Michael Tracey (born August 1948) is a British-American academic and television producer with a specialty in public service broadcasting.
He acquired notability as a result of his tenure as the head of the Broadcasting Research Unit in London, a British think tank dealing with media issues, and later with his investigative reporting on the death of JonBenét Ramsey.
On July 9, 2008, twelve years after the murder, DNA evidence corroborated that it was not the parents, but an unidentified man, who was responsible.
[4] Tracey has been "considered a notorious developer of false leads" by "Internet sleuths investigating the JonBenét Ramsey case".
In his documentary Who Killed the Pageant Queen?, which aired June 16, 2004 in the United Kingdom, Tracey "claimed to have stunning new evidence that was leading police to a previously unidentified 'prime suspect'".