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Degree and got her masters degree. >> she got her first job in ocilla. >> once she got there she fell in love with the town. >> we are a very small community. if you work at our school you arent just someone who comes in, teaches a class and walks out the door. >> wendy macfarland was taras teacher at the high school. >> you oengross yourself in the school and go to extra curricular activities and hang out with the kids after school. she was someone who just really embraced our way of thinking. ...

After takeoff. the black boxes have been recovered. meantime, the national transportation safety board says a search team has found what may be the wreckage of el faro, the cargo ship that went missing during hurricane joaquin. it was found 15,000 feet under water. the entire crew of 33 was lost. and meanwhile, in kentucky, american pharaoh going out in style. this years triple crown victory adding the breeders classic to his list. the final race of his career. he ran the mile and a quarter in r...

Approach. >> my neighbors had a key. >> joe and myrtle? >> yes. they had a key. they met the chief of police. >> the neighbor told me he had already been inside the house and tara was not there and he was concerned about her whereabouts. i began to search for tara. inside the house luke did this and she had been there earlier was no longer there. they had had a pageant the day before where girls were getting ready inside the house, curling irons and this sort of thing laying in the bathroom and ...

Did not recognize. i dont think that they have been able to track down the driver of the black truck. we dont have any knowledge of who it could be. >> a black pickup truck in rural georgia is exceptionally common. we didnt have any better descriptors than that. that was something we kept in contact and attempted to identify but werent able to conclude anything based on that. >> any one have that happen kind of vehicle? >> marcus had a truck at that time. >> some people wanted to say it was him....

>> 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 heres somebody claiming that they did it or have the information about it so you have to at least ...

I tear into her house knock on the doors bang on the windows and her car is there. tara never went anywhere without her car. >> when she didnt show up in class we knew something wasnt right 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 is no way she wouldnt 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 ...

Some other reason. >> i think a lot of people in the beginning that knew she had been upset about the situation between her and marcus thought maybe she decided to get away for a while. >> i assumed she needed alone time. >> this happened on the heels of the infamous run away bride case in atlanta. >> a girl about the age of tara was engaged and she got cold fight and left. they had her missing and she was on national tv and it was a big thing. >> people that foul play occurred and she was found...

School for 8 years she had competed in over 30 pageants across the state of georgia. she had gone to two different colleges. it has been entered in the national data bases the dna hadñ so far there had not been a match. >> i am not convinced it wasnt planted there to divert the attention away from the real culpr culprit. >> we are concern the glove was associated with someone who was involved in the disappearance of tara grinstead. >> there was another mystery. >> tara told the people at the co...

Let me know. he doesnt want to see me any more. it has been difficult. >> saturday october 22nd, 2005, still in emotional turmoil tara nevertheless had a whole day of activities planned. >> she had been helping students get ready for the pageants8fkyñh is the sweet potato pageant. doing her hair and makeup at her house. >> that evening after the pageant she went to a friends house to a southern barbecue. she seemed on the up swing. >> when tara walked in the door that night she was smiling and ...

Dozen men with whom she had gone out or some sort of romantic involvement recently. >> the investigators also looked at a former student of taras 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 a romantic involvement. >> i think he was very infatuated with tara. she had spent extra time tutoring him. i think he had a bad family life. he saw that as that newer f...