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Almost 14-years-old and her younger brother paul. i remember halfway down the road remembering i forgot my key. the closer i got to the hour, i seen my sister s car. i said, oh, okay, cool, i don t need the key. you know, she s home. then she noticed the door wasn t quite closed. it was closed, it wasn t latched, like you could fall in and the door would open. i remember walking in and oprah was on the tv. what did you assume you saw the door opened and the tv on? i thought maybe she left in a hurry, went with a friend and didn t close the door all the way. she was tara. veronica s older, the not quite 20 then. veronica called out. noalser, called through the house, the bathroom light was on. i went into the bedroom and saw her purse and everything on top of her dresser. i thought where would she be without a purse. that wasn t usual. ....
Located her and spoke to her. what d she have to say? she floored me. reporter: why? that visitor was not blocked by the fence like her relatives were. she d been sitting in full view not more than 15 yards from tara s front door, and she saw a lot. she did see a vehicle pull in a couple different times. and then the second time she saw the vehicle there, it was backed up to the front door. and the two guys got out, opened the tailgate, and we were walking back and forth inside the front door. wow. yeah. and that was, kind of how important was that in the extremely important. she she identified david mcmannis as being at the house with barr. she identified him there at a time when the pickup truck was backed up to the front door. what other reason was that pickup truck backed up the front door other than to take tara out of that house? reporter: we went out to the house to get a better idea of where this woman was sitting and what she could have seen. so, she ....
before the sun came up, sharon called 911 again and a new officer arrived. a woman deputy. i will never forget that and i said please help me. and she did. she got the ball rolling. she listened to me. the deputy called in crime scene investigatorinvestigators. i remember my mother waking me and my brother up and i saw so many people there. the crime scene van outside. deputies were taking the disappearance seriously. mike gandhi was a captain at sheriffs office back then. sometimes you respond where someone is missing and you can tell from the family interaction it was not a big deal. this was not the case. it was obvious we had a serious problem. first thing, find out the last time anyone had seen or spoken with tara. they knew by the time veronica got home, tara was gone. ....
Came home to find her car and purse, but no sign of tara. later their mom s fiance noticed muddy footprints tracked through the house and cash and jewelry missing. the moment tara s mother got the call, her intuition told her tara was in trouble. but could she convince the police? here again is keith morris. there they were as evening deepened, pacing around the little house, frantic about tara. what happened? where was she? it was getting late. why wasn t she home. the policeman was only concerned about the missing jewelry and cash and not her daughter. they concentrated on the burglary. they didn t understand her panic. they were not getting us or what was going on. they said maybe she s at a football game. there was a game that night. ....
Of her. year after year sharon demanded answers and didn t get them. in 2008, almost seven years after tara s murder, sharon appeared in a crimestoppers 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 they did this to a person. don t think for a minute you got away with it. one day and i believe this, there will be a knock at that door and they will be in cuffs. nothing came of it. the whole world had moved on, forgotten, apparently. a year later, 2009, punta gourda got a new sheriff and thought some of the unsolved cases needed a new look and called upon the retired detective, mike gandhi and these two who had been detectives up north before they too retire and moved to punta gourda. mike vogel and kirk male. ....