim is a female victim between the ages of 25 and 35 and
remained unidentified after the autopsy detectives released that the victim had a tattoo of a chain with a flower
located toward the back of the victim's ankle adding that they were looking at all of the missing person files
throughout the entire United States but so far have not been able to determine the identity for a second I thought you
were going to say the victim had a tattoo of a chainsaw I was thinking that's a pretty badass test right
chainsaw tattoo sales just went way up way up they were asking law enforcement was asking if the public you know if
they knew anything about this case or know someone with a similar tattoo that they could call the Indiana State
Police they included the following statement and the request for information from the
public that because of the manner in which the body was found detectives believe the woman was killed somewhere
else and dumped at this location prosecutor Jim Oliver said quote in most murder investigations detectives work
really hard in the first 36 hours to solve the crime our investigators are frustrated with not having many leads to
follow up at this point end quote that statement was made to the Brown County Democrat newspaper editor Linda
marginson five days after the body was found so as we already knew but the prosecutor
confirming the detectives would work around the clock trying to get evidence and leads for the first 36 hours of
their investigation but here we have five days into this homicide and because the nature of the
case it sounds like we have some evidence but no leads to move on and have an unidentified female homicide
victim yeah all the evidence they have is coming from the autopsy or coming from the scene in which they found the
body now for us Captain we don't have the autopsy report and frustratingly authorities have never released the
cause of death here in this case the body in the blanket was that of a young woman but she could not be identified we
don't know how long the Emmy believed her to have been dead but based on the advanced level of D comp we would say
probably quite a while and investigators were not certain how long the body had been lying in the
wooded area where it was found although one AP Associated Press article citing Brown County prosecutor Jim Oliver said
that it had been there for up to eight weeks okay so we know that she was found on October 8th and been there for
possibly up to eight weeks as the prosecutors saying in this article which would mean roughly
August 14 2004. so these remains wrapped in a blanket were placed there as early as
August 14 2004. well like you said this is a tough scenario for law enforcement because they'll have a lot to go on it's
not like there's been a missing girl in the area for years and they go oh this is probably her they don't have a lot to
go off of and even after you find the body Captain you know that whomever placed the victim there
now has had some time to cover their own tracks you've not been able to identify
the victim you can't check on the victim's Inner Circle can't find out where the victim came from obviously you
find your victim in Brown County if you don't have anybody that matches a vague description
missing from your county you know you're going outside of of your box there immediately and and like you said
there's if they had any leads they're drying up real quick based off of the victim not being able to be identified
as well as the prosecutor saying the the victim could have been at this site for up to eight weeks well
but they also did leave something behind that is identifiable the blanket there could be some fibers
or some DNA left or even pet hair so that is a mistake that maybe the killer did
make I'm wondering if this individual or the people that place the victim there I'm guessing that they thought that the
body would remain there for quite some time before somebody found it yeah now this would have been late fall we've
said this on the show plenty of times because it's just one of the hardcore facts of True Crime that spring is
typically when bodies are found in wooded areas this is because Hunters go out after the winter The Long Winter
short winter whatever kind of winter you have and that's when they start going out and
walking these country areas and that's usually typically when something's found so had this guy not hit this deer and
lost a light there's a chance in my mind anyway that they wouldn't have found this body for several more months well
he also becomes a suspect that's true for a short period of time I I would assume that they would start with him
and go was he just telling us this as a ruse so now let's go figure out where he was
what's his Alibi yeah at the very least show me some damage to your truck yeah because you're you're right Captain
that's that's the first thing you gotta hone in on as an investigator you're going okay well this guy has he found
the body so he put himself at the dump scene why was he there yeah nobody again this is a spot where nobody really has a
reason to be in this location so why was he there I'm sure he would have been looked at
what we do know about the cause of death which as we have said has never been addressed publicly well we know that
this case was treated as a homicide very quickly and right after the medical examiner viewed the body now per the
Northwest Indiana Times Brown County prosecutor Jim Oliver said investigators were treating the case as a homicide
although the body had not been identified at that point quote I don't think there's much doubt
Foul Play was involved here end quote that's what Oliver said okay so it was evident to someone presumably the
medical examiner that this woman was murdered that she was a murder victim and even though the cause of death has
never been released an Insider in the case told us that the cause of death is listed on the death certificate as
strangulation so the ways that this could be evident on a badly decomposed corpse is if there
was some kind of ligature still on the body or marks in the flesh from a ligature or if the hyoid bone was broken
which usually results from a violent choking but like you said the bodies so badly decomposed how did they go about
trying to identifier right because that's your number one concern that's your first objective here
to hopefully get an ID on the victim now Brown County authorities looked into missing persons reports within the
county but no missing persons report had been filed in the county that matched the
description of this female victim that they found so they reached out to other nearby jurisdictions
they provided a description of the body as a young white female with dark hair and a tattoo still visible despite the
d-comp and as we stated earlier the prosecutor described that tattoo as a chain around the right ankle with a rose
or some kind of flower on the back of the ankle the other interesting thing though here captain and this is
something that we just don't see law enforcement do very often but something you brought up which is an interesting
angle and one that I'm curious as to why the this angle is not pursued more often
you mentioned that one thing that should be more easily identifiable if it crosses
the right person's eyes would be that quilt right they keep describing this thing as
a quilt not a blanket quilt to me is like handmade passed down throughout the years maybe grandma made it maybe your
favorite aunt made it usually these are family type items yeah sometimes made from articles of clothing that the
family owned the captain is quite the quilt maker everyone should know that but again we don't see law enforcement
do that very often do we where they let's take a picture of this quilt and there there's probably reasons why we
just don't know what they are but I question that from time to time when you seem to be so desperate to to ID this
body you think you'd be pulling out all the stops here and and post pictures of that uh put it on the news in the
newspapers and what have you well we had a handmade curtains that they found at the scene of Amy malovic's death they
didn't release that information for years yeah it almost felt like a lifetime between the time that she was
found and when they showed us pictures of the curtain well finally captain on October 15th a missing person's report
came into the Indiana State Police or ISP for short this report came from the police department in Indianapolis a
woman named Tracy Sandlin storm system was reported missing in Indianapolis the missing woman fit the description of the
body found in Brown County Tracy's dental records were obtained from her family and sent over to the Indiana
State Police it's not at all clear why it took such a long time to definitively ID the body
because eventually that's what happens we are going to ID the body as this Tracy system but it was not until
December 17th that an announcement was made by the Indiana State Police this is the lead
investigator on the case Chris fears that indeed the body they recovered from the woods was Tracy sissom Tracy was
just 33 years old when she was killed detective fears learned that Tracy had last been seen on September 20th in
Indianapolis so this fits the timeline of the body that had been there for up to eight
weeks but September 20th is the last day that she was seen and I have other information that we will
we will go into as we go along here and based on that information I believe she was killed on or very near the date of
the last time that she was seen September 20th is a little more recent than I had expected based off of the
quote up to eight weeks comment now back to something real quick before we move on the missing persons report was sent
by the Indianapolis Police Department to the Indiana State Police on October 15th
it turned out per the Indiana Star newspaper that Tracy's family reported her missing the day after she was last
seen so September 21st so this missing person's report wasn't really connecting to anything until
nearly a month later but for some unknown reason her missing persons report was not connected to the
body found on October 8th until at least a week after it was found part of that could be though Captain it
seems like the the hard push to release some information in this case and to tell the world that we found a body that
we cannot ID didn't really come about until about five days after they found the body so that would account for some
of that time but again it was not proven to be Tracy for another two months there's clearly a lot of stuff going on
behind the scenes here that we just don't know about and a lot of time was wasted due to delays and lack of
communication in this case [Music] from the east coast to the West Coast cheers everybody and cheers to you the
crispiest cheers to you Captain cheers to the people in the back I have a quick announcement here I have an event coming
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square and be there we don't care all right Captain this case takes place in 2004 the Tracy System case and as we
said it takes quite a while for them to even identify the victim I will say that
I'm a little surprised at the how recently she had last been seen right the bodies discovered on October 8th and
she's reported missing on the 21st of September as having been seen the day before
September 20th and I'm just basing this off of the prosecutor's statement of well the body could have been there up
to eight weeks that makes me think that the me or or on that day when the body is discovered when they are first
looking at the body and the scene they're going okay well we're seeing a level of decomposition here that shows
us probably that the victim's been dead for six weeks maybe up to eight and really we have a situation here
where it was just a few weeks between the last time that she was seen that she was alive and well and then later found
dead in this wooded area you wonder if the body was stored or kept somewhere for some period of time that may have
increased the decomposition on the body or I didn't get a chance to check into this
or look it up maybe it was a particularly hot few weeks there late that summer going into fall and that
could have increased it as well there could be any number of factors there but uh it's it's curious to me but once they
have the identification of the body and they know it's Tracy the case just sits there for about two years
yeah this is going to bring us to about 2006 on our timeline here and I'm sure that they're well I shouldn't say that
I'm sure I know that there was a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes just nothing that made the news so no real
news coming out for about two years this until the Indiana star reported that family members have many unanswered
questions but they are not getting many answers from the Indiana State Police investigators are closely guarding many
of the clues detectives did not tell the family how Tracy system died but insisted that the death was in fact a
homicide not even the family was told the official cause of death of the young woman in the quilt according to the
article this is I mean not only did you lose a loved one but you you naturally have so many questions when somebody
dies or in this case is murdered at such a young age but now you have a situation
where you've not only lost that person and you have that giant hole in your heart but hell you got kind of a hole in
your head too because you got no answers to go along with what happened to to your daughter or your sister yeah it
makes you wonder if because she was found like in a different location if law enforcement's just not taking it as
serious as they should I think they were I think there's probably a situation where it's just it might be complicated
right it might be a complicated investigation yeah I'm just saying as the family you're you're sitting there
going and and we don't know what kind of communication law enforcement's having with the family how because in some of
these cases like Delphi it seems like they're very open and letting the family in a little bit
as far as what investigation tactics they're using so we don't know what kind of communications happening between law
enforcement and the family this is true and in this case we have the Indiana State Police as well that we're talking
about and Tracy systems case so let's go and get to know our victim a little better shall we because that's the first
step in trying to get a lead on this thing so who was Tracy Tracy Sandlin storm system was born on December 27
1970. she was a lifelong native of Indianapolis a city that you and I have been to many
times Captain a great City Tracy graduated from Howe High School in 1989 when she died she left behind her
parents Rebecca and John her sister Shelly and her brother John Jr she also left behind an ex-husband and an
estranged husband and three children all of whom lived in Indianapolis according to her obituary Tracy was a
member of Holy Spirit Catholic church and owned an operated Sugar Creek Rottweilers where she bred and cared for
her show dogs Tracy had a great love of animals obviously and worked with several
veterinarians throughout her life Tracy got married when she was young and had two girls in quick succession her
husband Richard storm filed for a divorce in October of 2000 and the divorce was granted in December of 2001.
Richard and Tracy were awarded joint custody of their girls by the Hancock Circuit Court
meanwhile during the whole divorce proceedings Tracy got married again getting hitched
to a Michael system on January 25th 2003 then she gave birth to their son Shane so at this point we have Tracy
Michael her new husband baby Shane and Tracy's two girls sharing a house this is a house that Tracy got in the divorce
settlement from her first husband from that first marriage but that living situation didn't last
long by the time Tracy was reported missing in September of 2004 Michael and Tracy had split up and had been split up
for quite some time and were estranged from one another all right let's get into Tracy's
disappearance there is minimal reporting about her disappearance but what little
there is all says the same thing so this is all confirmed Tracy was last seen September 20th at 30th Street and Post
Road in the Far East Side neighborhood of Indianapolis this was an apartment complex where
Tracy was living at the time but she was in the process of moving out so she is there on this day September 20th to
retrieve her belongings because she is now moving in with her mother who also lived in Indianapolis
on this day Tracy called her mom around 7 pm and told her that she was gathering
the last of her things and then she would be home soon I've not been able to determine Captain
if this call came from a landline or a cell phone right she said that she would be home soon but she never arrived
at the time Tracy was using her father's 1995 Chevy Blazer to help her move her things
the vehicle was also missing so when they noticed that Tracy is missing they noticed that
the vehicle is missing as well the vehicle is not found at Tracy's apartment like you said she's moving
away from her husband well she lived in the apartment by herself they had already been separated for quite some
time by this point and she's moving back in with her mother now we have zero information whatsoever
on how and when Tracy's family discovered her missing status and noted that the Blazer was also missing so we
know that she spoke with her mom on the 20th and we know that the following day a missing person's report was placed
was made by her family right so sometime after 7 pm on that night and sometime the next
morning they probably decide hey she should have been here by now it's been overnight we're not only missing her
we're also missing the vehicle that was lent to her to help her move her things you also have to wonder too if they went
out there and presumably they did out Sue Tracy's apartment to look for her and the vehicle if they were able to
access the apartment maybe they're seeing things in there that's causing concern as well maybe you know when you
hear your loved one tell you hey I'm gathering up the last of my items and I'll be home soon well you could open up
that front door to the apartment and the apartment tell you a different a different story yeah and it's a good
thing that they didn't hesitate to report her missing so that's the best that we can narrow down the actual time
of her going missing we know that she made that phone call on at 7 pm on the 20th we can't say for certain if anyone
in her family went to the apartment to look for her I presume that they did that's just natural reaction that's what
most people would do so you have to wonder if they did this Captain did they find the front door locked unlocked uh
did they find things still inside the apartment was there any sign of a confrontation or struggle those answers
to those questions we just don't have any any idea we do know that someone in her family reported her missing on the
day after she was last seen this again the 21st we also have no information on Tracy's cell phone or if in fact she
even had one it was 2004 so it seems likely that she would have had one if so and if the police were able to obtain
any helpful information on the cell phone we don't have any idea this is information that's not been released to
the public but all of the reporting on the story discusses where Tracy was last known to be so that is not a question in
this case we know that she was last reported to be at her apartment this information came from her mother who
said that Tracy called her from there if there was a cell phone and it showed that she was at some other location
after that time you'd think the family would have said so publicly when they have spoken out about this case yeah I
wonder what the family's feelings are about the ex-husband because that obviously is the I think even though
they were separated for a time period before this like you said she moved on to apartment by herself and now she's
moving back home with her parents you go well I mean that's the number one person
you look at right and just with identifying the body identifying The Remains how quickly we see from there
being no leads to now all of a sudden here in the garage we can see the suspects start to emerge right they they
step out of the shadows and present themselves ourselves a little bit we have her first husband that she's been
divorced from for some time but you've got to look some kind of you custody issue you got to look in that
direction you have the most recent husband who she was in the process of splitting up with and moving on in her
life and then once you get to know the victim and the victim's Inner Circle that may present some other options as
far as suspects or Persons of Interest go and then as you pointed out earlier you always have to consider the person
who quote unquote found the body yeah or the possibilities that Tracy was working
on husband number three and who would that individual be so right away Captain when she goes missing when Tracy goes
missing there's no sign really no clue as to where she could be for about two weeks
but then we get the missing Chevy Blazer that she had borrowed turns up on October 4th in the vicinity of LaSalle
and Michigan Avenues so this is before the unidentified body that we later learned would be Tracy's
remains is found this is a few days before her body is recovered so a deputy pulled the vehicle over or
although it's not clear whether he was actually on the lookout for it you know did we know she's reported missing
we can assume that they reported the vehicle missing as well but were police actively looking for this vehicle we
can't say that for certain so the way this story goes is that this officer a deputy was going to pull over
this Chevy Blazer or attempting to pull over the vehicle anyway is what we should say here
because per the Indiana star a Marion County Sheriff's deputy spotted two unidentified people in the Blazer on
the city's East Side the male driver made several abrupt turns in Lane changes before he and a
female passenger ditched the vehicle in the 500 block of North Oakland Avenue and ran away
so an unknown couple a man and a woman are in this Chevy Blazer right the one that Tracy was borrowing from her father
correct she's missing and the vehicle's missing until this point and the male is driving but before they
could successfully pull over the driver and and pull over the vehicle the driver
makes some smooth Maneuvers and they're able to flee the vehicle before the deputy could catch up to them
now a partial box of ammunition was found on the back seat of the vehicle this is
according to the report says no fingerprints or other evidence were found in the vehicle said an Indiana
State Police spokesman but since we don't know the cause of death I mean this is great evidence to have
once you're doing the autopsy because if there is if she was killed by gunshot then these
were possibly uh the ammo that was used well and that's not what you want to hear Too a partial box of ammunition you
want to hear a full box of ammunition yeah just bottom still in the cellophane the Blazer was abandoned by a couple
about eight and a half miles from Tracy's apartment and this is just one of those really weird things no one
knows who the people in the Blazer were or at least if Indiana State Police does
know who they are they've never said the date we've identified these people or we spoke to these people or we know
who they are right another thing that was reported on but that we know very little about according to the Indiana
Channel I keep saying Indiana every time I see the word Indie so according to the Indie
Channel State Police Sergeant Jeff Deckard said one of the systems neighbors reported seeing a suspicious vehicle
this is interesting a neighbor reported seeing a dark SUV or the sergeant just clarifying here or
they thought it was an SUV we've not narrowed it down to a specific SUV or even eliminated a pickup truck or even
eliminated a pickup truck with a camper shell said Decker but again if anything came of this we don't know so the old
creepy camper yeah think about this Captain we this is what we know here we know that leading up to
finding Tracy's remains they spot the Chevy Blazer being driven by two unknown individuals
who are able to successfully get away from the cops long enough to park and flee on foot
we don't know if they've ever identified those people and then we have this statement of well
on the last day that she was seen neighbors I want to it says a neighbor but I've seen some reports that are
similar to this and I wonder if it was more than one person because in other reports it says Neighbors
uh reported seeing a suspicious vehicle in in describing it as a possibly a dark
SUV so it looks like someone either intercepted her after she left her apartment that night with all of her
things or somebody got a hold of her at the apartment yeah we're not getting reports like you said from the family to
let us know that oh her apartment was filled with her her belongings and so when they abducted her or like you said
intercepted her and the vehicle because you're also stating in the vehicle it's not like we're seeing piles
and piles for her belongings right but that doesn't mean that they didn't intercept her in a different location
just dump all those materials somewhere the vibe I'm getting though with that ammunition that partial box of
ammunition that's found on the back seat is that the family is probably telling law
enforcement that that did not belong to Tracy right because the way that they state that and we know how closely
they've held information in this case and what they've chosen to release and it's been very little but they chose to
release that information well you're also because she's barring the vehicle you go well that ammunition didn't
belong to the Tracy and didn't belong to Tracy's father correct and now you have
to wonder okay well could we trace this ammunition back to a person because if we could somehow
create a paper trail to trace it back to a person that person might be the one that's responsible for her death again
I believe I firmly believe that she was killed either that night or very soon after she went missing on the 20th this
vehicle is not found until October 4th so we have a situation here Captain where
we have this weird unknown couple driving it but also enough time has gone by that you could say
there's a good chance that somebody else may have been in possession of this vehicle at one point especially right
after the murder you have to wonder too would the killer have been Brazen enough to use the victim's
vehicle to move the body no you can use the term Brazen or you could use the term stupid let's let's create a word
that's both um yeah you have to wonder but it doesn't seem like again it's a situation
where the words that they're choosing to tell us in this case make it sound like
that might not be a suspicion by investigators they they may have tried that angle and came up with nothing
there's also been reports that are similar to this that state that there were that are a little more in depth
about the the fingerprints remember we said the ammunition was found but there's no fingerprints found in
or on this ammunition or in the Blazer that they called into concern so was it wiped down was the vehicle
wiped down or was it just whoever drove the vehicle or moved the vehicle wasn't in it long enough to
leave behind a whole lot of evidence you would expect to find some evidence of Tracy having been in the vehicle at
some point maybe that muddies the waters a little bit on whether the body was moved in that vehicle but I'm just
getting the I'm getting the vibe here captain that that's probably not what happened in this case let's sum up that
timeline a little bit so the listeners aren't confused yeah because we were playing detective along the way as we
were telling this story Captain the way that this thing breaks down is just like this Tracy goes
missing on September 20th that's the last time that her family speaks with her that's the last time they know that
she is safe and where she should be the following day they make the police report they they filed the missing
persons report it's 14 days after Tracy was last seen that this Blazer that she was borrowing
the Chevy Blazer is located eight and a half miles from Tracy's apartment Tracy system her body is then located
four days later her remains were found 70 miles from her apartment and as we know she had been dead for long enough
to be decomposed to the point that dental records were required to ID her and that someone else was driving that
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October 8, 2004 - Unidentifiable remains are recovered in a rural area of Brown County, Indiana. The body was found wrapped in a quilt and discarded in wooded ravine off of a remote country road. The Sheriff’s department announced that the body was found in a such a stage of decomposition that not only could they not successfully identify the remains they could not immediately determine the gender. Investigators began pouring over missing persons reports from the County, then state and the country. Join us in the Garage for a few cold ones as we unravel another Cold Case mystery.

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Brief Summary

The episode details the unsolved case of Tracy Sisson, who vanished in 2004 and was later found dead in Indiana.

Key points

The Case of Tracy Sisson. A young woman's body is found in a rural area, leading to a complex investigation.
Mysterious Discovery. A man finds a decomposed body wrapped in a quilt while searching for a truck part.
Identification Struggles. Despite efforts, the victim remains unidentified weeks after the discovery.
Unanswered Questions. The family of Tracy is left with many unanswered questions regarding her death.
Tracy's Disappearance. Tracy was last seen on September 20th, 2004, while moving out of her apartment.
Mysterious Vehicle Discovery. Tracy's missing Chevy Blazer was found on October 4th, driven by unknown individuals.

Episode highlights

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Who could do such a thing and why?

Reflecting on the mysterious circumstances surrounding a body found in the woods.

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Tension

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