i remember my mother pulling up. how did she look? oh, panicked. keith had called 9-1-1. an officer was there when she arrived. my first thing was you need to do something. my daughter is not here. i just knew. coming up. what had happened to tara? why wasn t anybody taking action and figuring out where she was? earrings in the carpet. ribbons on the ground. tire tracks on the lawn. it was obvious that we had a serious problem. gut wrenching pain. please, please don t let this be true. when dateline continues. no fingersticks needed. now the world s smallest and thinnest sensor. sends your glucose levels directly to your smartphone. manage your diabetes with more confidence, and lower your a1c. the number one cgm prescribed in the us. try it for free at
did. as a large photo of tara kept watch. again, there was no danny to help. all they had really or lingering suspicions about the work men who went to towers house the day she vanished. phil barr, the guy who owned the septic time tank business. his helper that day, david mcmannis and their buddy peewee st. john. but nothing in this huge trove of investigative material proved anything. he organized it in such a way that it was easier to understand. what happened in difficult understand? it was confusing to the point where you didn t know what we were able to get in court. so the context was in there but. you can figure it out because it was a mess. the majority of the majority of it was. we have to track the analysis, that was what took so long. an awful lot of detective work amounts to reading thousands of pages of reports and witness statements. and this in that.
canadian border. where we think he had fled with the intent possibly of leaving the country. but the case against the men needed more. and so, the cold case team kept investigating. and in 2014, one of them came across a name. buried deep in an old file. right after terry disappeared, the next door neighbor told investigators she saw barr and another man at tara s house that they. but she couldn t see much because her view was blocked by a fence. so, that went nowhere then. except the neighbor happened to mention that her sister in law had been visiting that day. but no one had ever followed up with her i found her name and said who s this person? mike said, oh i, know someone by that name. so mike then went out and
out there. still, sharon continued to ferret out what she could. boy just never gave up. there was no stopping. as did her attorney. she would hear a piece of information from a neighbor or a new source, or detective that was supposed to tell her, and then she would confirm it, run with it, call me. she fought and fought and fought for justice. justice for tara. as showered with 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 is no getting around it. justice for tara just was not happening. in fact, the case was going cold. stone cold. eventually mike gandy retired. as did these two cops way up north. retired and move to sunny florida. and got very board. oh, oh. coming up. i always felt that this was a case that could be solved. enter a cold case squad.
you ve given us a new chapter to our life. the family gave the cold case detectives and the prosecutors gifts as well. each was engraved, justice for tara. here s to tara. cheers. they put in so much hard work and time, and respect, compassion. so, we wanted to give a little token of our appreciation and love for everything they have done. they gave terror peace and justice. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m craig melvin. thank you for watching. she was the love of my life, always. she was daddy s girl. debutante and tomboy. the free spirit with fiery hair and a wide open heart.