and then, within three hours. there, in that police station. joe roberts finally answer the question that had been hanging over everybody, half hope, half dread. what happened to brittany tavar. that answer was perhaps the most dreadful story this young crime reporter had yet written. taken right from the confession that roberts came police. she woke up early in the morning, and what came up angry that something wasn t done correctly. or he did not do it at all. and it was bugging him, early in the morning. trying to get him out of bed. yelling at him. now why would she do that? couldn t take about a minute for her friends to figure it out. this whole big argument was joe, was him not being able to get this cd up to perfection about what they would take to court. the protest against and, of course, so her friends speculated about what happened that last moment of her life. she might have vented her
welcome back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. i m craig melvin. joe roberts was a handsome, 20 something charm or. living in brittany tavar home. but now she was messing. and so was robert. so who is this mysterious man? the more investigators learned, the more concern they got. we now return to keith morrison with the stranger. it is a strange thing. rather cruel how an answer so desperately sought can slip away. police had finally sniffed out the trail left by joe roberts. the one who seems to know what happens to brittany tavar. but before they could catch up to joe, he was gone. in a puff of oregon fog. the investigators had alerted police and law
lazier, and lazier. what was he doing? he was going on drug bingeing. that was when the anger started coming out. the more i got to know him the more he started scaring. they started upsetting me. and that s where she said she demanded that joe get out of her house. and then? it was about this close into my face and then he went like this. like he was going to punch me in the face. and i just looked at him. with a dead stare. and i was like joe? i swear to god if you hit me. i will take you down. [laughter] so he left. and found brittany. who police had told her friends, not long before she disappeared, that she was getting a little exasperated with joe to. she said that he she would come form and he would ve gotten through her stuff if they went through a few fights. i was kind of worried, i asked her about that. and she would go, no, it s okay. it s okay. did you warn her? i did.
imagined was possible. people would say, you need to talk to so and so. his sister disappeared. there are hundreds and thousands of missing persons. all heartbreaking stories and. you are just a number in a pool of people who are going through this. or who have gone through this. back in florida, police had been digging up everything that they could fight about joe roberts. as crime reporter, justine wrote. joe had been on the road, running out of money by the time he got to st. augustine. where he had been living off the kindness of local woman. he got a job looking as a clerk at a gas station. and when he couldn t afford to have a local hotel, he would sleep in his car. but a few other women also in st. augustine. one of them was a coworker, and single mother, name cheryl. since he needed a place to stay, cheryl invited him to her place. put him right down the hall
she push my buttons. she went around telling around the hold neighborhood. i m scared for my life. it was after the ducking of the video camera, that brittani launched legal action against an. by then, she invited joe to the house. so she enlisted the help of the young border, to prepare an incident to show the judge. when she got to court, said brittani, she was going to tell the judge just how dangerous and was. and in fact she was afraid and was going to kill her. i think all her friends made very clear she was quite tom retires by this. she was very much afraid of this and. court date was wednesday, july 7th, 2010. the morning arrived. and came with her attorney. and was in court, waiting. and waiting. and britney? did not show. nope, that was the very day that she disappeared. a convenient reprieve from and.