www.justiceforchandra.com

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9275 Location: Jacksonville, FL

Update on Nancy Grace on Tara tonight. Tara's sister was on, video of them decorating her tree, the sister saying maybe you can't put Tara in a car and bring her back home but any info whatsoever will be rewarded if they can find her, they say they will follow up on leads even if the police can't.

Equusearch saying they will come back in January, hoping for a lead to help determine where to search intensively.

The sister named an area that was the last tip that Equusearch searched when they were there, a wooded area that was only described as an area of interest, about 25 miles from Ocilla.

I think it was said at the time that some clothes or a tshirt was found there, but they didn't elaborate tonight, just a place of interest.

rd

jane · Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 3227

portion of CNN Nancy Grace Dec. 23 transcript:

www.FindTara.com,

www.FindTara.com.

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9275 Location: Jacksonville, FL

47 year old Marilyn Bethell found near her home, off of a nature trail, close to an intersection, very similar to Chandra. We'll probably hear Geragos anytime now telling us she was out jogging. This is as I think Tara will be found.

rd

gozgals

See Information Below on a new search for Tara. Hopes this search will find Tara and bring her home for the New Year. GG)

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01/03/2006

Trackers Global in conjunction with the Ben Hill County Sheriff's Office will be conducting a search on 01/07/2006 & 01/08/2006 in Ben Hill County. Anyone wishing to participate in this search needs to be at the Senior Citizens building behind the Sheriff's Office in Fitzgerald at 8:00a.m.

from: http://www.trackersglobal.com/

http://www.findtara.com/index.htm

gozgals · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:48 am Post subject: Trackers Gold Page

http://www.trackersglobal.com/

(click link for photos)

Trackers
Global

Helping Bring Your Loved Ones Home

A Non-Profit Organization dedicated to Recovery of Missing, Abducted, and Runaway Persons.

Specializing in: Aerial and Underwater Video/Still Shot Photography.
Investigations of Missing, Abducted, or Runaway Persons.
The Organization of Effective Search Efforts.
Usage of the latest Video Technology & GPS Systems.

If You need our organization to help find a loved one, We are a Non-Profit Organization that is Free of Charge to Families in need of our services.

You May Contact Us at:

Trackers Global
115 Lonnie Johnson Rd
Hazlehurst, GA 31539
(912) 379-0221
Email Us :help@trackersglobal.com

Release of Information from Family 12/20/2005

Trackers Global has been working for our family in the Investigation and Search for our daughter Tara Grinstead since she was reported missing in Oct 2005. This Organization has incorporated all of its available resources and the diligent search for Tara continues. This Team of professionals is dedicated and committed to finding Tara using the latest Technology and will continue to search for her until she is found.

12/21/2005

New Information by Trackers Global leads to a possible search early next month.

01/03/2006

Trackers Global in conjunction with the Ben Hill County Sheriff's Office will be conducting a search on 01/07/2006 & 01/08/2006 in Ben Hill County. Anyone wishing to participate in this search needs to be at the Senior Citizens building behind the Sheriff's Office in Fitzgerald at 8:00a.m.

GG)

gozgals

http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0106/2401_congressman_meets_fbi.html

Congressman To Meet With FBI To Discuss Missing School Teacher

Congressman To Meet With FBI To Discuss Missing School Teacher
Kingston Looks For Federal Role in Four Month Old Search for Tara Grinstead

By Seamus McGraw

(Crime Library ) OCILLA, GA (Jan. 24, 2006) Though he has nothing but praise for the way the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has handled the four month old probe into the fate of missing school teacher and beauty queen Tara Grinstead, Congressman Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) says he plans to meet, perhaps as early as Wednesday, with FBI officials to discuss the young woman's mysterious disappearance.

Rep. Jack Kingston

"I don't sense that they're sitting on anything, I think they're vigorously pursuing this," Kingston said of the state's leading investigative unit during a brief interview Tuesday with Crime Library. "This is you know high profile so that they're not going to let it get on the back shelf."

Kingston, a seven-term Republican and a member of the House GOP leadership, made his comments after a brief meeting with Grinstead's family and local authorities spearheading the search for the missing woman. Kingston, whose district includes the rural Georgia community where Grinstead was last seen, credited the GBI with conducting a thorough investigation, thus far. Investigators, he noted, have quizzed all the key players in the missing teacher's life, including family members and former boyfriends. But if authorities have learned anything that might shed light on Grinstead's fate, he said, they're keeping it to themselves.

"Everybody has checked out...those that were close to her, but then again there could be things that the GBI for their own reasons don't want to disclose up to this point," the congressman said.

Despite his praise for the GBI, Kingston said he has scheduled a meeting with federal investigators to discuss a possible FBI role in the probe. "The FBI has not really been called in on the case, they're gonna help the GBI if they're asked, but right now the GBI has been handling it themselves, there's no federal hook," he said. Kingston said he plans to explore with FBI officials "what it is that we can do, what would bring them in."

While the FBI can assist local and state authorities, and offer its technical and investigative expertise as a resource to them, it is generally barred from actively participating in a case unless it is a major crime that crossed state lines or unless it involves a violation of federal laws.

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Contact Seamus McGraw at
seamusm@ptd.net

GG)

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9275 Location: Jacksonville, FL

The irony goz is that having disappeared, how would anyone know if someone crossed a state line with her, yet it is that very unknowing that should require bringing to bear the full capabilities of the FBI to find out.

rd

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9275 Location: Jacksonville, FL

With spring coming the searches done over the winter will probably have been the best chance to spot Tara's location before everything is grown over.

Sue Ann Ray north of Atlanta wasn't found until her ex led the police to where he buried her. Many other women remain unfound.

Sadly, so does Tara.

rd

peripeteia · Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 1173 Location: Nova Scotia

Just a thought, I've been thinking with all the searches conducted in the area, that Tara has to be hidding on someone's personal propery, buried at sea or in the water, or wondering if she's been buried in someone elses grave....someone who died around the same time, two in a coffin sort of thing. It seems remarkable that if the student or someone random killed Tara that her body would not have turned up before now?!

Wondering when and how Tara's ex became an ex cop. Certainly, the cop who spilled the beans should have been disiplined for breaking confidentiality, and it does seem surprizing that the cop whom he told and he were still friends. The ex boyfriend would have gotten his friend in deep doo with the department, just seems very unlikely that they would still be friends, as the cop whom the boyfriend told on about the student, should have been pretty ticked for telling Tara the story.

Regarding the fact that they were driving around all night does indeed seem fishy, in fact this seems incredulous. No alibi!

It almost appears that whomever abducted Tara had to know her, as the only sign of a struggle was the broken or overturned table lamp and the alarm clock. It would seem that the person was able to get close enough to her while she was in bed (appears to have been in bed) not to have created more havoc in the house.

Tara hardly appears suicidal! Perhaps the police man and exboyfriend should step up to the polygrapher as well. It seems very unlikely that the student would murder Tara, as he knew the police would be all over him like flies to honey..

I personally believe that Tara has not been found as someone with some sophisticated knowledge of hidding people had a hand in disposing of her body.
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A vision sent me on the path of seeking justice for Chandra, nothing I've seen in print to date has diminished the vividness but only served to reaffirm the validity of this vision.

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9275 Location: Jacksonville, FL

Nancy Grace had a photo of Tara up for a moment and said that someone at some site, and I didn't catch who, posted a timeline that said Tara disappeared sometime between 11 pm and 5 am, and then alluded in the timeline to a former local policeman she knew was known to be in the area at the time, at least that's what I gathered from what Nancy said.

Nancy said she was glad it's out there now, but it needs to be said, and focused on publicly. The work on the timeline helped make that happen.

rd

gozgals · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:12 am Post subject: Search focus on ponds

http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4688133

Grinstead search focuses on ponds

Tara Grinstead, from a beauty pageant.

March 27, 2006

Ben Hill County -- Right now, a search team is in Ben Hill County trying to find evidence that may lead them to missing Irwin County teacher Tara Grinstead.

Grinstead has been missing for more than five months, and the few leads law enforcement officers have received, have turned up little in the case, but they hope for a change of luck soon.

Over the weekend, a search team assembled in Ben Hill County to canvas land and check ponds for any sign of her. Two-dozen ponds were searched, but only one of them has triggered any particular interest.

A cadaver dog hits on a spot at a pond in Ben Hill County. A rare site, considering 23 other ponds were searched over the weekend, with no response from the dogs, but this pond is different.

"We had three dogs yesterday, different dogs, that actually hit on this pond. We took them out in the boats, and they all hit, pretty well the same place, in the boats which is right behind me now, and that dog hit also," said Ben Hill County Sheriff Bob McLemore.

So Monday, divers from Lowndes County are searching the pond, inch by inch, but even if they find nothing, the search here, is not over. "It's not a problem, if the divers don't find anything today, because if plan A, plan B and plan C don't work, we've got D, E, F, G and H. We are in this for the long haul until we find Tara," said the missing woman's sister, Anita Gattis.

Gattis, the possibility of finding her is long overdue. "It's been over five months. Some days, we are very apprehensive about, are we ever going to find her? And some days, we feel very positive that hopefully there will be an outcome," said Gattis.

And perhaps today will be that day, but, perhaps not. "We don't know what the answer is at this time, we're still searching and the divers are going back in in a few minutes and see if we can search the rest of the pond," the sheriff said.

The landowners where that pond is located say if the divers don't find anything, they'll be happy to drain it, in order to do whatever they can to help find Tara.

Grinstead's case has gained national attention. Anita Gattis and her husband Larry will be taping an episode of Montel Williams later this week.

Feedback: news@walb.com?subject=TaraPondSearch/Collier

Is Tara search nearly over?

Ben Hill County Sheriff Bob McLemore says three different cadaver dogs have alerted on a pond near Fitzgerald.

GG)

I'm hoping the pond will hold results needed and the search for Tara will come to a conclusion so at least all will know what has happened to Tara after a long 5 months.
- Prayers for the family and for Tara. -GG

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9275 Location: Jacksonville, FL

I wonder if this is the same area that Texas Equusearch pulled all their searchers to based on a tip to the police. The tip was not disclosed, they never found anything, but perhaps there was something to that tip.

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a suspect linked to that tip that they also won't disclose, at least until they find Tara.

rd

gozgals · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject: More Searches for Tara

http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0406/1101_new_search_tara.html

Grinstead Supporters Plan New Search for Missing School Teacher

by Seamus McGraw

April 11, 2006

OCILLA, Ga. (Crime Library) — Supporters of missing schoolteacher and beauty queen Tara Grinstead say they have some promising leads and plan to rally their volunteers for yet another search later this week.

As they have on several recent occasions, supporters are keeping the precise location of the search a secret, fearing, they say, that any advance publicity might compromise their efforts. But according to Larry Gattis, the missing woman's brother in law, the new search, scheduled for Thursday, Friday and possibly Saturday, will focus on an area that has already been combed by volunteers. The location — which will be disclosed to volunteers on Thursday when they convene at what has become the command center for the Find Tara effort — was picked because during one of the earlier searches six out of eight trained cadaver dogs responded to something in the immediate area.

Tara Grinstead

That, Gattis said, convinced Grinstead's supporters that the area warranted a closer look.

So far, of course, neither searchers nor police have found any tangible evidence to indicate what happened to Grinstead. The missing woman's family and supporters have long suspected that the now 31-year-old teacher, who vanished on Oct. 22, may have been abducted. In recent weeks they have said they become increasingly convinced that she was killed, in all likelihood, they maintain, by someone who knew her.

Investigators, including members of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the local police and sheriff's department, have been far less definitive in their statements about the case. Officially, it remains a missing person's case, and authorities say they don't have any evidence that indicates conclusively whether she was a victim of a violent crime or a young woman, under immense pressure from her studies and emotionally overwrought by her troubled love life, who simply ran away.

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GG) It appears they keep searching so maybe LE does have some information they are not ready to release to the public. Let us hope.

gozgals

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/14382517.htm

Posted on Thu, Apr. 20,
New witness reported in Grinstead disappearance

By Liz Fabian
TELEGRAPH STAFF WRITER

OCILLA - New tips are coming in after word surfaced of a new witness and suspect vehicle in the disappearance of Tara Grinstead, said the sister of the missing Irwin County High School teacher.

The Tara Command Center - a clearinghouse for tips, searchers and volunteers - received about a half dozen calls this week after a North Carolina criminal psychologist working on the case said he located a new witness, said Anita Gattis, Grinstead's sister.

Maurice Godwin, who, according to his Web site, holds a doctorate in investigative psychology from the University of Liverpool, said he learned of the existence of a witness during a recent trip to Ocilla.

Godwin said the witness saw a man near a black Chevrolet pickup truck parked on the grass at Grinstead's house the night she was last seen, Oct. 22.

"The person standing by the truck said something very rude to the witness," Godwin said Wednesday.

The man threatened the witness, Godwin said, which might be the reason that person hasn't come forward.

Godwin said he has talked to the best friend of the witness and plans to contact the witness today.

"This person is legitimate. I can tell you that," Godwin said.

Godwin said he was triple-checking his information before turning over the witness's name to investigators, he said.

He expects to notify GBI Special Agent Gary Rothwell before the week is out, he said.

"When I get my ducks in a row ... I'm going to shoot them some information," Godwin said.

Rothwell would not comment Wednesday on the specifics of the investigation or any witnesses.

"It's a very complex investigation," Rothwell said. "We still have a lot of resources devoted to this investigation, and we still believe it's a solvable case."

As the investigation nears the six-month mark, Gattis said Godwin's new development "gives me hope that at some point justice would be served."

Godwin agreed to take the case without pay about six weeks ago, when he first traveled to Ocilla and gathered evidence at Grinstead's home, he said.

There have been two other witnesses who reported seeing a dark-colored pickup at Grinstead's house, including one man who called the tip line Wednesday, Gattis said.

"It really sounds like somebody she knew," Gattis said. "It's just kind of a bizarre thing, but then again, this whole thing has been bizarre. We're just waiting to see what comes of it."

In the meantime, Gattis said she spends every weekend looking for her sister.

Over the Easter weekend, searchers drained a pond looking for evidence, she said.

Two psychics, Carla Baron and John Oliver, also have taken an interest in the case, Gattis said.

Baron and Oliver filmed an episode about the Grinstead site for "Haunting Evidence," a television series scheduled to begin airing on Court TV in June, according to Baron's Web site.

In the meantime, anyone with information is asked to call the tip line at (229) 468-0667 or visit the Tara Command Center at its new location at 121 North Cherry St. in Ocilla, Gattis said.

"We feel like we're really moving in a positive direction right now," Gattis said.

GG)
-- Let us hope this case comes to a conclusion soon. Blessings for the family.

Good weekend to all here.

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9275 Location: Jacksonville, FL

This would be after 11 pm Saturday night. Prior to this she was last seen by her friends she had dinner with a few blocks away when she went home at 11. Now we have this talk of all these witnesses that night, where there was none before.

I wonder if the sister has talked to this person. It sounds like it would have to be one of Tara's neighbors.

rd