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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Tara Grinstead's best friend searches for answers in beauty queen's disappearance & murder

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What happened to beauty queen Tara Grinstead, who was missing from a small Georgia town for a dozen years, is still a mystery even though two of the high school teacher's former students have been charged in connection to her death. Nancy Grace has been there from the beginning searching for answers. In this Crime Stories episode, Nancy talks to Tara's close friend Maria Woods Harber. They are joined by Cold Case Research Institute director Sheryl McCollum and Los Angeles psycho analyst Dr. Bethany Marshall.

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0:00.0

Crime stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph channel 132.

0:13.3

She had the world at her feet.

0:16.8

She had what so many people, particularly women, wish for, she was literally a beauty queen.

0:28.6

She was on the outside and on the inside and she was a double threat.

0:35.4

She was brainy on track to get her PhD.

0:41.6

And then suddenly out of the blue, she's gone.

0:48.1

Nobody knows what happened, nobody, no ransom note, no clues, no nothing.

0:56.6

She's gone.

0:57.9

And I will never forget as long as I live, meeting her mother and her mom walked me through

1:06.2

her home.

1:07.5

And it looked as I always say like a little jewelry box on the inside just absolutely perfect.

1:14.8

You know, it reminded me a little bit of when I flipped through my fiance's letters that

1:23.5

he wrote me.

1:26.2

Or he was murdered.

1:28.7

And it's a dangerous place to go because sometimes you can't get back out of it.

1:34.2

But the longing in the mom's voice, the whistfulness was something I'll never forget.

1:39.8

Of course, I'm talking about Terragrand's dead.

1:43.5

I'm Nancy Grace.

1:44.6

This is Crime Stories.

1:45.9

Thank you for being with us.

1:48.0

We all know that Terragrand's dead, high school teacher, goes to a cookout like a barbecue,

1:54.6

a cool-type party with a lot of other teachers, the principal, people from the community in

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