She NEVER Made It to the Show… So Mötley Crüe Went Looking
The story of the Motley Crue fan who went missing in 2005 ahead of one of their shows in Washington D.C.
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n March 2005, Tracey Gardner-Tetso, a 33-year-old Mötley Crüe fan from Rosedale, Maryland, was getting ready to see her favorite band. A friend had bought her tickets for her birthday to see the Crüe at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., during their Red, White & Crüe reunion tour. He was waiting for her at the show. She never made it.
Her phone went straight to voicemail. She didn’t show up for work the next morning. The people who knew her said she would never miss a Mötley Crüe concert, and they couldn’t figure out where she’d gone. Eleven days later, her black Pontiac Trans Am turned up in a motel parking lot in Glen Burnie, Maryland. It was locked, undamaged and empty. Police had almost nothing to go on, and the case was going cold fast.
Then the band found out.
Seven weeks after Tracey disappeared, Nikki Sixx got an email about a fan who had vanished on her way to their show. Mötley Crüe, better known for wrecking hotel rooms than helping solve mysteries, decided to do something. They doubled the reward with their own money, paid to send her photo out across the country and went on America’s Most Wanted to ask for help. Nikki also promised to hold two front-row tickets in her name at will call, hoping she’d show up to claim them.
What followed took more than five years. It involved a grainy security video, a single car remote, a husband whose story kept changing and a rare courtroom fight without the one piece of evidence everyone expected to see. This is the story of the missing Mötley Crüe fan, the band that tried to bring her home and the people who are still searching for her twenty years later.
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@zwood1838
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Nice video dude…… this is why I love your channel, I don’t really care about Motley Crue, but I like hearing interesting stories from music history, that one was perfect, you got so into the true crime story I totally forgot for a minute that it was originally about Motley Crue, nice job!!
You make topics I generally wouldn’t care as much about but the way you do your videos makes them interesting, keep up the good work
@bryanm9880
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
This was well-done . Really enjoyed it!!!
@yvettevitacaponigro
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Thank you for sharing this sad story. Thank you Motley Crue for supporting this fan! 🕊️🎃
@bobbyadamo152
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
The band did the right thing, but does anyone trust any level of government anymore ? From local traffic court to the supreme courts, anyone ? Maybe his life was destroyed cause he was the easiest target.
And , who is emotional about an ex wife who passed a decade earlier. Sad yes but think deeper thank the monkey brain we all have
@ItsFactor
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Just discovered this channel, great video. Keep it up!
@houseofsolomon2440
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
That was a class move.
Good on Motley Crue!
@rkbartlettservices
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
I absolutely CAN NOT stand Motley Crue, but I liked this. Good for them.
Very sad for the family, they need closure
@blackbarnz
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
RIP Tracy. Good on the Crüe.
@JasonBoneman
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
He can't tell them because he don't know where she is. I bet you anything he killed her and dumped her in the river expecting that she would be found so he could collect the insurance. When she wasn't found he knew telling them wouldn't help them find her or help his case so he kept his mouth shut.
@jason4275
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Vince Neal live sounds like he created a new english unknown language.
@davidmyers3745
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
THE CRUE RULES, YES THEY RAISE HELL, YES THEY PARTY, YES THEY'RE WOMANIZERS, BUT THIS JUST GOES TO SHOW THE PRETTY DAMN GOOD DUDES TOO
@dewman5312
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
That’s crazy serving ten years because someone disappeared. How is there a crime with no crime scene, no body? How could there be any evidence? Am I missing something?
@MrJest2
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
At the end of the day, "big rock stars" are just human beings too – and most of them are genuinely good and nice people. I've had several "personal interactions" with some of these "big stars", and they have been universally positive.
@Gerryk-r2q
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
What useless worthless system, it does not serve the public at all, he got away with what he did, may god dam him for real!!!
@FUYT69_421
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Stove, you good Stove.
@42ButIStillDontknowWhy
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Jings, this was a rough one. Very moving, thanks for bringing this story to a wider audience. RIP.
@DRI-57
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Great story, thank you as always for interesting content.F Dennis Testo
@NewEraCommitted
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Creepy story for Halloween.
@PatrickCoholan-u5p
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Motley Crue are champs. I'm glad they played the show back then under such difficult circumstances.
@t.c.8697
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Good video, thanks!
@roysmith3350
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Am I the only one who believes he should have done life without parole for not helping authorities locate her body
@richardharvey216
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Wow that is so sad. Has tickets to her favorite bands. And couldn't get them. So Sad
@aovermont
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Cool 😎. How have i never seen this? Thx for making this
@mirthenary
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
So no Helloween video today?😟
@KattMurr
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Washington D.C. not the state of Washington….
@macewbee
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Wow, good for them for helping the family.
@aaronguest6205
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
I've been a crue fan since I first saw them on MTV when I was just a boy and probably the best concert I've ever had the pleasure of seeing , DR Feel Good and then my youngest son took me to the stadium a couple years ago and we sat through a frog strangler of a storm and we left when Def Leppard started playing their 2nd song. Both shows were awesome but the one in the 80s was the reason they're going down in the history books. Thank you for bringing back some good memories
@Kat-tr2ig
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
What a cool thing for Motley Crue to do. Good on them.
(Whenever a woman "disappears" or is murdered, It's almost always the intimate partner- husband, boyfriend, or ex. The stats don't lie.)
@nevermindgamig
November 1, 2026 at 11:34 am
Damn