The Disappearance of Tara Grinstead
- 6年前
The Disappearance of Tara Grinstead\r
Tara Grinstead is a beauty queen and high school history teacher who lived in Ocilla, Georgia, USA, and has been missing since October 22, 2005. Neither police nor the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have identified any suspects in the disappearance.The night before her disappearance, Grinstead visited a beauty pageant (she was ive as a coach to young beauty contestants) and attended a barbecue.On October 24, 2005, a Monday morning, she did not show up for work. Co-workers called police, who went to the home where she lived alone. They found her cell phone inside the house. Her car was outside, unlocked. Her purse and keys were gone.\r
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Local police immediately called in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, feeling that something was wrong and the case was beyond the resources of the small town police department. The GBI found no signs of forced entry and no sign of a struggle.\r
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Irwin County High School principal Bobby Conner was quoted by the Atlanta Journal and Constitution as saying, Were a small community and this has really touched home because it is something you read about happening elsewhere. This is someone with a tremendous, magnetic personality, and the kids just love her.\r
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In February new, videos surfaced on the Internet featuring a self-proclaimed serial killer.Dubbing himself the Catch Me Killer, the man in the videos details what he claims are his 16 female victims, and one of these described women was determined by authorities to be Grinstead. Though the mans face and voice are digitally obscured, police eventually determined the videos source to be 27-year-old Andrew Haley. A police investigation ultimately revealed the videos to be part of a bizarre, elaborate hoax, and Haley was ultimately eliminated as a substantial lead in Grinsteads disappearance.
Tara Grinstead is a beauty queen and high school history teacher who lived in Ocilla, Georgia, USA, and has been missing since October 22, 2005. Neither police nor the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have identified any suspects in the disappearance.The night before her disappearance, Grinstead visited a beauty pageant (she was ive as a coach to young beauty contestants) and attended a barbecue.On October 24, 2005, a Monday morning, she did not show up for work. Co-workers called police, who went to the home where she lived alone. They found her cell phone inside the house. Her car was outside, unlocked. Her purse and keys were gone.\r
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Local police immediately called in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, feeling that something was wrong and the case was beyond the resources of the small town police department. The GBI found no signs of forced entry and no sign of a struggle.\r
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Irwin County High School principal Bobby Conner was quoted by the Atlanta Journal and Constitution as saying, Were a small community and this has really touched home because it is something you read about happening elsewhere. This is someone with a tremendous, magnetic personality, and the kids just love her.\r
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In February new, videos surfaced on the Internet featuring a self-proclaimed serial killer.Dubbing himself the Catch Me Killer, the man in the videos details what he claims are his 16 female victims, and one of these described women was determined by authorities to be Grinstead. Though the mans face and voice are digitally obscured, police eventually determined the videos source to be 27-year-old Andrew Haley. A police investigation ultimately revealed the videos to be part of a bizarre, elaborate hoax, and Haley was ultimately eliminated as a substantial lead in Grinsteads disappearance.