but i didn t want any kind of commitment. so you were rejecting her essentially at this point. pretty much. did she accept that? no. how many times did you talk to the gbi? four, five times. they ve asked you for things and asked you to talk and you ve provided all of it. yes. at the time, i also spoke with marcus lawyer thomas pa haute os. marcus called me one day when this first broke out and told me that he had been going to the jail and tara s sister was there and made an accusation against him. i said, what the hell have you done with my sister? . he felt concerned that because that accusation had been made down at the jail in front of the officers he might need some assistance, someone to sit with him on the thing. is there anything that your client has not agreed to do that the gbi has asked? not a thing. marcus harper was cooperative, and we secured dna samples, polygraph examinations, fingerprints, all the sorts of things that we did with anybody
after takeoff. the black boxes have been recovered. meantime, the national transportation safety board says a search team has found what may be the wreckage of el faro, the cargo ship that went missing during hurricane joaquin. it was found 15,000 feet under water. the entire crew of 33 was lost. and meanwhile, in kentucky, american pharaoh going out in style. this year s triple crown victory adding the breeders classic to his list. the final race of his career. he ran the mile and a quarter in record time. i m abby huntsman. now back to greta investigates. when tara grinstead vanished in ocilla, georgia, in 2005, the investigation almost immediately focused on her ex-boyfriend marcus harper. marcus was a former police
did not recognize. i don t think that they have been able to track down the driver of the black truck. we don t have any knowledge of who it could be. a black pickup truck in rural georgia is exceptionally common. we didn t have any better descriptors than that. that was something we kept in contact and attempted to identify but weren t able to conclude anything based on that. any one have that happen kind of vehicle? marcus had a truck at that time. some people wanted to say it was him. the neighbors said it was not the same type of truck that marcus was driving. tara s ex-boyfriend the investigation immediately focused on him. marcus harper was the love of tara s life. he was something that we certainly had to look at closely and we did from the outset. the police weren t alone tara s sister anita had marcus
crying and was upset about something. she was very irrational, and she told me that if she found out i was dating someone she would commit suicide. i didn t want to think that, but in the back of my mind i think it s possible for anybody. there were rumors going around town that tara possibly had committed suicide. and i think that started because everybody knew she was upset about the situation with marcus. i have never believed for one minute that tara committed suicide. we reached out to marcus for a new statement on tara s disappearance but did not receive a reply. when we looked into tara s background, we immediately learned that she was a 30-year-old beautiful woman that had a social life. and we identified about a half dozen men with whom she had gone
there were long periods of time they didn t get to see or talk to each other. and i m sure that was hard on the relationship. tara was really ready for marriage, and marcus was not. she had told him that she felt like that she needed to move on if things were not going to work out. i think she was kind of trying to maybe put a little bit of pressure on him to commit to the marriage. she had been in love with him for six years, and even though she broke up with him she just had really a hard time letting him go. in october 2005, marcus returned from deployment and was seen diriving around town. though not a couple, tara was devastated. october 20th, thursday morning, we exchanged e-mails. i had just sent her one saying, i was thinking about you today. hope you have a good day, and i love you. and she wrote back and said, thanks, it s been rough lately with marcus. he s back in town, and he didn t