48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates the young woman s disappearance and the quest for answers in the case he s covered for 12 years in The Tara Grinstead Mystery.
On the afternoon of Saturday, October 22, 2005, Tara had helped younger contestants prepare for a local beauty pageant. Afterwards she went to a barbecue. Sometime around 11 p.m. she returned to the small house where she lived alone.
When she failed to show up to teach her history class on Monday morning at Irwin County High School, her friends knew something was wrong. She would never do that, she would never leave her kids, said her best friend Maria Woods Harber.