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 articles presented here from August 2014 reported that the police were investigating the soryof a woman who claimed that she escaped an abduction attempt at Millersburg Square about 3 months prior to the time when Tracy Kroh was missing.
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From the Sunbury Daily Item, 9 August 2014:
Cold-case clue emerges
Victim look-alike tells of grab attempt on street
By Rick Dandes, The Daily Item
MILLERSBURG – It was 25 years ago this week that Tracy Kroh, of Millersburg, went missing – and on Friday, police went public with a clue that could finally lead to a break in the cold case.
At an afternoon press conference, Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico and several state troopers from the Lykens barracks said a local woman has come forward “within the last few years,” telling troopers she had information with may help them with the Kroh case.
Marsico said the woman has similar physical features to Kroh.
She told police that a man tried to abduct her from the Millersburg square a few months before Kroh’s disappearance from the same square.
The police said she was able to break free of the man’s grasp and then he ran away.
She wasn’t able to provide a detailed description of the man that police could release, Marsico said.
It is unclear why the woman waited years to go to police, but Marsico and investigators were glad she came forward at all.
“This is the one case we always think of that we really want to solve,” he said, adding that the case “galvanized” central Pennsylvania in many ways.
Police have followed hundreds of leads using traditional and nontraditional investigation methods. They continue to follow other leads in the case, but said are focusing their efforts on the similarities in the newly-reported attempted abduction.
She was 17 years old when she went missing, on August 5, 1989.
Kroh disappeared after she dropped off items at her sister’s home in northern Dauphin County and then headed to the Millersburg area in her 1971 Mercury Comet.
Police say she was last seen at the Alex Acres Mobile Home Park in Halifax.
The night after she disappeared, the Comet was found abandoned in Millersburg Square.
Part of her wallet and driver’s license were found along the Wiconisco Creek near Elizabethville, four years later, in 1993.
Anyone with information related to Tracy Kroh’s disappearance or a possible attempted abduction the same year can contact police at (717) 362-8700.
All anonymous tips will be taken by the Crime Stoppers program at (800) 262-3080.
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From the Carlisle Sentinel, 9 August 2014:
Investigators announce new lead in Tracy Kroh’s disappearance
By Ali Lanyon, abc27 News
MILLERSBURG – Authorities have announced a new lead in the disappearance of a Halifax teenager 25 years ago.
State police and Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico said three months before Tracy Kroh went missing on August 5, 1989, a young girl who looked similar to her was grabbed from behind during an attempted abduction in Millerburg Square.
The girl was able to break free and was not harmed, but a suspect was never identified.
Authorities said the incident may or may not be related to Kroh’s disappearance.
Kroh was 17 years old when she went missing. She had planned to visit her sister at a nearby trailer park, found she wasn’t there, but did not return home that night.
Her car, a 1971 Mercury Comet, was found in Millersburg’s Square the following evening. Four years later, parts of her wallet and driver’s license were found along the Wiconisco Creek near Elizabethville.
Anyone with information is asked to call state police in Lykens at 362-8700.
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