Our former home is now a crime scene
Yesterday, we went down to the Haw River Festival in Bynum, in Chatham County. We used to live in Chatham County, so on the way back we thought we’d drive by our old house just to see if there was anything new that had been done to the exterior or the yard. Instead of a new flower bed or a different paint job, though, we found crime scene tape and several Chatham County Sheriff’s Department vehicles. Our old home had been turned into a crime scene.
The News & Observer this morning has some details:
Deputies were called to 29 Red Pine Road about 9:10 a.m. to check on a woman whose parents hadn’t heard from her in a week, police said. What they found was the body of Tracy Lynn Baldwin, 38. Investigators consider her death a homicide.
We sold the house to Tracy in the summer of 2003, and I remember seeing her twice: Once when we closed on the sale, and again a few months or perhaps a year later at a restaurant in Chapel Hill where she was waitressing. She seemed happy with the house.
Our hearts go out to her family today.
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