Missing Teenager Found
Tuesday December 12, 2006 7:14pm
Reporter: Michelle Rupp Posted By: Katrina Strickland
North Little Rock - A teenager who vanished from a Galloway Truck Stop is found dead in Memphis. North Little Rock Police are now helping the Memphis Police Department in their investigation.
Tracy Jones from Pennsylvania was in Arkansas selling magazine subscriptions when she disappeared. Now police have a gruesome murder mystery on their hands.
More than two weeks ago, a partially nude body with several stab wounds to the head and bound with duct tape was discovered in a Memphis ditch. Monday, the Jane Doe was identified as 19-year-old Tracy Jones.
On November 17th, Jones’ boyfriend, Robert Blair, filed a missing persons report with North Little Rock Police. Blair was in town for questioning Monday. He says he was devastated when police showed him an e-mail from Memphis police.
(Robert Blair, Jones’ boyfriend) "It showed photos of her necklace I bought her, her tattoos, and showed a picture of Tracy, dead."
Sergeant Terry Kuykendall says North Little Rock Police are helping authorities in Memphis retrace Jones’ final steps. Right now, the biggest mystery is where Jones was murdered.
(Terry Kuykendall, North Little Rock Police Department) "At this point we have no reason to believe it occurred in our city. Is it possible? Yes. But because her body was discovered in Memphis, they’re investigating. It could’ve happened between here and Memphis. We don’t know."
Right now, police do not have a suspect in Jones’ murder. Anyone with any information is urged to call police.
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