In the early morning hours of February 19th, 2010, a fire broke out an apartment complex in Moorhead, Minnesota. After battling the blaze first responders discovered the charred bodies of 25 year old Meghan Londo and 20 year old John Cadot inside. Neither Megan nor John were residents of that apartment. The apartment. belonged to a woman named Cassie Cruz. Megan was staying at the apartment while Cassie was supposedly out of town with her boyfriend.
Tracy, Megan, and John had spent the day together. Tracy was needing a ride back to his home on the White Earth Indian Reservation and Megan had said she could arrange and ride back fo r him. Megan invited Tracy and John over to Cassie Cruz's apartment while they tried to figure out a ride back home for Tracy.
As the evening went on, Cassie learned that people other than Megan were at her apartment. Tracy said he overheard Cassie who was on the phone with Megan state that she was going to send some people over to kick everyone out.
Fearing the potential for police due to an active warrant Tracy had for burglary in another county, Tracy left the apartment in John's car and went over to visit his girlfriend about a mile away. He eventually left his girlfriend's apartment and headed back to Cassie's apartment where Megan and John were. When he was down the street from Cassie's apartment. He saw a series of first responder vehicles heading in the direction of Cassie's apartment. Once again fearing to be in an area with police presence due to his active warrant, Tracy turned around and instead of going to the apartment he had originally intended, Tracy headed home to the White Earth Indian Reservation.
Not long after his arrival home, Tracy learned of the murders of his friends Megan and John and realized that the first responder vehicles he had seen had been responding to the horrific deaths of his friends in Cassie's apartment.
Being that Tracy was upfront about having been with Megan and John in Cassie's apartment earlier that night and the fact that he was driving John's car, Tracy became the prime suspect in the murders of his friends and based on purely circumstantial evidence, he was convicted and sentenced to Life Without Parole.