In March 2005, Carol Thompson received the news that no mother should ever have to hear. The body of her 24-year-old daughter Tracey, who had been missing for a week, had been found on a piece of agricultural land just outside Benoni.
While that call ended all hope for her safe return and the life that their family had lived together, it started another journey for Carol. She would soon discover that the inadequacies she had experienced from the police and justice system during the week that her daughter was missing were not a once-off occurrence.
For the next two years, Carol Thompson fought the system and individuals within it to do their jobs and solve the murder of her daughter.
In Episode 10, True Crime South Africa explores the unsolved murder of Tracey Thompson. We meet Tracey through her mother’s descriptions of her and anecdotes from her childhood and discuss a case which will have you regularly gasping in disbelief in the injustices the Thompson family has suffered.
SHOWNOTES:
Host: Nicole Engelbrecht
Producer: Nicole Englebrecht
Music: Snippet from Prime Circle’s
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I’m so sorry for your loss Carol and family. I’m speechless and in shock at how this all unfolded. Tracy was in the same high school as me, and I have a fond memory of eating condensed milk out of a tin with her on the sports field. May her soul be at peace, sending you and your family strength.