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Teacher and former beauty queen disappeared in October 2005.

A jury acquitted Duke on 5 of 6 charges Friday, including murder and aggravated assault.

Ryan Duke, 36, had told authorities in 2017 that he killed high school teacher and former beauty queen, Tara Grinstead, back in 2005

A beloved Georgia H.S. teacher went missing in 2005. Over 11 years later, an unexpected arrest -- but will we ever know the truth of what happened?

Ryan Alexander Duke confessed "spontaneously and unsolicited" to agents on February 22, 2017, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation

CBS News Teacher and former beauty queen disappeared in October 2005. 2021 Jan 02 Tara Grinstead was a teacher and former beauty queen when she disappeared in October 2005. But nearly 12 years would pass before investigators finally learned what happened -- and now recent revelations indicate local law enforcement and state investigators may have been able to solve the case soon after she vanished. John McCullough, who maintains he tried to give investigator...

Taras 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 schol...