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What Happened to Tara Grant?

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, it looked like a model modern family from the outside -- but it’s what happened inside Tara and Stephen Grant’s home that led to an ending no one expected. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on February 29, 2008.

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You know, she has been missing for a week now seven days.

0:07.0

No one has seen or heard from Tara Grant in more than a week.

0:10.0

As of today, Tara Grant has been missing for 18 days.

0:16.0

County Sheriff's Department says it will do an all-out search for Tara this weekend.

0:21.0

Loving Dad, successful mom.

0:26.0

Beautiful family.

0:29.0

They were the people next door.

0:31.0

If anybody knows, just say something.

0:36.0

This is a court-ordered search warrant.

0:41.0

Should you be a suspect in this investigation?

0:43.0

I don't know.

0:44.0

I saw an empty shell and all honesty I saw an animal.

0:48.0

Sheriff Mark Hackle confirms numerous body parts are found.

0:53.0

I've never seen violence like this.

1:00.0

North of Detroit's seamless sprawl of strip malls and subdivisions

1:05.0

is a 4,500 acre woodland preserve.

1:08.0

In winter, a bear forest that still belongs to the deer, coyote,

1:13.0

and occasional trail walkers like Sheila Werner.

1:16.0

And that particular day was about 40 degrees

1:19.0

and I decided that I was going to walk through the woods.

1:22.0

What she spotted that last day of February tucked under a tree

1:27.0

looked like more than litter, a one-gallon ziplock bag.

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