Pod Insights True Crime Conversations The Young Mum Who Disappeared In The Blue Mountains About this episode In January 1993, 20-year-old Tracey Valesini appeared at the Campbelltown Courthouse in Sydney for a legal matter. She was last seen sitting inside the courtroom that day.
After that moment, Tracey was never heard from again.
More than 30 years later, there is still no definitive answer about what happened to the young mother or where her remains may be. But the case has never truly gone cold. Journalist Ashlea Hansen has since uncovered new evidence, determined to keep Tracey’s story alive and bring long-overdue attention to her disappearance.
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Transcript 0:01 Speaker 00 It's January 8, 1993, and 20-year-old Tracy Valasini is in Campbelltown Courthouse in Sydney for a legal dispute. Sitting in this courtroom is the last time Tracy is seen alive. She fails to turn up to the next scheduled court date just four days later. It's out of character. She's always there, but no one ever hears from her again. More than 30 years later, we still don't have definitive answers on what happened to the young mother and where her body is. Police believe she was murdered, but her case has faded into the cold.
0:45 Speaker 00 I'm Gemma Bath, and you're listening to True Crime Conversations, a podcast exploring the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. A coronial inquest held in 2006 found that Tracy likely died sometime before December 1993 from injuries inflicted on her by someone else. It found that there wasn't enough evidence, however, to charge anyone. Looking into Tracy's story is shocking. The facts in her case are few and far between, but the details we do know are devastating. She was in the midst of a custody battle. It took four years for police to be notified of her disappearance.
1:28 Speaker 00 Blood was found in the bathroom of her home. Her family know she is no longer alive, but they haven't given up hope of at least being able to give her a proper burial. This year, Tracy would have been 54. She's been missing for longer than she was alive. Our guest today, News Corp investigative journalist Ashley Hanson, has been re-investigating the case, speaking to Tracy's loved ones and uncovering damning new evidence. She joins us now to tell us about her discoveries.
2:01 Speaker 00 Ashley, thank you for joining us on True Crime Conversations. How did you come across this case? And what made you decide to reinvestigate it all these decades later?
2:12 Speaker 01 Last year, I was talking to families of cold cases about rewards. So rewards for information and digging into who's, what's the system behind this? And a lot of families believe that it's an unfair system, but it's a complex system about why some cases attract a million dollar reward and why other cases and only attract no reward or a hundred thousand dollars. So families sit back and think, is that a reflection of their value? And it's absolutely not. But they are fair questions that these families are asking as to, why is my loved one's case not worth a million dollars? Which is the limit in New South Wales for a reward case.
2:55 Speaker 01 And I began talking to Tracey's sister, Sharon Robards. And I just couldn't switch off this case because the more she was talking to me about this case, and I was, I was deep in another case. And I just said to her, just, just slow down, just slow down, keep up. Like, you know, my head was spinning. I'm going, what do you mean that this happened and this happened? And no one's ever been charged? And she just kept, you know, telling me all this information. And I kept thinking about it. And I said to her, look, I, I'm happy to, when I've got some capacity to have a look at her case. Because the focus of that particular story on the rewards wasn't a, a deep dive on any particular case.
3:40 Speaker 01 It was talking about rewards. And I said, look, you know, I, I can maybe when I have a certain capacity, have a look at her case. And she said, yeah, I'd love you to. And so we got talking and it was pretty soon after that I said, okay, let's do it. What, what have you got in terms of materials? And are you willing to be interviewed and whatnot? And we discussed as to what I might be able to do to, to put her case back in the spotlight.
4:06 Speaker 00 It's interesting that you said the details kept surprising you because I had the same experience when I was reading and watching all of your content, where I was like, that can't be right. And I had to like backtrack and like, and I was, are you, are you sure? And we'll get to all of those details, but there are some parts of Tracy's story that you just think, what, how, like, it's, it's quite discombobulating.
4:30 Speaker 01 It's a shocking case, but there are just so many twists and turns as to what has happened over the past thirty three years. And it still shocks me that, that nobody has been charged in, in connection with her murder.
4:46 Speaker 00 Well, let's start with who Tracy was. Tell us a bit about her home life, her childhood, who she was.
4:54 Speaker 01 Tracy was described by her sister as fearless, always excitable, always up for, for fun. And she, she was from a, what, what Sharon describes as a dysfunctional family. So she was raised in Sydney's West, but there was some issues within the family, a breakdown in, in marriages and partnerships. And by the time Tracy was sixteen, she'd started a relationship with her first serious relationship and she soon became pregnant. So by the time she was seventeen, she had a young baby. And by the time she was twenty, she was a mother of two.
5:41 Speaker 01 Very vulnerable. There's a photo of her that I saw and I just, she's in the hospital and I, and I looked at it and thought, she just looks so overwhelmed and just being such a young mum without a lot of family support, I think would have been very difficult for her. I think she had some, it's fair to say she had a troubled life. She'd fallen in with, with bikies. She'd gone from one bad relationship to another.
6:11 Speaker 01 She found herself in this situation where after the birth of her second child, she decided to put that child up for adoption. And I think that's a reflection of her situation. She didn't have the capacity to take care of this second child. I don't believe it was out of, you know, the fact that she didn't love this child. But I think that she, it was probably an overwhelming situation for her. And it led her to place this child up for adoption. And Tracy then became involved with, with a known bikie at the time. And his, his, his name is William Booby.
6:51 Speaker 01 And she moved to the Blue Mountains with him and was in a very short relationship with him. But it's in the Blue Mountains and at this home in Wentworth Falls that is the centre of what happened to Tracy and the alleged murder of Tracy inside this Wentworth Falls home back in nineteen ninety three.
7:14 Speaker 00 So you said she met this William, he goes by Billy, a known bikie in about nineteen ninety two. Did her sister know much about that relationship? Or was she not in contact with her family during this time?
7:28 Speaker 01 Sharon wasn't very close to her at the time. They were becoming closer. I'm not sure what had transpired in the years earlier. She very much loved her sister deeply, but I think Tracy's lifestyle, she was known to go for long periods of time, not to contact family. She'd have one boyfriend, one partner, then move on with somebody else. So she did have a, um, an unusual life and how she, she was living it. I think she also had some addiction issues as well. Um, and what, what we do know is that she, when she started this relationship with Billy, his best mate was a man by the name of Arthur Jock McKenzie.
8:11 Speaker 01 And he was a senior member of the Comancheros in the early nineties. And they were living together with another woman, Jock's wife at the time.
8:23 Speaker 01 Who was also Billy's sister. So basically, it's, it's hard to get your head around, but if you think about it, there's two couples.
8:30 Speaker 00 Yeah.
8:30 Speaker 01 Living in this house in Wentworth Falls. One of those couples is Tracy and Billy.
8:35 Speaker 00 Yep.
8:36 Speaker 01 The other couple is Jock and Diane, his wife at the time. Both the men are, have links to, to bikies, the Comancheros. And Tracy was a young mum of the age of 20 in this, this house and being caught up in, um, what we now know were, Jock was involved in a lot of crime across Sydney. Um, he was involved in armed robberies and through my investigation, we could reveal the police theory as to why she was, was murdered inside this home.
9:12 Speaker 00 I want to get to that in a minute, but I want to, context wise, a bit about the Comancheros in that early nineties timeframe. You said that Jock was one of the kind of higher up guys, Billy not so much. But what can you tell us about the Comancheros during that time more broadly?
9:29 Speaker 01 I think the Comancheros were trying to gain a bit more power in the bikie world. And they were building themselves up because they'd been decimated in the late eighties in the Millpera massacre.
9:43 Speaker 00 Yep.
9:44 Speaker 01 Where they lost a lot of members. There was members went to jail over crimes from that massacre. And I think it took them a few years to regain their, I guess their, their power and pull their, their gang back together. So they weren't huge players at that time, as far as I was, um, my understanding. They had their usual turf wars going on with the banditos and the, the other bikie clubs that were operating at the time.
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10:50 Speaker 00 Do we know anything about what that home life in that Wentworth Paul's house was like? Or she wasn't really there long enough before she disappeared, was she?
11:01 Speaker 01 We, we know bits and pieces and what we know is that it was very a short period that they, that they moved into this house and they were living in a house in Sydney. But they got out of it really quickly and moved to the Blue Mountains. And we, we don't really know what was, what was happening, why the Blue Mountains, why this particular house. We don't know if, what, what was happening there. But we do know that that was the last known address of Tracy.
11:32 Speaker 00 And the last known sighting of Tracy was around the 8th of January, or the 8th of January, at court, at Campbelltown Court. So she was sighted there and she was due to go back to court four days later and just never turned up.
11:50 Speaker 01 Yeah, and we know that she was in fear of her life and also spoke to her father and told him that she was worried about him going to court. And we don't, we couldn't quite get to the bottom as to where those fears were coming from. But it's now obviously more apparent that she was living in fear. And I think what we now know is that the police theory is that she had threatened to go to police or Jock McKenzie had discovered that she was going to go to police about a violent home invasion that he had orchestrated on Tracy's former partner.
12:29 Speaker 01 Scott Cage's brother, he was the target, the innocent victim of this violent home invasion. He was a licensed security guard and firearms were stolen. His wife was tied up. It was a violent home invasion and terrifying. And we don't know where Tracy falls into this, but we know that the police believe that she was going to inform on him and report him to police over this home invasion. That never happened. Tracy's never been seen alive since and it's believed that she was murdered inside that Wentworth Falls home, inside the bathroom.
13:06 Speaker 00 And that detail that you have from this police brief, that's kind of the first time we've heard that, right? For 30 years.
13:15 Speaker 01 We do know that the theory is that she was shot in this bathroom and that has been well known for quite some time, but we haven't known the motive as to why she was shot dead. And we learned through these police documents so much more about the people allegedly involved and the lead up to her murder. Sharon is also has this strong feeling that her murder could have something to do with pedophilia and child sexual abuse. And the reason she thinks that is because Tracy left in her belongings when she was going through all of her belongings years later.
13:56 Speaker 01 And she had this Women's Day article about a pedophile and it was a first person shocking read. You know, sick read. Certainly you wouldn't read anything like this today. It was a reflection of the times, I think, that a pedophile would even get to write this piece.
14:15 Speaker 00 Yeah, that kind of airtime.
14:16 Speaker 01 Or that, yeah, to tell you their thoughts and whatnot. But it is interesting that Tracy had cut it out and she'd kept it. And we believe that she will track, Sharon thinks that she kept it for the, the numbers connected to the article, which were helpline numbers or reporting numbers.
14:35 Speaker 01 And that was possibly had something to do with it. And an informant told Sharon that that's why she believed that Tracy was killed. She said that she thought it had something to do with Tracy dobbling in Jock McKenzie for child abuse. Right. And that was a strong feeling of someone over the years that came forward to Sharon over the years. But now we've got this police theory that it had something to do with this violent home invasion. We may never know the truth, but what we do know is that in 2001, when homicide detectives ramped up their investigation into the disappearance of Tracy, was that they detected blood in
15:20 Speaker 01 the bathroom of this Wentworth Falls home, which supported the story that had been told to police by an informant, which was that Tracy was shot dead in the bathroom. And then there was this allegedly, this cover up and this cleanup that went underway to dispose of her body. That's what we've been learning more about is who was involved in that cover up of what happened to Tracy and who knows what happened as well to Tracy. Were they able to confirm that the blood was Tracy's? No, it was inconclusive. And that was back in 2001. We don't know if the blood has been tested since. Yep.
16:01 Speaker 01 We know that there are advancements in DNA technology and the way that police test these types of samples. We're not privy to that information. It's strongly believed though, that it was Tracy's blood. It just is inconclusive as to a hundred percent whether it was or not. But the fact that they found this blood, and it wasn't just, you know, in areas that could be put down to, oh, that was a shaving accident or something. It was on the ceiling, wasn't it? It was on the ceiling. Yeah. And very small amounts. Right. It couldn't be seen by the naked eye. It was, it was forensically found in a forensic search.
16:44 Speaker 01 But we're just one of those things that we, you know, Tracy's family wants that, those samples retested. We don't know when the last forensic review was done on Tracy's case, but. The informant or several informants have told police and told Tracy's family that Tracy was shot dead in this bathroom. And then there was this effort to dispose of her body in the Blue Mountains. A very chilling case and her body has never been found and it's been 33 years since she disappeared.
17:16 Speaker 00 One of the details, one of the main details that really gets me is she was last seen in 1993, but she wasn't reported missing for four years? Do we know why?
17:28 Speaker 01 I have asked Sharon this and she's, I think, as perplexed as anyone. She puts it down to a dysfunctional family. She said that there was a breakdown with Tracy's mum and her father at the time. And also, as I said earlier, that she was known to go for long periods of time and not have contact with family members. Also, I think there's a bit of, was George, that's Tracy's father, was he taking care of that? Her brother was a police officer. There was, we don't know if there was an assumption that he was maybe taking care of it. Also, what's been revealed is that George was suffering dementia towards the end of his
18:12 Speaker 01 life. And so we don't know if that played into it. Did he believe or was there this assumption that she was reported missing earlier? I think at one stage he went to St Vincent's or to Vinnie's and reported her missing, but that wasn't officially reporting her missing to police. I think it's also back in the 90s. Unfortunately, the cases of missing women were treated differently. It was, I saw an article in 1997 that was still saying that we don't believe it was foul play. You know, I think that if Tracy disappeared in, or another woman like Tracy disappeared in those circumstances in Today's society, police would act very differently.
18:57 Speaker 01 They're, they're trained differently to detect domestic violence to also, the red flags would be going off because she wasn't known to, I guess, leave her children or her, Sharon says that when I realised she didn't turn up to court, I assumed she's dead.
19:14 Speaker 00 There are two things of note I want to touch on that happened in the kind of two years after she disappeared. One, the break in that you mentioned, did go ahead on Scott Cage's brother's house. And then a transaction on Tracy's bank account the following year. Can you talk us through that?
19:34 Speaker 01 Yeah, really key events that are connected in some way to Tracy's disappearance. The first one that you mentioned was the home invasion. So we learned that that was connected to the motive as to Tracy's murder. And the person who had orchestrated that home invasion was Jock McKenzie, the Comanchero bikie that she was living with in the Blue Mountains, that was best mates with her partner at the time, Billy Booby. And we know that Jock was involved in this home invasion in, in some way, certainly orchestrated it. And there were firearms that were stolen.
20:17 Speaker 01 Now, interestingly, the, the victim of this home invasion is, is Tracy's former partner's brother. So the police theory is that someone had intimate knowledge about where these firearms were within the house and would know that he had these firearms and he was a licensed security guard. So that plays into it as well. And then we have this suspicious transaction on Tracy's account, which was a year after she disappeared. A cheque was put into her account and then three days later, it was just a little bit under the $500. So they've obviously kept some room for bank fees or whatnot.
21:00 Speaker 01 So a $500 cheque was put into Tracy's account and then 490 something dollars was taken out of it, interestingly in the Blue Mountains, almost a year after it. But what it means is that whoever made that withdrawal in the Blue Mountains had access to her card. And to her PIN number, again suspicious.
21:22 Speaker 00 Yeah.
21:23 Speaker 01 And because that is the only activity on that account since her disappearance. But obviously a very suspicious transaction and police tried to get to the bottom of it. But years later, when they were looking at it, there was no physical evidence of the cheque anymore, which made it very difficult.
21:41 Speaker 00 Well, once the police got involved after 1997, you mentioned they did the search warrant on the house, 2001 ish. By that point, the other housemates had long gone.
21:51 Speaker 01 Hmm.
21:52 Speaker 00 Were they interviewed?
21:53 Speaker 01 Billy Booby was her partner at the time. He was questioned at a police station in and around 2005. This is just prior to Tracy's inquest. And he had no knowledge, apparently, of Tracy. He denied knowing her. He said that he lived a colourful life as a bikie and his use of drugs had affected his memory. And he said he had no knowledge of Tracy and even knowing her.
22:27 Speaker 00 Looking at this case, I can definitely see how it kind of fell into cold case territory because everything just was so late, unfortunately. And in cases of crime, like the quicker you are, the more you're likely to get that forensic evidence, the more likely you are to kind of talk to people that were there, that kind of thing. And it feels like her case kind of just got forgotten a bit.
22:49 Speaker 01 Yeah, and that's one of the tragedies of her case was the, the loss of crucial evidence because of the time lapse. And I'm not being critical of police because as we know, there was a delay in reporting her missing. But certainly there was also a delay in the, the gravity of the situation that they were dealing with and the seriousness of it, that this wasn't a woman who had just wandered off and decided to start a new life. It was pretty clear that the people around her were not cooperating. They weren't revealing what happened to her. No one that should have been reporting her missing did report her missing in the sense that the people that were close to her at the time.
23:30 Speaker 00 Living with her.
23:31 Speaker 01 Living with her, her boyfriend at the time. Um, even her, and her former partner, who was the father of her young child. You would think alarm bells would have been going off for him as well, thinking, where is the mother of my child?
23:46 Speaker 00 Especially when we know she's a devoted mother. So if when she doesn't turn up to see her kid.
23:50 Speaker 01 Exactly. So they're answers that only the people involved can answer. And we, we haven't got any clear answers from them.
24:00 Speaker 00 You mentioned an inquest that was held in two thousand and six. And it found that Tracy was likely dead. And that she died at the hands of someone else, but there was not enough evidence for charges. When you looked at those findings, was there anything else that jumped out at you?
24:18 Speaker 01 Well, yeah, the, they named, the coroner named Jock McKenzie as being intimately involved in her murder. But there wasn't enough evidence to charge him and he was deported from Australia to back to his homeland, Scotland in two thousand and four, after a violent um, couple of years or almost a decade in Australia, which included encouraged to murder. A charge was, which involves a plot to, to murder someone and that was foiled. Um, but that was one of the charges, break and enters, theft, passport, um, you know, faking, faking passports.
25:00 Speaker 01 A very, very dodgy, bad guy was Jock McKenzie, continued on his, um, his offending in Scotland. Because we discovered that in two thousand and twenty four, he was convicted of child sexual abuse in Scotland. At the age of sixty nine, he had, um, committed these crimes. So he died just a couple of years ago at the age of seventy three, awaiting sentence for those child sex assault charges.
25:31 Speaker 00 Wow.
25:32 Speaker 01 Died a convicted paedophile. Um, he also died a suspect in Tracy's murder. And we've, um, my colleague Sophie Ellsworth, who is our Europe correspondent for News Corp, went over to Scotland in his small coastal community where he was last living before he was jailed. And she spoke to one of his neighbours and a former friend of his and she gave a.
25:59 Speaker 01 Yeah, shocking insight into into his life and all of the um the lies that he used to tell. And she used to just put it down to that he was a bullshitter. She didn't think that he was he was telling the truth.
26:12 Speaker 00 So he wasn't known, because he was in a quite a small town. He wasn't known as being the bad guy. He was kind of hiding.
26:17 Speaker 01 I think by that stage, he had a lot of health issues and.
26:20 Speaker 00 Yeah.
26:21 Speaker 01 He was known to, he still loved his motorbikes and whatnot, but I think by that stage, he'd sort of moved on with his life and had a lot of health issues and was living a quiet life, but still clearly offending.
26:33 Speaker 00 Hmm.
26:33 Speaker 01 Because this this young teenager had um become a victim of his and thi- this victim was brave enough to go to police and report him and it took less than forty minutes for a jury of fifteen to convict him of of the offences and he was awaiting his sentence when he died in jail. But for for Sharon, um Tracy's sister, she's going, well, what did he tell people over there? Did did he boast about Tracy's murder over there? He his former friend said, I do remember him talking about Tracy.
27:08 Speaker 00 Really?
27:09 Speaker 01 Yes, and she said, and then that he would just sort of close up afterwards. But she said he was such a bragger that she couldn't distinguish what was truth and, yeah, what what were lies. But now she knows the truth about him in terms of his offending. She's saying, well, yeah, that's pretty disturbing that he could have been telling the truth and bragging about, you know, murder and and whatnot.
27:35 Speaker 00 How does Tracy's sister feel that he's now dead?
27:39 Speaker 01 Extremely angry.
27:40 Speaker 00 Yeah.
27:41 Speaker 01 She's angry because she knows that he took secrets to his grave. And also, he probably spoke to other people about what happened to Tracy. Other people out there might know. He escaped justice again, you know, he he may have died a convicted pedophile, but he wasn't he wasn't sentenced over it. He was in jail, so that I guess that's some comfort. But yeah, angry, really, really angry. And but the thing is that Tracy's case doesn't end with Jock's death because there are other people that may have been involved in her murder. And there are certainly other people who know what happened to her. And it's it's those people that we should be focusing on and tha- that is why as well, this investigation.
28:28 Speaker 01 Into Tracy's disappearance needs to stay in the spotlight because there are people that know more.
28:34 Speaker 00 To kind of expand on that, in 2017, there was a public appeal on what would have been Tracy's 45th birthday. So telling the public about Tracy's story, offering money for any information. And someone did come forward with some pretty damning information. Can you tell us about that and what came of it?
28:56 Speaker 01 They did. And I think this is one of the reasons that Sharon feels so angry and frustrated about the, the way that her sister's case has been handled over the years. There was a new person that came forward to police with only information that could be known by the killers or killer. And the information that we won't go into that this person shared is very confronting, but also has been stacked up by somebody else who years earlier went to police. Now, the fact that this person, this new witness, has not been formally interviewed, and it's almost been 10 years.
29:40 Speaker 00 Wow.
29:42 Speaker 01 Is extremely infuriating for Sharon and anyone else connected to Tracy's case that, that wants the, the answers and wants the truth. And they're sitting back saying, well, why hold a police appeal and why do this and put out a call for information and someone comes forward and then not follows through?
30:04 Speaker 00 Yeah. What was the point?
30:05 Speaker 01 Exactly. That's, that's the question that Sharon is asking. And we're asking too, because there is a lot more information out there about Tracy's case and people are coming forward.
30:18 Speaker 00 Are they? I was gonna say, since you have started putting Tracy's story back into the spotlight. Have you had anyone come forward to you or give you more information that's made you kind of really think?
30:29 Speaker 01 Yes, a couple of people and I'm just feeling comforted by the fact that if this is who's coming forward to me, then I'm hoping that there are other people and the people that have come forward to me are also, as far as I'm aware, they've also gone to Crime Stoppers as well. So I'm really hoping that police are listening and they're in the background doing some stuff on Tracy's case.
30:59 Speaker 00 Because it has been over 30 years and I know that Sharon told you that one of her biggest fears is dying without having answers, which is something you hear from a lot of families of missing people. It's the not knowing that really is hard to live with.
31:16 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's every day for these families, it's just hoping and trying to find out more information. It just becomes part of their life and they really become engrossed in it as to taking it upon themselves to be the ones pushing for answers and pushing for information and trying to get their loved one's case back out there.
31:42 Speaker 00 You have kind of covered this story. You've had all these people in your ear. Do you think that we will see charges or that Sharon will get the answers that she wants?
31:53 Speaker 01 Tracy's case is solvable and there are people out there that know exactly what happened to Tracy. There's people out there that may have been involved in her murder. There are certainly people out there that may have been involved in the cover up of her murder. And so while Jock is dead, justice is still possible.
32:17 Speaker 00 Thank you to Ashley for helping us to tell this story. You can watch the three-part multimedia investigation at leftinthecold.com.au. If you want to see visuals from this episode, head over to our Instagram page, @truecrimconversations. And for in-depth case explainers, follow us on TikTok under the same name. True Crime Conversations is hosted by me, Gemma Bath. Our senior producer is Tali Blackman. The group executive producer is Alaria Brophy. There's been audio design by Jacob Brown and video production by Julian Rosario. Thanks so much for listening. I'll be back next week with another True Crime Conversation.
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