Tara Grinstead

The incineration of tara grinstead s remains in a pecan orchard after she vanished in october 2005 would help keep her death a mystery for more than a decade.

Tara grinstead. The episode will featureinterviews with grinstead s. Her older sister told ajc that tara had hopes of becoming a high school principal or teaching college. He is accused in the 2005 murder of tara grinstead an irwin county high school history teacher last seen leaving a cookout and heading back to her home. Tara grinstead 30 a history teacher at a high school in irwin county georgia disappeared from her ocilla home in october 2005 ryan alexander duke was charged with former beauty queen s death in.

In 2017 two men were charged in her disappearance ryan alexander. New court documents suggest that within weeks of a south georgia teacher s disappearance two of her ex students told friends at. Now more than a decade later new details. Now the first of two men charged in the case is standing trial in rural wilcox county south of macon.

Bo dukes appeared in a wilcox county courtroom in. Tonight on dateline nbc andrea canning will investigate the disappearance of history teacher and former georgia beauty queen tara grinstead. Tara faye grinstead born november 14 1974 was an american beauty queen and high school history teacher from ocilla georgia who went missing on october 22 2005 and was declared dead in 2010. Tara grinstead who had been teaching 11th grade history at irwin county high school for about eight years at the time of her death was pursuing a doctoral degree in u s.

History at valdosta state university according to ajc. On day three of bo dukes trial a gbi officer took the stand and played a nearly hour long confession in which dukes talked about how tara grinstead a former beauty queen and.