Small Town Mystery: The Baffling Disappearance of Tracy Kroh
Police believe the 17-year-old was abducted and murdered but her body has never been found.
When Tracy Kroh left her Enterline Township, Pennsylvania home on the afternoon of Saturday, August 5, 1989, she didn’t expect to be gone long. She planned to drive to her sister’s home in nearby Halifax, Pennsylvania to return a barbeque grill she had borrowed and drop off some coupons she had clipped. Her sister, Tammy Hoffman, wasn’t home when Tracy arrived, so she left the items on her front porch and returned to her car. She never made it back to her house.
Tracy’s parents, Ivan and Ellen Kroh, weren’t initially concerned when Tracy failed to come home that night. Tracy was very close with her sister and would often spend the night at her house, so Ellen assumed she had decided to stay over at Tammy’s and would be back in the morning. When there was no sign of Tracy the following day, Ellen called Tammy and learned that Tracy hadn’t spent the night with her. Ralph immediately got into his car and started driving around, looking for any sign of his daughter.
Ivan soon found Tracy’s car, a 1971 Mercury Comet, parked and locked in front of Leppert’s Five and Dime store in Millersburg Square, just a few minutes away from her sister’s house…