The Final Chapter Begins
Up and Vanished
Tenderfoot TV
4.5 • 63.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
It's been a few years since UAV covered Tara Grinstead's case, but Payne and the team are back for Ryan Duke's trial. This moment has been highly anticipated since the case broke in 2017, and after years of delays, we may finally get the answers to some of our burning questions. In this episode, the team recaps what has happened since 2017, and sets the stage for trial to begin on May 2, 2022. Join us for the final chapter. For ad-free listening and for Payne’s exclusive Friday recap episode, subscribe to Tenderfoot+ on Apple Podcasts or visit www.tenderfootplus.com for more details.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. |
| 0:10.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit |
| 0:15.0 | because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top |
| 0:20.0 | and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
| 0:25.0 | Join in every sip with red carp's now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:55.0 | Terrible was 30 years old when she vanished back on October 22nd of 2005 from her home in the town of O'Silla. |
| 1:11.0 | Two days later she didn't show up for work on Monday October 24th, 2005. |
| 1:17.0 | Now her car was found in her driveway but her keys and purse were gone. |
| 1:22.0 | The O'Silla police department responded to her residence. Immediately they suspected foul play. |
| 1:28.0 | It's now been two weeks since a former beauty queen disappeared in Georgia. |
| 1:32.0 | 30-year-old high school teacher Tara Grinstead was last seen at a dinner party with friends. |
| 1:37.0 | A grimness fueled by the frustration of searching nearly 400 square miles of alligator infested waters. |
| 1:44.0 | Tara's home was searched extensively for several days which produced little physical evidence. |
| 1:52.0 | As with all missing person cases the investigation started focusing on Tara's close friends and associates. |
| 1:58.0 | Through these 11 plus years the GBI and other law enforcement officers have received hundreds and hundreds of tips. |
| 2:05.0 | Each and every tip that came in was vetted and checked against what we had already done in this investigation. |
| 2:11.0 | The truth is that the law enforcement officers have been completely exhausted. |
| 2:15.0 | Usually a tip that's 12 years since the crime is going to be someone that either recently heard a piece of information about who was involved. |
| 2:26.0 | Or they've known all along and has never shared the information because of their relationship maybe with the person of interest. |
| 2:35.0 | For over a decade law enforcement was grasping its straws trying to figure out who was responsible for the disappearance of Tara Grinstead. |
| 2:44.0 | She was last seen on October 22nd 2005 but on February 23rd 2017 12 years later the Georgia Bureau of Investigation held an emergency press conference. |
| 2:58.0 | And we begin tonight with breaking news investigators announcing the beginning of the end of a 12 year murder mystery. |
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