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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 w ....
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. he ....
She was. right away, that afternoon, keith called sharon, just finishing her work day at her office. i ll never forget that call. i remember saying, i have to leave now. it was a 40-minute ride. and i cried that whole way home to please don t let nothing be wrong, please, please. i remember my mother pulling up. how did she look? oh, panicked. keith had called 911 as sharon rushed home. an officer was there when she arrived. my first thing was, you need to do something. my daughter s not here. i just knew. i just knew. coming up what had happened to tara? why wasn t anyone taking action and figuring out where she was? earrings in the carpet. ribbons on the ground. tire tracks on the lawn. it was obvious we had a serious problem. gut-wrenching pain. please, please don t let this be true! please don t let this be true! when dateline continues. [coughing] .by, you know how i feel. if you re tired of staring down your copd,. it s a new dawn, ....
Baking sun. a school bus made its methodical way among the residential streets of punta gorda, florida. stopped and started and stopped again. it was inland now, miles from the harbor, the peace river, the center of the town whose warmth had drawn them to the gulf coast. the bus stopped in the middle of a quiet neighborhood. driver opened the door. it was 3:45 p. m. we got off the bus and walked home. we means veronica ord, then almost 14 years old, and her younger brother, paul. and i remember halfway down the road, remembering that i forgot my key. but the closer we got to the house, i had seen my sister s car. so i said, oh, okay, cool. you know, i don t i don t need the key. you know, she s home. then she noticed the door wasn t quite closed. ....
Keith morrison (voiceover): so they were, as evening depended, evening deepened, pacing around the little house, frantic about tara. what happened? where was she? it was getting late. you know, why wasn t she home? the policemen who came to help them only seemed concerned about the jewelry and cash that appeared to have been taken, not sharon s missing daughter. they were concentrated on the burglary. they didn t seem to hear what she was saying, didn t understand her panic. they just weren t getting us or it wasn t sinking in. what was going on. they were trying to say, well, maybe she s at a football game. and then they there was a football game that night? yeah. and then, they went through her friends. and then actually ....