Serial Killer Documentary - Tracie Andrews

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1:06On December 1, 1996, Tracy Andrews and her fiance Lee Harvey were driving home after a night out when suddenly they began to be pursued by another car. It was a chase that would end in Lee's murder. He was stabbed in throat, back, front, repeatedly, viciously and continuously. Just two days later, 27-year-old Tracy gave a heart-wrenching press conference appealing for the public's help to find her partner's killer. But almost not what it seemed. We get beyond the way of the car. It's sometimes a challenge, there's no need to. And we all kind of looked at each other. And for this enormous story, just got 10 times bigger again if she is the killer. There had been no car chase. There had been no random attack. Tracy Andrews had stabbed her own fiance to death and was trying to get away with murder.

2:11This is a woman of cunning, of deceit and with a vicious temper. Tracy Andrews had deceived a nation and become one of the world's most evil killers. It was a press conference that shot Britain. When 27-year-old Tracy Andrews defiantly appeared in front of the world's media on December the 3rd, 1996, she wept over the murder of her fiance, Lee Harvey. She claimed a stranger had stopped the couple in their car before stabbing her 25-year-old

3:12partner to death in a savage attack. I just tried to stop the bleeding in there and caught the aim as much as I could. But it was all a lie. In reality Andrews had killed Lee in the most brutal of manners. But her trial Andrews continued to try and sell her fabricated story. The media were fascinated by her. Daily Mirror journalist Rod Chaita managed to interview the wannabe model at Birmingham Crown Court on the day of her conviction. I'm sat next to Tracy. I didn't feel threatened, obviously. She's a killer, but we're not in any kind of environment in which she's likely to suddenly launch an attack on me. So I said, well, you know, do you stick to your story? Yes I stick to my story. Did you kill him? No I didn't. Just minutes later, Tracy Andrews was given a life sentence for the murder of her own

4:15fiance. I worked as a national newspaper journalist for many years. I cover thousands of stories, dozens of murders. Some stories just stay with you. And this is one of the ones that stays with me. It's a story that begins over 45 years ago. Tracy Andrews was born on the 9th of April 1969 in the West Midlands. Well, Tracy was brought up just outside Birmingham in Reddich and Alvchurch. And she was the middle child she had, an older sibling and a younger sibling and several half siblings. And her parents broke up when she was around about six years old because they'd had quite a volatile relationship. The separation of her parents in 1975 had a lasting effect on young Tracy.

5:15Well, Tracy's parents split up and her mother got married to another man and when we look at our parents' relationships, they are quite important because they inform our expectations of other people, our expectations of the relationships that we go on to have. Kids need attention. You know, they need to be loved and curled and everything. And a lot of kids that come from those kind of broken homes and the case of Tracy, they want to be loved by mother, father or somebody. So that is definitely, in my opinion, one of the things that pushed her into always wanting the attention of other men. Tracy left school in 1986 and age 21. She had a baby daughter, but the relationship with her partner lasted barely a year and they soon went their separate ways. What we've got here is a woman who doesn't like her partners having a life that doesn't involve her. She doesn't like her partners going out without her.

6:16She gets very jealous. She's very possessive. She certainly had a temper. Everybody who knew her said she had a temper and when she lost her temper, everybody knew about it, she would shout at the top of her voice. The whole street would hear. By 1994, 25-year-old Tracy was living in a council flat in Elf Church and working as a bar maid. But her aspirations went far beyond pulling pipes. She had visions, she had dreams of becoming a model, but she was very photogenic. She looked good on camera and she knew it and she had some pictures taken and a photo, album put together, but that never really took off either. She became a bar maid, working in a pub, but she's too dressed very provocatively and she's too love talking to men and chatting to men. Again, seeking the attention that she wanted to get as a model because obviously when

7:17you were that pretty and you were a model, you do get a lot of attention. Living nearby to Tracy was 23-year-old Lee Harvey. He also had a daughter from a previous relationship. Lee Harvey was a young man from a very close family and he worked as a bus driver for West Midlands travel. So this was a job that involved meeting many people on a daily basis. He was very outgoing, he was interested in cars and was always very well turned out. So he was a typical young Birmingham lad, essentially, very close to his mum, very close to his sister. The paths of the two young single parents would soon cross. Well Lee and Tracy met in October 1994 in Ritzie's nightclub in Birmingham and this relationship really did develop at a lightning pace. They had moved in with one another only around three months into the relationship.

8:18So this was going very, very fast. And their relationship was quite a volatile one. They were both quite possessive, quite jealous when it came to the other's relationships with the opposite sex. You often find this in relationships that develop very quickly. You haven't got that foundation of trust that's been built. You're always a little bit suspicious as to what the other person's up to because she don't really know them. And they would row and they would fight like cat and dog and neighbours would report how voices would be raised at all hours of the day and night and would go on and on for hours and then stop and then start again. The couple got engaged after just six months but their volatile relationship would often see them break up only to get back together again soon after. It was a maybe almost a carbon copy of what Tracy grew up with in her house. She had a very explosive temper and Lee Harvey also in a way that it wouldn't just bow

9:24down to her screen so he would screen back. She was forever throwing him out into the street and she would throw his clothes out of the window or in a black bin bag and chuck him out the front door, change the locks and then they would have reconciliation. Lee would go back, more violence Lee would leave, Lee would go back, more violence. This went on for a period of about two years. Their explosive relationship finally came to a head on December the 1st, 1996. So they'd been rowing all day. Lee tended to be the peacemaker and it was probably Lee's suggestion. Why don't we go for a drink? Why don't we just get a change, a change of scene, a breath of fresh air that's get out of here, let's just go and relax and have a drink and that's what they did. But Lee Harvey would never make it home again. By 11pm he would be dead.

10:24The only witness to the fatal altercation was his fiance Tracy Andrews and her version of events would soon make it one of the most talked about murders of the decade. Imagine your friend tells you she's taking an innocent family trip to Greenville, South Carolina. We'll call her Emma. The trip sounds great to you. Hiking at John's Gap, dinner at Topsoil, a room at the best hotel in town. Harmless, right? Here's the thing. Emma and her family never returned from Greenville. They disappear. You search for answers, but nothing adds up. Emma had a great life back home. You guys were best friends. What happened? Well the truth is, once Emma realized she could have access to Michelin recognized restaurants, nature, local shops and performing arts all in one place, everywhere else started to seem a little. Meh. Emma's vacation is a cautionary tale. If you're coming this way, don't forget to tell your friends and neighbors goodbye.

11:29Visit Greenville, South Carolina, but you may never want to leave. Learn more at visitgreenvillesc.com. Your path to pharmacy can be closer than you think. West Coast University's hybrid doctor of pharmacy program can be completed in as little as 33 months, and no bachelor's degree is required to apply. If you've started pharmacy coursework elsewhere, WCU may accept eligible transfer credits to help students keep moving forward. Learn online, train hands-on at our Center for Graduate Studies in Los Angeles, and prepare for real-world pharmacy practice. West Coast University, as real as it gets, visit westcoastuniversity.edu. WCU cannot guarantee employment. Imagine your friend tells you she's taking an innocent family trip to Greenville, South Carolina. We'll call her Emma. The trip sounds great to you. Hiking at Jones Gap, dinner at Topsoil, a room at the best hotel in town. Harmless, right? Here's the thing. Emma and her family never return from Greenville. They disappear. You search for answers, but nothing adds up.

12:31Emma had a great life back home. You guys were best friends. What happened? Well the truth is, once Emma realized she could have access to Michelin recognized restaurants, nature, local shops, and performing arts all in one place, everywhere else started to seem a little... Meh. Emma's vacation is a cautionary tale. If you're coming this way, don't forget to tell your friends and neighbors goodbye. Visit Greenville, South Carolina, but you may never want to leave. Learn more at visitgreenvillesc.com. On December 1, 1996, 27-year-old Tracy Andrews, a 25-year-old fiancé Lee Harvey, were at a pub in Bromsgrove in the West Midlands. After arguing all day, the couple were trying to patch things up, but their night was about to turn deadly.

13:32Tracy claimed that after they'd left the pub and Lee was driving, that they've become involved in a road rage incident, essentially, that a man in a dark, forward sierra, that been some kind of altercation, and he'd started following them. And she's suddenly aware that this car is behind lights flashing right on their tail. Lee starts to accelerate, there's snaking together through the lanes, the other car, then effectively draws Lee to a halt. Tracy later told detectives that the man following the couple along rural Cooper's hill got out of his car and Lee did the same. A confrontation was inevitable. The driver then has said what he wants to say, apparently, he gets back in the car, Lee is still outside of his car, and then the passenger gets out, a fat man with staring eyes, and he goes up to Lee and attacks Lee in a way that Tracy doesn't quite see.

14:40Then she piles in, she says to go to Lee's defence, because she says she's not the kind of girl to just sit there and see her man being attacked, at which point she gets smacked by the fat man in the eyes and repeatedly gets up and is knocked down. And then she says it all gets a bit hazy from that point, and then she kind of comes too almost and leaves there and he's covered in blood and she's cradling him, and it all goes very vague. Lee's car had ended up right outside a house called Keepers Cottage. The commotion in the road had alerted one of the residents. The guy made his way down the little path to the road and there sees in poor light, just shown by the security light, but there's a woman standing there with her back to the car.

15:41There's a body, prone body on the floor. He instantly runs back into the house, saying, call the police, call the police, call the ambulance. The case was immediately given to detective Superintendent Ian Johnston. I received a call from my smers who can stab me in the operations room, which directed me to the scene at Ghibless Hill where I met with divisional representatives. Present at that time was Lee's car, Lee's body, and Tracy Andrews was inside Keepers Cottage, having been found in the road outside. I could see Lee's vehicle. It was pulled in on the near side of the road, traveling towards off-church, and it didn't appear to have been stopped in any great hurry. It looked as though it had been fairly neatly parked to the side. Detectives at the scene spoke to Tracy to find out exactly what had happened. The incident appeared to have started from the Marblebrook public house.

16:44There had been a road situation down the A-38 towards the M-42 motorway. Lee's car had been stopped, and then an altercation had taken place between a member of that tracing vehicle and Lee collapsed, and then the other vehicle made its escape. Lee Harvey died at the scene. It was clear that he'd been the victim of a savage and frenzied attack. This is a severe, sustained, brutal attack with a pen knife. Now the estimates of how many wounds Lee suffered vary. Some local reports said 42. What is clear, he was stabbed in throat, back, front, repeatedly, viciously, and continuously. To produce 42 star wounds, it's a sustained assault. It's 42 movements of your hand.

17:44This is not something that you can do in a second or two seconds in a moment of madness. You have to keep going, and it is not easy. In Lee Harvey's case, the fatal stab wound was a stab wound to the cross-darty, that is a large artery in the neck, and a stab wound to an artery of that size is going to cause very rapid, very heavy bleeding. Without prompt medical attention, it's most likely to be a fatal injury. With an initial statement taken, a bruised and bloodied Tracy Andrews was whisked away in an ambulance. And she's treated for those injuries and for shock in hospital and cared for and tended for while police launch a massive murder hunt for whoever has done this terrible thing to leave. Tracy had told us that the following vehicle, which had followed them from the Maulbrook,

18:45was a dark-colored Ford Sierra, F-registered, and obviously we started a vehicle inquiry with the DVLA for the owner details of any vehicle that might fit that description. As reports of the apparent road rage murder reached news deaths across the country, journalists immediately headed to the West Midlands. From the very first moment, it was clear that this was going to be a huge story, an absolutely huge story. Just the idea of a road rage murder made it already a big story. And as the first morning progressed, everything we discovered made it a bigger story. Tracy began to emerge of Tracy. She looked an attractive young woman photographed, began to emerge of Lee, the victim, handsome young man. And so more and more of the elements that make a big story, young, attractive, bizarre

19:48and imaginable circumstances all started slotting into place. Tracy was knew that the best way to try and find the killer was to make an appeal through the media. A press conference was arranged for Tuesday, December 3rd, two days after the fatal attack. I'm at Tracy somewhere around about 10am, I believe, just before we were going to do the press conference. I asked her if she was content to do the press conference, if it was something that she wanted to do. She said that she was, she said she really wanted to do it. This hugely hiked up the media interest because we were going to have put in front of us it was said, the key witness. And someone we'd all seen the pictures by this time and attractive blonde. And she was going to sit there in front of us and answer our questions. There was massive media interest in this. As the press conference began, all the focus was on 27-year-old Tracy.

20:49The noise of the cameras, the motor drives going off as Tracy walked in the room was absolutely deafening. And appearing in front of us, I don't think we'd all thought what would appear really, but we'd all seen these glamorous shops. Here was a woman, red-eyed, haggard, completely unmade up, two black eyes, cut on her nose. And Tracy did look like a victim. She had the injuries to her face, she looked incredibly distressed, incredibly upset. But Tracy seemed very comfortable when faced with all the camera flashes and questions from the journalists. The press really wanted to hear from Tracy. So I became a bit of a sideline, really, which was fine. It was about the story, it was about the situation. And the press were interested in Tracy and she was quite happy to deal with the press.

21:53I was me and the other person, like playing cat and mouse, I went to the hospital for a while. I was like, over-truckers. I was shouting at Leica, you know, slow down, just ignore them, stop the car, but he... I don't know, I don't know if they're not a men or a kid, I don't know if they're not a men or a computer, and get me on the way to the car. Sometimes you change, there's no need to. During the press conference, when talking about the alleged killer, there was a moment when suddenly her eyes came up and she was mostly downcast throughout the press conference, but her eyes came up and they flashed fiercely and her mouth dropped open a bit with that famous, slightly jutting draw. And she looked really angry. And at that point again, all the motor drives went off.

22:55Every press photographer reacted to that. It was a crash of noise as every camera was hit. It was just the way he looked, his eyes were staring at us. They just didn't seem normal. I saw the man hit me. I don't know what we... I didn't see anything. And suddenly she starts appealing to the driver of the car saying, you're not in any trouble, you know, come forward and tell the police what it's all about. Whoever this person is that was with you, you're obviously knowing. He's ruined my life. Please just tell us when he is because he won't gain any trouble at all. It was not your fault. And I'm thinking, well, that's not strictly true. Is it you've driven your friend to emergency and he's killed someone and you've driven him away? So you are in trouble, but okay. And as the questioning progressed, Tracy seemed to contradict her original statement.

24:01I said, Tracy, sorry, but I clearly understood the police to say that it was about 10 past 10 when you left the pub and she kind of looked at me, sort of head down under her lashes and said, no, it was 10 to 10. And sat on her left was Superintendent Johnston. And I just saw him react to that answer from Tracy and very slowly his head turned to the right. And he just looked at her in a kind of assessing way, a kind of appraising way. And at that moment I thought, wow, there's something going on here. I just tried to stop the meeting and confident he was much as I could. The inconsistency in Tracy's story surprised the majority of reporters in the room.

25:02The press conference finished and the national newspaper journalists gathered outside in a bit of a pack as we would tend to do or friends or know each other work against each other. And somebody said, what do you think? And I said, I think she did it. And we all kind of looked at each other and thought this enormous story just got 10 times bigger again if she is the killer. Was it really conceivable that Tracy Andrews had been lying all along? As the investigation continued, new evidence suggested that maybe there was no road rage incident at all. Andrews would go from the only witness to the number one suspect in the murder of Lee Harvey. On December 3, 1996, 27-year-old Tracy Andrews appeared at an emotionally charged press conference

26:04and appealed to find the passenger of a fourth Sierra who she claimed had stabbed her fiance Lee Harvey to death. But unbeknownst to Andrews, the police were beginning to work out the truth that she had been the one responsible for the murder of 25-year-old Lee. It's self-preservation. That's what's driving her behavior at this point in time. And she's got absolutely no empathy whatsoever for Lee or for Lee's family or indeed for her own family who are also going to be really badly affected by this. So she's thinking, how do I best preserve myself? I'm going to take that role of the victim and I'm going to put myself in it. Andrews claimed that she and Lee had been the victim of a road rage incident didn't seem to add up. A witness statement from a child staying in a house on Cooper's Hill put her version of events in doubt. It was December, the windows were closed, but she could clearly hear a rower going on.

27:06What she remembered was that one was a distinctly male baritone voice. The other voice was much softer. And she said it was much more like a woman's voice. Forensic searches of the road had discovered more clues into what really happened. We couldn't get anywhere near the scene on the first morning or indeed for a few days afterwards the police completely sealed it off while they drafted in officers to carry out a fingertip search of the area. They found, we later discovered, were a couple of bits and pieces including a tiny spring and another element from a multi-function pen knife. What police didn't find was any trace of a car overtaking another car on the soft December winter verges of this pretty narrow road.

28:06Police had also found a black beanie hat in the hedgerow next to where these cars had been parked. So, air assumption was that this is maybe fallen out of the assailant's pocket and he's not realised it. So of course, that went a little bit more or less fairly quickly with the view towards DNA and from hair samples that sort of thing. And we had the report back by the Wednesday that this was animal hair and it was cut hair, black and white cut hair. Well, there's a black and white cut at traces and so we went down and took a sample of the hair from the cut. And it was the cut hair and then as I understand it later on it was accepted that this was lease hat but had been in traces pocket prior to the fence taken place. Andrew's lie about the hat was just one of many inconsistencies in her story.

29:06In lease hand they found between 80 and 100 strands of a traces hair that have been pulled from traces head as Lee has tried to defend himself. Now, if Lee had been murdered by this fat man with staring eyes, why would he have traces hair in his hand? Well, the pathologist's evidence was that this was more than just a death cross stroking that it was a reasonable clump that did a good pull. But of course, traces view was well, this must have been when he was going and he got his hand in my hair. So it came as sort of as Lee was passing away, he pulled some hair from her head. It was beginning to look more and more likely that Andrews had killed Lee in a fit of rage. I mean if you attack somebody day you're supposed to be in love with and step in 42 times and that's pretty out of control. She wasn't thinking to herself as she set off from the pub that evening.

30:09Oh, tonight's the night I think I'm going to kill Lee. She just exploded like a volcano. Over a matter of minutes literally, she went from mildly angry to obsessively angry and that therefore he had to die. When we talk about premeditated murder, we tend to assume that it's something that's days, weeks or months in the planning. But actually, premeditation only needs to take seconds. You only need to have a few seconds to decide that you are going to end somebody's life and she made that decision on this evening. And it seemed that Andrews guilty conscience was beginning to get the better of her. On Wednesday, December the 4th, the day after the telltale press conference, she tried to kill herself. Tracy takes an overdose and I think this is a very deliberate, very determined act on her part. I think she was absolutely set on ending her own life because over the past few days, the situation has spiraled completely out of her control.

31:12She's trying to keep her story together. She's trying to present this face as the victim and it's all getting a bit too much because it's starting to unravel. So I think this is an attempt to take back control to say, actually, I'm going to decide to do something now that I'm fully in control of and that's what this was. On the same evening, detectives were given their biggest steer yet. Two people had seen Lee's distinctive white Ford escort on the night of his murder. Two witnesses who said we've seen it in the local paper. I know I've seen this white car. We were driving from Alph church in the opposite direction. We came through Cupras Hill, Paschipus Cottage, we came down the hill. And as we came to the junction at the bottom, I saw this car go past. And he said it's a white escort, tree red, spoke wheels, everything that it was. And he said that there is no doubt that was the car.

32:13He said, from that point to when we got into Brombs Grove, we saw no car that fits any description of what you've been told. And there certainly wasn't any car chasing that car in the vicinity of Cupras Hill. So we've got the confirmation that we were looking for that the road rage incident did not occur. And so that changed the way that we looked at the investigation. A story really was starting to crumble at that point in time and combined with her suicide attempt, I think the police decided that's enough evidence. We can now move in and arrest her. On Saturday, December 7th, 1996, six days after Lee's murder, Tracy Andrews was arrested in hospital and taken into custody. The 27-year-old woman was arrested at 11 o'clock today, but so far detectives have released no further details. Until this development, the police had been looking for two men who they believe may have escaped from the scene in a dark, forward Sierra.

33:16The evidence from the two witnesses who'd seen Lee Harve his vehicle through the junction that night was extremely impactive. And realistically, without a following vehicle, without a dark colored foresee-air chase in that car, then the whole being of that explanation from Tracy just didn't stand up. Further evidence pointed towards Andrews being the killer, after the close he was wearing on the night of the murder, were forensically tested. The forensic scientist, who had examined one of Tracy's zipper boots, the other pair of ankle boots on, and within that he'd found a mark in the leather, which had a rounded top on it, and seemed to bear all the impression of the outside shape of the knife. And that's the hypothesis that she carried the knife away from the scene in her boot, and that as soon as she got to the hospital, she was able to dispose of it.

34:19She could have easily just thrown the knife into the grass or into the forest or whatever it was, and hoped the police would have found. But she even thought, no dude, these guys are going to bring dogs, they're going to search the whole area, they'll probably find something. Tracy Andrews was officially charged with the murder of Lee Harvey on December 19th, 1996. Her trial was set for July, and she was going to plead not guilty. Andrews was sticking to her story. The prosecution would have to prove that she was a liar.