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The Murder In My Family

Tracy McClelland

The Murder In My Family

AbJack Entertainment

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Episode 114 Tracy McClelland

36 Year-old Mother of three, Tracy McClelland vanished in Fenruary, 2007 in Tampa, Florida. When she didn't show up at the hospital for the birth of her nephew, her family feared something was wrong. In March, 2007, workers found the body of a woman, clad only in a denim skirt, buried in a shallow grave at their job site. Since there was no ID found with the body and due to decomposition, Detectives had to ID using serial numbers from her breast implants, and prints from her finger tips. The dead woman turned out to be Tracy McClelland. Police were tight lipped about the cause of death, stating only that there was upper body trauma and that the case was a homicide. Police had their work cut out for them trying to figure out who killed Tracy, and why. Tracy, once a possible student with dreams of becoming a teacher, had lost her way following the suicide of her brother. Devastated by the loss, Tracy sank into depression, and drug use, and alternated between living on the streets and crashing at friend's homes. 15 years later, her case remains unsolved. In this episode, Tracy's niece Malia discusses her aunt’s tragic death, the circumstances that led to it, and her family's effort to find justice for Tracy.


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0:00.0

This season on DNA-ID, a couple shot at a campground, a realtor whalayed at a home showing,

0:06.4

a bookstore owner stabbed among her volumes, a young soldier dumped in a parking lot.

0:11.2

What do all these tragic cases have in common? They are all cold cases solved after decades

0:16.3

of frustration and futility by forensic genealogy. I'm Jess Betencourt, and in season 2 of DNA-ID,

0:22.8

I'll bring you 24 more fascinating cases in which the killer eluded generations of investigators

0:28.4

until science and some crafty genealogists cracked them at long last.

0:32.6

Listen to DNA-ID on your favorite podcast platform, new episodes drop every other Monday.

0:37.8

You're listening to The Murder in My Family, brought to you by Abject Entertainment.

0:43.1

Be sure to check out some of the other great true crime podcasts from this network,

0:47.6

including Missing Persons, DNA-ID, scene of the crime, zodiac speaking,

0:54.3

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0:58.2

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1:03.6

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1:24.3

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1:32.3

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1:39.5

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1:50.8

Thank you for joining me for this episode of The Murder in My Family.

2:11.6

I'm your host, Mike Morford. In this episode, we'll be discussing the case of a mother of three

2:16.6

who was so full of promise, but whose course in life was altered by a family tragedy,

2:21.4

sending her down a dark path that ultimately ended with her being tossed into a shallow grave.

2:26.4

We'll dive into this case after some quick housekeeping.

2:29.7

Independent podcasts like this one depend on word of mouth to bring in new listeners.

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