this, you know? you just hope and pray everyday that she's alive. but it was her. it was tara. >> enough of the teeth were there to -- to make a positive identification that it was tara. >> reporter: by then, sharon and keith were at home, waiting for the results. detective gandy went to tell them. that's never easy, huh? >> hardest thing you ever have to do. >> and then when they come to your door with clergy -- >> reporter: you see them coming? >> yeah. then the reality is -- that's it, you're never gonna see her again. it's so devastating. it's the worst pain ever. she didn't belong out there. >> reporter: 284 days after tara vanished, they knew, finally, she was never coming back.