(Continued)
by Seamus McGraw
OCILLA, GA (Crime Library)
But family members still hope that searchers will find some clue about what happened to her after she vanished the night of Oct. 22 after the annual sweet potato beauty pageant, and just a week before the annual sweet potato festival.
So far, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, together with the Ocilla police and the Irwin County Sheriff's Department, have turned up few leads, and the disappearance remains officially a missing person case.
In the weeks since she vanished, authorities have interviewed dozens of people. Among them are her former longtime boyfriend, Marcus Harper; Heath Dykes, a Perry police officer who had long been close to Grinstead; and Anthony Vickers, a 20-year-old former student whose crush on the teacher had apparently made him belligerent enough to bang on her door one night. He was charged with a disorderly persons offense in that incident, but authorities have said that all three have cooperated with investigators and none has been named as a suspect in her disappearance.
More Men in Tara's Life
In fact, authorities have not ruled out the possibility that she might have engineered her own disappearance.
In the meantime, those closest to Tara have been conducting investigations of their own, and have identified three other men who dated Grinstead in the months after her emotionally charged breakup with Harper. They are hoping to meet with them to discuss the young woman's state of mind in the weeks before she vanished.
It was not immediately clear whether authorities have interviewed the three men.
Previous Page
Taras Family, Friends Hoping for a Miracle
Search for Tara Grinstead May Go Beyond County, Known Friends
Disappearance of Tara Grinstead Divides City
New Phase in Search for Tara Grinstead
One Aspect of the Search for Tara Grinstead Has Been Completed, But the Probe Continues
Beauty Queen & Teacher Tara Grinstead Goes Missing
Return to full Tara Grinstead coverage
Message Board
Photo Gallery
default
increase
decrease
email
print
