Jasmine Franks Smyth County News & Messenger MARION â A womanâs search for her biological father has turned into a mystery â one she hopes readers might be able to help her solve. Although Tara Colada has put a lot of effort over the last year into locating the man who fathered her, the story of her search is a short one thatâs been mired in dead ends, adoptions and aliases. At 18, Colada learned that the man she believed to be her father wasnât biologically so, but for several years, she had no interest in tracking down the man who was. She said she had a name and that was about all she needed at the time.