friends. and then actually, they called one friend and this person was dating tara. sharon almost shouted it was in her tara. the officer tried a different tara. they put a b. o. l. o. out. b. o. l. o.? yes, be on the lookout. tara new family knew if you ve gone to the football game, if you don t anywhere, she would ve told them. deputy said since tara was an adult they would wait 24 hours before calling her a missing person. maybe she just left on her own. if my daughter was a runaway or a troubled trialed, or whatever the case may have been, i would have told you that. i know my child. how frustrated were you? i owe so, very frustrated. veronica, not quite 14, remember she was terrified. why wasn t anybody taking action and figuring out where she was? keith and sharon called everybody they knew in town.
keith morrison (voiceover): so they were, as evening depended, gamechanger for my patients- pacing around the little house, frantic about tara. what happened? as evening deepened of, piecing around the little house. frantic about tara. what happened? where was she? it was getting late. you know, why was she home? the policeman who came to help them only seeming that concern about the jewelry and cash that here to be taken. not sharon s missing daughter. they were concentrating on the burglary. they didn t seem to hear what she was saying. didn t understand her panic. they just weren t getting us, what was going on. they were trying to say maybe she s out at a football game. a football game? yeah. and then they went through her
there was evidence of a violent struggle. there was evidence of blunt force trauma. and that would contribute to her death. detectives scoured the woods, looking for anything that might tell them something. they found a belly button ring in the bones. the kind tara wore, sharon confirmed. and the remnants of only one piece of clothing that belonged to her. a pair of panties. but no here, no fiber, no dna of any kind at the scene that would help them i. d. the color. it was frustrating for the family. it was frustrating for the detectives. and it was frustrating for the prosecutors that worked on the case, including myself. so, detectives went back to the beginning. they reviewed all the witness statements they had taken over the course of the nine months tara had been missing. and there was a note about a man who turned in some jewelry three days after tehran went missing. a ring and a bracelet. which turned out to belong to tara s family. it had been in the possession of glenn
and he said she was perfectly fine when she he left the house for the afternoon. so, assuming that was true, who else came to that little house on the afternoon of october 1st? and took away their tara? coming up something needed to happen. a frustrated family reaches out to someone you. if you met sharon, you wouldn t tell her. no i looked around in the eye and i told her i would do everything to try to help them. a turn in the case was coming. when dateline continues.
sharon and keith didn t sleep a wink that night. what goes on in here? when you re sitting up all night? gut wrenching pain. praying that please, please don t let this be true. before the sun came up, sharon called 9-1-1 again. and a new officer arrived. a woman deputy, i ll never forget that. she came and i remember saying to her, please help me. and she did. she got the ball rolling. she listened to me. the deputy called and crime scene investigators. remember my mom or mother waking me and my brother up and we remember seeing so many people there. and the crime scene van outside. now deputies were taking towers disappearance seriously. mike gandy was the captain of the charlotte county sheriff s office back then. sometimes you respond to a scene or call where someone is missing and you can tell from the family interaction that it is not a big deal. this was not the case with terrorism. it was obvious that we had a serious problem. first thing, find out the last t