and strap him to it. then it s just a matter of pulling the hand truck around. investigators believe tracey knew david was planning to leave her, and she wanted to keep the house that was still in her name. late thursday night, as he slept, she shot him with an unregistered handgun friends said he kept in the house. she wrapped the body in blankets from the bed. the next day, friday, she drove david s car to the rental agency where she rented a moving van. she waited until nightfall and used a hand truck to get david s body into the van. then, she drove 14 miles to the isolated parking lot, where she tried to dispose of the body in a large drain, but it was too big.
it wouldn t fit. she panicked and left, leaving the tire impressions. worried that she d have to explain why the moving van was parked at her house for an extended period, she parked it at the supermarket and walked home with her dog. on sunday night, she returned to the supermarket, bought trash bags and muriatic acid and identified herself by using her discount card to save 34 cents. that night, she cleaned the truck, doused david s body with gasoline, set it on fire, then exchanged vehicles again and returned home. once in custody, tracey was found to have linear bruises on her thighs at exactly the height the hand truck would have hit
truck, but the tire impressions were potential evidence. my job was to see if there was any relation between the tires that were photographed of the moving vehicle and what was left at the scene. i was able to document that six different tires that had two different types of tire tread impressions, two different sets of class characteristics, were represented very neatly on the scene. this meant it was virtually certain tracey s moving van left these tire tracks. but one question remained. how does a woman tracey s size move a guy that large? the answer? a hand truck came with the moving vehicle. she merely has to place the hand truck on the bed beside him and roll him over on top of it
the tire impressions. worried that she d have to explain why the moving van was parked at her house for an extended period, she parked it at the supermarket and walked home with her dog. on sunday night, she returned to the supermarket, bought trash bags and muriatic acid and identified herself by using her discount card to save 34 cents. that night, she cleaned the truck, doused david s body with gasoline, set it on fire, then exchanged vehicles again and returned home. once in custody, tracey was found to have linear bruises on her thighs at exactly the height the hand truck would have hit her body.
my job was to see if there was any relation between the tires that were photographed of the moving vehicle and what was left at the scene. i was able to document that six different tires that had two different types of tire tread impressions, two different sets of class characteristics, were represented very neatly on the scene. this meant it was virtually certain tracey s moving van left these tire tracks. but one question remained. how does a woman tracey s size move a guy that large? the answer? a hand truck came with the moving vehicle. she merely has to place the hand truck on the bed beside him and roll him over on top of it and strap him to it. then it s just a matter of pulling the hand truck around.