Tara Grinstead: The Beauty Queen, the Ashes, and the Confession (E118)

In October 2005, high school teacher and beauty queen Tara Grinstead disappeared from her small hometown of Ocilla, Georgia. Her car was parked outside her home, her belongings were undisturbed and there were no signs of a struggle.For more than a decade, the case became one of the most haunting unsolved disappearances in the United States. In this episode, we walk through the night Tara vanished, the silence that followed, and how long-buried secrets eventually surfaced raising difficult questions about justice, memory, and how well we truly know the people around us.