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EX PARTE
IN THE ESTATE OF TRACIE LYNNE MOSLEY
117 Old Westminster Pike
Reisterstown, Maryland 21136
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY
Case No.: C001943
ORDER
Upon the verified Complaint to Establish Death, it is this 26th day of April 2000 by the Circuit Court for Baltimore county:
ORDERED that notice by publication need not be given in this matter; and it is further
ORDERED, that this Court declares TRACIE LYNNE MOSELY (sic) deceased as of April 17, 1995, pursuant to Maryland Annotated Code, Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article, Section 3-101, et seq.; and it is further
ORDERED, that the Maryland State Medical Examiner, John E. Smilek, M D., 11 Penn Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, issue an appropriate Death Certificate for TRACIE LYNNE MOSLEY, which reflects that the decedent died as a result of a homicide in Reisterstown, Maryland, and it is further
ORDERED that the decedent's Death Certificate should further indicate that:
the cause of death is homicide;
the decedents name is TRACIE LYNNE MOSLEY;
the decedent's date of death was April 17, 1995;
the decedent's time of death was 3:00 a.m.;
the decedent's social security number is 212-94-6501;
the decedent was female;
the decedent's age at her last birthday was 18 years;
the decedent's birlhdate was June 11, 1976;
the decedent's birthplace was Maryland;
the decedent's location of dead was Pittston Circle, Reisterstown, Maryland;
the decedent's residence was the State of Maryland;
the decedent's residence was Baltimore County;
the decedent's residence was Reisterstown;
the decedent's residence was 117 Old Westminster Pike;
the decedent's zip code was 21136;
the decedent was a citizen of the United States;
the decedent's marital status was single;
the decedent had never been a member of the armed forces;
the decedent was not Hispanic;
the decedent completed tenth grade of high school;
the decedent's father's name is Robert Grady Mosley;
the decedent's mother's name is Mary Patricia Peltzer;
the decedent's body was never recovered;
monkalup - June 23, 2009 05:28 PM (GMT)
Friends keep missing woman's memory alive
By Ryan Marshall, Times Staff Writer Sunday, June 21, 2009
Courtesy of marylandmissing.com
Tracie Mosley, 18, of Reisterstown, was last seen 14 years ago. “She had such a difficult life and most likely a tragic death, for which there has been no justice,” a friend, Stephanie Lurz, wrote in an e-mail. “I hate thinking about her being out there somewhere and that the person who is responsible is just living their life as if she [never] existed or mattered.”
Tracie Mosley disappeared April 16, 1995, leaving behind only a purse sitting on a Reisterstown curb.
Mosley, 18, an aspiring actress who lived in the 100 block of Westminster Pike in Reisterstown, went out with friends that night and was dropped off near the intersection of High Falcon Road and Pittston Circle to walk to a friend’s house nearby, according to a Baltimore County Police Department report. The report was filed after Mosley’s purse was found at the corner of Pittston and High Falcon, with nothing missing except for a pack of cigarettes Mosley had been smoking earlier that night.
The case of Mosley’s disappearance remains open, and investigators strongly suspect she was the victim of foul play, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.
On any given day, there are approximately 1,000 missing-person cases open in Maryland, said Carla Proudfoot, director of the Maryland State Police Missing Children Center.
In 2008, the center had 3,500 adult cases and between 12,000 and 13,000 juvenile cases reported, she said. Each day, approximately 30 new cases are opened, but more cases are generally closed than opened, Proudfoot said.
Mosley was intensely charismatic, said Suzanne Porter, who said Mosley was her best friend from the time they met in eighth grade. She was very passionate about creativity and self-expression.
“She owned a room whenever she walked into it,” Porter said.
Porter said she last saw Mosley while on spring break from her college in Indiana in March 1995, but spoke to her on the phone two days before she disappeared.
They talked about their plans for the summer, about possibly spending it at the beach, Porter said. She’d arranged to take a leave of absence from school to help Mosley get her GED. Mosley had dropped out of Westminster High School to pursue her acting career, Porter said.
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Those plans are some of the reasons why Porter doesn’t think Mosley would have just taken off without telling anyone, as some of her friends hypothesized to police after her disappearance.
Another reason was Mosley’s close relationship with her grandmother, Emma Peltzer, whom she was living with when she disappeared.
Porter told a story of Mosley coming to visit her in Indiana, only to cut her visit short when she found out that her grandmother had become ill with bronchitis.
“I know that she’s gone,” Porter said. “She wouldn’t leave her grandmother. She wouldn’t leave me.”
It was Peltzer who called Porter after Mosley disappeared, hoping she’d made an impromptu trip to Indiana to visit her friend.
Porter was crushed when she heard the news of her friend’s disappearance.
“I just felt the whole world fall down.”
For the past five years, Stephanie Lurz has worked to keep her friend’s memory alive, even as she’s come to the conclusion that Mosley was likely abducted on that spring night and killed shortly thereafter.
Lurz met Mosley in the summer of 1992 while they were teenagers doing summer stock theater in Baltimore. Mosley was a talented actress with a knack for comedy, she said. The two became friends but went to different high schools and eventually lost touch.
Lurz said she first learned of Mosley’s disappearance from a missing person poster at a mall near her home. At college, she met people who’d gone to high school with Mosley and asked if they’d heard anything. They said they thought she’d come back and everything was fine, Lurz said.
It wasn’t until five years ago that Lurz was looking on the Web site of an organization that helps police locate missing people that she learned Mosley hadn’t made it home safely.
The site that helped Lurz rediscover her friend’s case was for the Doe Network, an international organization whose members work with police to help solve cases like Mosley’s.
The group’s volunteer members research cases of missing people and unidentified remains and try to find a match, said Kylen Johnson, the area director for the Maryland Doe Network.
Since the network was founded in 2000, its members have provided tips that helped solve 47 cases, including seven in Maryland, Johnson said.
The discovery of skeletal remains near Westminster in March briefly raised the question that they might be Mosley’s, Johnson said, but forensic analysis of the bones has made that unlikely.
Mosley was tall at 5 feet 10 inches, while investigators have determined the bones discovered are of a woman about 5 feet tall and several years older than Mosley.
Each time a discovery is made, family members of a missing person get their hopes up, only to often have them dashed, Johnson said.
It’s difficult for friends and loved ones of missing people to find a balance between keeping the person’s memory alive and trying to move on with their lives, Lurz said.
It’s difficult to accept that the person might be gone because no matter how unlikely the odds may be, part of you wants them to be alive, she said.
When Lurz learned Mosley was still missing, she wanted to find out what happened. She obtained the report from Baltimore County police and was able to track down two of Mosley’s other friends. She also tracked down Emma Peltzer, who has since passed away.
Lurz said memories of her own attempted abduction at the age of 14 helped feed her passion for the case.
Once she got further into the case, Lurz said she realized there really wasn’t anyone to act as an advocate for Mosley.
The memory of Mosley’s talent and personality has stayed with her through the more than 14 years since that night in 1995.
“She had such a difficult life and most likely a tragic death, for which there has been no justice,” Lurz wrote in an e-mail. “I hate thinking about her being out there somewhere and that the person who is responsible is just living their life as if she [never] existed or mattered.”
Despite accepting the likelihood that Mosley is dead, Lurz said she can still hear the sound of her friend’s voice in her head. She still looks at the face of every woman who walks by with long brown hair, hoping to miraculously see Mosley’s face.
Porter said she’d comforted by the memory of their last phone call, two days before Mosley disappeared.
At the end of the call, Porter told Mosley that she loved her. And she said she’ll always treasure her friend’s simple last words to her.
“I love you, too.”
Reach staff writer Ryan Marshall at 410-857-7865 or
ryan.marshall@carrollcountytimes.com.
Tips
Anyone with information about Tracie Mosley’s disappearance should contact the Baltimore County Police Department Homicide Unit’s Unsolved Case Squad at 410-887-3943 or the Communication Unit at 410-307-2020. Callers may remain anonymous and can also contact Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-7-LOCKUP to be eligible for a reward of up to $2,500.
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