Tracey Stanley is a killer from Florida who was convicted of the murder of Andrea Kathleen Day
According to court documents Andrea Kathleen Day, 72, and Tracey Stanley, 62, were roommates living in Inverness Florida
Something happened that ended with Tracey Stanley beating Andrea Day in the head with a hammer. It is believe she struck her at least twenty times
Tracey Stanley would call 911 eventually to report a dead person within the residence. When officers arrived they found the horrible scene
Tracey Stanley would be arrested, pled guilty and sentenced to forty years in prison
Tracey Stanley Case
On Friday, January 9, 2026, 63-year-old Tracey Lee Stanley was sentenced for the murder of her roommate, 72-year-old Andrea Kathleen Day.
Back in October of 2025, Stanley entered an open plea to the court, pleading no contest, in the case against her in lieu of going to trial. Stanley was charged with Second-Degree Murder for the death of her roommate.
Presiding over the case, Judge Joel D. Fritton sentenced Stanley to 40 years in the Florida Department of Corrections.
The case against Stanley began on July 20, 2024, when Citrus County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) deputies were dispatched to 6033 East Rector Street in Inverness, FL, after receiving a call in reference to a deceased person having been located.
Inside the residence, they located the victim, who had clearly been deceased for a while and was wrapped in a tarp. The victim had been bludgeoned to death by being hit repeatedly in the head over 20 times. Evidence collected from the scene determined that the item used was the claw end of a hammer. Further forensic testing of the item revealed both the victim’s and the defendant’s DNA on the hammer.
Stanley, who was Day’s roommate, was subsequently questioned by CCSO’s Major Crimes Detectives and was arrested in the case.
Assistant State Attorney Blake Shore successfully prosecuted the case.
Tracey Stanley News
An Inverness woman accused of killing her roommate last year pleaded no contest to second-degree murder, according to court records.
Tracey Lee Stanley, 63, entered the plea recently before Circuit Judge Joel D. Fritton in connection with the death of 72-year-old Andrea Kathleen Day, who was found dead and wrapped in a tarp, with a garbage bag wrapped around her head, in her home during the summer of 2024.
After detectives questioned Stanley, she was arrested at the Inverness Highlands South home and charged in Day’s death.
The case dates back to July 20, 2024, when Citrus County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to 6033 E. Rector St. in response to a call about a dead person in a house. According to authorities, Day had been dead for quite some time before deputies were notified.
An officer narrative obtained by the Chronicle in response to a public records request Friday states that a deputy observed Day lying on her back on the kitchen floor “with her legs outside of a blue tarp that was wrapped around her.”
The deputy noted in the partially redacted report that a “black garbage bag was located over the decedent’s head and upper torso.” The deputy stated that he saw blood near Day’s upper torso, while elsewhere inside the home, saw “some sort of a bodily substance spattered on the wall near the thermostat and also what looked like the same type of substance smeared on the floor coming from the hallway” toward where Day was found in the kitchen.
As of publication time, the substance remained unclear, since many details of the case have been sealed by a court order. The documents were briefly unsealed for the state attorney’s office to review last year and then resealed once again. Court records also cite Marsy’s Law in keeping case details from being disclosed.
At the scene, Tracey Stanley spoke to a deputy, Emory Parrish, who submitted the report, on the porch of the Inverness home, where documents state the deputy received an audio recorded statement from Stanley in regard to the incident.
“During conversation with Ms. Stanley, she informed me that her and the decedent did not speak very much and that she was ‘very difficult’ then described her living conditions inside as a hoarder and that feces was all throughout the house,” the report states. “Ms. Stanley explained that she typically stays in her bedroom and does not speak (to) or see the decedent much.”
According to the narrative, Stanley had told the sheriff’s deputy that she had been renting a room from Day – approximately six to seven months – since January 2024.
Parrish states that Tracey Stanley kept avoiding the topic of her morning and the blue tarp, but also told him that she and Day had argued over an internet router about a week or two before.
“I asked Ms. Stanley if she was trying to move out, which she avoided the question and continued talking about the living conditions and explained that for the price of rent this is all she could afford,” Parrish states. “As I was speaking with Ms. Stanley I observed that she had a scratch on the right side of her face with what appeared to be a healing bruise, I also observed some scratches on the back side of her right arm as well as some healing bruising (yellow in color).”
Court records show a trial date had been tentatively set for Oct. 20, but on Oct. 13, during a pre-trial court session, a plea agreement came after a brief discussion between Stanley and her attorney, according to a media release from State Attorney Bill Gladson’s office.
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