Army investigators announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the killing of a military spouse and her unborn child in Mannheim, Germany, in 1987. (Jessica Veltri/U.S. Army)
STUTTGART, Germany — Army criminal investigators are offering a $10,000 reward for information in a nearly 40-year-old unsolved killing of a military spouse and her unborn child in Mannheim.
Reward money will be given for any credible information leading to the conviction of the person or people responsible for the death of Tracy McMath in 1987, the Army Criminal Investigation Division said.
“The investigation is considered active, so I cannot divulge details,” CID spokesman Thomas Hamilton said Wednesday in response to questions about why the reward was announced.
On Sept. 29, 1987, the 20-year-old McMath was reported missing by a friend. She was later found dead in the bathtub at her off-base apartment in Mannheim with her hands tied behind her back.
Her ATM card had been stolen and was used to withdraw $600 in Kaiserslautern and Heidelberg, the CID said. At the time, her husband was away from home and involved in training activities in northern Germany.
Soon after her death, McMath’s brother, a U.S. soldier stationed in Frankfurt as an audio production specialist for AFN, was charged with murder. He was later acquitted in a court-martial.
Anyone with information about the McMath case can call the Army CID Cold Case Unit at (520) 706-8685, email usarmy.belvoir.hqda-usacid.mbx.cold-case-unit@army.mil or submit an anonymous tip online at www.p3tips.com/armycid.
Investigators have had some recent success in solving military cold cases.
In 2024, Army veteran Shannon Wilkerson, 44, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Pfc. Amanda Gonzales, who was found beaten and strangled in 2001 inside her barracks at Fliegerhorst Kaserne in Hanau, Germany.
