GBI officials say suspect Ryan Alexander Duke, 33, was a student at Irwin High School, where Tara Grinstead taught history.
Grinstead, a high school teacher and winner of a South Georgia beauty pageant, was missing for more than a decade before Duke was arrested in connection with her murder in 2017, shortly after a friend helped him burn Grinsteadâs body in a pine orchard then came clean to investigators.
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Defense attorneys for Tara Grinstead s accused killer ask for state funds again
The issue of if the state should pay for expert witnesses and investigators to prepare him for trial came back up in court Tuesday Author: 13WMAZ Staff Updated: 1:04 PM EST January 12, 2021
ATLANTA Attorneys for Ryan Duke, the man accused of killing Tara Grinstead more than 15 years ago, went back before the Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday morning.
The issue? If the state should pay for expert witnesses and investigators to help him prepare for trial.
An Irwin County judge said no because Duke hired private defense lawyers – who are representing him for free – instead of using court-appointed public defenders.
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Georgia Supreme Court to again hear arguments on state funding for Tara Grinstead s accused killer
It is not the first time Ryan Duke has brought this issue to the state’s highest court Author: 13WMAZ Staff Updated: 11:45 PM EST January 10, 2021
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Editor s Note: The video in this story is from previous coverage of Duke s appeal in 2019.
Ryan Duke, the man charged with murder in the 2005 death of Tara Grinstead, will be back in front of the Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday.
According to a Supreme Court of Georgia oral argument schedule and summary, Duke will be again appealing an Irwin County’s court denial of his request for state funds to pay for expert witnesses and an investigator.
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Teacher and former beauty queen disappeared in October 2005. 2021 Jan 02
Tara Grinstead was a teacher and former beauty queen when she disappeared in October 2005. But nearly 12 years would pass before investigators finally learned what happened and now recent revelations indicate local law enforcement and state investigators may have been able to solve the case soon after she vanished.
John McCullough, who maintains he tried to give investigators a key tip in 2007 that could have cracked the case, speaks out on television for the first time to 48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant. . McCullough said a buddy named Bo Dukes told him he knew who killed Grinstead. McCullough said he called authorities, but they never followed up.