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

him. >> it's been rough lately with marcus. >> he joined the army, trained 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 was with me by knocking on the windows. >> i said, what the hell have you done with my sister? >> she was very irrational. she told me that she would commit suicide. >> we haven't eliminated anyone. >> i think that somebody she knew -- >> this is the worst thing that we have ever been through in our entire lives. >> our town will never be the saimg. >> it's unbelievable, an incredible mystery. >> it's a mystery that still shocks the southern till of asill la, georgia. seemingly without a trace, tara

grim stead vanished without leaving clues but a long list of suspects. i went there when she first disappeared in the fall of 2005. the popular teacher and beauty queen had a complicated romantic life and was heartbroken over a recent breakup with a boyfriend. we wept back to look for new leads. tara's case continues to baffle authorities and her family. somebody knows something. >> this is small town america. >> located smack-dab in the center of the peach state, asilla, georgia, is a town of 4,000 people. it's steeped in southern hist y history. >> ocilla is quiet. two red lights and just small. >> there's a lot of acreage and farmland. i mean, just ponds. >> a lot of farm work here. >> the area's famous for growing sweet potatoes. and since 1961, ocilla pays

tribute to the crop with a sweet potato festival and pageant. o >> i've been here all my life it's a good place to grow up, good place to raise your kids. we talk about each other. my brothers and sisters. >> somehow, whether you're kin to them or work with them, everybody is connected. >> if one person has a problem, there's somebody there to help them. on the other hand, everybody knows everybody's business. people that sneak around 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 in 1999 when 24-year-old tara grimstead moved to ocilla, not a huge move to her. she grew up in another small town just 50 miles north. >> tara grew up in hawkins river, georgia. she was a very energetic girl.

>> tara's father billy remarried in 1997. thanhy became the stepmother to tara, 3, and anita her older sister. >> 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. >> number two, tara grimstead. >> tara started competing in pageants when she was in high school. she started doing pageants just so she could get scholarship money to go to college. >> anita gad's is her older sister. >> our family didn't have a lot of money. that was one reason she started doing pageants. we were very close considering the age difference. i was 14 when she was born. >> growing up together in

hawkinsville, big sister anita supported tara's pageant dreams. >> she decided she would like to be a contestant in the miss georgia pageant one day. in order 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. she was crowned miss tipton held in nearby tipton, georgia. >> the night that tara won the miss tipton pageant was probably one of the happiest times in her life. >> she'll be going to the miss georgia pageant. >> scompeted in the miss georgi pageant had been her goal for four years. >> that same year, tara competed in the statewide competition with her focus. >> you're judged on swimwear,

eveningwear, talent. you have an interview. it's a lengthy process and a lot of things you have to prepare for. >> what have you done to prepare for this? >> what haven't i done? i have worked on my interview. i have exercised. i've shopped for clothes and clothes and clothes and just tried to get it prepared for a lot of hard work the week of miss georgia. >> it waswhat was her talent? >> she sang. she was an mazing singer. she exciting time for our family. >> sadly, tara didn't win in 1999 and 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 in irwin county. 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 irwin county 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. >> she was my cheerleading coach and also hi ninth grade geography teacher. >> she is one of her former

students. >> i just really admired her. instantly i was so drawn to her. i just thought, this is somebody i want to be like. she was magnetic. >> in addition to a job in ocilla, tara also found love. her object of affection was the handsome 24-year-old stepson of her school superintendent. >> he was the boyfriend she met maybe she met six months or so after she had moved to ocilla. he was a police officer. >> you would have thought of marcus what? >> 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 at the time. >> a couple of years into their relationship, marcus changed careers. >> he joined the arm iy, trained to be a ranger. >> he also went to iraq and afghanistan as a ranger. >> right.

there were long periods of time they didn't get to see or talk to each other. and 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, and even though she broke up with him she just had really a hard time letting him go. >> in october 2005, marcus returned from deployment and was seen diriving around town. though not a couple, tara was devastated. >> october 20th, thursday morning, we exchanged e-mails. i had just sent her one saying, 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. he doesn't want to see me anymore. she said, it's been really difficult. >> saturday, october 22, 2005, still in emotional turmoil, interest ra 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 her friend's for a barbecue. she seemed on the upswing. >> when tara walked in the door that night, she was smiling. she seemed happy. well, the old tara is back. >> the barbecue is the last time the teacher and beauty queen was ever seen.

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o . on saturday, october 22, 2005, tara grinstad had a busy day. she had plans to help her forget the emotional turmoil she had been feeling about her ex-boyfriend marcus. she spent the day at home coaching young contestants in the miss georgia sweet potato pageant and then accompanied

them to the event. >> senior homecoming representative. >> 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, and she said she was going to go home and watch a video of the 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 that next sunday morning and tara didn't. so her mother and i were extremely worry and scared and i think were hoping for the best and praying she was just tired from the night before. >> so sunday night she was due with your mother. >> 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. >> who is heath dikes? >> he was a police detective in

a small town near hawkinsville. he called a number of times and then he actually around midnight drove to ocilla and looked around her house and left his business card in the wreath. 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 an as they do i'm just 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 mcclear caught at the same school as tara. >> she said tara was missing. i said, what do you mean tara is missing? she said, no one knows where she is. i go tearing to her house, knock on the doors, bang on her

windows. and her car was there. tara never went anywhere without her car. >> i had her for second block, and when she didn't show up for class we just knew something wasn't right because she never missed a day and not tell us before hand. >> 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-main 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 obviously still parked under the carport. i saw the neighbors standing in the front doorway waiting my approach. >> the neighbors had a key. >> that would be joe and myrtle?

>> right. they had a key. they met the chief of police. >> as i came on the front porch, the neighbor told me 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 looked as if she had been there earlier, was no longer there. they had a pageant the day before where girl wrz obviously getting ready inside the house. curling irons and that sort of thing were in the bathroom and jewelry and that sort of stuff laying around and clothing. the bed was unmade. phone still in the charging 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 didn't broadcast it. there were scary scenarios going through people's minds so we didn't want to alarm the kids if we didn't have to. when she wasn't there, we knew

something was wrong. >> chief hancock sensed that investigating the disappearance would be complex. >> we have a very small department. we did not have a crime scene technician. >> moreover, many had close relationships. the ocilla pd immediately called in the georgia bureau of investigation or gbi. >> the gbi received a request for assistance from the ocilla police department at 10:00 a.m. october 24, 2005. >> i hadn't realized this was a major case, but we sent everybody available in the office to respond. >> we talked to him for a while and they said that 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 get away for a while. >> i just assumed she needed alone time. >> this case happened on the heels of the infamous runaway bride case in atlanta. >> georgia's runaway bride. >> a girl 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 scoop. >> she was sought as a missing person. people thinking foul play occurred. and in actuality she had fled and was found in albuquerque on her own free will. >> because the emotional state tara had been in in the previous week, we weren't really sure what may have happened. >> tara's case went national, and the media got involved. >> did they notice it being broken? because the assistant could have knocked it over two weeks ago. >> the mysterious clues at

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during the last week of october 2005, the sleepy town of ocilla had woken up and sprung into action. >> all right, in line. >> 30-year-old tara grinstead, their neighbor, teacher and loved one, had vanished without

a trace. >> after the day she was a declared missing, which was on that monday, the whole town immediately, you know, centered around to figure out what to do. we even met at the high school, and we all searched. it was crazy because we all went looking for her and did flyers. >> i can't tell you how many places we rode and dumpsters we looked in. it's not a huge town, but it's got a large area of countryland. >> 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 as best they could. there are a lot of abandoned wells in irwin county. >> countless wells that are used and unused in which a body could be deposited. >> we checked every well in the county. >> the investigations

immediately focused on the few mysterious clues found at tara's house. >> i left my patrol car and began walking toward the front door along 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 would be something unusual in her front yard. >> it was a blue latex glove, one you would see worn by law enforcement. now, she had no latex gloves ny where in the house. >> also in the backyard i 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 anything about whether the kitchen looked out of sorts in any way? >> other than it was still -- from the beauty pageant she helped eight girls get ready so she was doing hair, makeup. other than this in the kitchen, basically, it's how it normally looked. >> the bed looked like it had been slept in. it was unmade. there was a lamp next to the bed that the shade was askew. it looked like it was off angle, broken at the base. eá rj broken? >> correct. >> it actually 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 talk 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 descriptors than that. that was something we certainly kept in context and attempted to identify but 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. >> so obviously some people wanted to say that it was him, but the neighbor said it was not the same type 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. tara's sister anita also had marcus in her sights.

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officer turned army ranger who was home in ocilla at the time. in the anxious hours when tara disappeared, marcus spoke to me about the relationship. >> we dated for about 5 1/2 years. >> when you said 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 she felt like 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 dating other people. she asked several times about rekindling the relationship, and 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? >> four, five times. >> they've asked you for things and asked you to talk and you've provided all of it. >> yes. >> at the time, i also spoke with marcus' lawyer thomas pa haute os. >> marcus called me one day when this first broke out and 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 that because that accusation had been made down at the jail in front of the officers he might need some assistance, someone to sit with him on the thing. >> is there anything that your client has not agreed to do that the gbi has asked? >> not a thing. >> marcus harper was cooperative, and 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. that's what we did with mr. harper. >> marcus gave police an alibi for october 22nd, the night tara was last seen. he first visited the white horse bar, a watering hole in the nearby town of fitzgerald. he then spent the late evening driving around ocilla in a cop car with a police officer friend who was on night patrol, something that was allowed in the small town. >> with mr. harper's alibi we interviewed everyone that we could identify 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. >> and what were the circumstances? >> she woke me by knocking on my windows. >> is that something common where she would knock on your windows or not? is that unusual? >> it's not unusual, but she was

crying and was upset about something. she was very irrational, and she told me that if 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. and we identified about a half dozen men with whom she 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. most suspected there was romantic involvement. >> i think he was very infatuated with tara. she had spent extra time tutoring him. i think he had kind of a bad family life so he saw that as -- that nurturing as maybe 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. neighbors actually called the police. she was just trying to talk him into leaving before the police got here. but neighbors kauld the police. >> this individual had been

arrested for a criminal trespass-related charge at tara's residence a little over six months before she disappeared. so 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. he was the man tara's mother asked to check on her daughter that sunday when she failed to show up for lunch. >> anything unusual about him at all? >> no. >> not at all? you don't suspect him of anything? >> oh, no. i've known him his whole life. but he was very distraught over her disappearance because they were really close friends. >> a lot of people try to throw him into this scenario. no, he didn't have anything to do with this. he did not. >> we have concluded that many people that we have looked at who had close associations with her, many have passed pally graphs and have alibis we haven't been able to break. her social life was very

complicated. we spent an enormous amount of time discerning fact from fiction that was complicated because of the nature of the life she was living. >> coming up next -- >> he started posting on the internet. >> someone claimed that they had killed tara grinstead.

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>> in in the days and weeks after tara grinstead vanished, her close friends and family were all investigated according to the georgia bureau of investigations. their alibis checked out. >> it was exceptionally frustrating. >> tara's sister anita actively pursued her own investigation. she went as far as to enlist the heche help of a private investigator dr. maurice godwin. >> once the word spread that i was around asking questions about tara's case, i really wasn't welcome. generally speaking i was not well received by the local ocilla police department. >> godwin began to look at all the information and evidence 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 state gbi crime lab in atlanta where it was carefully processed by several different divisions of what was done with the glove ultimately resulted in the recovery of dna evidence as well as fingerprint evidence inside the glove. we have identifiable prints and dna. >> they were very surprised that 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 viability as being responsible for tara's disappearance we obtained bacall swaps on her dna and obtained fingerprints. and at last count, 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 is no way to know everybody that tara knew. it's been entered in the national databases, the dna has. they know it's male dna. but so far there has 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. >> no video has ever been found. i've pursued it and pursued it.

>> i don't think one was made. so we don't know if maybe someone had told her they were going to drop off a copy to her or if 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 under the carport. accounts, ht card accounts, there was no activity. all of these were indicators that foul play had occurred and she had disappeared involuntarily. >> tara's disappearance was a confounding mystery. days and weeks and 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 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. 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 they had killed tara grinstead. this was a lead that we absolutely had to follow, whether we believed it credible

or not. you had someone claiming to have killed the person you have been looking for for four years? 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 her -- something about my blade she could not fight and her screams into the night. >> we were able to trace the youtube uploads ultimately to a man in gainesville, georgia, by the name of andrew haley. >> was he tara's killer?

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>> in 20099 family and friends of tara grinstead were in shock. a young man named andrew hailey was posting videos on-line calling me the catch me killer. >> he claimed to have killed 16 people and eluded to two specific victims one was 4-year-old jennifer kesse who disappeared in orlando florida in 2006 the other 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

like to bring her home. if you know anything please contact the authorities. i am greta van susteren. good-bye. tonight on "red eye" which republican presidential candidate tried to stab someone when he was 14? it is always the quiet ones. and the comedian who played the president on tv became the real president. could we have a president darrell hammond? and if the show wasn't packed with awesome enough already we have a full sows. bob saggit is in the live from america's news head quaurers. russian investigators are on their way to egypt after the deadly