By Seamus McGraw

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Despite massive searches conducted by armies of volunteers, despite high-tech assistance from Texas EquuSearch, despite the prognostications of psychics and the theorizing of at least one freelance criminologist, not a single clue has turned up in the past year that could lead police to conclusively determine what happened to Tara.

Of course that has not stopped the speculation by those who knew her, and even those who didn't. In the year since Tara vanished, theories about her fate have been bandied about on cable television shows, on the Internet and over coffee in Ocilla and the nearby communities where Tara lived her life. Accusations and recriminations, perched precariously on shards of fact — if facts are involved at all — have been traded. In the process they have ripped open a deep wound in the community, say those who know the place well.

And yet, despite it all, the mystery of what happened to Tara Grinstead remains.

"We desperately want to provide...answers for the family, for the community, for her students at school," said Ocilla Police Chief Billy Hancock who has been involved in the hunt for Tara Grinstead since the beginning. "It's just that we haven't found the right piece to the puzzle.

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