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>> 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 of anything? >> no. i have known ...

Connie grinstead in 1997. she became thel:w step mother t both of his daughters tara and older sister anita. >> tara was always setting goals for herself. she always knew what she wanted in life. she was willing to work as hard as she needed to to achieve their goals never got discouraged no matter how long it took. >> contest nant number 2 tara grinstead. >> she started doing pageants in high school. she started doing it to get scholarship money to go to college. >> taras older sister. >> we di...

Time they didnt get to see or talk to each other. i am sure that was hard on the relationship. tara was ready for marriage and marcus was not. she had told him that she felt like she needed to move on if things werent going to workout. i think she was kind of trying to maybe put a little pressure on him to commit to the marriage. >> she had been in love with him for years even though she broke up she had a hard time letting him go. >> marcus returned from deployment and was seen driving around t...

>> 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 of anything? >> no. i have known ...

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 name of andrew hailey. name of andr...

>> 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 ...

It will kill me that is what happened but i want the case solved. i dont 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. >> taras dispier reins leave a leaves -- disappearance leaves a small ...

Police department approximately five blocks away and arrived at taras house. what i saw when i first arrived was taras car was obviously still parked under the car port. i saw the neighbor standing in the front doorway eawaiting my 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. in...

>> the stuff i learned in her class i never would forget. and the site i didnt know we had at the school was her pageant. she loved pageantry. ever since then the pageants havent done well i didnt think they would do it well. the school used to have they didnt 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. >> taras case may only be solved if new evidence surfac...

With the ms. potato pageant. >> great place to raise kids. >> somehow whether you are akin to them or work with them everybody is connected. >> on the other hand everybody knows everybodys business. people who sneak around and get caught. >> every family has the secret and towns have the secrets. they are always willing to do anything that they could do to help somebody. >> it was in 1999 when 24-year-old tara grinstead moved to ocilla. she had grown-up in another small town 50 miles north. >> s...