Episode Summary
Two 17-year old girls set off one summer night in 1999 for a high school field party, excited to mark the end of summer with friends. But when they never make it to the party…or back home…the search is on.
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Episode Info
17-year-olds Tracie Hawlett (left) and JB Beasley (right).
Dothan, Alabama.
Ozark, Alabama.
Ozark Police Chief Tony Spivey.
28-year-old Johnny Barrentine.
19-year-old Paul Evans Jr.
45-year-old Coley McCraney.
Episode Source Material
- YouTube: WTVY News4: JB and Tracie: The Teen Murders.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): Ozark authorities look for link in double murders of teens via Newspapers.com.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): Murder trial begins after two-hour delay by Michelle Mann.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): Slayings of teens rock Wiregrass community by Alvin Benn via Newspapers.com.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): Autopsy shows girls wet from waist down by Alvin Benn via Newspapers.com.
- WTVY (Dothan, AL): Here’s what’s happening at the McCraney trial by Cassidy Lee.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): Family mourns slain teens by Lance Griffin via Newspapers.com.
- WDHN (Dothan, AL): Investigator who found murdered teens recounts fateful day, jury shown disturbing crime scene photos by Richard Everett and Aaron Dixon.
- WDHN (Dothan, AL): Updates: Witness testimonies continue in McCraney Murder Trial by Richard Everett and Aaron Dixon.
- The Selma Times-Journal (Selma, AL): Two missing teens found dead in car trunk via Newspapers.com.
- WTVY (Dothan, AL): Officer testimony differs in McCraney murder trial by Ken Curtis.
- ATF: Fact Sheet – National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN).
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): Wife of Coley McCraney in 1994 claimed he assaulted and confined her.
- Court Reporter’s Index of Trial Exhibits
- WDHN (Dothan, AL): NEW INFORMATION: WDHN breaks down autopsy reports in Beasley-Hawlett case by Nathaniel Rodriguez and Sarah Drake.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): No one saw girls at party via Newspapers.com.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): Suspect arrested in slaying of teens via Newspapers.com.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): Grand jury gets double-killing case via Newspapers.com.
- The News-Courier (Athens, AL): Suspect takes stand to deny involvement via NewspaperArchive.com.
- Birmingham Post-Herald (Birmingham, AL): Man charged in deaths of girls via Newspapers.com.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): DNA on clothing isn’t suspect’s by Ashley Estes via Newspapers.com.
- The Anniston Star (Anniston, AL): Suspect’s DNA doesn’t match that found on victim’s clothing by Ashley Estes via Newspapers.com.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): Timeline: Significant dates in murder cases of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): New investigators to study slayings via Newspapers.com.
- Birmingham Post-Herald (Birmingham, AL): Police await evidence in Dothan slayings via Newspapers.com.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): Police question man in slaying of teens via Newspapers.com.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): Slayings unrelated, police say via Newspapers.com.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): Unsolved slayings featured on TV show via Newspapers.com.
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): Link to Ozark slayings possible by Alvin Benn via Newspapers.com.
- The Anniston Star (Ozark, AL): A year after teens’ murders, police, families not giving up via Newspapers.com.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): 18 years later, questions still unanswered in Beasley, Hawlett murders by Michele W. Forehand.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): Court hears final motions before murder trial starts Monday by Michelle Mann.
- ABCNews WDHN (Ozark, Alabama): Ozark City Council votes for Police Chief Marlos Walker’s resignation, by Cody Giles.
- ABC News (New York, NY): DNA links suspect to 1999 cold case murders of 2 Alabama teenage girls, police say by Julia Jacobo and Benjamin Stein.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): New crime solving technique may have led to arrest in 1999 murder case of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett by Lance Griffin.
- WDHN (Dothan, AL): NEW INFORMATION: WDHN breaks down autopsy reports in Beasley-Hawlett case by Nathaniel Rodriguez and Sarah Drake.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): Ozark Police Chief: ‘DNA doesn’t lie’ in arrest of Coley McCraney by Michele Forehand.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): McCraney’s wife takes the stand, former OPD Chief tells what led to McCraney’s arrest by Michelle Mann.
- WDHN (Dothan, AL): UPDATE: Man charged with rape, murder in Beasley-Hawlett case by Nathaniel Rodriguez and Ben Stanfield.
- WSFA (Montgomery, AL): Murder case of Dothan teens bound over to grand jury.
- WDHN (Dothan, AL): Updates: Witness testimonies continue in McCraney Murder Trial by Richard Everett and Aaron Dixon.
- WDHN (Dothan, AL): BREAKING: McCraney pleads not guilty to Beasley-Hawlett murders by Sarah Drake.
- CBS 42 / WIAT (Birmingham, AL): Man indicted on 5 capital charges in slayings.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): Hearing continued; McCraney says he’s ready for trial by Michele Forehand.
- WDHN (Dothan, AL): McCraney trial one step closer as the final motions hearing ends by Aaron Dixon.
- WDHN (Dothan, AL): WATCH: McCraney murder trial pushed to next year by Aaron Dixon and Devin Dudley.
- WSFA (Montgomery, AL): Coley McCraney demands life be spared without unanimous jury vote by Ken Curtis.
- WDHN (Dothan, AL): Dale Co. judge rules on proposed motions ahead of Coley McCraney’s capital murder trial by Aaron Dixon.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): McCraney double-murder trial in notorious cold case set for Monday by Michelle Mann.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): McCraney takes the witness stand by Michelle Mann.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): Coley McCraney, charged in deaths of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett, stayed in Ozark, Dothan since slayings by Lance Griffin.
- Alabama Attorney General (Montgomery, AL): Convicted Capital Murderer Coley McCraney Sentenced in 1999 Murders of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett.
- WSFA (Montgomery, AL): Decades later, Coley McCraney found guilty in Beasley, Hawlett murders.
- The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, AL): McCraney sentenced to life without parole by Michelle Mann.