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Up and Vanished

5 | The Black Truck

Up and Vanished

Tenderfoot TV

Personal Journals, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.563.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we explore an old lead from 2006 about a black truck seen in Tara's yard and on the surrounding street on the night that she disappeared.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on Up and Vanished.

0:03.0

The one person who has been vetted the most is her ex boyfriend, Marcus Harper.

0:09.0

He was absolutely tired of her.

0:10.0

She was crying and was upset about something. She was very irrational and she told me that if she found out I was dating someone she would commit suicide.

0:20.0

On Friday, October 14th at 643 a.m.

0:24.0

terrorists sent Marcus Harper's mother in email.

0:27.0

If I did not give a crap about Marcus, you all, and his feelings, I would not be in this state.

0:32.0

If this were all about me, I would not be in this state. If this were all about me I would not want Marcus.

0:35.0

Just remind Marcus what I said about something happening to me or even him.

0:40.0

He leaves it as this and something may happen to me.

0:44.0

Like I said though, the night of the Sweet Potato

0:45.8

Pageant, she knew something was going to happen.

0:48.4

She just was not her normal self.

0:50.8

And everybody can tell you that she was was but I know that she was not

0:54.5

acting normal. The second piece of evidence was a business card found in Tara's

0:58.7

front door. The card belonged to a friend of Tara's family, a police officer from a nearby town called Perry.

1:04.4

Detective Heath Dykes, Purry Police Department.

1:07.8

Late Sunday night on October 23rd, Tara's mom was concerned because she wasn't responding,

1:12.4

so she asked his family friend to go check on her.

1:14.8

So he drove there with the sole intent of checking on Tara.

1:18.0

Oh, yeah.

1:18.7

Do you think it's odd that Heath Dykes didn't see the glove on the ground?

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