Tracy Lynn Butler Epps, 56, was last heard from on or about March 1, 2022, while staying with her husband at a Woodspring Suites hotel in Henrico, Virginia. She is a Caucasian woman with blonde hair and green eyes, 5 feet 2 inches and about 145 pounds, and sometimes wore glasses for reading or working. Hotel staff recalled seeing her around February 28 or March 1.

On March 6, 2022, Tracy’s husband, Lester Carlton Epps, Jr., was shot and killed by police in Richmond after a confrontation in which he was armed and acting aggressively. Officers who went to the Woodspring Suites the next day to notify Tracy were unable to locate her, prompting a missing persons investigation. Investigators reported blood at the hotel and surveillance footage showing Lester Epps moving a blanket-wrapped object from a luggage cart into a car. Authorities suspect foul play and consider Lester Epps the prime suspect in her disappearance and probable homicide.

Despite extensive searches by law enforcement and search and rescue teams, Tracy’s whereabouts remain unknown and the case is an active unsolved missing person investigation. If anyone knew Tracy, her movements in late February or early March 2022, or saw anything at the Woodspring Suites or nearby during that period, please come forward with information.