Military Murder Swap: From Cold Case to Headlines: Tara Grinstead

Housewives of True Crime

Tabitha Kane

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In October 2005, beloved high school teacher Tara Grinstead vanished from her home, leaving behind a mystery that haunted her small Georgia town for years. Despite multiple suspects and dead ends, the case eventually went ice cold. More than a decade later, in 2016, filmmaker Payne Lindsey reignited public interest by investigating Tara’s disappearance in Season 1 of his true crime podcast Up and Vanished. The series quickly became a phenomenon—and by early 2017, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced an arrest in Tara’s case. Just ten days later, a second arrest followed.

This episode is a special podcast swap with Margot from Military Murder, as we revisit the case that helped spark the modern true crime podcast boom.Unlock a world of exclusive content and insider access by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/HousewivesOfTrueCrime, or at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/housewives-of-true-crime.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Housewives of True Crime. I'm Tabitha, your True Crime Housewife, and I'm bringing you real crimes, real twists, and searching for real justice every week.
0:14.3	I've got a brand new disco biscuit riding shotgun, sometimes a fan, sometimes a friend, but someone always fabulous.
0:22.2	So grab whatever you're drinking these days, press play, and let's talk crime in the
0:27.6	carpool line.
0:28.7	Clink, clink.
0:29.2	Talk a crime.
0:30.8	Talk a crime with a carpal line.
0:33.1	How to buy to touch you cry.
0:35.9	Top and crime.
0:47.8	How to buy to hurt you crime. Welcome, Housewives of True Crime.
0:52.1	You guys, Merry Christmas Week.
1:08.1	I am actually sitting here by myself without Jenny today because I wanted to hop on here and just, well, actually, there's two episodes coming up back to back that will be other people.
1:14.0	I'm going to have Margo tell you a story today. You guys know Margo is one of my besties. We do another podcast called The Alternate Together, which we haven't done in a while.
1:20.4	But as soon as there is another big, big trial, we will pop back on there. And she has been a guest
1:27.1	plenty of times with the housewives so i thought
1:30.9	i would give her a little love and let you hear from her this week but i also just want to
1:39.0	thank you guys for sticking with me being there for, giving me so much encouragement throughout this year.
1:47.2	2025 has been something special to say the least.
1:53.2	And it's been eye-opening in many ways.
1:56.4	It's been freeing in many ways.
1:59.9	It's been just emotional, hard, very hard in a lot of personal ways.
2:07.7	But I'm still here.
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