she was. right away, that afternoon, keith called sharon, just finishing her work day at her office. i ll never forget that call. i remember saying, i have to leave now. it was a 40-minute ride. and i cried that whole way home to please don t let nothing be wrong, please, please. i remember my mother pulling up. how did she look? oh, panicked. keith had called 911 as sharon rushed home. an officer was there when she arrived. my first thing was, you need to do something. my daughter s not here. i just knew. i just knew. coming up what had happened to tara? why wasn t anyone taking action and figuring out where she was? earrings in the carpet. ribbons on the ground. tire tracks on the lawn. it was obvious we had a serious problem. gut-wrenching pain. please, please don t let this be true! please don t let this be true! when dateline continues. [coughing] .by, you know how i feel. if you re tired of staring down your copd,. it s a new dawn,
the other went went straight to the front door. all business? all business. that, said the prosecutor, is when they cleaned up and took tara s body in a bed sheet, loaded it into the truck, and waited for dark when one or both of them dumped her body in the woods. but to tell that story took two long trials, each peopled by witnesses the jury might not think were very credible. people who supposedly heard barr and mcmanis say things. we raped and killed the girl. they re not gonna find her. i m going to kill you like i killed the girl in florida. the girl i killed was 20. one witness testified about overhearing a conversation between barr and mcmannis. phillip barr was saying to david mcmannis, i didn t want to kill her. and she overheard david mcmannis respond, she had to die. not very believable, said the defense attorneys. just people making things up, said
keith morrison (voiceover): so they were, as evening depended, evening deepened, pacing around the little house, frantic about tara. what happened? where was she? it was getting late. you know, why wasn t she home? the policemen who came to help them only seemed concerned about the jewelry and cash that appeared to have been taken, not sharon s missing daughter. they were concentrated on the burglary. they didn t seem to hear what she was saying, didn t understand her panic. they just weren t getting us or it wasn t sinking in. what was going on. they were trying to say, well, maybe she s at a football game. and then they there was a football game that night? yeah. and then, they went through her friends. and then actually
fought and fought and fought for 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 case that could be solved. enter the cold case squad! could they do what no one else had? how important was that? extremely important. extremely important. when dateline continues.ontis (michael) copd is harder on the folks around you, i think. my wife smoked, and she quit.
blocked by the fence like her relatives were. she d been sitting in full view not more than 15 yards from tara s front door, and she saw a lot. she did see a vehicle pull in a couple different times. and then the second time she saw the vehicle there, it was backed up to the front door. and the two guys got out, opened the tailgate, and we were walking back and forth inside the front door. wow. how important was that in the extremely important. she she identified david mcmannis as being at the house with barr. she identified him there at a time when the pickup truck was backed up to the front door. what other reason was that pickup truck backed up the front door other than to take tara out of that house? we went out to the house to get a better idea of where this woman was sitting and what she could have seen. so, she s sitting right here. wow. so that s one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,