she got the ball rolling. she listened to me. the deputy called in crime scene investigators. i remember my mother waking me and my brother up. and i remember seeing so many people there, and the crime scene van outside. now deputies were taking tara s disappearance seriously. mike gandy was a captain at the charlotte county sheriff s office back then. sometimes you ll respond to a scene or a call where someone s missing and you can tell from the family interaction that it s not a big deal. this was not the case with tara s mom. it was obvious that we had a serious problem. first thing, find out the last time anyone had seen or spoken with tara. they knew by the time veronica got home just before 4:00 p. m., tara was gone. they learned that tara s last phone call began at 11:49 a. m. ended at 12:05. she d talked to a colleague at the mall jewelry kiosk where she worked. she said she d be by,
area, very close to the canadian border, where we think he had fled with the intent possibly of 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 tara disappeared, a next door neighbor told investigators she saw barr and another man at tara s house that day, 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 interviewed her. kurt, i think, had found her name and said, hey, do you who is this person? and mike said, oh, i know someone by that name. so mike then went out and and located her and spoke to her. what d she have to say? she floored me. why? that visitor was not
keith morrison (voiceover): tara s family s struggled. for free help, as time went on without answers and without their tara. veronica ord: it was hard. i was robbed of my sister. i had to grow up without one. keith morrison (voiceover): in 2003, after six years together, sharon and keith finally got married. when i was getting ready to walk down aisle, i was very sad because my baby girl wasn t going to be in that wedding party. but she was there. we made sure she was there. keith mcphillips: we had a big, big picture made up of her. time went on without answers and without their tara. it was hard. i was robbed of my sister. i had to grow up without one. in 2003, after six years together, sharon and keith finally got married. when i was getting ready to
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 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
possible suspects. you know it s a cool reality though of the detective business that they start close and widen out, and they always start with members of the family to eliminate them yes. and it winds up tragically and horribly often being somebody very close to them. i actually asked them myself, did you check us out? what d they say? they said they did. they said, oh, don t worry. we did. meanwhile sharon and keith pushed through their fear and anxiety and did what they could. you look through garbage bags and you go everywhere and anywhere and in the woods, dumpsters. really. i would do it every day. we would go in the woods so far, we didn t even know where we came out half the time. we didn t even know where we were. captain gandy s investigators searched for tara as well. the investigation shifted this morning with deputies searching 500 acres of pasture. if someone called and said, hey, we saw a suspicious vehicle in this wooded area,