Tara Grinstead-Ocilla Teacher

Trixie wrote:

Sorry, that was an old article. I don't know why that was sent to me in an email!!! I guess there is nothing new with the search for Tara. Like I said before, if there is, it isn't being told.

Morning Trixie...no problem. Nothing new this side of the border either. Talk soon eh? Please think about Tara!

do you feel comfortable enough to leave your email on here or do you have an instant messenger so that we can chat?

I have been involved in the searching for over a year now and I wanted to let everyone know that we are still looking. The town is so divided that it is down to 4 main people chasing leads with LE right now. And the GBI/OPD are still actively working the case. And no we do not announce our searches or locations. But if you all would like I can keep you posted of any changes.

Never stop looking,
K-9 Handler

Trixie wrote:

do you feel comfortable enough to leave your email on here or do you have an instant messenger so that we can chat?

Oh man, I am so sorry, I had my appendix out. Let me get back to you on this. I gave it out once and had issues, let me work on it. Thanks Trixie

JUJU--HAWKINSVILLE wrote:

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STORY ABOUT THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR'S KID NEXT TO TARA SEEN A TRUCK IN THE YARD THAT NIGHT BEFORE SHE GOT HOME BUT THE PARENTS WERE SCARED FOR HIM TO TALK? LOOKS LIKE WE WOULD HERE UPDATES ON THAT OR MY OPINION IS IF THE KID SAW SOMETHING OR TALKED TO THIS GUY WHO SUPPOSEDLY CURSED AT HIM--LET THE KID TELL TRUTH GIVE HER BACK TO HER FAMILY.

I am wondering why a sketch hasn't been done!

JUJU--HAWKINSVILLE wrote:

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STORY ABOUT THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR'S KID NEXT TO TARA SEEN A TRUCK IN THE YARD THAT NIGHT BEFORE SHE GOT HOME BUT THE PARENTS WERE SCARED FOR HIM TO TALK? LOOKS LIKE WE WOULD HERE UPDATES ON THAT OR MY OPINION IS IF THE KID SAW SOMETHING OR TALKED TO THIS GUY WHO SUPPOSEDLY CURSED AT HIM--LET THE KID TELL TRUTH GIVE HER BACK TO HER FAMILY.

IMO there is no witness. Someone prove me wrong! Please

Bumping for Tara Grinstead!

Sue wrote:

I so seldom hear of Tara Grinstead, its very sad. Its almost 1 year that shes been gone. Please, someone knows something. Bring Tara home.

Two years people! Its almost 2 years that Tara Grinstead has been missing! Please call the GBI...dont wait another day...tell them what you know.

CJ in Perry Ga....been looking for you. Please respond.

Hi Susie :) what ever you can help me with...please do.

I live 30 miles from TAra's Home and OCilla isn't that "marshy" But I would agree there is a cover up. I hate to say this to buyt I beleive she is dead.

brad wrote:

I live 30 miles from TAra's Home and OCilla isn't that "marshy" But I would agree there is a cover up. I hate to say this to buyt I beleive she is dead.

Brad, what kind of cover up? As in law enforcement? Or people in town? We know the perp is covering up his mess. I believe his time is running out! We dont need a body to convict! Having said that I will say Tara's family deserves her back, alive or not.

Sue wrote:

I so seldom hear of Tara Grinstead, its very sad. Its almost 1 year that shes been gone. Please, someone knows something. Bring Tara home.

TARA GRINSTEAD has been missing for almost 2 yrs......don't let this continue another day.

Bumping for Tara Grinstead.

Bumping for Tara Grinstead.

I can't believe the theories out there about: she committed suicide or fled her life. Yeah...people flee their gratifying, beautiful, and productive careers and educational pursuits all the time?! What is that? She was not married, in poverty, a baby factory, abused, or on drugs. She was: beautiful, loved, established in a career, and working towards her love of education. She had plenty to do, was educated enough to know better, and lived with strong moral values that contraindicted those actions to suddenly behave like a flake. And who gives a crud if she ended up in a gator or under a crawlspace near her home, she is most likely dead so it is pointless to speculate on something so gruesome while purring that you knew her pretty well.
My spare change: she didn't kill herself and she didn't run off. You have a murder case here, we just need the body or dna linking her back to any one of the odd men lurking in her life at the time of her disappearance. I am so sick of these pathetic freaks destroying the young and beautiful in our society because they can't own them or control them or sexualize them outside the limits of our laws. Broken men with no imagination more than destroying what they see in front of them, killing that which is not even particularly worthy of the hunt, in short....wimp murderers. They are about as interesting and mysterious as a rash on my ass.
Statistically and from the evidence we know: she knew her abductor/killer (80% of the time), it was a crime of passion, a male was probably involved due to seat position in her unlocked car, the killer was either experienced with crime scenes forensics or crime enactment (latex glove on her lawn), and other actions were taken to cover up the crime (what was the bagged item found in the local pond/lake?). The killer may not have acted alone, knew her situation and routine, was angry with her over something shared between them, is obviously comfortable with violence, and acted methodically to distort the crime scene. Who in her life had the background, work skills, job training, and knowledge to bring those factors together and would have been angry enough or alarmed enough at something she had said or threatened to do that they would deem it necessary to kill her? I am not so sure this was a crime of passion, either: she was isolated and taken away from her home, there was time during a drive somewhere to regress out of any rage frenzy. Somebody thinks he has gotten away with murder here....

What the f wrote:

I can't believe the theories out there about: she committed suicide or fled her life. Yeah...people flee their gratifying, beautiful, and productive careers and educational pursuits all the time?! What is that? She was not married, in poverty, a baby factory, abused, or on drugs. She was: beautiful, loved, established in a career, and working towards her love of education. She had plenty to do, was educated enough to know better, and lived with strong moral values that contraindicted those actions to suddenly behave like a flake. And who gives a crud if she ended up in a gator or under a crawlspace near her home, she is most likely dead so it is pointless to speculate on something so gruesome while purring that you knew her pretty well.
My spare change: she didn't kill herself and she didn't run off. You have a murder case here, we just need the body or dna linking her back to any one of the odd men lurking in her life at the time of her disappearance. I am so sick of these pathetic freaks destroying the young and beautiful in our society because they can't own them or control them or sexualize them outside the limits of our laws. Broken men with no imagination more than destroying what they see in front of them, killing that which is not even particularly worthy of the hunt, in short....wimp murderers. They are about as interesting and mysterious as a rash on my ass.
Statistically and from the evidence we know: she knew her abductor/killer (80% of the time), it was a crime of passion, a male was probably involved due to seat position in her unlocked car, the killer was either experienced with crime scenes forensics or crime enactment (latex glove on her lawn), and other actions were taken to cover up the crime (what was the bagged item found in the local pond/lake?). The killer may not have acted alone, knew her situation and routine, was angry with her over something shared between them, is obviously comfortable with violence, and acted methodically to distort the crime scene. Who in her life had the background, work skills, job training, and knowledge to bring those factors together and would have been angry enough or alarmed enough at something she had said or threatened to do that they would deem it necessary to kill her? I am not so sure this was a crime of passion, either: she was isolated and taken away from her home, there was time during a drive somewhere to regress out of any rage frenzy. Somebody thinks he has gotten away with murder here....

Great post!

The 4th sad rememberance of October 22 has just passed and still no leads or valid answers.
It's sad and heartbreaking and makes me wonder if we will ever know what happened.
Thank you Sue for keeping Tara's name out there and to everyone who is still actively involved in the case, wether it is searching for themselves or posting on the various message boards and topix. As long as there are good hearted people who won't give up, chances are high there will be an answer one day, I hope it will be sooner than later.
I wish Tara could see or know about the many, many people who are caring for her, she would be so gratefull and I think she would be amazed at the efforts some will do for her.
Never give up hope, yesterday I read about the case of australian woman Melanie Hall who vanished nearly ten years ago after leaving a nightclub, she was found after all this time so you see, you can't stop hoping because there can always be that miracle that one day somebody will bump upon her remains.

What the f wrote:

I can't believe the theories out there about: she committed suicide or fled her life. Yeah...people flee their gratifying, beautiful, and productive careers and educational pursuits all the time?! What is that? She was not married, in poverty, a baby factory, abused, or on drugs. She was: beautiful, loved, established in a career, and working towards her love of education. She had plenty to do, was educated enough to know better, and lived with strong moral values that contraindicted those actions to suddenly behave like a flake. And who gives a crud if she ended up in a gator or under a crawlspace near her home, she is most likely dead so it is pointless to speculate on something so gruesome while purring that you knew her pretty well.
My spare change: she didn't kill herself and she didn't run off. You have a murder case here, we just need the body or dna linking her back to any one of the odd men lurking in her life at the time of her disappearance. I am so sick of these pathetic freaks destroying the young and beautiful in our society because they can't own them or control them or sexualize them outside the limits of our laws. Broken men with no imagination more than destroying what they see in front of them, killing that which is not even particularly worthy of the hunt, in short....wimp murderers. They are about as interesting and mysterious as a rash on my ass.
Statistically and from the evidence we know: she knew her abductor/killer (80% of the time), it was a crime of passion, a male was probably involved due to seat position in her unlocked car, the killer was either experienced with crime scenes forensics or crime enactment (latex glove on her lawn), and other actions were taken to cover up the crime (what was the bagged item found in the local pond/lake?). The killer may not have acted alone, knew her situation and routine, was angry with her over something shared between them, is obviously comfortable with violence, and acted methodically to distort the crime scene. Who in her life had the background, work skills, job training, and knowledge to bring those factors together and would have been angry enough or alarmed enough at something she had said or threatened to do that they would deem it necessary to kill her? I am not so sure this was a crime of passion, either: she was isolated and taken away from her home, there was time during a drive somewhere to regress out of any rage frenzy. Somebody thinks he has gotten away with murder here....

from what you described, the suspect would likely be a person with police training or a military background

i hope she is found. i remember hearing about this case several years ago. i cant imagine the sadness and anguish her family is going through