STORY BY DUANE GOOD • DESIGN BY MANDI TRAWITZ
It was a routine errand – bring her sister a cookout grill, with some coupons thrown in on the side.
Nothing that would raise any red flags. Tracy Marie Kroh completed that errand, dropping the items off on the porch at the residence of her older sister, who wasn’t home that early Saturday evening, Aug. 5, 1989.
What happened to her after that remains almost completely unknown, now going on three decades later.
Possibly the petite 17 year old was in the Millersburg square later that Saturday.
For certain, her car was found there, locked and in a legal parking spot, the day after she had left her Enterline home on the errand.
A week from today, Kroh will have been legally missing for 30 years. And in that 30 years, it’s the belief of police, prosecutors and her family members, that in all likelihood she is no longer alive. That has not slowed down the ongoing efforts of authorities to definitively find out how and why she met her apparent demise and to bring to justice those responsible for causing it.
In the wake of two recent local property searches (May and July of this year), investigators remain as cautious as ever about what they disclose about the case. They do say, however, that they are ‘‘making progress’’ toward a resolution.
Until that resolution happens, Kroh’s image, a smiling 17 year-old in her senior photograph, remains permanently frozen in time.
It is an image by which her friends and family and other acquaintances always will remember her.
And it is the image used on a variety of posters, signs and billboards – including one billboard which posed a question that still remains unanswered: Do you know what happened to me?
A Puzzle with Missing Pieces
The Kroh investigation – now officially considered a homicide SEE KROH • PAGE A8
Tip Line: 717-645-3275
A number was established earlier this year that accepts both calls and texts about information that may be relevant to the Kroh investigation. Calls or texts to the tip line can be made anonymously.