Perhaps he was a sadistic serial killer before the RV family killed him, and perhaps that's why they killed him. Tracy was simply one of his victims back in his living, breathing days. All the family did was make him immortal, in some fashion. You can't kill what's already dead, right?
It's just too bad that the killer's not the least bit interesting, let alone fear-inspiring. He has no personality to attract us to him; he exists purely for killing, with no tangible or conceivable motivation. He's as mute as Michael Myers but, unlike KZL-303, Michael Myers actually showed the occasional humanifying mannerism which gave us something to grab onto. KZL-303 is just a mute, generic country boy with a truck.
Anyway, distaste for the killer aside, someone already pointed out a genuine anachronism about Tracy: She disappeared (and was apparently tortured to death) in 1971, while she was on her way to seeing the Rolling Stones concert in Arizona. The Stones never played in Arizona until their American Tour brought them to Tucson, Arizona in 1972. There's your anachronism right there. ;-)
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