On the last day of July in 1999, 17-year-old Tracie Jean Hawlett and her best friend J.B. Beasley set out from Dothan, Alabama, to celebrate Beasley's birthday at a party. The night took a wrong turn when the two teenage girls became lost. Around 11:30 p.m., Tracie called her mother from a payphone at a gas station in Ozark, explaining they had lost their way but were getting directions and heading home. That was the last time her family ever heard from her. The two girls, both Caucasian, never
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