PA PA - Tracy King, 14, Littlestown, 8 July 1975

[Richard]

Bumping Tracy's thread up. This July will mark 49 years since she went missing.

 

[elframo]

Tracy has now been missing 49 years.

 

[theshadow45]

Today is Tracy’s birthday.

 

[Richard]

Bumping this thread up. This July will mark 50 years since Tracy went missing.

 

[Richard]

Tracy went missing from Hoffman Homes near Gettysburg, PA with another girl on 8 July 1975.

 

[Richard]

Tracy Anne King, age 14
Missing since 8 July 1975

LINK:

Tracy Anne King (1960-1975) - Find a Grave...

Tracy was fourteen years old when she passed away.

www.findagrave.com

 

[theshadow45]

Tracy has been missing for 50 years today.

 

[Richard]

Still missing after 50 years...


Tracy Ann King, 14, Missing since 8 July 1975

LINK:

Tracy Anne King (1960-1975) - Find a Grave...

Tracy was fourteen years old when she passed away.

www.findagrave.com

 

[snooptroop88]

It is a possibility. Here is a photo comparison:

Tracy Anne King, age14, 5 ft 3 in tall
Missing since 8 July 1975 from Gettysburg/Littlestown, PA
NCMEC Number: 701787

Unidentified Person, 5 ft 4 in tall (estimated)
Found 1982 near Frederick, MD
NamUs #UP7477

Agreed on this. I had no idea what the Cheerleader in the Trunk meant until I saw this mentioned here in these posts. I just came across this Jane Doe (already mentioned above by @arisam and @Richard ) from Frederick in Namus, and looked at other images for her & was struck by this one, too:


And this one:

The lips/mouth look somewhat similar to Tracy's, jmo. But mostly what I think what made me do a double-take on the first of these two images was like the overall facial proportions in terms of the long nose to the eyes, and eye size & shape. She just looks very similar to Tracy to me, too. And they think this Doe's hair was originally reddish. From what I can see, this isn't yet a ruleout. (?) Was Tracy into sports? Because they think this Doe was athletic. Tracy was quite young, I'd say she was pretty active. I tried to research Hoffman Home to see what daily life might have been like there in that era. I know they currently have an equine therapy program, I believe they have over a hundred acres of property. They had no school on the grounds then, I believe, in the 60s anyway, and I read that students went for classes in Gettysburg. I can find nothing about sports/outdoors for that timeframe. The campus now (just streetviewed) has extensive grounds for outdoors/sports. I tend to think that was not something that happened overnight, it was probably a gradual development and that the institution always placed some emphasis on outdoors/sports, but it's guess only.

 

[chaddylex]

Agreed on this. I had no idea what the Cheerleader in the Trunk meant until I saw this mentioned here in these posts. I just came across this Jane Doe (already mentioned above by @arisam and @Richard ) from Frederick in Namus, and looked at other images for her & was struck by this one, too:
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And this one:
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The lips/mouth look somewhat similar to Tracy's, jmo. But mostly what I think what made me do a double-take on the first of these two images was like the overall facial proportions in terms of the long nose to the eyes, and eye size & shape. She just looks very similar to Tracy to me, too. And they think this Doe's hair was originally reddish. From what I can see, this isn't yet a ruleout. (?) Was Tracy into sports? Because they think this Doe was athletic. Tracy was quite young, I'd say she was pretty active. I tried to research Hoffman Home to see what daily life might have been like there in that era. I know they currently have an equine therapy program, I believe they have over a hundred acres of property. They had no school on the grounds then, I believe, in the 60s anyway, and I read that students went for classes in Gettysburg. I can find nothing about sports/outdoors for that timeframe. The campus now (just streetviewed) has extensive grounds for outdoors/sports. I tend to think that was not something that happened overnight, it was probably a gradual development and that the institution always placed some emphasis on outdoors/sports, but it's guess only.

My son just graduated from Gettysburg College and now lives in Arlington VA. I asked him if he would go thru Frederick when going back and forth between college (he had an early graduation in December but had to go back a few times to Gettysburg for spring graduation) He said YES and to map it out. - anywho - Littlestown is only 48 minutes from Frederick where "Cheerleader in the Trunk was found" I can't remember if Tracy was looked at before or not. @marylandmissing do you know?

 

[Richard]

I first became interested in Tracy King's disappearance and posted it here on Websleuths 21 years ago in 2004. I came across it while studying the 25 March 1975 disappearance Sheila and Katherine Lyon from Wheaton, Maryland.

The two cases were only about an hour's drive from each other and only 4 months apart. The girls were of similar age and were away from their homes at the time of disappearance, so I thought that there might be a connection.

In 2014, investigators from Montgomery County, Maryland began to connect Lloyd Lee Welch, Jr. to the abduction and murder of the Lyon sisters, and he subsequently confessed, was convicted, and is now serving a life sentence for their murders.

It is a very likely possibility that Welch was only a part of a larger group that abducted, abused, and murdered young people. Could Tracy have been such a victim of that group?

 

[chaddylex]

I first became interested in Tracy King's disappearance and posted it here on Websleuths 21 years ago in 2004. I came across it while studying the 25 March 1975 disappearance Sheila and Katherine Lyon from Wheaton, Maryland.

The two cases were only about an hour's drive from each other and only 4 months apart. The girls were of similar age and were away from their homes at the time of disappearance, so I thought that there might be a connection.

In 2014, investigators from Montgomery County, Maryland began to connect Lloyd Lee Welch, Jr. to the abduction and murder of the Lyon sisters, and he subsequently confessed, was convicted, and is now serving a life sentence for their murders.

It is a very likely possibility that Welch was only a part of a larger group that abducted, abused, and murdered young people. Could Tracy have been such a victim of that group?

I didn't even think about Tracy going missing around the same time as the Lyon sisters. Maybe a connection...

 

[Richard]

My son just graduated from Gettysburg College and now lives in Arlington VA. I asked him if he would go thru Frederick when going back and forth between college (he had an early graduation in December but had to go back a few times to Gettysburg for spring graduation) He said YES and to map it out. - anywho - Littlestown is only 48 minutes from Frederick where "Cheerleader in the Trunk was found" I can't remember if Tracy was looked at before or not. @marylandmissing do you know?

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Note that the route usually recommended today from Maryland up to Gettysburg or Littlestown is not necessarily the most direct route. If you are traveling from Wheaton, Maryland the most direct route would be north on Georgia Ave (Highway 97), which goes right past Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center (where the Lyon Sisters were abducted) directly north to Littlestown and then to Gettysburg, PA. That route might be slower, but more direct.

 

[chaddylex]

Note that the route usually recommended today from Maryland up to Gettysburg or Littlestown is not necessarily the most direct route. If you are traveling from Wheaton, Maryland the most direct route would be north on Georgia Ave (Highway 97), which goes right past Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center (where the Lyon Sisters were abducted) directly north to Littlestown and then to Gettysburg, PA. That route might be slower, but more direct.

Still not too off course for a killer to dump a body.

 

[Richard]

Still not too off course for a killer to dump a body.

Georgia Ave also goes past the K-mart in Aspen Hill, Maryland where Kathy Lynn Beatty was attacked on 24 July 1975 (Only 16 days after Tracy King went missing). Kathy was beaten and left in a coma. She died twelve days later without regaining consciousness.

A serial child molester and murderer by the name of Fred Howard Coffey, Jr. worked at Vitro Laboratories, across Georgia Ave from the K-Mart. At the time, Coffey lived at the Holiday Motel - also on Georgia Ave in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Could Tracy King have been a victim of Fred Coffey? Coffey is now 80 years old and resides at Green Correctional Institution in North Carolina where he is serving a life sentence for the 1979 murder of 10-year-old Amanda Ray. He has a thread in the Serial Killer section of Websleuths.