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 June 1990 reported that the police were continuing the investigation although no new leads were obtained.
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From the Pottsville Republican, 19 June 1990:
Police at dead end in missing teen investigation
Dauphin County’s Tracy Kroh last seen August 5 in Millersburg
By Dave Carroll, The Republican
HALIFAX – A special four-man state police task force is trying to locate missing Tracy Maria Kroh, but so far there are few clues to he whereabouts almost a year after her disappearance.
Cpl. Richard L. Dressler of state police barracks at Lykens said the investigation is still continuing, and state police at Lykens are now being assisted by a special task force from the Harrisburg state police barracks.
Cpl. Gene Smith of state police barracks at Harrisburg said a four-member criminal investigation team in the city has been assigned to work with Lykens state police to investigate the case. However, Smith said officers from the Lykens barracks are the main investigators.
According to reports on the disappearance, Tracy Maria Kroh, 17, on Saturday, 5 August 1989, left her home in Powell’s Valley near Halifax in her car to return a barbeque grill and delivery grocery coupons to her sister, Tammy Hoffman, 20, who lives just north of Halifax.
Ellen Kroh, her mother, said her daughter dropped off the materials at her sister’s and then went to Millersburg, but never returned.
On Sunday evening, her father, Ivan Kroh, drove to Millersburg to look for her, and all he discovered was her locked car. She has been missing ever since.
Dressler said the recent investigation has come to a dead end.
“There’s been nothing, absolutely nothing in the last month or so,” Dressler said.
Mrs. Kroh said she knew that several members from the Harrisburg state police barracks have been working on the case for several months.
“There’s just nothing. That’s the sad part,” Mrs. Kroh said.
Mrs. Kroh said she believes there is someone in Millersburg what knows something about the situation.
I know darn well that someone in Millersburg knows something. Someone can’t just disappear in a small town,” Mrs. Kroh said.
Mrs. Kroh also said she finds it difficult to believe her daughter would have been missing for a year. She said her daughter would have graduated from Halifax Area High School this year.
“It will soon be a year. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it went this long. Who knows, it could go on a lot longer,” Mrs. Kroh said.
Kroh said the family is willing to provide information to police investigators. Anyone with information on the girl’s whereabouts should call Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers at 1-800-4PA-TIPS.
In mid-March, state police, acting on a tip, searched a pond in Wayne Township, Dauphin County, but did not find anything, according to Cpl. Max Seiler of state police at Lykens.
Posters with Kroh’s photograph on them have been placed throughout northern Dauphin County, and Metal Industries plastics and metals of Millersburg erected billboards on roads leading to Millersburg with Kroh’s photograph on it.
A reward totaling $6,500 is being offered for people who can provide police with information on her whereabouts. The reward includes $5,000 from the family, $1,000 form Crime Stoppers and $500 from the Halifax Education Association.
Photo caption: TRACY KROH. No clues to whereabouts.
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