and this is dateline. i was robbed of my sister. i had to grow up without one. in an instant, she was gone. and it changed everything. she dreamed of a career solving crimes but crime came for her first. i prayed, my daughter, please don t let this be true. home alone on a sunny afternoon, she vanished. i said, oh my gosh, is this one of her earrings. earrings in the carpet, ribbons on the ground. tire tracks on the lawn. there was evidence of a violent struggle. what had happened? and who was behind it? everything was a mystery. was she still alive? it tore us apart for years they demanded answers. a struggle each day. then came the cold case file with a new bag of tricks. i always felt that this was a case to be solved. they wanted us justice just as bad as we did. as a mother, she fought and fought and fought. we just never gave up. don t mess with a mother bear. hello and welcome to dateline. tara was just 19 with a beautiful young wo
did. as a large photo of tara kept watch. again, there was no danny to help. all they had really or lingering suspicions about the work men who went to towers house the day she vanished. phil barr, the guy who owned the septic time tank business. his helper that day, david mcmannis and their buddy peewee st. john. but nothing in this huge trove of investigative material proved anything. he organized it in such a way that it was easier to understand. what happened in difficult understand? it was confusing to the point where you didn t know what we were able to get in court. so the context was in there but. you can figure it out because it was a mess. the majority of the majority of it was. we have to track the analysis, that was what took so long. an awful lot of detective work amounts to reading thousands of pages of reports and witness statements. and this in that.
doors, it was excludeing other peop people. so that s what these three did. it was a large photo of tara kept watch, but again, there was no dna to help them. all they had were lingering suspicions about the workmen who went to tara s house the day she v vanished. phil barr, the guy who owned the septic business, and their buddy peewee st. john. but nothing proved anything. curt, we call him the scribe, he organized it in such a way that it was easier to understand. what had been difficult to understand? it was confusing to the point where you didn t know what we were going to be able to get into court. the context was in there, you couldn t figure it out because it was a mess. the majority. we had to do the analysis on it and that s what took so long. an amount of detective work amounts to reading witness