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
detectives up north before they to retired and move to punta gorda. mike vogel and kurt mehl. i moved to florida and came down here to hurt, hunt, fish and play golf, and go boating, and go to the beach. and just relax. and that lasted a couple months. got very board. so, three board ex detectives put on badges again to form the sheriff s very first official called case unit. they decided early on they would work on tara s case. prosecutor feinberg was finally optimistic. sort of. i always felt that this was a case that could be solved. if it had a new set of eyes and had somebody that could put the case together, connect all of the dots. what requests did you make of them? we wanted to know more about every piece of evidence. we had to rule out every piece of dna in that house. so, it was closing doors and excluding other people. you re going to learn from looking in these files. so, that is what these three
incarcerated. and that is what i want. the whole world had moved on. forgotten, apparently. but then, a year later, 2009, punta gorda got a new sheriff. and he thought some of the unsolved cases in town needed a new look. and he called upon the retired detective, mike gandy. and these two, who have been detectives up north before they to retired and move to punta gorda. mike vogel and kurt mehl. i moved to florida and came down here to hurt, hunt, fish and play golf, and go boating, and go to the beach. and just relax. and that lasted a couple months. got very board. so, three board ex detectives put on badges again to form the sheriff s very first official called case unit. they decided early on they would work on tara s case. prosecutor feinberg was finally