Mar 10, 2009 11:30 pm US/Eastern
Tracey Gardner-Tetso Search Continues Years Later
ROSEDALE, Md. (WJZ) ―
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Tracey Gardner-Tetso disappeared four years ago.
Missing without a trace. Is the disappearance of a Baltimore County woman also a murder?
Denise Koch reports why loved ones are fearing the worst.
It's been a full four years since Tracey Gardner-Tetso simply disappeared.
"I've gone up to people who looked like Tracey, gone up and just grabbed them," said Tracey's mother, Cathy Gardner.
She and her friends hold out hope something, anything, will jog a memory and prompt someone to come forward.
"Somebody knows something," Gardner said.
Is it another look at Tracey's smile, the distinctive tattoo on her back or the surveillance video of Tracey's car?
On March 6, 2005, Tracey disappeared from her Rosedale home. She had just married Dennis Tetso five months earlier.
Cathy says it was an unhappy marriage and he was in the process of moving out. The day she disappeared, Tracey was supposed to meet friends at a Motley Crue concert in Washington, D.C. She never showed.
"The last time her phone was used was at 3:05," Gardner said.
Around 8 that night, security cameras caught Tracey's Pontiac Trans Am driving south through the Harbor Tunnel, an hour after the concert started.
Minutes later, Tracey's car pulled into a Glen Burnie parking lot. Surveillance video shows the car parking behind the Krispy Kreme on Ritchie Highway. FBI analysts say the driver was a man.
Police haven't had any new leads in more than a year.
"She may well have died from foul play or other means. At this time, though, it's still a missing persons investigation," said Cpl. Mike Hill, Baltimore County Police spokesperson.
Desperate to give Tracey a proper burial, loved ones continue to search for her remains.
"I want to find her, but praying the whole time, `God, please don't let me be the one to do it,'" Gardner said.
Each year, around the anniversary of her disappearance, a vigil is held near Tracey's home in her memory.
Tracey is one of dozens of missing persons in Maryland alone. Those who know her are confident Tracey is dead.
"I truly believe there's only two people who can give us the answer we need and that is the heavenly Father above and the last person to see her that day," Gardner said.
We attempted to contact Dennis Tetso for our story, but were unable to reach him.
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