CA CA - Tracy Davenport, 6, San Rafael, 27 April 1973

[Lavender Moon]

I don't know how it is now but some kindergarten classes used to start in the late am; but that is strange that they took so long to report that little baby missing.

 

[StarrChance]

I don't know how it is now but some kindergarten classes used to start in the late am; but that is strange that they took so long to report that little baby missing.

Thanks, didn’t happen in the state I lived in but now realise for “kindy” some have “half days”, so quite possible that was the case here.

 

[Lavender Moon]

Thanks, didn’t happen in the state I lived in but now realise for “kindy” some have “half days”, so quite possible that was the case here.

Yes, I think so. My mother taught two Kindergarten classes a day, I remember. I know I attended Kindergarten in the morning, leaving school around noon each day. This was in California.

 

[Lavender Moon]

Bumping for Tracy

 

[Lavender Moon]

Bumping for Tracy

 

[Richard]

Tracy Davenport, age 6 and age progressed
Missing since 27 April 1973

 

[Megsc]

Tracy Lynn Davenport – The Charley Project

 

[DS2021]

Bump

 

[spartanx]

sometimes when reading about cases from the 1970's and 1980's i've found that people thought they had to wait 24 hours to report a missing person case... so that might explain why they waited in this case...
what's frustrating is that there's still no universal answer to that... as much as people say now that there's no waiting period there are still jurisdictions that say they do have one... i don't know if the difference is that it's not "official" or what but i've witnessed it myself... upon hearing that the missing person was possibly in danger for mental health reasons they quickly changed their minds... but i get the impression that they require a waiting period to try and get rid of people who overreact...
from what i could read on the charley project website it seems like she had a lot going against her... she lived in a motel with her grandparents and other relatives she had burn scars on her hip and abdomen she disappeared walking ALONE at 6 years old to kindergarten and despite realizing she was missing when she didn't come home from school... her relatives waited until the next day to report her missing... individually, these things may not mean much, but together they paint a picture of a girl in a vulnerable position...
I wonder how a six-year-old girl disappears off the face of the earth... someone knows what happened, but I doubt the rest of us ever will...
either way
rest in peace

 

[Sweetluv]

So sad....A young child in Kindergarten walking to school alone. I wonder why she was reported missing the NEXT day!!??

 

[Sweetluv]

How far of a walk from the Motel to the School?

 

[Sweetluv]

April 27, 1973...thinking of Tracy today!

 

[Sweetluv]

Tracy was reported missing the FOLLOWING day...walking to school alone, at age six, from her Motel to School. Thinking of Tracy!

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I don't believe several adults all thought they had to wait to report her missing. In my opinion, someone in her family might know more.

I wonder if any of her family searched the streets between the motel and her school for weeks on end, like any normal family would if their little-one disappeared on the way to school. Did they beg and plead for help?

This feels like a case that should have been solved by a savvy LE team back in 1973. Sigh.

Does she have any exclusions in NamUs?

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[MrsShakur]

Tracy has burn scars on her lower hip and abdomen area

Where did they come from, an accident or abuse?

Tracy lived with her grandparents and other relatives at the time of her disappearance; her parents were separated

She lived with her grandparents at a motel. Her parents were separeted in there is no mention of them anywhere.

Is it possible she was killed by her grandparents and never even made it outside that day? Or maybe another relative? we don't even know whivh other relatives that lived there. What about her parents? imagine they lost custody for a reason, abuse perhaps and now one of them wanted her back. They could have easily grabbed her. Keep in mind also that she lived at a innercity motel, perhaps not the best place for a kid to grow up I can imagine alot of shady types living there too

Google Maps

Here the hotel she lived at, Seems like its the middle of San Francisco, shops, cars, people. Very crowded area.

A witness reported seeing a dark green or black car following Tracy as she walked on Canal Street, but investigators have never been able to prove she was abducted and they have no suspects or persons of interest in her case

So there are witnesses that saw her going to school. I wonder if anybody witnessed her presumed abduction. Considering the location there should be plenty of witnesses. This gives me the impression she volentarily got into a car. Either she know the driver or she was lured into it.

There are many questions here and many scenarios. Many stones to be turned but also tricky cause there are many things that couldve happened. I think she was abducted by somebody she knew. The police should go through this all over again. From family to neighbours to sex offenders in the area. Might be hard based on the location and transient people living there but that's the only chance.

This is SF but Tracy disappeared in San Rafael, different areas of the Bay. How did you locate the SF address? Anywhere is dangerous for a little princess…..with that said San Rafael isnt known as a shady inner city location.