Tracy Byrd

Fourteen-year-old Tracy Byrd was dropped off at Bensalem High School in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania on the morning of March 7, 1983 by her mother, Jean's live-in boyfriend, Paul W. Greenwald. She was a ninth-grader at the time.

Tracy was suspended from school and wasn't allowed to attend classes again until her mother met with the principal, but she had kept this a secret from her family.

After she was dropped off at the school, Tracy attempted to get her friends to skip school with her but they wouldn't. She disappeared afterwards and has never been heard from again. She was initially considered to be a runaway.

There were several possible sightings of Tracy in the local area after she vanished, but none of them were substantiated and police believe they may have been of a girl who only resembled her.

She had run away from home on one previous occasion after an argument with her mother, but she was only gone for one night.

Prior to her disappearance, Tracy told a friend that she might be pregnant. Authorities don't know if she was in fact pregnant or who the father of the baby could be, although Tracy's friend stated that she had dated two boys at the time of her disappearance.

Tracy's mother, Jean disappeared seven months after Tracy was last seen. Jean's body was located on October 18, 1983 in Blackbird State Forest in New Castle County, Delaware. She had been strangled.

Jean had last been seen 11 days prior in her son's apartment complex in Bensalem Township. She had stopped seeing Greenwald before her disappearance. They had had a troubled relationship; once, in 1980, Greenwald kidnapped her at knifepoint.

In November 1984, Greenwald was charged with first-degree murder in Jean's death. He admitted to the killing and pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Greenwald committed suicide in his prison cell before he was sentenced in March 1986 by overdosing on some medication. He was never connected with Tracy's disappearance, and it is not known if he was involved.

The runaway theory is now considered an unlikely explanation for Tracy's disappearance; she was close to her mother and her loved ones believe that she would have returned home for Jean's funeral if she had been able to.

Greenwald was long considered a suspect in Tracy's disappearance, but investigators no longer believe that he was involved. Police have another suspect, a Bucks County, Pennsylvania man, but he has not been publicly named.

As of 2019, Tracy's case remains unsolved and foul play is suspected in it.

Description
Tracy is described as a Caucasian female with blonde hair, blue eyes & pierced ears. She is between 5'0 and 5'4, and weighs between 70 to 105 pounds. She was last seen wearing a shirt & jeans.

Tracy may have been pregnant at the time of her disappearance, but this has not been confirmed.