Episode 36 – Terrible Dad – Tracy Thacker
In May 2000, Tracy Thacker filed for divorce from his wife of 8 years, Holli Thacker. The pair got married after Holli discovered she was expecting a baby. Before the marriage, Tracy and Holli knew there was a possibility that the baby was not Tracy’s, but Tracy wanted to marry Holli and he accepted the baby girl, Maylyn, as his own. He even signed the birth certificate as the father, and he gave the little girl his last name.
In 1994, the couple had another child, a son named Carson.
By 2000, when Tracy filed for divorce, he listed “irreconcilable differences” for the reason for divorce, but in the complaint he pointed to a paternity test that proved he was not Maylyn’s biological father.
Tracy and Holli had gotten into quite a few fights over the months over child custody agreements and in December 2000, things turned for the worst. Tracy went to the kid’s school and checked them out early sighting “pay back” on the school’s early sign-out sheet. No one from the school questioned this “reason,” because no one from the school checked the form, even though it was school policy for a school administrator to check before a child left.
No one ever expected what happened next. Dig in with Margot as she tells you this terrifying tale.
Tracy Thacker retired from the Marines in 1999. He then killed two of his children in 2000. He was shot by police after he attempted to lunge at responding officers with a knife. Image found here.
Tracy Thacker was 39 years old when he killed his two youngest children – 9-year old Maylyn Thacker and 5 year old Carson Thacker.
Image found here.
Episode 36: Resources:
- Haney V. Board of Education
- https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/2000/12-13/0086_father__children_killed___pay_bac.html
- https://www.chattanoogan.com/2000/12/13/7005/Bradley-Father-Kills-His-Two-Children.aspx
- https://apnews.com/c957c1ea84ed8db807fdb095060c6726
- https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=358561
- https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/news/story/2010/mar/06/cleveland-state-salutes-dr-seuss/8395/
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