there was no indication that the perpetrators had left blood or body fluid at the home. reporter: and so cases typically go cold when you run out of leads and when you run out of information and you run out of ideas. reporter: tara s mother, sharon, again and again, demanded to know what, if anything, was going on. prosecutor feinberg had no choice, he said. he couldn t tell her. the frustration was clear. you could see it on her face. you could hear it in her voice. the family was devastated and they wanted answers. and i can understand that. you can t as a prosecutor and you can t as a detective give all those answers. you can t put that information out there. reporter: still, sharon continued to ferret out what she could. we just never gave up. there was no stopping. reporter: as did her attorney. she would hear a piece of information from a neighbor or a news source or a detective that wasn t supposed to tell her. and then she would confirm it, run with it, call m
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minds do things that normal people wouldn t do. and their solution to that was to kill her. reporter: the woman who d been sitting out in the front yard told the jury how the two men had been laughing and joking when they arrived. but later when she saw them backing their truck up to tara s front door breaking that small palm tree in the process it was almost like they had a mission, that they had a plan. and one went straight to the tailgate and put the tailgate down out the truck and the other went went straight to the front door. all business? all business. reporter: that, said the prosecutor, is when they cleaned up and took tara s body in a bed sheet, loaded it into the truck, and waited for dark when one or both of them dumped her body in the woods. but to tell that story took two long trials, each peopled by witnesses the jury might not think were very credible. people who supposedly heard barr
you don t want it to be like this, you know? you just hope and pray everyday that she s alive. reporter: but it was her. it was tara. enough of the teeth were there to to make a positive identification that it was tara. reporter: by then sharon and keith were at home, waiting for the results. detective gandy went to tell them. that s never easy, huh? hardest thing you ever have to do. and then when they come to your door with clergy reporter: you see them coming? yeah. [ crying ] then the reality is that s it, you re never gonna see her again. it s so devastating. it s the worst pain ever. [ crying ] she didn t belong out there. reporter: 284 days after tara vanished, they knew, finally, she was never coming back. but they were no closer to
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