football game that night? >> yeah. >> and then, they went through her friends. and then actually they called one friend. and this person was dating a tara. >> sharond, it wasn't her tara. the officer tried a different tactic. >> we'll put a b. o. l. o. out. >> b. o. l. o? >> yes. >> "be on the look out. " >> tara's family knew if she had gone to the football game, if she had gone anywhere, she would have told them. deputies said since tara was an adult, they would wait 24 hours before calling her a missing person. maybe she just left on her own. >> if my daughter was a runaway or a troubled child or whatever the case may have been, i would have told you that. i know my child. >> how frustrated were you? >> oh, so very frustrated. >> veronica, not quite 14, remember, was terrified. >> why wasn't anybody taking action and figuring out where she was? >> keith and sharon called everybody they knew in town. their best friends offered moral support, came to the house, and one of them noticed something on the floor. >> we just heard, "oh, my god! " and we walked in and she was bending over, pulling it out of the carpet like it was embedded in the carpet.