On 5 August 1989, Tracy Kroh, a 17-year-old honor student at Halifax Area High School, left her home at Enterline, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to deliver some items to her sister who lived north of Halifax, Dauphin County. She was never seen again. Her locked car was found in the town square at Millersburg, several miles north of her sister’s home.
This post is part of a series chronicling the efforts to find out what happened to her. To date, although nothing conclusive has been determined, she was most likely the victim of foul play. The case of her disappearance remains unsolved to this day.
This story is told through news articles appearing in regional newspapers available from Newspapers.com.
For all other blog posts on Tracy Kroh, see: Disappearance of Tracy Kroh at Millersburg, 1989.
The article presented here from August 2009 reported that after 20 years, the disappearance of Tracy Kroh remained unsolved, but according to an unverified report, the police had a suspect but needed help from the public to complete the investigation.
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From the Pottsville Republican, 5 August 2009:
20 years later, Halifax woman still missing
BY FRANK ANDRUSCAVAGE, STAFF WRITER
After two decades, the mystery of what happened to Tracy Kroh, Halifax, remains unsolved.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of a 17-year-old girl who was last seen sitting on a bench in Millersburg, Dauphin County.
According to information provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Kroh was last seen about 10 p.m., 5 August 1989, sitting in Millersburg’s Town Square. Her 1971 Mercury Comet was found there the following day parked and locked.
Just before her disappearance, police said she used a public telephone in Millersburg and had stopped by her older sister’s house at the Alex Acres Trailer Park off Route 147 in the late afternoon. No one was home but Tracy delivered several items, leaving them on the porch, police said.
Kroh, an incoming senior at Halifax High School when she disappeared, was thought to be headed to see a friend whose parents lived a few blocks from the Millerburg square. She left $300 in her bedroom and a $400 bank balance, leading police to conclude she had not run away.
Four years later and nine miles from the Millersburg Square, a farmer in Washington Township found some of Kroh’s personal belongings – including her driver’s license and a National Honor Society card – along Wiconisco Creek.
Police searched the area but turned up nothing.
Kroh, who would now be 37, had pierced ears and a small mole on her chin. At the time of her disappearance, she was wearing a blue and white top and light blue shorts.
She was born on 15 April 1972. Two decades ago, she was described as being about 4 feet 10 inches tall, 82 pounds and had brown hair and green eyes.
“Tracy is considered to be at risk as lost, injured or otherwise missing,” the center for exploited children says on its Web site.
Pennsylvania State Police at Troop H, Harrisburg, continue to investigate the case and a billboard has been erected in Dauphin County with photos of Kroh as the looked in 1989 and what she would have looked like in 2004.
The billboard, made possible by the Dauphin County Crimestoppers, can be seen on Route 225, just north of Sheetz in Halifax.
Although published reports said new information has come to light from the public, Trooper Thomas Pinkerton of Troop H said there are no new developments to report.
“Right now we have no new updates,” Pinkerton said Monday.
According to ABC27 News in Harrisburg, prosecutors do have a suspect in Kroh’s disappearance and that they also admit they need the public’s help to bring the case full circle.
Police feel that Kroh did not run away and that her disappearance was a crime, the television station said.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Kroh or anyone knowing if any harm came to the teen is asked to call state police at 717-6771-7500 of Dauphin County Crimestoppers toll-free at 800-262-3080.
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