i had to grow up without one. in an instant she was gone. and it changed everything. she dreamed of a career solving crimes, but crime claimed her first. gut wrenching pain! my daughter, please, please don t let this be true! home alone on a sunny afternoon she vanished. we just said, oh my god! isn t this one of her earrings? earrings in the carpet. ribbons on the ground. tire tracks on the lawn. there was evidence of a violent struggle. what had happened? and who was behind it? everything was a mystery. was she still alive? was she not? it tore us apart. for years they demanded answers, a struggle each day. then came the cold case squad with a new bag of tricks. i always felt that this was a case that could be solved. they wanted justice just as bad as we did. as a mother she fought and fought and fought. we just never gave up. don t mess with a mother bear. hello. welcome to dateline. tara ord was just 19. a beautiful young woman with bi
and this is dateline. i was robbed of my sister. i had to grow up without one. in an instant, she was gone. and it changed everything. she dreamed of a career solving crimes but crime came for her first. i prayed, my daughter, please don t let this be true. home alone on a sunny afternoon, she vanished. i said, oh my gosh, is this one of her earrings. earrings in the carpet, ribbons on the ground. tire tracks on the lawn. there was evidence of a violent struggle. what had happened? and who was behind it? everything was a mystery. was she still alive? it tore us apart for years they demanded answers. a struggle each day. then came the cold case file with a new bag of tricks. i always felt that this was a case to be solved. they wanted us justice just as bad as we did. as a mother, she fought and fought and fought. we just never gave up. don t mess with a mother bear. hello and welcome to dateline. tara was just 19 with a beautiful young wo
earrings in the carpet. ribbons on the ground. tire tracks on the lawn. there was evidence of a violent struggle. what had happened? and who was behind it? everything was a mystery. was she still alive? was she not? it tore us apart. for years they demanded answers, a struggle each day. then came the cold case squad with a new bag of tricks. i always felt that this was a case that could be solved. they wanted justice just as bad as we did. as a mother she fought and fought and fought. we just never gave up. don t mess with a mother bear. hello. welcome to dateline. tara was just 19. a beautiful young woman with big dreams. suddenly, she vanished. snatched from the safety of her own home. there was little evidence to go on, no witness to reveal who took tara or why. or so investigators thought. it would take years and a team of determined cold case detectives to uncover that long buried clue and the story that would blow this case wide open. here s k
a bit shady. hard to believe. prosecutor feinberg concluded he simply didn t have enough to make a charge stick. dna evidence in this case that was collected from the residents either came back to the family, or was not relevant to this case. there was no indication that the perpetrators had left blood or a body fluid at the home. so cases typically go cold when you run out of leads and information. and you run out of ideas. tara s mother, sharon, the 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. here it in her voice. the family was devastated. and they wanted answers. and i can understand that. you can t as a prosecutor just say detective, give all those answers. you can t put that information
detectives up north before they to retired and move to punta gorda. mike vogel and kurt mehl. i moved to florida and came down here to hurt, hunt, fish and play golf, and go boating, and go to the beach. and just relax. and that lasted a couple months. got very board. so, three board ex detectives put on badges again to form the sheriff s very first official called case unit. they decided early on they would work on tara s case. prosecutor feinberg was finally optimistic. sort of. i always felt that this was a case that could be solved. if it had a new set of eyes and had somebody that could put the case together, connect all of the dots. what requests did you make of them? we wanted to know more about every piece of evidence. we had to rule out every piece of dna in that house. so, it was closing doors and excluding other people. you re going to learn from looking in these files. so, that is what these three