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Justice For Tracy Gilpin

2023/3/14
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主持著名true crime播客《Crime Junkie》的播音员和创始人。
特蕾西的姐姐凯莉
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播音员:本集讲述了1986年特蕾西·吉尔平被谋杀案的始末,从她失踪到凶手迈克尔·汉德被捕,以及后续的审判过程。案件中充满了疑点和转折,警方调查历经坎坷,最终依靠一个匿名线人和迈克尔·汉德自己矛盾的证词才得以侦破。但即使凶手被捕,真相的追寻依然在继续。 特蕾西的姐姐凯莉:凯莉在姐姐被杀后投身警务工作,这体现了她对正义的追求和对姐姐的思念。她一直致力于寻找真相,并为其他受害者家庭争取正义。 迈克尔·汉德的邻居:邻居们对迈克尔·汉德的评价褒贬不一,有人认为他古怪孤僻,也有人认为他乐于助人。这些评价反映了迈克尔·汉德复杂的人格和社会关系。 普利茅斯县地区检察官:检察官在案件审理过程中积极收集证据,并努力为受害者争取正义。他们面临着诸多挑战,包括证词的可信度、DNA证据的分析以及案件的复杂性。 特蕾西的母亲:特蕾西的母亲在女儿被杀后一直生活在巨大的痛苦之中,她对警方的最初处理方式表示不满,并始终坚持寻找真相。 播音员:本案的调查过程曲折复杂,充满了各种猜测和疑点。从最初的失踪案到最终的凶手被捕,警方经历了漫长的调查过程,期间也出现过一些错误和疏忽。但最终,真相还是浮出了水面,这体现了正义的执着追求。 特蕾西的姐姐凯莉:凯莉的经历体现了个人在面对悲剧时的坚韧和力量。她将个人的悲痛转化为对社会正义的追求,并为其他受害者家庭带来了希望。 迈克尔·汉德的邻居:邻居们的证词为我们了解迈克尔·汉德的性格和生活提供了宝贵的线索。这些线索有助于我们更好地理解案件的背景和动机。 普利茅斯县地区检察官:检察官的职责是维护法律的尊严和社会正义。他们在案件中面临着巨大的压力,但他们始终坚持原则,努力为受害者争取正义。 特蕾西的母亲:特蕾西母亲的坚持和不懈努力,体现了母爱的伟大,也推动了案件的侦破和审判。

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Tracy Gilpin, a 15-year-old from Kingston, Massachusetts, goes missing after leaving a party to buy cigarettes. Her troubled past and the last moments before her disappearance are detailed.

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1986 - Kingston, Massachussetts.

On a brisk night in October of 1986, 15-year-old Tracy Gilpin left a friend’s house party in Rocky Nook to buy a pack of cigarettes at the Cumberland Farms gas station. When she left the parking lot around 11:30pm, it was the last time she would be seen alive.

Three weeks later, Tracy’s body was found 11 miles away in Myles Standish State Forest. She’d been crushed by a 73 lb boulder.

For years, the Gilpin’s fought to keep Tracy in the public eye. Her sister, Kerry Gilpin, inspired to help make a difference for other families, even became a state trooper (and eventually the superintendent) for the Massachusetts State Police. 

As years went on and other cases were solved, they always wondered when their day for justice would come… and 32 years later, in 2018, it did; when police arrested 61-year-old Michael Arthur Hand in North Carolina.

This is the murder of Tracy “Ashtray” Gilpin and what we know in the case against Michael Hand, which will most likely be heading to trial sometime this year.

Though an arrest has been made, the work is still not done. If you have any information on the murder of Tracy Gilpin, now is the time to come forward. Please contact the Massachusetts State Police investigators at (508) 894-2584 with any information.

Detailed sources and photos can be found on murdershetold.com)

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