without one. in 2003, after six years together, sharon and keith finally got married. when i was getting ready to walk down the aisle, that was very sad because my baby girl wasn t gonna be in that wedding party. but she was there. we made sure she was there. we had a big, big picture made up of her. but the anger remained and intense frustration as, year after year, sharon demanded answers and didn t get them. in 2008, almost seven years after tara s murder, sharon appeared in a crime stoppers video, and spoke directly to the killers, whoever they were. i want to know how they wake up in the morning. how do they go on with their life knowing that they did this to a person?
a few weeks after the trials were over, the prosecutors, detectives and their spouses got together for dinner with sharon, keith and veronica. detective mehl made a presentation. she was a fighter and she kept us fighting for her, for you and your family. they ve had the picture hanging in their office for a very long time. and they they passed it onto me. i could look at it now and go, we did it. we did it. you ve given us a new chapter in our life. the family gave the cold
detective give all those answers. you can t put that information out there. still, sharon continued to ferret out what she could. we just never gave up. there was no stopping. 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 me. she fought and fe. justice for tara. and as sharon would say, my tara. she s always said, my tara. but none of these efforts turned up anything useful. and the sheriff s case wasn t going anywhere either. there was no getting around it. justice for tara just was not happening. in fact, the case was growing cold. stone cold. eventually mike gandy retired, as did these two cops, way up north. retired and moved to sunny florida. and i got very bored. oh oh. coming up i always felt this was a
was no indication that the perpetrators had left blood or body fluid at the home. 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. 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
this, you know? you just hope and pray everyday that she s alive. but it was her. it was tara. enough of the teeth were there to to make a positive identification that it was tara. 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 you see them coming? yeah. then the reality is that s it, you re never gonna see her again. it s so devastating. it s the worst pain ever. she didn t belong out there. 284 days after tara vanished, they knew, finally, she was