On the morning of March 7, 1983, 14-year-old Tracy Ann Byrd was dropped off at Bensalem High School in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, by her mother’s boyfriend, Paul Greenwald. Tracy, a ninth-grader with strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes, was wearing a shirt and jeans. Although suspended that day and not allowed to attend classes until her mother met with the principal, she left the school grounds after Greenwald departed and was never seen again. Early on the case was treated as a runaway; Tracy had run away once for a single night after an argument, and there were several unconfirmed local sightings later dismissed by police as cases of mistaken identity. Before her disappearance she had told a friend she might be pregnant, a detail that was never confirmed.

Seven months after Tracy vanished, her mother Jean Louise Byrd disappeared in October 1983 and was found strangled in a shallow grave on October 18 in Blackbird State Forest, Delaware. Investigation into Jean’s death focused on Paul Greenwald, who had a prior violent episode in 1980 and who later admitted killing Jean but denied any role in Tracy’s disappearance; he died by suicide in custody in March 1986 before sentencing.

Does anyone remember Tracy, her circle of friends, or seeing her in Bensalem or nearby around March 7, 1983?