Time Slot: 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST on CBS
Episode Title: The Tara Grinstead Mystery
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COULD THE INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT HAPPENED TO A GEORGIA TEACHER AND FORMER BEAUTY QUEEN HAVE BEEN SOLVED YEARS AGO? 48 Hours Investigates in The Tara Grinstead Mystery
Saturday, Jan. 2
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. Correspondent Peter Van Sant and 48 HOURS investigate the young woman s disappearance and the quest for answers in The Tara Grinstead Mystery to
48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates the young woman s disappearance and the quest for answers in the case he s covered for 12 years in The Tara Grinstead Mystery.
On the afternoon of Saturday, October 22, 2005, Tara had helped younger contestants prepare for a local beauty pageant. Afterwards she went to a barbecue. Sometime around 11 p.m. she returned to the small house where she lived alone.
When she failed to show up to teach her history class on Monday morning at Irwin County High School, her friends knew something was wrong. She would never do that, she would never leave her kids, said her best friend Maria Woods Harber.