The Mysterious Disappearance of Tara Grinstead

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Teacher and former beauty queen Tara Grinstead vanishes from her Georgia home. There is no sign of forced entry. There is no sign of a struggle, but some things were out of place. Grinstead's bedside clock was found under her bed, and a broken lamp was propped against the wall on her nightstand.

The 30-year-old attended a beauty pageant and a cookout with co-workers before going home. Friends and family called Grinstead the next day, but couldn't reach her. When Grinstead did not show up to teach at Irwin County High school, co-workers called police.

Some 12 years later, Grinstead's remains are found in a pecan orchard and two of her past students charged with her murder. Today on Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan looks at what details may have been overlooked at the time of Tara's disappearance.

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0:00.0	We're body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:19.0	You know there are a lot of terms that people use for tiny rural towns.
0:23.7	I've heard them all at this point in my life.
0:27.0	One that comes to mind is fleeceback of a town.
0:29.5	That means tiny out of the way forgotten.
0:33.6	But you know for the people that live in these tiny little towns, it's home.
0:38.6	And there's a sense of security many times.
0:42.5	That's what kind of separates Osula, Georgia from many other locations.
0:49.8	Folks felt secure.
0:52.7	They felt safe.
0:56.2	That is until 2005 when Tara Greenstedt vanished off the face of the planet.
1:04.2	Today we're going to talk about the disappearance and the destruction of the remains of Tara Greenstedt.
1:14.1	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags.
1:22.4	My good buddy Jackie Howard, executive producer of Crime Stories from Nancy Grace is here with me.
1:29.7	Jackie what can you tell us about Tara Greenstedt?
1:32.1	This is a case that captivated America because this beloved teacher and former beauty queen
1:40.1	truly seemed to disappear off of the face of the earth.
1:44.0	Tara Greenstedt was a teacher.
1:47.0	She taught history and as I said she was a former beauty queen.
1:50.7	She was just 30 years old when she went missing after an evening with friends and co-workers.
1:57.8	She had been earlier in the day working with pageant participants.
2:03.4	And then she attended a bonfire, a cookout with fellow teachers.
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