brittani vanished, a cop stuffed her toyota on a highway out west. but brittani wasn t driving, joe was. july 11th, roberts was actually stopped by police in wyoming. for speeding. the bad? knows that cops stopped the car before the alert went out. he wasn t looking for a car, or brittani, or anybody. he said he didn t recall seeing of passenger, but he wasn t looking for one. they let him go with a warning. and now that car, and whoever was in it. is long gone. but that stop triggered a serious effort to find joe roberts. it was after that that they had released an arrest warrant with him. with graham theft charges. so the investigation took a turn, the police hoping that finding roberts would lead to finding brittani. they went on tv hoping to raise public awareness. what we really need is for the broadest possible audience of people to be looking for
night. speculations that there was something romantic? or sexual about inviting this young man in? i joke with her about it. she would always say no, he likes megan fox. he is not interested. i m too old. still, who really know what went on behind closed door. anyway, they couldn t as joe. he didn t say a lot of for very long, and he wasn t around to shed light on his ex landlady s disappearance. so surrounded by this, they asked the very question. was there anyone here in st. augustine, who might want to harm britney? the answer was, a resounding gas. friends like joanna symonds told how the beach glove, in the days before she disappeared, brittani seemed terrified. i saw her one day leaving the hopped up area to go into the pool. she had this look of absolute terror on her face. why brittani was terrified?
for all of their efforts, they couldn t persuade the police that the crime had occurred. that something bad may have happened to brittani. thus, the investigation stopped. though, those who loved brittani had to follow what was the work on their own. we were keeping cool heads, trying to be vigilant. trying to coax them into doing things that they had not done. did my sister go on a cruise? did she leave town for a week or something? search this area. you have been search this area. why haven t you done this? but they had hired a private investigator, remember, and they had an idea. if they couldn t find brittany, maybe somehow, they could find the dogs. we were checking the pounds. we were doing anything and everything you could possibly imagine. worried about the dogs. and a week after the disappearance, a call came in. and what do you know? heeney, white dogs. it looked like a rabbit that first. her dogs are found in columbia, south carolina.
for what? they do not know. you alternate between it is not real, is it really happening? to having these terrible, terrible moments where you realize it is something irreversible that has happened. brittani s to little got dogs had been found abandoned by the road three states away, in south carolina. brittani love those dogs, would never abandon them. and yet? the credit card record made it look like she had done exactly that. that she had been driving her car clear across the country. at last, a nationwide alert was issued for brittani s car. now, with the whole nation s law enforcement on watch. the answer of what happened to brittany tavar was should not be long and coming. the family held its collected breath, waded, and hold. they were talking to the police, if there was any activity, one guy had a pager on him with all of the cards. if anything tries to put
enforcement all the way up through washington, past seattle, and the six pacific northwest. because they thought he was headed in that direction. meanwhile, investigators had warned her family. they told us that this had fallen off the radar screen. and sure enough, that s what he did. and days turned into weeks. summer turned into fall. no sign of him. police suspicions turned darker. i think it is important for us here in florida not to lose interest, and not just be thinking. putting it off at this guy who s seen it miles away. because he might be in our backyard, are coming back to the backyard for all we know. life went on for the rest of the world. but not for those who loved brittany tavar. and who knew full well that time is not on the side of the missing. i do feel that the more time went on. the less likely we would be to find her. brittani family found themselves in limbo. a landscape shared by more people than they had ever