Family To Hold Vigil For MÖTLEY CRÜE Fan Who Vanished Two Years Ago

Lisa Beisel of Annapolis, MD's Annapolis Capital reports that the family and friends of Tracey Gardner-Tetso (photo) — a Baltimore County woman who has been missing since March 2005 when she failed to meet friends for a MÖTLEY CRÜE concert in Washington — will commemorate the second anniversary of her disappearance tomorrow (March 4) with a vigil in Pasadena.

Her mother, Cathy Gardner, said the family suspects foul play in her daughter's disappearance.

"We all know that there's foul play involved," she said.

When a boy who had been missing for four years was found alive in Missouri, the family had some glimmer of hope of finding Gardner-Tetso. But not for long.

"If she were alive, she definitely would have had contact," she said. "There's no way she would have walked away."

Tracey owned a house in Rosedale, cars, pets, had a good job and worked hard, her mother said. She wouldn't have left it all behind, her mother said.

"She just loved life. She worked hard, she liked to party, and she loved rock and roll — the louder the better," Mrs. Gardner said. "She was truly a good person inside."

Investigators have evidence the car went though Baltimore's Harbor Tunnel shortly before 8 p.m. March 6, but Mrs. Gardner said a closer look at the picture revealed Gardner-Tetso was not driving the car.

On March 17, 11 days after her disappearance, Gardner-Tetso's car was found in the parking lot of the Days Inn in the 6600 block of Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie.

The vigil will be held at the Glen Burnie Moose Lodge, where Gardner-Tetso had her wedding reception, from 2 to 4 p.m. tomorrow. At the end, 150 yellow balloons will be let go, each with a flyer for a missing person attached.

MÖTLEY CRÜE in April 2005 announced that they would match the $10,000 reward fund being offered for information on the whereabouts of Gardner-Tetso, who was reported missing by her husband. The reward is being offered by the Victims' Rights Foundation of Gaithersburg, Metro Crime Stoppers and Aggregate Industries, which employed Gardner-Tetso as a dispatcher.