from them. so i got my hopes up. that information didn t lead anywhere. another tip came in from anthony vickers, the very student who was arrested for criminal trespass at tara s house. anthony said he had received a phone call and it was hard to understand the person, and he thought that it was tara calling. and i believe he called the police and maybe the gbi and everybody got involved. and they were able to actually track down the person that had made that call, and it was somebody from another town. it was just a wrong number. but then something which shocked everybody in 2009, four years after tara was last seen. we received notice that someone had made a youtube posting, had blocked their face out electronically and distorted their voice and essentially claimed they had killed tara grinstead. this was a lead that we absolutely had to follow, whether we believed it credible
politely excusing herself to go home. tara s home itself also presented a strange set of clues. the door was locked. but her purse and her keys were not there. tara s car was still parked in the carport. her bank accounts, her credit card accounts, there was no activity. all these were indicators that foul play had occurred, and she had disappeared involuntarily. tara s disappearance was a confounding mystery. years passed by without answers. at least twice information came in that gave her friends and family hope. shortly after tara disappeared, there was a tip that came in about a possible sighting. it was actually in the birmingham area. and of course, my heart was pounding, because my first thought was maybe somebody did abduct her, and she s gotten away from them. so i got my hopes up. that information didn t lead anywhere. another tip came in from anthony vickers, the very student who
for criminal trespass at tara s house. anthony received a phone call and it was hard to understand the person. he thought it was tara calling. he called the police and maybe the gbi and everybody got involved. they were able to track down the person who made the call and it was somebody from another town and it was a wrong number. then something which shocked everybody in 2009 four years after tara was last seen. we received notice somebody made a u tube posting and blocked her face out electronically and claimed they had killed tara !j we had to a lead follow whether we believed it credible or not you had the one claiming to have killed the person you had been looking for
was arrested for criminal trespass at tara s house. anthony said that he had received a phone call, and it was hard to understand the person. and he thought that it was tara calling. and i believe he called the police, and maybe the gbi, and everybody got involved. and they were able to actually track down the person that had made that call. and it was somebody from another town. and it was just a wrong number. but then something which shocked everybody in 2009, four years after tara was last seen. we received notice that someone had made a youtube posting, had blocked their face out electronically and distorted their voice and essentially claimed that they had killed tara grinstead. this was a lead that we absolutely had to follow, whether we believed it credible or not. we ve got someone claiming to have killed the person you ve been looking for for four years, you know, it was something we had to do.
dozen men with whom she had gone out or some sort of romantic involvement recently. the investigators also looked at a former student of tara s named anthony vickers. there was a 20-year-old former student with whom tara had some sort of relationship that was very suspicious to people that knew her. most suspected there was a romantic involvement. i think he was very infatuated with tara. she had spent extra time tutoring him. i think he had a bad family life. he saw that as that newer fewering as maybe something romantic. there was an incident where anthony came over to tear rae aw tara s house beating on the door trying to get her to open the door. did the student actually get into the was she home at the time? she was home. neighbors called the police. she was trying to gtalk him int