have a great weekend. we will see you here on monday. >> every town has every town has its secrets. >> tara's life, her social life was very complicated. >> she competed in 19 pageants. >> she was magnetic. >> no one knows where she is. >> her mother started getting frantic. >> we checked every well in the county. >> in which a body could be deposited. >> swamps and ponds and abandoned wells. >> we don't know what happened to her. >> we saw a latex glove that seemed out of place. >> we have identifiable prints and dna. >> she had been in love with him

for six years. >> he joined the army, training to be a ranger. >> he also went to iraq and afghanistan. >> there were rumors going around town. >> when was the last time you actually saw her? >> she knocked on my window. >> i said, what the hell have you done with my sister? >> she was irrational. she told me she would commit suicide. >> we haven't eliminated anyone. >> i think somebody she knew. >> this is the worst thing that we have ever been through in our entire lives. >> it will never be the same. >> this is incredible mystery. >> it's a mystery, that still shocks the small southern town of ocilla, georgia. seemingly, without a trace, 30-year-old tara grinstead

vanished leaving few clues, but a long list of possible suspects. i west to ocilla when she first disappeared in 2005. she had a complicated romantic life and was heart broken with the recent break-up of a long-term boyfriend. we went back to look for mu clues. the case continues to baffle authorities and her family. somebody knows something. >> ocilla is a small town in america. >> snaa town of 4,000 people. it's deep in southern history. ocilla's quiet, and small. >> there's a lot of acreage, and farmland. just ponds. >> a lot of farm work here. >> the area's famous for growing sweet potatoes. and since 1961, ocilla pays

tribute to the sweet potato pageant. >> i've been here all my life. it's a good place to grow up. good place to raise kids. >> somehow, whether you're kin to them or work with them, everyone's connected. >> if one person has a problem, there's somebody there to help them. on the other hand, everybody knows everybody's business. if you sneak around, you'll get caught. >> every family has its secrets, every town has its secrets. >> we always found the people there to be very warm and friendly. always willing to do anything that they could do to help somebody. >> it was 1999 when 24-year-old tara grinstead moved to ocilla. it wasn't a huge move for her. she had grown up in another small town just 50 miles north. >> tara grew up in hawkinsville, georgia. and she was a very energetic little girl. >> after divorcing his wife fay,

tara's father, billy, mattered connie grinstead in 1977. connie became the stepdaughter to tara and her older sister anita. >> tara was always setting goals for herself. she seemed to always know what she wanted in life. and she was always willing to work as hard as she needed to, to achieve her goals. and she never got discouraged. no matter how long it took. >> tara grinstead. >> tara started competing in pageants when she was in high school. >> she started doing pageants so she could get scholarship money to go to college. >> anita is tara's older sister. >> we didn't come from a family with a lot of money. so that was one reason she started doing pageants. >> tara grinstead. >> we were very close. i was 14 when she was born. >> growing up together in

hawkinsville, big sister anita supported tara's pageant dreams. >> she decided that she would like to be a contestant in the miss georgia pageant one day. but in order to be able to do that, you had to win one of the miss georgia preliminary pageants. and to show you what a determined person she was, she competed in 19 preliminary pageants in a four-year period. >> number two! >> tara's determination paid off. in 1999 tara was crowned. >> the night that tara won the pageant was probably one of the happiest times in her life. >> going to the miss georgia pageant. >> she would compete in the miss georgia pageant. that had been her goal for four years. >> that same year tara competed with her usual commitment and focus in the statewide competition. >> you're judged on swimwear,

eveningwear, talent. you have an interview. it's a lengthy process and a lot to prepare for. >> what have you done to prepare? >> what haven't i done. work on my interview. i've exercised. i've shopped for clothes and clothes and clothes. just tried to get prepared for a lot of hard work. >> it was a talent. >> she sang. she was an amazing singer. very exciting time for our family. >> sadly, tara didn't win georgia miss 1999. though pageants would long remain a passion, she also had other ambitions. >> from the time she was a little girl, she always said that she wanted to be a history teacher. she went to georgia southwestern state university, and graduated with her degree in education. and then got her master's degree. >> the hawkinsville gal got her

first teaching job just down route 11 in the nearby town of ocilla. the two towns are friendly rivals. >> once she got there, she fell in love with the town. >> we are a very small community. so if you work at our school, you aren't just someone who comes in, teaches a class and walks out the door. >> wendy mcfarland was tara's fellow teacher at the high school. >> you engross yourself in the school. you go to extracurricular activities, and hang out with your kids after school. and she was someone who just really embraced our way of thinking. >> miss grinstead was cool. she was my cheerleading coach. and also my 9th grade geography teacher. >> she's one of tara's former

students. >> i admired her as a person. i was drawn to her. i saw her as somebody i wanted to be like. she was magnetic. >> in addition to a job in ocilla, she also found love. it was the handsome 24-year-old stepson stepson. >> she met him about six months after she moved to ocilla. he was a police officer for the ocilla police department. >> he was really nice. he spent christmas with us. exchanged a lot of stories about his police work. and things he did. he seemed a little bit cocky, but she seemed very happy with him. >> a couple years into their relationship, marcus changed careers. >> he joined the army. trained to be a ranger. >> he also went to iraq and afghanistan with the rangers? >> right. so there were long periods of time when they did not get to

see or talk to each other. i'm sure that was hard on the relationship. tara was really ready for marriage, and marcus was not. she had told him that she felt like that she needed to move on if things were not going to work out. i think she was kind of trying to maybe put a little bit of pressure on him to commit to the marriage. >> she had been in love with him for six years. even though she broke up with him, she had really a hard time letting him go. >> in october 2005, marcus returned from deployment. and was seen driving around town. though not a couple, tara was devastated. >> thursday morning, october 20th, we exchanged e-mails. i had just sent her one, just to say i was thinking about you today, hope you have a good day. and i love you. and she wrote back and said, thanks. it's been rough lately with marcus. he's back in town, and he didn't

let me know. and he doesn't want to see me anymore. she said, it's been really difficult. >> saturday, october 22nd, 2005, still in emotional turmoil, tara nevertheless had a full day of activities planned. >> she had been helping students get ready for the pageant. which was the sweet potato pageant. doing their hair and makeup at her house. >> that evening after the pageant, tara went to a friend's house for a southern barbecue. by all accounts, the distraught woman seemed on the upswing. >> when tara walked in the door that night, she was smiling. she seemed happy. we thought, the old tara is back. >> the barbecue is the last time the teacher and beauty queen was ever seen. was out for a bike ri i didn't think i'd have a heart attack. but i did. i'm mike, and i'm very much alive. now my doctor recommends a bayer aspirin regimen to help prevent another heart attack.

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sglnks on saturday, october 22nd, 2005, tara grim stead had a busy day. she had planned to help forget the turmoil she was feeling about her ex-boyfriend marcus. she spent the day at hope coaching young contestants in the sweet potato pageant. in the evening, she went to a barbecue at this house, just a few blocks from her home. >> about 11:00 that night, tara told the people at the cookout that she was tired after working with the girls all that afternoon, and going to the pageant. she said she was going to go home and watch a video of the packagest. pageant. >> the next day, sunday, she had plans to meet up with her mother, fay, and best friend maria woods. >> she was supposed to come to her mother's the next sundaymor. and tara didn't. so her mother and i were extremely worried. and scared. and i think were hoping for the

best. and praying that she was just tired from the night before. >> so sunday night she was due at your mother's. >> her mother started getting frantic when she didn't call her back anytime sunday night. >> worried sick, tara's mother called a family friend who worked in law enforcement. >> he was a police detective in a small town near hawkinsville. he called a number of times. then he actually around midnight drove to ocilla, and looked around her house. and left his business card. i think he had left maybe 15 or 20 messages on her house phone. >> monday, october 24th, over at irwin county high school, students and teachers began their day. >> i have morning duty, as i do every morning. all the teachers come down the hall and as they do, i'm greeting everybody. that particular morning, one of our fellow co-workers came up and said, hey, has anybody seen tara this morning? and nobody had.

>> i was running late. and the school secretary called me. >> sandy mcclure taught at the same school as tara. >> and she said that tara was missing. and i said, what do you mean tara is missing? and she said, no one knows where she is. >> i went to her house, and her car was there. tara never went anywhere without her car. >> i had her for second block. when she didn't show up for class, we knew something wasn't right. she never missed a day. and not tell us beforehand. >> we knew something was very, very wrong. tara is too committed to her students. there was no way she wouldn't have been at work without calling somebody. >> on the morning of october the 24th, i received a telephone call. >> billy hancock is the chief of the 12-man ocilla police force. >> i immediately drove from the

police department approximately five blocks away, and arrived at tara's house. what i saw when i first arrived was tara's car was obviously still parked in the carport. i saw the neighbors standing in the front doorway, waiting as i approached. >> the neighbors had a key. >> joe and myrtle? >> yeah, joe and myrtle next door, they had a key. so they met the chief of police. >> as i came on the front porch, the neighbor told me that he had already been inside the house, and that tara was not there. he was concerned as to her whereabouts. i, too, went inside the house and began to search for tara. inside the house, it looked as if she had been there earlier, was no longer there. they had had a pageant the day before, where girls were obviously getting ready inside the house. curling irons and that sort of thing laying in the bathroom. and jewelry. and that sort of stuff laying around, and clothing.

the bed was unmade. the phone still in the charger by the bed. >> we were at school so we didn't know what was going on. we didn't intentionally keep it from the kids, but we weren't broadcasting it. there were some really scary scenarios that were going through people's minds, so we didn't want to alarm the kids, if we didn't have to. when she just wasn't there, we knew something was wrong. >> chief hancock sensed investigating the disappearance would be complex. >> we had a small department. we did not have a crime scene technician. >> the coworkers, friends and law enforcement had close relationships. the ocilla pd called in the gbi. >> the gbi receives a request for assistance from the ocilla police department at about 11:00 a.m. on october 24th, 2005. >> gary is a retired special agent of the gbi. >> i had realized this was a major case. so we sent everyone available in the office to respond. >> we talked to him for a while. they said that, you know, they

had a forensic team coming in. >> in this case, the circumstances were such that the behavior did not match tara. it was clear that there was a problem. that said, we couldn't eliminate the possibility that she had gone off on her own, was upset, or left for some other reason. >> i think a lot of people in the beginning that knew that she had been upset about the situation between her and marcus thought that maybe she just decided to just get away for a while. >> i just assumed it. >> this case happened on the heels of the infamous runaway bride case in atlanta. >> a girl had about the age of tara, was engaged. and she got cold feet, and left. and they had her missing, and she was on national tv. it was a big thing. >> she was seen as a missing person. people think foul play occurred. in actuality she fled and was in

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loved one, had vanished without a trace. >> she was declared missing. the whole town immediately, you know, centered around to figure out what to do. we even met at the high school. we all searched. >> it was crazy. we all went looking for her, and put up fliers. >> i can't tell you how many places we looked in. it's not a huge town. but there's a large area of country land. >> what makes it very difficult is the number of bodies of water. >> there are a lot of swamps and ponds and just places that it's difficult to get to. and they searched the best they could. there are a lot of abandoned wells in the county. >> countless wells, used and unused, in which a body could be deposited. >> we checked every well in the county. >> the investigation immediately

focused on the few mysterious clues found at tara's house. >> i went walking towards the front door to the pathway. lying in the grass i saw a latex glove that seemed out of place and not normal. >> that's not something you find on a crime scene every day. >> i take it a latex glove was unusual in her front yard? >> one you would see with law enforcement. she had no latex gloves anywhere. >> also in the backyard, we saw that her dog was still here. >> the next door neighbor told me that she heard dolly barking about 2:00 a.m. that sunday morning. and she said it was very common for dolly to bark off and on during the night. but that particular night, she said that dolly just kept on barking. she would not stop. >> two weeks after tara disappeared, i was in ocilla, her sister anita took me into the house. >> when the police first came into this living room, did they

find anything tipped over? >> no, they did not. >> have you heard about whether the kitchen looked out of place in any way? >> other than since the pageant she had helped girls get ready, with hair and makeup. this is how it normally looks. >> it looked as if it had been slept in, or it was unmade. there was a lamp right next to the bed that the shade was askew. it looked as if it was off-angle, broken at the base. >> the lamp? is this the lamp? >> correct. >> it looks like it could have fallen on the floor. it's got a piece missing. and there were other clues. >> there were a lot of people talking about seeing a black truck in tara's yard. even talked to one of the neighbors who lived just about a block away, who actually said he saw a black truck there, that he

did not recognize. i don't think that they've been able to track down the driver of a black truck. and we don't have any knowledge of who it could be. >> of course, a black pickup truck in rural georgia is exceptionally common. we didn't have any better description than that. so that was something we certainly kept in context, and attempted to identify. but we weren't able to conclude anything based on that. >> anybody you know have that kind of vehicle? >> marcus had a truck like that at the time. >> obviously some people wanted to say that it was him. the neighbors said it was not the same type of truck that marcus was driving. >> maybe not marcus' truck, but as tara's ex-boyfriend, the investigation immediately focused on him. >> marcus harper was the love of tara's life. and he was someone that we certainly had to look at very, very closely. and we did from the outset. >> the police weren't alone. ta

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with driving under the influence. witnesses say her car hit a motorcycle before driving into the crowd sending bodies flying everywhere. more than 30 people injured, eight remain hospitalized, some critical. oklahoma governor mary fallon spoke earlier. >> it's hard to imagine that you're coming to a game, and all of a sudden it turns into a tragedy with people losing their loved ones and their lives are changed forever. it's very important that all of us pull together and offer our prayers and support and our gratefulness to the first responders that responded so very quickly to help those that were injured. i'm greg jared. now back to gre"greta investig " investigates." when tara grinstead vanished in ocilla, georgia, in 2005, the investigation almost immediately focused on her ex-boyfriend, marcus harper. he was a former police officer

turned army ranger who was home in ocilla at the time. he spoke tohe relationship. >> we dated for about five and a half years. >> when you say dated, was it a serious or casual relationship? >> it was a commitment. we did not date other people. but i was honest with her when i said i had no intentions of marriage because of my career. >> did there come a time when this dating relationship ended? >> yes. she told me it was time for her to move on. >> and you're getting dumped essentially. >> more or less. >> were you upset by that at all? >> at first. we continued to remain friends. but i felt a little rejected at first. but i brushed my shoulders off, went on and started other people. she asked several times about rekindling the relationship.

i told her, we could stay friends, but i didn't want any kind of commitment. >> so you were rejecting her essentially at this point? >> pretty much. >> did she accept that? >> no. >> how many times did you talk to the gbi? >> about four times. >> you provided all of the information? >> yes. >> marcus called me one day, when this first broke out and said that -- he told me that he had been going to the jail and tara's sister was there, and made an accusation against him. >> i said, what the hell have you done with my sister? >> he felt concerned, because that was -- that accusation had been made down at the jail, and felt he might need some assistan assistance. >> is there anything your client did not agree to do? >> nothing. >> marcus was cooperative. we secured dna samples, polygraph examinations, fingerprints, all the sorts of things that we did with anybody

else associated with tara that we deemed important enough, and that's what we did with mr. harper. >> marcus gave police an alibi for the night tara was last seen. he first visited the white horse bar in the nearby town of fitzgerald, and spent the late evening driving around in a cop car with a friend on night patrol. something allowed in the small town. >> mr. harper's alibi, we interviewed everyone we could identify as having associated with him during the period in question. and that alibi held up. >> when was the last time you actually saw her? >> the 14th of october. it was on a friday morning. >> about what time? >> around 9:00. >> what were the circumstances? >> she knocked on my windows. >> is that something common where she would knock on your windows, or was it unusual? >> it's not unusual.

but she was crying. and was upset about something. she was very irrational. and she told me that she found out i was dating someone. she would commit suicide. >> i didn't want to think that, but in the back of my mind, i think it's possible for anybody. >> there were rumors going around town that tara possibly had committed suicide, and i think that started because everybody knew she was upset about the situation with marcus. i have never believed for one minute that tara committed suicide. >> we reached out to marcus for a new statement on tara's disappearance but did not receive a reply. >> when we looked into tara's background, we immediately learned that she was a 30-year-old beautiful woman that had a social life. we identified about a half a dozen men with whom she had

had -- had gone out or some sort of romantic involvement recently. >> the investigators also looked at a former student of tara's, named anthony vickers. >> there was a 20-year-old former student with whom tara had some sort of relationship. that was very suspicious to people that knew her. they suspected there was romantic involvement. >> i think he was very infatu e infatuated with tara. she spent time tutoring him. he saw that as that nurturing as something romantic. >> there was an incident where anthony came over to tara's house and was beating on the door and trying to get her to open the door. >> did the student actually get into the house? >> no, he did not. >> was she home at the time? >> she was home. the neighbors actually called the police. >> this individual had been

arrested for a criminal tress practices related charge at tara's residence a little over six months before she disappeared. this was something we certainly had to look at. >> there was more. >> we had established that she had a relationship with a police officer from another jurisdiction. >> that officer was heath dikes, the man her mother asked to check on her daughter that sunday when she failed to show up for lunch. >> anything unusual with him at all? >> no. >> you don't suspect him of anything? >> oh, no. i've known him his whole life. he was very distraught over her disappearance. because they were really close friends. >> a lot of people tried to throw him into the scenario. he didn't have anything to do with this. he did not. >> we have concluded that many people that we looked at with close associations with her, many of them have passed polygraphs and have alibis that we have not been able to break. >> tara's life wa very

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>> in in the days and weeks after tara grinstead vanished, her close friends and families were all investigated according to the georgia bureau of investigation. their alibis checked out. >> it was extremely frustrating. >> tara's sister anita went so far as enlist the help of a private investigator from north carolina, dr. maurice godwin. >> once we found out that the word spread, then i was around asking questions about the tara case, i really wasn't welcome that much. generally speaking, i was not well received by the local police department. >> godwin began to look at all the information surrounding tara's disappearance. the blue latex glove remained an important clue. >> i think it was found about 10, 15 feet in front of the front porch. >> we took the glove to the crime lab in atlanta where it was carefully processed by

several different divisions. what was done with the glove ultimately resulted in dna evidence, as well as fingerprint evidence inside the glove. we have identifiable prints and dna. >> they were very surprised they were able to retrieve both of those pieces of information. >> and? >> and not been able to match it to anybody. >> anyone that we encountered in the case that we thought had any potential liability being responsible for tara's disappearance, we received buccal swabs of dna and fingerprints to compare to the evidence on the glove. at least 200 people had been swabbed for dna to be compared with the dna on the glove recovered from tara's residence. >> the fact that she had taught school for eight years, she had competed in over 30 pageants across the state of georgia. she had gone to two different

colleges. there was no way to know everybody that tara knew. it's been interested into the national data bases. they know it's male dna, but so far there's not been a match. >> i'm not convinced that the glove wasn't a plant. that it was planted there to divert the attention away from the real culprit. >> we're absolutely certain that that glove is associated with someone who was involved in the disappearance of tara grinstead. >> and there was another mystery. >> tara told the people at the cookout that she was tired after working with the girls all that afternoon, and going to the pageant, and she said she was going to go home and watch a video of the pageant. >> that video has never been found. i've pursued it and pursued it. >> i don't think if one was made. so we don't know if somebody had told her that they were going to drop off a copy to her, or she just said that as a way of

politely excusing herself to go home. >> tara's home itself also presented a strange set of clues. >> the door was locked. but her purse and her keys were not there. >> tara's car was still parked in the carport. >> her bank accounts, her credit card accounts, there was no activity. all these were indicators that foul play had occurred, and she had disappeared involuntarily. >> tara's disappearance was a confounding mystery. years passed by without answers. at least twice information came in that gave her friends and family hope. >> shortly after tara disappeared, there was a tip that came in about a possible sighting. it was actually in the birmingham area. and of course, my heart was pounding, because my first thought was maybe somebody did abduct her, and she's gotten away from them. so i got my hopes up. >> that information didn't lead anywhere. another tip came in from anthony vickers, the very student who

was arrested for criminal trespass at tara's house. >> anthony said that he had received a phone call, and it was hard to understand the person. and he thought that it was tara calling. and i believe he called the police, and maybe the gbi, and everybody got involved. and they were able to actually track down the person that had made that call. and it was somebody from another town. and it was just a wrong number. >> but then something which shocked everybody in 2009, four years after tara was last seen. >> we received notice that someone had made a youtube posting, had blocked their face out electronically and distorted their voice and essentially claimed that they had killed tara grinstead. this was a lead that we absolutely had to follow, whether we believed it credible or not. we've got someone claiming to have killed the person you've been looking for for four years, you know, it was something we had to do.

>> when i first got the call that he had posted the things that he had online, i mean, it was just devastating to me. he started posting on the internet, calling himself the catch-me killer, claiming that he had killed about 16 people, and he alluded to the fact that tara was one of them. i mean, he wrote horrible poems about how he slit her throat, and how -- something about my blade she could not fight, and her screams into the night. >> we were able to trace the youtube upload ultimately to a man in gainesville, georgia, by the name of andrew haley. >> was he tara's killer? ♪ ♪ it's the final countdown! ♪

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>> in 20099 family and friends of tara grinstead were in shock. a young man in gainesville, georgia, named andrew haley, was posting videos online, calling himself the catch me killer. he claimed to have killed 16 people and eluded to two specific victims. one was 24-year-old generalier who disappeared in 2006. the other was eric. ther tara grinstead. >> he had to be taken seriously. you have somebody who is missing and here's somebody claiming that they did it or have the information about it so you have to at least follow through to make sure that it is not connected to >> we tracked hailey down and learned he had made these postings both from the residence and hospital room where his wife was being kept as a patient.

we executed search warrants ceased the computer and clothing he wore or cameras he made a video with. >> he was playing the mystery clue game to see how many followers he could get. >> he was tried in a court convicted and sentenced to time in prison. >> i am not aware of anybody who wanted to harm tara. i don't know of any enemy she had. there have been people called persons of interest because they knew her or had contact with her. there has never been anybody who had been in the investigation. >> we don't know of any one responsible for tara'st disappearance. >> almost 10 years passed since

her disappearance. they receive add new tip to search a pond in a nearby county. they found nothing. authorities are no closer to solving this case. >> her file is probably the largest case file in the investigation. there's a saying the bigger the file the less you know. with the dna match or finger print match with the glove or something i can't anticipate that will meet the variables that make all of the other information make sense. >> i believe this takes the before. the strategy that has been used for nine years in this case obviously has not worked. that's obvious. it is time to try something new. >> i want this case to be solved. i have no fear whatsoever if someone solves it and finds out i did something or forgot to do

something that could have solved the case earlier. it will kill me that is what happened but i want the case solved. i don't care any more. >> this is the worst thing we have ever been through in our entir life. we go to bed every night wondering where tara is and every single morning with the question where is she? >> the hardest thing is the mystery and the unanswers. even if we never found tara i would feel some peace if i knew what happened/!ú to her and whs responsible. >> tara's dispier reins leave a leaves -- disappearance leaves a small scar. >> not sure about team marcus. team tara or just if is tore tara people they knew marcus did it and tleehere's a group of pee who don't think marcus did it.

>> the stuff i learned in her class i never would forget. and the site i didn't know we had at the school was her pageant. she loved pageantry. ever since then the pageants haven't done well i didn't think they would do it well. the school used to have they didn't do it any more. i think somebody she knew to be honest with you i feel like maybe one day the truth will come out. >> it will never be the same. hopefully one day tara will come back. >> tara's case may only be solved if new evidence surfaces or the dna or the glove points to a specific suspect or if someone in ocilla who knows something talks. tara grinstead made the beloved figures for the small georgia town. her friends and family would

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