Who Really Killed Alabama Teens Tracie Hawlett and J.B. Beasley?

Is the cold case finally solved after 20 years?

J.B. Beasley (left) and Tracie Hawlett (right) / Source

I recall being in high school and overhearing my mom and her friend discussing how two teenage girls had been murdered in a neighboring town. Murdered?? No one gets murdered here, especially two teenage girls. They were only a year older than me. It sounded like a story from the show Unsolved Mysteries, which was one of my favorites. Little did I know that it would later be featured on one of the hit show’s episodes.

J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett

In 1999, J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett were incoming seniors at Northview High School in Dothan, Alabama. On the night of July 31st, the best friends loaded up in J.B.’s 1993 black Mazda 929 and headed to nearby Headland, about 10 miles north of Dothan. It was J.B.’s 17th birthday, so they were going to attend a “field party” (a common pastime of youth in the South) at the home of another friend, Janna.

Tracie and J.B. / Source

They left Tracie’s house at approximately 10 p.m. and were spotted in Headland at about 10:30 p.m. They realized they were lost and stopped at a…