Tracys motorcycle was turned upside down. Police believed it was staged to look like a crash. Her helmet was found with marks on the side, and her glasses were also discovered nearby. But Tracy was nowhere to be found. It wasnt until October 17[SUP]th[/SUP], 1994 that a hunter, hunting across the woods came across a skull, brought it into the sheriffs office and just down the ridge from where he found her, they found a bunch of personal items, matched personal effects that we were told Tracy had with her when she disappeared, Detective Rhoades explains. It was almost six years to the day that Tracys remains were discovered in a wooded area a few miles away. And for the past two decades, police have been trying to figure out how she got there. Thats the million dollar question. If we answer that question, I think we get a lot closer, Rhoades says. Police believes she was abducted on this trail, but because it was a busy area, that brings challenges to the investigation. Rhoades explains, Its not uncommon at all to be driving any of these roads and encounter vehicles at some point on them; brush pickers, mushroom pickers, or it could have been somebody back here if this was a targeted incident.
