Post by WOLVERETT on Jul 13, 2014 20:11:14 GMT -5
At approximately 10:05 p.m. on the night of Saturday, July 31, 1999, Northview High School incoming seniors J.B. Hilton Green Beasley, 17, and Tracie Jean Hawlett, 17, left their hometown of Dothan, Alabama, together in Beasley's 1993 black Mazda 929. It was Beasley's 17th birthday, and the friends were headed to a field party in J.B.'s honor in Headland, about 10 miles north of Dothan.
The girls never arrived at the party.
Just after 11:30 p.m., Beasley and Hawlett turned up in Ozark — more than 20 miles northwest of Dothan — at the Big/Little convenience store-Chevron station located at 763 East Broad Street. The store had closed for the evening at 11:00 p.m. Beasley and Hawlett encountered a woman, Marilyn Merritt, and her daughter, who had stopped to buy a soda; the girls asked for and were provided directions to U.S. Highway 231, which would take them the 20 miles southeast to Dothan. Merritt and her daughter later told police that Beasley’s car was spotless, the girls were clean and nothing seemed awry.
Using the pay phone at the far right end of the store front, Tracie Hawlett then called her mother to say they had gotten lost and wound up in Ozark but had gotten directions and were on their way home. Tracie's mother Carol Roberts stated, “Nothing was wrong in Tracie’s voice. It was ‘Mom, I love you. Be home soon.’” redditjs.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/27zb1s/the_unsolved_murders_of_jb_beasley_tracie_hawlett/
The girls never arrived at the party.
Just after 11:30 p.m., Beasley and Hawlett turned up in Ozark — more than 20 miles northwest of Dothan — at the Big/Little convenience store-Chevron station located at 763 East Broad Street. The store had closed for the evening at 11:00 p.m. Beasley and Hawlett encountered a woman, Marilyn Merritt, and her daughter, who had stopped to buy a soda; the girls asked for and were provided directions to U.S. Highway 231, which would take them the 20 miles southeast to Dothan. Merritt and her daughter later told police that Beasley’s car was spotless, the girls were clean and nothing seemed awry.
Using the pay phone at the far right end of the store front, Tracie Hawlett then called her mother to say they had gotten lost and wound up in Ozark but had gotten directions and were on their way home. Tracie's mother Carol Roberts stated, “Nothing was wrong in Tracie’s voice. It was ‘Mom, I love you. Be home soon.’” redditjs.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/27zb1s/the_unsolved_murders_of_jb_beasley_tracie_hawlett/