Chapter 27 Chapter two

Tracy's mother initially filed a missing persons report with the Houston Police Department.At that time, people from the police station called Tracy's friends and all relevant people separately, and summoned them.However, no one saw her again, and no one heard anything about her.When Dion asked Michael about Tracy's whereabouts, Michael claimed that Tracy ran away from home shortly after her release, took some money from the family with her when she left, and never saw her again.Was that the best reason for Tracy's disappearance? Dion expressed great doubts about this.Because on the second day after Tracy was released on bail, she went home to borrow some money from her mother, and Tracy used to keep in touch with her mother and younger brother, but that time became the last time she saw her family.She seems to have disappeared from this world forever, never to return.

And Tracy's mother explained it this way, she said, something must have happened.For some reason, she always had a bad feeling.Tracy's mother, whose name is Virginia, has called Tracy's boyfriend Michael several times and got in touch.She said she called because she hadn't called Tracy for weeks and wanted to know what had happened to Tracy.But Michael said that Tracy was no longer there, that she had left and took the money from the family when she left. Virginia said, I have already given her the money, why is she asking you for money?But in the end, Virginia had no choice but to report the incident to the police.

"I still remember Tracy's mother when she came to report the crime to us. She was very sad. We didn't know how to comfort this mother. We were thinking hard about Tracy's disappearance. What happened to her? Where will it go?" Dion ended his narration with such a sentence at the end. Tracy grew up in Houston, Texas.Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States. It is located in southeast Texas, on the Gulf Coastal Plains, 80 kilometers from the Gulf of Mexico, with an average elevation of 49 feet (about 14.94 meters). Feedback from the school says that Tracy is an excellent student. Not only does she love sports and is involved in the Girl Scouts, but her real passion is dance, and Houston is one of the few that has the ability to perform theater, ballet, opera and symphony and other four major art groups in the city.In Houston's colorful performing arts scene, there is strong support from the public and professional groups, as well as students like Tracy.

We also learn that at age 13 Tracy auditioned for a prestigious performing arts school in Houston.On that day, her dream came true. However, while in school, Tracy started to use drugs.At that time, she became a problem student, she did not attend the monthly Girl Scout meeting on time, and did not learn all kinds of common sense.In the past, Tracy could also do some handicrafts, participate in singing, sports activities or parades.In everyone's opinion, as a girl, getting in touch with society through these activities can overcome girls' timidity and shyness, and experience the hardships and joys of making a living.But Tracy has alienated such a rich variety of activities, she refused to make her teenage life colorful, no longer need to learn from play, so for her, to build the confidence and courage to compete It has become empty talk.

At this time, Tracy was far away from the group, and she could not experience the team spirit of mutual assistance and cooperation.It is worth mentioning that the reward system implemented by the team in the event, as long as you learn a skill or complete a task, you will be awarded a badge. For this reason, many girls are willing to strive for and accumulate these badges , they are confident.For Tracy, drugs have taken over her entire brain, and she can no longer control her desire and greed. In the process of getting to know Tracy, we regret that she made such a rash behavior or made a wrong judgment on life.During the investigation, we noticed that Tracy often interacted with some bad people and fooled around with them.And Virginia said at the time that she couldn't understand these things and didn't know what to do with herself.We're a little confused, Virginia says she can only watch her daughter skip classes every day, watch her daughter's grades plummet, and start a relationship with 31-year-old Michael Neal, a man who just got out of prison not long ago was released.

In fact, parents in the United States are not laissez-faire with their children. The limited responsibility of parents to their children is reflected in teaching their children to learn to understand and master the four "knowledges"-know their own value, know how to be responsible for themselves, and know enough sexual knowledge , and know how to respect others and abide by the law.However, Tracy's mother didn't understand these principles, and she didn't grasp them, so today's situation happened.A child is like a seed, which takes root and blossoms in the soil from an early age, and then bears fruit. If its germination and growth are a very good process, then this person is beneficial to society.But we can no longer see this process in Tracy.

This is the fact that we can clearly see that Virginia is powerless in this regard. We don't know whether Virginia has cultural or other reasons that make it difficult for her to discipline Tracy.In other words, Tracy started fooling around with people and taking drugs at the age of 13. She is responsible. Some people say that Virginia neglected the education of her daughter.She said she admitted it, but there was nothing she could do to turn Tracy back. After reading the dossier and interviewing many people, I seemed to see Tracy's numb face and sluggish steps in front of me.Is this because she is tired of her current life, or is it because she has some secrets that she can't tell?Virginia said she knew things had reached the point of no return the first time she met Tracy's boyfriend, Michael Neal, 31.Tracy brought him home that day, saying he was showing his mother a look.Virginia thought the man was very polite and a good person.However, how much of this kind of acquaintance feeling can be grasped, even Virginia herself can't say clearly, she just feels that she can no longer control her daughter.Later, Tracy gave up her dancing career, and Virginia refused to listen to her advice. At least, this would affect Tracy's future, and Virginia became helpless.As mothers, we should understand her feelings at the time, but for a girl who is about to become a talent, it is indeed a loss.

What makes people even more regretful is that Tracy even planned to drop out of school, when she had moved to the home of her boyfriend Michael.Michael's mother, Barbara, was also in Michael's home, and the three of them lived together.In Virginia's words, she was overwhelmed by the changes in her daughter. I think Virginia still loves her daughter.She watched her daughter die in agony after taking drugs, as if she had changed into a different person, completely controlled by drugs, and became a slave to drugs.Despite this, Virginia has been praying for her daughter, hoping that she can get rid of all this, return to her side, and continue to live a normal life before.Stories like Virginia's, we've heard a lot in other cases, and what we're thinking about right now is to learn more about Tracy's drug use from Tracy's mother.

Generally, drug addicts will have the following conditions.Taking Tracy as an example, she would experience extreme fatigue and weakness all over the body or mental depression and exhaustion after ten hours of drug use, as well as drowsiness, lethargy and restlessness.Her movements at that time would be a little slow and rigid.This situation is exactly the opposite of the excitement after taking drugs, and it is called "amphetamine-like depression", "the sense of loss after the recovery of the drug psychedelic state", and "falling into a morbid state".We know that if drug users continue to stop taking drugs, the above symptoms will not only become more and more serious, but drug users will also have severe depressive symptoms that last for several weeks.What deserves our attention at this time is that drug addicts commit suicide due to depression, which is an important reason for the death of drug users.The after effects of this drug use and other mental symptoms can last for several years or even life, and it is also a serious psychological punishment for "no drug use".

This point of view is what we call "negative reinforcement" in behavioral psychology.Obviously, the excitability of drugs on people's mental activities should be said to have a "reward" effect on drug use, which is a positive reinforcement.The common result of these two psychological effects, positive and negative, is to enhance the desire and desire to use drugs, as well as the mental dependence on drugs, which will prompt drug users to take drugs again and fall into a vicious circle. This is basically the case with Tracy.During the five years since Tracy started taking drugs at the age of 13 until she disappeared at the age of 18, the body's higher and higher tolerance and lower and lower sensitivity to drugs will promote the frequency of drug users to continue to use drugs. increase, and the amount of drug use will also increase, that is to say, Tracy's dependence on drugs is already very deep.She had been abusing drugs for a long time, and if she hadn't died from various acute and chronic poisonings, she was usually mentally disturbed.We call it "amphetamine psychosis" or "amphetamine psychosis", which is actually a manifestation of central nervous system poisoning.The mild ones usually show that the mood is difficult to calm down and restless, and the decision-making ability is quick and hasty, or the mood is high, the expression is excited, the words are eloquent, the thinking is extremely active, and there are always new ideas and ideas in the mind. However, it is difficult to think deeply, and it will show increased aggressiveness in behavior and stereotyped obsessive-compulsive symptoms.For example, I will repeatedly do some things that I know are meaningless, and I can't control myself to do the same simple actions.

This is the specific symptom of amphetamine poisoning.In a dark dance hall, when the music is played deafeningly, the amphetamine poisoners will be very excited, and even dance with violent shaking of their heads as the main performance. Teething, grinning, baring teeth, spanking shoulders, turning the head back and forth, swaying the hips furiously. We don't yet have a full grasp of Tracy's drug use when she suddenly disappears.If she uses a large amount at one time, she will have different degrees of disturbance of consciousness. The consequences of this disturbance include low discrimination ability, recognition disturbance, confusion, hallucinations, delusions, including terrorism. Visual hallucinations and verbal auditory hallucinations, as well as various delusions of persecution nature, etc. But anyway, we don't want Tracy to suddenly leave this world, because her mother has been waiting for her to come home.But drug users like her will also reveal some other characteristics. Under the control of some pathological experiences, they are very likely to commit various violent or homicide or self-injury or even suicide events.We worried that if Tracy mixed amphetamines with other addictive substances, the adverse consequences she had suffered would be further exacerbated. Based on these, both the Houston FBI and the Houston Police Department believe that the investigation into Tracy's disappearance cannot be stopped until Tracy is found, whether alive or dead. The progress of the investigation is very slow, and the evidence collection is very difficult. So far, we only have a missing person report from Virginia and nothing else. Detective Dion suspects a murder.He believes that there are two doubts worthy of attention.One is the boyfriend who paid her to go out; the other is Tracy asking her mother to borrow money, what did she say when she said goodbye to her mother? I agree with Dion's idea.At present, we have no conclusive evidence, and all we hear are one-sided stories.Michael said that Tracy was no longer with him, and he said it without a heavy heart, which is very doubtful.After all, Tracy has known this man for 5 years. During this time, they took drugs and lived together, and Michael was so indifferent to Tracy's disappearance.There is also the second question. Tracy asked her mother what she borrowed money for. If it was used as drug money, then, did she ask her mother to borrow money before? I think these details are helpful for understanding Trey. Xi's disappearance is crucial, and the key point lies in the purpose of borrowing money.Perhaps at this time, Tracy had really seen Michael's intention to kill herself, but really wanted to leave Michael.Or Tracy wants to continue taking drugs, but Michael has cut off her drug channels. In this case, Tracy has to borrow money from her mother.Or maybe Michael has already smelled that Tracy is going to cooperate with the police because of his own sensitivity, but it is still a mystery as to what channel he got the news that Tracy is going to cooperate with the police.Michael must be very clear that under normal circumstances, if drug addicts do not cooperate with the police, it is not easy to be released on bail. When the news spread that Tracy could be released on bail by the police, Michael would definitely feel scared or nervous.So, when Tracy was bailed out by Michael, it must have been a bad situation.We should be ashamed of Tracy's situation because we did not do a good job of protecting this witness. When I threw this point out, all the agents involved in the discussion fell silent.Detective Dion put it more directly. He believed that the Houston Police Department made a mistake in this regard, that is, the police's intentions were completely understood by the criminals, and there were no measures to protect witnesses. That's why they were as passive as they are today. situation. Tracy's disappearance has become a mystery. We have no other evidence and no better way, and the investigation has encountered difficulties.