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Equusearch needs help for search for Tara January 20 weekend

 
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:04 pm    Post subject: Equusearch needs help for search for Tara January 20 weekend Reply with quote

[update: New search next weekend starting January 20]


Texas Equusearch announces massive search effort for 12/10 and 12/11. More info below

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Call for Volunteers

Texas Equusearch will lead a massive search effort on Dec.10th and Dec.11th. In addition to the TES team and law enforcement, volunteers are needed to execute an organized foot search. If you are able to assist - please contact the Sheriff's office to register your intent to attend. They can be contacted by phone at 229-468-7459 or by email at search@findtara.com. When contacting via email, please indicate how many people will be coming in to help and what day or days. Thank you!



Dec10th - Dec11

http://www.findtara.com/

If you can help in anyway, please do.

Thank you.

GG)

prayers for Tara and family.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The response to the call for volunteers for this weekends search has been good but there is still a great need for manpower.

If you are able to come or able to help spread the word and help recruit. Please do!

Thanks!
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would love to be a part of the search but there is no way that I could do it.

My prayers for the family and those searching.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have to work this weekend, skipper, so I can't make it either, but let's hope there are others who see this thread who can!

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:53 pm    Post subject: Betty Twitty to Join Search for Tara Reply with quote

Beth Twitty To Join Massive Hunt for Missing Georgia Teacher


Beth Holloway-Twitty

OCILLA, GA (Crime Library) — Beth Twitty, the grieving mother of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, will join the search this weekend for Tara Grinstead, the 30-year-old school teacher and former beauty queen who vanished more than a month and a half ago after a local pageant.


Tim Miller, founder and executive director of Equuasearch, the Texas-based search and rescue operation said Twitty approached him and asked if she could participate in the massive search which is expected to draw some 500 volunteers to comb the brush and backwoods in a fifteen mile radius around Ocilla beginning Saturday. Miller's operation spent several weeks in Aruba earlier this year in what has so far been a futile search for Holloway, who vanished while on a trip to Aruba in May.

Twitty, who has become an icon to some and a bane to others for her dogged search for her own daughter, told Miller that she felt an obligation to participate in the search for Tara because of the support she has received.

"She said she wanted to be helpful for a couple of reasons," Miller told Crime Library. "She said, 'so many people have helped me in Natalee's case, I want to be able to start helping other people'."

Holloway also told Miller that she felt a special affinity to Grinstead, a high school history teacher who is, by all accounts, held in high esteem by her students.

"She said, 'you know what? I am a school teacher and I have been a school teacher my whole life and this is a school teacher over there that's missing, so please let me help'."

Twitty, who has drawn both praise and criticism, including allegations in a blistering article in the January issue of Vanity Fair that she and her family may have actually impeded the search for Natalee, was adamant about pitching in on the search for Tara, Miller said.

"I said, you know what, Beth? If you're ready to help emotionally — because this has been very rough on you, I need you there. We need your help...so what you're going through right now with some of the bad publicity that you're getting, for you to now start helping other families because you know what they're going through...you can certainly be a valuable resource because there will me many more families that will need you."

In all likelihood, Twitty will help man the command center while the volunteers — 300 have signed up so far and another 200 are expected to join the search — fan out to scour a series of targeted locations arrayed in concentric rings beginning about two miles from Tara's home and extending out about 15 miles.

The search is expected to take two days.

(GG)

Comments: Thank you Beth for helping out. What a wonderful thing to take on, helping another family out.

I am hoping there will be a big turn- out for the search. Wishing we all could be there to help.
GG)

http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/1205/0701_beth_holloway_twitty_joins_tara_search.html
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a great, great story from crimelibrary.com, goz. She has been through so much this year, I hope this helps her and her family emotionally to be able to participate in something they should never have had to be familiar with, searching for their daughter.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Texas Equusearch found Melinda Superville today in an abandoned house just 150 yards from her office in a strip mall. Her brother was on the Equusearch team that found her.

This is sad yet hopeful for the families of other missing women like Tara Grinstead. Melinda had been missing a week and Equusearch started searching today and found her. I hope that's a good omen for this weekend's search for Tara.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hope it is a good omen too RD. It looks like they still need more volunteers. I'm praying many show up and they find Tara. I prefer she is alive as we all do.

I was just looking up the story on Melinda Superville -- how very sad RD, Blessings. Just very heartbreaking.

I have heard the weather in Atlanta is very cold, I hope since this area is closer to your end, it is a tad bit warmer.

Also, the pregnant woman in WI, Christine Rudy, (6 months along) whom I was going to post on the board recently--- they may have found her remains too. How sad but good for the family. It was posted on the Dec. 7 a body was found. They are waiting on results on the body, but it looks like her.
--She is only 21 years old and has been missing since Nov. 12, 05. I'm not sure at this point if the husband was involved RD, but it doesn't look good. He does have a record. The marriage is recent. Another inconvenient woman!

In case you are not familiar- "he claims they had a fight, on a desolate road, and she chose to leave the car" and he let her get out. Approx. 3 miles or more to any area. It happened to be 55 plus the weather that day, but he is the only one who can prove if she was in the car.


Let us hope there is justice for Tara and she can be found.

Thanks for the update Rd.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two bits of news from Lineup on Fox, Goz. One is that the Wisconsin police report that they have found remains which they think may be human. Looks like they have found Christine.

Also the local mayor who was involved in some church functions talked to 6 month pregnant Christine the day before she disappeared. She had been crying and he tried to help. She said he husband had dumped her out on the road. He would later say he dumped her the next day as well. I might have heard wrong but I thought they cited a 2 am at night dumping.

You can't convince me he dumped her alive.

A defense type was saying this is not even criminal negligence. So apparently all you have to do to get rid of a woman is dump her in the woods at night and say she wanted out.

I know who wanted out, and what they wanted out of.

Also Beth Twitty was on, having just returned to Birmingham from Ocilla. She had very good things to say about the effort there today. It gave her hope for families of missing women, here in the states anyway.

Those volunteers today are something we would all hope to have pull for us in the same situation. Their efforts are inspiring to us all.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:48 pm    Post subject: Update on search of Tara by EquuSearch Reply with quote

http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4228829

Search for Tara continues


December 10, 2005

Ocilla- Searchers comb hundred of acres looking for Tara Grinstead, but continue to come up empty. It's been 50 days since Tara Grinstead disappeared. Information gained from a private tip line has family investigators questioning people in North Georgia, but Saturday's search for the teacher in Irwin County turned up no new leads in the case.

The search for Tara Grinstead continues as more than 150 volunteers searched, field by field, by smell, and by air, but with no luck and few clues. Texas EquuSearch led this weekends search using remote control planes to take both still pictures and video of hard to reach places like this pond in Irwin County.

"We'll go out and we'll take up to hundreds of pictures a day and we'll come back and look at those and analyze those images on a big screen TV and we'll look and if there's anything out of the ordinary or something that just doesn't fit the picture, we'll mark that down as a point of interest," said Gene Robinson, RP Flight Systems Pilot.

To check those points of interest K-9 dogs were also used to search areas including this well. Czar was sent on a practice run.

"He is searching for scent and in this case it is human remains scent, much like a drug dog, see he's already got it," said Tracy Sargent, K-9 Search & Rescue Specialist.

While searchers continue to scour the county, there's been little progress.

"We've not found any new evidence, we're just continuing to search. We've had a lot of volunteers out today and we appreciate each one of them," said Chief Billy Hancock, Ocilla Police Dept.

Family members say finding nothing still offers them some comfort. "If we don't find anything, that's okay, but I know we will have thoroughly eliminated what we don't need to keep questioning and there were some areas the family, we were told they were searched, but we just had some concerns about them," said Anita Gattis, Grinstead's sister.

As police and searchers wrap up their quest, the family continues to question everyone they can in the hope that one piece of information may lead them to Tara.

"Not all of Tara's neighbors had been questioned, my dad and the private agent that's working with the family, they went door to door and in two days they found five families that no one has ever talked to them," said Gattis.

The reward for information that may lead to Tara's whereabouts has climbed to $100,000. Anyone with information about Tara is still encouraged to call the Private Tip Line at (912) 386-2564.

feedback: news@walb.com?subject=(Tara Search)

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:55 pm    Post subject: Transcripts: Nancy Grace 12/12/05 Reply with quote

Edit: Tara

Dec. 12, 05

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/12/ng.01.html


NANCY GRACE



Aired December 12, 2005 - 20:00:00 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.



(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Tara Grinstead, beauty queen-turned-school teacher still missing. Let`s go live straight down to Ocilla, Georgia. Robert Preston, editor with the "Douglas Daily News."

I understand a tip to a tip line resulted in a massive search. What was the tip and what`s the result of the search?

ROBERT PRESTON, EDITOR, "DOUGLAS DAILY NEWS": Well, the search took place over the weekend. The EquuSearch team from Texas has been in town. They came in the week of Thanksgiving. And they stayed for a few days, left, and then came back at the first of last week.

They were hoping that they would have several hundred volunteers come out and search the Ocilla and Irwin County community. And they did. And they had about 150 or so people that were here. And they canvassed the area. They focused on wooded areas that hadn`t been extensively searched during the recent grid search that took place in the community.

GRACE: OK. I want to go to Tara`s sister, Anita Gattis.

Anita, do we know more about the tip that led to the search and what clues were found?

ANITA GATTIS, TARA GRINSTEAD`S SISTER: Well, the search on Saturday was approximately 300 people were here. And they searched the area that EquuSearch had previously planned on searching.

They got a tip on Saturday night, and it was not in Irwin County. It was in Ben Hill County, Northern Ben Hill County. So they sent all 100 volunteers who returned on Sunday to that area. I know that some articles of clothing were found. I`m not really sure exactly what the tip was. I was not given that information, but it was phoned in to either the sheriff`s...

GRACE: Articles of clothing? What were the articles of clothing?

GATTIS: Yes. I know it`s a couple of t-shirts and a pair of jeans were found.

GRACE: Is there any way to trace them back to Tara? And have the other items have been evaluated yet?

GATTIS: Nancy, you know how this is on waiting for evidence and the family being notified if anything`s been evaluated. We were told a month ago a rush was put on it, we`d have it in a week. We have still not heard anything from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as to any results of any...

(CROSSTALK)

GRACE: Let me give that tip line. Anita Gattis, we are staying on this story. Tip line, everybody, 912-386-2564, $100,000 reward.

Thank you to all of my guests. Tough topic tonight.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

from www.texasequusearch.org

Texas Equusearch will be conducting another search for Tara Grinstead beginning January 20, 2006. Please check back for location and time.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Texas Equusearch and volunteers going to Ocilla, Ga. are searching for Tara this weekend. Hopefully there will at least be something found that helps the investigation. The swampy ponds and wells I would think are both likely and hard to search. Good people helping good people though.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I believe that Tara cannot be found because she is on private property of the killer or the family of the killer. She may also have been dismembered, or her body disposed of by chemicals or fire. I believe that she is well hiddened by someone that was very professional, or that the private properties of the possible persons of interest have not been searched. This is just my opinion, a gut feeling due to all the searches so far have yeilded nothing. It is possible that Tara's remains were dumped in the ocean. There is a reason she has not been found. There are places that have not likely been searched because her body is likely on private property.
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