Generally, the ride took about 10 minutes. On October 20th in 1988, Tracy left her home around 4:00pm to go to the restaurant for her shift. To get to her job, Tracy would ride her motorcycle on a trail that went across the highway and to her place of work. She had a job about a mile from her house at a restaurant in Taylor Towne, an area off the highway just south of Shelton with a gas station, a restaurant and not much else. Tracy West was a 17-year-old senior in high school living in Shelton. In the 80’s, the population of the town was nearly 8,000 and it’s the type of small, rural town where everyone knows everyone. Shelton is a small logging town about 15 miles from Olympia. The scene of this crime, to give you some backstory, is Shelton, Washington in October of 1988.
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