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🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away. |
0:02.6 | When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
0:13.0 | Can an entire case hinge on a confession? |
0:18.1 | On November 14, 1974, a woman was born who would disappear in a case that |
0:23.1 | took decades to get answers. A case that hinged on a confession that the alleged killer claimed |
0:29.4 | was no longer true. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start |
0:36.1 | your day with a morning cup of murder. |
0:40.0 | Tara Faye Grinstead was born on November 14, 1975 to Bill and Faye Grinstead of Hawkinsville, Georgia. |
0:48.0 | Years later in 1999, the beautiful young woman won the title of Miss Tifton and ended up competing in the Miss Georgia pageant afterwards. |
0:58.4 | Though she did not win, she was able to take the earnings from her pageants |
1:01.8 | and used them to enroll in college. |
1:04.2 | She graduated from Middle Georgia College and in 2003 got her master's in education |
1:09.2 | at Valdaosta State University. In 1998, she began working as a |
1:14.2 | history teacher at Irwin County High School in Oscella, and by the year 2005, added coaching |
1:20.9 | beauty pageants to her plate along with education, which leads us to the evening of October 22, 2005, when Tara Faye Grinstead, |
1:31.0 | after a day of pageants for her students and a barbecue, disappeared without a trace. |
1:37.6 | On Monday morning, October 24th, Tara's coworkers noticed that she had not shown up to work |
1:43.4 | and never called to say she was going to be out. |
1:46.8 | Worried, they called the local police who went to perform a wellness check and saw that, |
1:51.4 | though her purse and keys were missing, her cell phone was still inside and connected to the charger, |
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