Episode 275 - Who Killed Tara Grinstead? - Confessions, DNA and Doubt
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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4.4 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We’ll take you inside the largest police casefile in Georgia history—a mystery that gripped a community for over a decade.
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Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
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Bo Dukes/Tara Grinstead trial | Bo's girlfriend, tipster talks about his confession
High school friend testifies about alleged party confession
Bo Dukes Sentencing
Wikipedia
Obituary
Edition.cnn.com - Beauty Missing
Findtara.com
People hope Grinstead case will be solved soon
How I helped solve a decade-old missing person's case with my podcast
Tara Grinstead: Ex-student accused of murdering missing Georgia teacher
Bo Dukes sentenced to 25 years in Tara Grinstead case
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tara-grinstead-murder-ryan-duke-verdict/
Stoley Beauty
48 Hours - What happened to Tara Grinstead?
'Her life was a total hell': How Tara Grinstead's disappearance destroyed her mother
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AJC.com
GBI Arrest in the Disappearance of Tara Grinstead
CourtTV Trial Recap
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| 0:24.8 | The opinions expressed |
| 0:26.3 | in the following episode |
| 0:27.5 | do not necessarily reflect |
| 0:29.0 | those of the minds |
| 0:29.8 | of madness podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:33.3 | Music The There's a peculiar kind of comfort that comes when someone tells us exactly what we've been hoping to hear. |
| 1:12.2 | Maybe it's a politician promising to fix everything we think is broken, |
| 1:17.1 | or a doctor offering one clean diagnosis that suddenly makes everything make sense. |
| 1:24.5 | In the world of unsolved crimes, there's nothing more satisfying than a full confession, |
| 1:30.5 | especially one that ties up every loose end with a clean final answer. |
| 1:36.7 | When a confession fills in the blanks, it gives us a sense of relief we call closure, |
| 1:43.0 | because at last the story feels complete. |
| 1:47.0 | But there's a difference between feeling complete and being complete. |
| 1:52.0 | On February 22nd, 2017, detectives with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation sat across a 33-year-old man in a small town police station. |
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