who endured to make it in hollywood. but she made headlines instead, when she vanished. one day she was gone, her pets were gone. i knew that something had happened. did something drive her away? or maybe someone? there was that old friend. turned enemy. they seem to be very panacea about hating each other. there was the new kid, young, handsome, a man of mystery. he said i m not what people think i am. and i thought, i wonder what that means? i told her this could end up killing you. a brother and sister desperate to learn the truth. it s just chilling for me to think about that. hello, and welcome to dateline. she was a woman who lived life on her own terms. brittany tavar, was generous, opening her life to anyone she thought needed help. whether that meant pets are people. but after, she disappeared without a trace, her family discovered that her nature exposure to more danger than she realized. here is keith morrison with, the stranger. they
she was scared. she really, really was afraid. and i don t really know why. she was a son, a free spirit. who had yard to make it in hollywood. but, she made headlines instead when she vanished. one day she was gone, her pets were gone. i knew that something had happened. it s something drive her away, or maybe someone? there was that old friend. turned enemy. they seem to be very panacea about hating each other. there was the new kid, young, handsome, a man of mystery. he said i m not what people think i am. and i thought, i wonder what that means? i told her this could end up killing you. a brother and sister desperate to learn the truth. it s just chilling for me to think about that. hello, and welcome to dateline. she was a woman who lived life on her own terms. brittany tavar, was generous, opening her life to anyone she thought needed help. whether that meant pets are people. but after, she disappeared without a trace, her family discovered
she could be very sort of, spiraling and by vicious. i was impressed that she had so many close friends who cared so much about her. so, because britney s family members lived so far away, it was members like joanna and brenda who first tried to solve the puzzle of her absence that we can july. i called a few times, i did not hear anything. and then thursday came. and i called thursday, and i knew. i knew thursday that something happened. so, brenda called brittany s family. and they asked her to go around to the house. but frankly, just looking at the place from the outside. she did not see any sign of foul play. back in portland, britney s sister pat did not know quite what to do. i actually have a longtime friend who is a police officer, i called him, i said what do we do? he said while, just get a locksmith. spend brenda back with a locksmith and have her go into the house. which by now, several days
a crime scene. the bad news is, the home looked to clean. it certainly could be that brittani seemed simply clean the place more than usual. then caught up in left, and left the back door open for the cats. the police told the family that in the absence of foul play, there wasn t much they could do. no law against it. grown woman taken off without telling anyone. we had a private investigator, who started looking around. trying to find something that would get the police involved in the case. while the p.i. made his inquiries, over the next few days brittany s family began their own investigation. and soon discovered a very brittani ask seek what. things that she never told them about. we didn t know that over the years, a different homeless people lived in her schitt spare room. she usually had an arrangement with these fellows, that they would help her with stuff. like the first guy, help her with the yard work. we would never, she would never
anybody, up and vanished. part of a big story, obviously, people come and go around st. augustine. but july 2010, heat ratcheting up. no time to head north maybe. as the weeks went on, it got a little more strange. a little bit strange? in fact, the disappearance of brittany tavar was about to become the biggest and perhaps strangest story of justine griffin s young career. not just did brittani just appear, but she vanished on such an important day for her. the day that she was due to appear in the st. augustine court and bring charges against a bitter enemy. she had enormous amount of anxiety. this is britney s sister pat bellemont, pat made clear across the country in portland, oregon. so she couldn t do much about her sister s worries. couldn t help her confront her nemesis in court. but pat had been aware that britney was pretty good at