GA - Tara Grinstead, 29, Ocilla, 22 Oct 2005 #1 *Arrests*

[concernedperson]

Unidentified woman... possible match? Timeframe is off though... also we only have limited information to go on about the Jane Doe.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35302

It has me thinking real hard right now. I wish we knew what color hair on the Jane Doe. I did a mapquest search and from Ocilla to Myrtle Beach is 396.81 miles and it is 7 hours 40 minutes. Someone had plenty enough time to dump a body and return as she wasn't reported missing until Monday.

 

[PonderingThings]

I called the Sherrif's office and updated Jane Doe's thread.

 

[panthera]

It has me thinking real hard right now. I wish we knew what color hair on the Jane Doe. I did a mapquest search and from Ocilla to Myrtle Beach is 396.81 miles and it is 7 hours 40 minutes. Someone had plenty enough time to dump a body and return as she wasn't reported missing until Monday.

Way outside the normal range for a perp to be carrying a dead body in a vehicle... 396.81 miles to drive fearing a traffic stop or accident? S. Peterson was outside the norm when he went 90 miles. Possible, but unlikely

 

[PonderingThings]

Its outside the norm, but it has happened before.

Also, IF it is Tara, and IF she was abducted, there is nothing to say she was kept close to home. She could have been taken to a residence in that area, while alive.

All long shots... but still possibilities.

 

[Trino]

Its outside the norm, but it has happened before.
Also, IF it is Tara, and IF she was abducted, there is nothing to say she was kept close to home. She could have been taken to a residence in that area, while alive. All long shots... but still possibilities.

IF it is Tara, IF, this may take MH, F, D, JP, AV, - everyone of them out of the picture. Tara's abductor could still be a local, but it doesn't look like these guys left the area. Are there any long distance truck drivers that live around Ocilla? I'm thinking it's not Tara.

 

[CrimeHater]

She could have been taken at a later date. Knowing that all of the searches were giong on, someone may have moved her.

 

[concernedperson]

She could have been taken at a later date. Knowing that all of the searches were giong on, someone may have moved her.

Exactly.

 

[Bobbisangel]

You have been told correctly! Was married 12 years to one, worked in LE too and I'd have to sadly say about 95% of all officers cheat! They have so many opportunities.

My divorce of 12 years finally ended when my Officer met one he thought he just couldn't live without.:loser:

BUT my sun did shine again, married my bestest friend 6 months ago! :blowkiss:

One of my best friends was married to a cop. He not only cheated on her but was physically, emotionally, verbally abusive. She took her two little kids and took a bus from Boston to Washington state to escape him before he killed her. No one...especially his buddys on the force believed he was abusive.

I think the uniform turns some women on and with the egos a lot of cops have they just can't help themselves from doing a little bed hopping :loser:

 

[Bobbisangel]

I have this little working theory that Marcus let himself into Tara's home after she was asleep (It was said he has a key). The lamp, clock and necklace on the floor indicate a struggle. I believe he incapacitated her and put her in her own car and drove to a disposal site. He has military training i.e. Special Forces or Green Berets....they know how to snap a neck in seconds.

The reason for using her car is her DNA would be expected in it and returning it makes sure that the vehicle is nowhere near the body. No body,no crime. His friend picked him up and they returned to whatever they were doing. I think he dropped the latex glove by accident in the front yard.

I think that you are right on. I wonder how long he would have been gone. He probably made sure that he was seen with the cop so he would have an alibi. It seems that the cop would have to know what took place.

 

[Becba]

I think that you are right on. I wonder how long he would have been gone. He probably made sure that he was seen with the cop so he would have an alibi. It seems that the cop would have to know what took place.

So once again I ask if the cop he was with could have been the married cop that called her 20 times the day she went missing....the one described as a friend of the family.

 

[concernedperson]

So once again I ask if the cop he was with could have been the married cop that called her 20 times the day she went missing....the one described as a friend of the family.

That was a different cop. Marcus Harper was with a cop named Fletcher. The other friend cop was Dykes. I don't have confirmation that Dykes called her 20 times

 

[Becba]

That was a different cop. Marcus Harper was with a cop named Fletcher. The other friend cop was Dykes. I don't have confirmation that Dykes called her 20 times

Thanks! It was makin" me crazy wondering.

 

[concernedperson]

Thanks! It was makin" me crazy wondering.

I have been doing some research and I found info that Tara received 3 calls after she came home from the barbeque. 2 from girlfriends and 1 from Dykes, it seems her best friend was the last one to speak with her around 12:30 a.m. But this is just from a local source not from a published account so we can't be sure of anything.

 

[CrimeHater]

I have been doing some research and I found info that Tara received 3 calls after she came home from the barbeque. 2 from girlfriends and 1 from Dykes, it seems her best friend was the last one to speak with her around 12:30 a.m. But this is just from a local source not from a published account so we can't be sure of anything.

Great Info! The only thing that makes me wonder, is why wouldn't she have told Nancy Grace that. As many questions as she asked I'm just surprised that wouldn't have come up.

 

[concernedperson]

Great Info! The only thing that makes me wonder, is why wouldn't she have told Nancy Grace that. As many questions as she asked I'm just surprised that wouldn't have come up.

I don't know the answer to that. All I know is that since Nancy's show on 1-12-06 things are a little clearer (like mud). Info that was revealed had not been heard before or it was reported differently. i.e. that Tara was in bed that night as the covers and pillows indicated this per her mother when before it was said that wasn't the case. That she had filed a formal charge against Fletcher the cop Marcus was riding with the same night as is expected to be the night she disappeared. I would have to look at the transcripts to remember everything but it was a real eye opener for me.

 

[Bobbisangel]

I think Tara's complaint was about the policeman telling her boyfriend when he came home from Iraq about the school boy who was beating on her door. She didn't think it was his place to tell anyone.

Ya, the family said that the cop repeated confidential information so Tara signed a complaint against him. It probably was about the school kid.

 

[petra]

I wonder how the search went this weekend?

 

[Bobbisangel]

I don't know the answer to that. All I know is that since Nancy's show on 1-12-06 things are a little clearer (like mud). Info that was revealed had not been heard before or it was reported differently. i.e. that Tara was in bed that night as the covers and pillows indicated this per her mother when before it was said that wasn't the case. That she had filed a formal charge against Fletcher the cop Marcus was riding with the same night as is expected to be the night she disappeared. I would have to look at the transcripts to remember everything but it was a real eye opener for me.

I didn't remember the mom saying that Tara had been in bed that night. I remember that she hadn't hung her clothes up that she had worn that night or put the shoes in the box that she always kept them in because they were so expensive. Her mom said that she always boxed the shoes....always. And she was really picky about hanging up the clothes that she had worn...never just left her clothes laying around. I guess I gathered that she hadn't been to bed because she hadn't taken care of her clothes or shoes.

It was really an interesting show though as they went through Tara's home.
Her family was really open. They all seem like such nice people.

There must not have been any noise at all because the older couple next door didn't hear a thing. Course if a person has their TV on they might not hear anything. Sounds like they kind of kept an eye out for Tara. It's nice to have neighbors that do that. I just wish they had been a little more snoopy and they might have seen a car out front or seen someone walking to the house. I wonder if they would have thought anything of it if a cop car had been around there that evening????? Wonder if anyone has asked them that?

 

[petra]

GATTIS: Lamp broken. The clothes that she...

GRACE: Oh, oh, another question I asked today and I didn`t get a definitive answer, regarding her bed clothes. She had a bed like it was out of a magazine, you know, beautiful bed trimmings...

GATTIS: Right.

GRACE: ... and the pillow show and the whole thing. And were her bed covers turned back that night?

GATTIS: GBI told me that it looked like she had quickly made her bed. I`m thinking she may have just thrown the comforter over it when the girls came for her to start doing makeup. They said it was not neatly made.

GRACE: It`s neatly made now.

GATTIS: Right.

GRACE: Who made it?

GATTIS: I did.

GRACE: You made it. OK. So it was in some disarray.

GATTIS: Right. It was.

GRACE: And what about her shoes


http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/12/ng.01.html


This is one story told by Tara's sister about what GBI told her---

Another story by mom----will post below

**pls bear with me while posting and pasting and searching

 

[petra]

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/13/ng.01.html


from mother:



GRACE: Oh, I see! I see. It is broken. Yes, up under here. And this was down on the floor? And the bed was made.

GRINSTEAD: No, the bed was -- they told me the bed was not made, like she had just gone to bed maybe. Tara slept with, like...

GRACE: Really?

GRINSTEAD: Tara slept with, like, pillows on the side of her, you know?

GRACE: Right.

GRINSTEAD: She slept with several pillows. And that`s what I was told, like she had possibly laid down and gone to bed. That`s why I wondered if somebody called her.

GRACE: Where`s the phone***************SNIP


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from best friend:

HULETT: ... the detective was outside by her car. Her door was unlocked.

GRACE: Her door was unlocked?

HULETT: Uh-huh.

GRACE: OK. Go ahead.

HULETT: Yes, I walked in the door, looked where her shoes would usually be, you know, to see if she had hurried out the door, maybe, looked around to see if anything had fallen off the tables, if there looked like (INAUDIBLE) having a struggle, you know? I immediately knew that something had to have been wrong for her not to have shown up for work, not to call home. There had to have been something wrong. So I...

GRACE: What did you see in the bedroom?

HULETT: The bedroom, she had -- there were clothes on the floor, jewelry on the floor. Her shoes were on the floor. And they were really nice shoes, and she`s very peculiar about her clothes, her clothing and shoes. They were on the floor. There were things packed -- stacked up on her -- next to her bed. Her bed had been slept in, it looked like to me. You know, her pillows were arranged like she sleeps. I immediately thought that she had been in the bed at some point. You know, she had been there at night. I knew that the last time that anybody had talked to her was Saturday night.

GRACE: Now, what about the clock-radio and the lamp?

HULETT: I didn`t see the clock. That was later on, when I went back the second time, did I see the clock.**********SNIP******************