Ashlea Hansen
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She said that there was a breakdown with Tracy's mum and her father at the time.
And also, as I said earlier, that she was known to go for long periods of time and not have contact with family members.
Also, I think there's a bit of
Was George, that's Tracy's father, was he taking care of that?
Her brother was a police officer.
We don't know if there was an assumption that he was maybe taking care of it.
Also what's been revealed is that George was suffering dementia towards the end of his life.
And so we don't know if that played into it.
Did he believe or was there this assumption that she was reported missing earlier?
I think at one stage he went to St Vincent's or to Vinnie's and reported her missing, but that wasn't officially reporting her missing to police.
I think it's also back in the 90s, unfortunately,
the cases of missing women were treated differently.
Very much so.
I saw an article in 1997 that was still saying that we don't believe it was foul play.
You know, I think that if Tracy disappeared or another woman like Tracy disappeared in those circumstances in today's society, police would act very differently.
They're trained differently to detect people.
domestic violence to also the red flags would be going off because she wasn't known to, I guess, leave her children or Sharon says that when I realised she didn't turn up to court, I assumed she's dead.
Yeah, really key events that are connected in some way to Tracey's disappearance.
The first one that you mentioned was the home invasion.
So we learned that that was...