Ashlea Hansen
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And we discussed as to what I might be able to do to put her case back in the spotlight.
It's a shocking case, but there are just so many twists and turns as to what has happened over the past 33 years.
And it still shocks me that nobody has been charged in connection with her murder.
Tracey was described by her sister as fearless, always excitable, always up for fun.
And she was from what Sharon describes as a dysfunctional family.
So she was raised in Sydney's west, but there was โ
issues within the family, a breakdown in marriages and partnerships.
And by the time Tracy was 16, she'd started a relationship with her first serious relationship and she soon became pregnant.
So by the time she was 17, she had a young baby.
And by the time she was 20, she was a mother of two.
very vulnerable.
There's a photo of her that I saw and I just, she's in the hospital and I looked at it and thought she just looks so overwhelmed.
And just being such a young mum without a lot of family support, I think would have been very difficult for her.
I think she had some
it's fair to say she had a troubled life.
She'd fallen in with with spikies.
She'd gone from one bad relationship to another.
She found herself in this situation where after the birth of her second child, she decided to put that child up for adoption.
And I think that's a reflection of her situation.
She didn't have the capacity to take care of this second child.