155 - The Disappearance of Traci Kegley

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Thirty-year old Traci Kegley was about to begin a new life. The recently divorced mother of a two year old daughter had faced some setbacks, but she was moving forward. She had just gotten a new job and was excited for her first day... but she'd never make it.

On the afternoon of Sunday, April 26th, 1998, Traci set off with her two year old to run errands. She stopped to fill up her gas tank and then drove off, never to be seen again. More than twelve hours later, a passerby found her car sitting on an isolate stretch of highway. Sitting in the back, still buckled in, was her daughter but Traci was gone.

Police launched searches, got the word out to the media and pushed hard to track her down but they had to contend with miles of thick woods, difficult terrain and a slew of flooded pits and quarries. The horror of the truth was difficult to dismiss; she could be almost anywhere. While some believed she'd likely fallen victim to a random attack, investigators began to feel that those responsible for her disappearance were likely not only locals, but people Traci knew.

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0:39.0	It wasn't exactly an unusual sight.
0:42.0	A white car seemingly abandoned, sat along an isolated stretch of rural highway in Alabama.
0:48.0	For hours, commuters passed by the scene without even noticing.
0:53.0	At first glance, there wasn't anything about the car that should have drawn attention.
0:58.0	Then, one driver saw something that grabbed his.
1:02.0	It wasn't the look of the car, it was in good shape and it appeared to have been well cared for.
1:08.0	There was no sign of an accident, no torn up earth, smoke or fire.
1:12.0	But there was movement inside, a shadow shifting behind the glass.
1:17.0	There, in the back seat, sat a two-year-old child still buckled in with no sign of the driver in sight.
1:25.0	The car belonged to her mother, 30-year-old Tracy Kegley,
1:29.0	but she hadn't been seen since the previous afternoon.
1:33.0	Where was she? And how long had her car sat there with her daughter trapped inside?
1:39.0	What had initially begun as an investigation of an abandoned vehicle
1:44.0	quickly became a desperate search for the vehicle's owner.
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