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But i didnt want any kind of commitment. >> you were rejecting her essentially at this point. >> pretty much. >> did she accept that. >> how many times have you talked to gbi? >> four, five times. >> they have asked you for things and asked you to talk you have provided all of it. >> at the time i spoke with marcuss lawyer thomas. >> marcus called me one day when this first broke out and told me that he had been going to the jail and taras sister was there and made an accusation against him. >> ...

Nobody had. >> i was running late and the school secretary called me. >> sandy mcclure taught 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 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 ver...

>> we had a forensic team coming in. >> the circumstances were such that the behavior did not match tara. it was clear there was a problem. that said we couldnt eliminate the possibility 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 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 infa...

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 they had killed tara grinstead.

For criminal trespass at taras house. >> anthony received a phone call and it was hard to understand the person. he thought it was tara calling. he called the police and maybe the gbi and everybody got involved. they were able to track down the person who made the call and it was somebody from another town and it was a wrong number. >> then something which shocked everybody in 2009 four years after tara was last seen. >> we received notice somebody made a u tube posting and blocked her face out ...

Several different divisions. what was done with the glove ultimately resulted in the recovery of dna evidence as well as finger print evidence inside the glove. we had fingerprints and dna. >> we were surprised we were able to receive those pieces of information. >> any one we thought they had potential viability for taras disappearance we had swabs of their dna and on many they obtained major finger print information. rat last count 200 people had been swabbed for the dndna. >> the fact sha hee...

But i didnt want any kind of commitment. >> you were rejecting her essentially at this point. >> pretty much. >> did she accept that. >> how many times have you talked to gbi? >> four, five times. >> they have asked you for things and asked you to talk you have provided all of it. >> at the time i spoke with marcuss lawyer thomas. >> marcus called me one day when this first broke out and told me that he had been going to the jail and taras sister was there and made an accusation against him. >> ...

For four years>> if i first got the call he had posted what he did on-line it was diff stating to me. he started posting on the internet calling himself the catch me killer claiming he had killed about 16 people and eluded to the fact that tara was one of them. he wrote horrible poems about how he slit her throat and how -- or something about my glad he could not fight and her screams into the night. >> we were able to trace the youtube up load ultimately to a man in gainesville georgia by a nam...

Leaving before police got there. >> he had been arrested on a trespass kind of charge at taras residents 6 months before she disappeared. this was something we had to look at. >> there was more. >> we had established she had a relationship with a police officer from another jurisdiction. >> that officer was keith bikes. he was the man taras mother asked to check on her daughter that sunday when she failed to show up for lunch? >> anything unusual about him at all. >> no. >> you dont suspect him ...

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...