(From the Joplin Police Department)The Joplin Police Department is seeking public assistance related to the missing persons case of Tracy A. Pickett. Tracy was reported missing August 12, 1992.
Over the past 34 years, investigators have followed numerous leads and tips to try and solve this case. As yet another anniversary of the disappearance has arrived, we strongly encourage anyone in the community who has any information to come forward.
Tracy Pickett was just 14 years old when she disappeared. She is a white female with blonde hair and green eyes. At the time of her disappearance, she was 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed 115 pounds.
On August 11, 1992, Tracy Pickett spent the night at a friend's residence in Webb City, Missouri. The morning of August 12, 1992, another guest offered to take her to her home in Joplin. The subject claimed he dropped Tracy off safely near a pawnshop in Joplin. Tracy has never been seen or heard from again. It is strongly believed Tracy disappeared involuntarily.
Attached is a picture of Pickett and the latest age progression photograph of what she may look like today.
Tracy’s family has spent the last 34 years searching for answers. If you can help, please contact Captain William Davis at 417-623-3131, ext. 1446.
6 comments:
Somebody knows - None of it makes any sense - dropped her off by a Pawn Shop - BS 💩. Either something happened at the Sleepover / Party or on the Ride Home - but someone knows - of course we have the Barney Fife Joplin Police Department who can't find themselves in the dark!
Details of Disappearance - From the Charley Project for Tracy A. Pickett.
https://charleyproject.org/case/tracy-a-pickett
There was a party at the residence that night. According to witnesses, one of the guests, a man named Al, kept staring at Tracy all night and even asked her if she was wearing panties.
Eventually he offered to give her a ride home to Joplin so she could change her clothes. He was supposed to return her to her friend's apartment afterwards. He drove a black van with two sunroofs, louvered side windows and Oklahoma license plates, and witnesses stated there was a gun inside it.
Here is a Facebook Post from Anna Garner:
Anna Garner
He never dropped her off at any pawn shop. I saw Tracy at Dillons the next day. She was no stranger to me. Her and I were best friends in the 2nd grade. I knew her and knew her face well. We may not have been friends any more but I would never mistake another girl for her (as suggested by law enforcement). We also lived close enough to each other at the time of her disappearance that if it weren't for the house directly in front of mine, I could see her house one street over.
My grandmother lived next door to Dillons. She would often send me with a list to the store as she did the day I saw Tracy. She was near the check out isles and she had been crying. Her eyes were red and puffy and she looked upset. A man was guiding her out of the store. I didnt recognize him. Her eyes locked onto mine for just a sec and something told me to follow them from a distance. He put her in the back of a black van from the 70's or 80's.
At the time I didnt know ow she was missing. I went back home that evening and went to visit friends that lived a couple of houses from Tracy on the same street. Their mom told me she was missing. I told her what I seen and she called the police. They came and took my statement. It was never taken seriously and no one ever came back to follow up with me. I think of Tracy often and wish that I had known she was in trouble and made a scene at the store that day. She would probably still be with her family today. I hear the man in the black van remained a suspect but died before they could tie him to her disappearance.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. LOWELL ANDREW BILLY (2017)
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. LOWELL ANDREW BILLY, Defendant - Appellant.
3. In addition to his prior convictions for rape, kidnapping and forcible sodomy, Billy is considered a “central figure” in the 1992 disappearance of a fourteen-year-old girl in Joplin, Missouri. The PSR recounts the details of that still-open case:On August 12, 1992, a fourteen year old girl, Tracey Pickett, disappeared. The defendant and Tracy [sic] were present at an all night party in Joplin, Missouri. The following morning, the defendant, Lowell Billy, offered to give Pickett a ride home in order to pick up a bathing suit, and then return to a friend's apartment. A few hours passed without their return and Pickett's mother was notified. She in turn notified the police. An investigation was conducted which revealed that the defendant was the last person to be with Pickett. She has neither been seen or heard from since that day. Police suspect she is deceased. As of September 4, 2009, the case is still open and Pickett has not been found. According to detectives from Joplin, the defendant is still a central figure, but not a suspect, in the August 12, 1992, disappearance of Tracey Pickett.ROA, Vol. 3 at 12.
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-10th-circuit/1877108.html
https://sexoffenderregistry.ar.gov/public/#/name
If you search for a registered sex offender named Lowell Billy here-
https://sexoffenderregistry.ar.gov/public/#/name
You will find him.
"The Missing Case of Juvenile Tracy Pickett
Tracy Pickett -
She went missing from Joplin on 08/12/1992 at the age of 14.
She has a tattoo on her left breast and a scar on her bottom lip.
At the time of her disappearance, she was known to have accepted a ride from a white male in a black van.
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In 2005, investigators drained a local mining pit, hoping to uncover evidence.
In 2018, the Joplin Police Department searched several ponds linked to the other man who was at the sleepover — Ernest “Michael” Hensley, who has since passed away.
As police later learned, the girlfriend's roommate had a boyfriend, Ernest "Michael" Hensley, who showed up there that night in the company of a guy named "Al" and an impromptu party developed.
The girlfriend told police that "Al" could not take his eyes off Tracy at the party and he even had the nerve to ask her if she was wearing panties.
What Tracy most likely was never told was that "Al" was an ex-convict named Lowell Billy who served prison time with Hensley in Oklahoma.
The next morning, police were told by those present, Tracy wanted to go home and accepted a ride from Billy in his van.
When confronted by investigators about what had happened to her, Billy claimed that he dropped her off at a pawnshop in downtown Joplin.
But police have never been able to confirm that claim or come up with anyone who saw Tracy alive after she left the Webb City address.
But an investigator with Joplin police told Blaser years ago that neighbors of the girlfriend saw a girl running down the alley and screaming.
Lowell Andrew Billy is a convicted sex offender who was named as the prime suspect in the 1992 disappearance and probable murder of 14-year-old Tracy Pickett in Joplin, Missouri.
He remains a primary person of interest in the ongoing cold case, though he has never been formally charged.
Lowell Andrew Billy was charged and convicted of severe crimes, including first-degree rape, kidnapping, and forcible sodomy in Oklahoma, as well as federal charges for failing to register as a sex offender.
However, he has never been charged in connection to the 1992 disappearance of 14-year-old Tracy Pickett
Lowell Andrew Billy back story on him.
His Oklahoma Crimes include in 1997.
Billy was charged and subsequently convicted in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, for first-degree rape, kidnapping, and forcible sodomy, for which he served time in prison.
He was Federally Convicted in 2009, He was charged federally and pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas for failing to update his sex offender registration.
If you know anything about this case please call the Joplin Police department.
Their number is (417) 623-3131
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"Over the past 30 years, investigators have followed up on numerous leads and tips to try and solve this case," police said in a news release from Sgt. Jason Stump. "As another anniversary of the disappearance approaches, we strongly encourage anyone in the community who has any information to come forward."
On Aug. 11, 1992, Pickett spent the night at a friend's house in Webb City and was reported missing on Aug. 12. The friend, who was a couple of years older than Pickett, had a party during which her roommate's boyfriend, Ernest "Michael" Hensley, showed up with a guy named "Al," whom police later identified as ex-convict Lowell Billy.
Billy and Hensley had served in prison together in Oklahoma. Hensley has since died. Joplin police Sgt. Luke Stahl told the Globe on Friday that because it's still an active investigation, he couldn't comment on whether Billy remains a primary suspect in the case.
"We're exploring all leads at this time, and while we do have a suspect pool, I don't know that the Joplin Police Department can release that," Stahl said.
Police were told that Pickett wanted to go home the next morning and accepted a ride from Billy in his van. Billy claimed that he dropped Tracy off safely near a pawnshop in downtown Joplin, but she has never been heard from again. It is believed she disappeared involuntarily, and Joplin police have never recovered a body."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tracy-picketts-disappearance-still-under-223700932.html
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