years together, sharon and keith finally got married. when i was getting ready to walk down the aisle, that was very sad because my baby girl wasn t gonna be in that wedding party. but she was there. we made sure she was there. we had a big, big picture made up of her. reporter: but the anger remained and intense frustration as, year after year, sharon demanded answers and didn t get them. in 2008, almost seven years after tara s murder, sharon appeared in a crime stoppers video, and spoke directly to the killers, whoever they were. i want to know how they wake up in the morning. how do they go on with their life knowing that they did this to a person? don t think for a minute that you got away with this. cuz one day, and i truly truly believe this, that one day, there s going to be a knock at that door, and they re going to be in cuffs. and that s what i, that s what i want. reporter: nothing came of it. the whole world had moved on,
to cover it up. reporter: the only thing that dave mcmannis was guilty of, said bross, was being a sarcastic guy. the majority of the statements that were made were sarcasm, at best. so if he s guilty it s a claim. yeah. and that s kind of an easy out for saying terrible things, isn t it? well, it was inappropriate statements, if said at all. david is known to be a jokester and sarcastic. even during the course of the trial, he would say things that were sarcastic. reporter: the trials, two of them, dragged on for more than 15 months with delay after delay in a case that had taken more than 15 years to get to this point. sharon and keith s marriage didn t make it that long. but they attended both trials together. we started this together, we re gonna finish it together, no matter what. reporter: and after all that time? in each case, deliberations took less than 90 minutes.
told investigators, tara was fine when he and his helper left her house that afternoon. but questions went on and on. and phil barr, who had a business to run, didn t appreciate that kind of attention. barr complained to a local nbc reporter about it. it s been very stressful. i realize the police are doing their job and they re looking into things, but nonetheless i feel like, you know, i ve been harassed. reporter: and several times, he, himself, confronted the detectives. insisted he was innocent, all the talk was unfair. i am telling you the truth. i have nothing to do with this girl s disappearance. i m getting the [ bleep ] shaft here. reporter: it was a problem. detectives certainly had their suspicions. but evidence? there was none. and most everyone they questioned who knew barr was, well, a bit shady. hard to believe. prosecutor feinberg concluded he simply didn t have enough to make a charge stick. the dna evidence in this case that was collected from the
involved if not in the murder, but definitely in the complicity to cover it up. reporter: the only thing that dave mcmannis was guilty of, said bross was being a sarcastic guy. the majority of the statements that were made were sarcasm at best. so if he s guilty it s a claim. yeah. and that s kind of an easy out for saying terrible things, isn t it? well, it was inappropriate statements, if said at all. david is known to be a jokester and sarcastic. even during the course of the trial, he would say things that were sarcastic. reporter: the trials, two of them, dragged on for more than 15 months with delay after delay in a case that had taken more than 15 years to get to this point. sharon and keith s marriage didn t make it that long. they re separated now, but they attended both trials together. we started this together, we re gonna finish it together, no matter what. reporter: and after all that time? in each case, deliberations took less than 90 minutes.
the decorative bricks around it. and then there was tire tracks. reporter: what, across the lawn? across the lawn. reporter: how close do those tire tracks come to the house? it wasn t a big yard, but no, it wasn t a big yard. reporter: they went up to the door. and they found two ribbons, the kind tara wore in her hair, outside their front door, and scuff marks on their bedroom dresser. tell me about the what those scuff marks look like. like somebody moved it or rubbed something against it? if you took your shoe and you kicked something and you left a mark. reporter: okay. like, if, you know, if you walk on a floor and you drag your feet, it leaves a mark? reporter: yeah. well, that was on the dresser drawers in our bedroom. reporter: one of the missing pieces of jewelry was a ring tara had given to keith. my dad ring she she bought me. i didn t care about anything else but that. reporter: the officers left the house with nothing learned, nothing