
11 | "There's Our Guy"
Up and Vanished
Chilling Confessions and Unraveling Mystery
This chapter delves into the unsettling revelations from Andrew Scott Haley regarding the disappearance of Tara Grinstead, intertwined with the questionable motives of those involved in the case. A private investigator shares insights on a connected student, raising doubts about the credibility of theories surrounding the cold case.
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And he was giving clues as to one of his victims. And that victim, the clues that were offered were those that appeared specific to
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Tara Grinstead. Tara
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Grinstead vanished from Irwin County in October of 2005. The clues were unmistakably about her. Don't try to chase me. Don't try to touch me. immediately trace videos back to the defendant, Andrew Scott Haley, in Hall County and confronted him. He confessed. He made the videos and even showed the agents where he placed his camera on a shelf in a bathroom closet to shoot them. And
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he stated essentially that it was a game that he was trying to get as many hits as he could on his YouTube website. We've seen it before in this case. Someone taunting the police in the media with clues about Tara Grinstead. But it turned out to be a hoax. Is George Harrison just another sick person playing a game with me? Or does he have some information for us? Save on Cox Internet when you add Cox Mobile and get fiber-powered internet at home and
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later, after I started this podcast, I got a call from a private investigator in Georgia. He asked that I not use his name, but he said he has something to tell me.
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All right, first of all, about a year ago, someone came to our office who was one of uh, Terry Grinstead's student. You know, he, he just like, I've always wondered what happened. And you know, the things that I hear in town are different than what the law enforcement's coming up with. It's like he was smart, but he was smart about the case. He didn't seem like the brightest guy, but he was smart. He, like, he knew he's, I was thinking about it for the last 10 years. So he knew what to say when he came to see us. This guy had all kinds of theories about what happened. Um, but he was never really, he just didn't know. And that's why he just This
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kid sounded sketchy to me.
Payne tells the whole story behind this mysterious "George Harrison" and we piece together clues bringing us closer to his true identity.
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