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Going West: True Crime

Tracy Gilpin // 542

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In October of 1986, a 15-year-old girl attended a friend’s house party in the coastal town of Kingston, Massachusetts after babysitting. After dark, she left the party on foot, heading to pick up cigarettes from the store. But the following day, she was nowhere to be found… For weeks, her disappearance gripped the tight-knit community, until her body was discovered in the woods nearby. With another missing girl, a depraved, suspicious local bible school teacher, and a recent confession, the case would unravel into one of Massachusetts most puzzling mysteries. This is the murder of Tracy Gilpin.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.

0:18.9

And you're listening to Going West.

0:21.4

Hello, everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in today. Big shout out to Tristan for recommending today's case. Another woman recommended this case. She didn't want her name, uh, said on the show. She wanted to be anonymous. Yeah, but thank you so much. You know who you are. This case has so much more than I

0:39.4

originally thought when I was just kind of starting the cursory search into it. Like this

0:45.4

story goes to some crazy places. So buckle up. There's actually another case that we're

0:52.2

going to talk about in this one that was believed

0:54.4

to be connected to Tracy's. It's crazy. So let's just go. All right, guys. Well, this is episode

1:01.5

542 of going west. So let's get into it. The

1:13.6

The In October of 1986, a 15-year-old girl attended a friend's house party in the coastal town of Kingston, Massachusetts after babysitting.

1:51.9

After dark, she left the party on foot, heading to pick up cigarettes from the store.

1:57.9

But the following day, she was nowhere to be found. For weeks, her disappearance

2:04.8

gripped this tight-knit community until her body was discovered in the woods nearby.

2:11.5

With another missing girl, a depraved, suspicious local Bible school teacher, and a recent confession,

2:19.7

this case would unravel into one of Massachusetts' most puzzling mysteries.

2:27.9

This is the murder of Tracy Gilpin.

2:42.2

Thank you. of Tracy Gilpin. Tracy Gilpin was born on January 25th, 1971 to parents Kathleen and Rich Gilpin

2:49.8

in Kingston, Massachusetts, as the second child to her parents joining her older sister, Carrie, 11 months after Carrie was born.

2:59.1

So they were very close in age.

3:01.1

And then they were joined.

3:02.1

Wait, isn't it Irish twins one year apart?

3:05.0

Is that what it is?

3:05.9

I have no effing idea. Oh, God, I don't know. I take it back.

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