I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

We are going to solve these cases own air together.

Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to

your favorite podcast.

This is Carm Stories with Nancy Grace.

When I first started digging around in this case, back before I even released the first

episode of the podcast, Marie started getting weird messages on the Facebook from a fake account.

The Nancy Grace show aired a series of live interviews.

Nancy interviewed Tara's neighbor Joe Portier.

During the interview, Joe revealed a very crucial piece of information, dates, times,

people's names. I had to know it all.

Mind you, I am NOT a podcaster, and I'm definitely not an investigator.

But I was determined to tell Tara a story.

And most of all, I wanted to know what happened to her.

She was the all-American beauty queen.

She won the title of Miss Tifton. She competed in Georgia.

She used her pageant winnings to fund her education, getting her college degree,

then going off for a master's degree, and then taking a position teaching history

at Irwin County High School, and the quiet and rural town of Osceola, Georgia.

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