Ryan Duke, a man on trial for the death of Georgia teacher, Tara Grinsted, has been found not guilty of murder by an Irwin County jury. Ryan Duke’s attorney argued that her client didn’t kill Tara Grinstead, 30, but instead, it was another man, who has already been convicted of concealing her death. Grinstead disappeared …
A jury is deliberating the case of a middle Georgia man accused of killing a popular Irwin County High School history teacher in a botched robbery and burning her body in a pecan orchard. Ryan Duke’s attorney argued that her client didn’t kill Tara Grinstead, 30, but instead it was another man, who has already …
It’s been decades since former Georgia beauty queen Tara Grinstead was last seen alive by her loved ones. The trial begins this week for the man accused of killing Grinstead and covering up her death. Jury selection began Monday morning for the murder case against Ryan Alexander Duke at the Irwin County courthouse. According to …
More than 13 years after Tara Grinstead vanished from her Georgia home, the first trial related to her murder is conducted. Bo Dukes, the man who admitted he helped his friend, Ryan Duke, burned the beauty queen and teacher’s body in a pecan orchard, was in a courtroom to face justice. Nancy Grace looks at …
Bo Dukes, a Georgia man accused of hiding the body of beloved teacher Tara Grinstead, who disappeared in 2005, was captured on Saturday after he fled from new charges of rape and sodomy in an unrelated case. The Telegraph reports that authorities captured 34-year-old Dukes at a family member’s house in Ocilla, following an extensive …
For the first time since his arrest in 2017 for the murder of Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead, suspect Ryan Alexander Duke is asking for $10,000 bond to get out of jail, and he apparently claims it’s because his alleged accomplice, Bo Dukes, is on the run from police. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Duke’s lawyer, Asleigh Merchant, …
Defense attorneys are arguing that charges should be dropped against the suspected killers because police allegedly knew of the accusations years ago
What happened to beauty queen Tara Grinstead, who was missing from a small Georgia town for a dozen years, is still a mystery even though two of the high school teacher’s former students have been charged in connection to her death. Nancy Grace has been there from the beginning searching for answers. In this “Crime …
The man who admitted to involvement in the presumed murder of Georgia beauty queen and high school teacher Tara Grinstead is facing new charges in a different county. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Bo Dukes, who was once a student at the high school where Grinstead taught, confessed to helping his friend Ryan Alexander Duke (no …
The case against Ryan Duke for the 2004 murder of Ocilla, Georgia, teacher Tara Grinstead is built largely on what his roommate Bo Dukes told investigators. Bo Dukes, no relation to Duke, was charged with concealing a death, tampering with evidence, and hindering apprehension of a criminal after he told detectives he helped his roommate …
Tara Grinstead’s sudden disappearance in 2004 remained a mystery for a dozen years, despite Georgia’s biggest persons investigation. But two arrests were made several months after Payne Lindsey created his Up & Vanished podcast that dug into the case. Lindsey, whose work is credited with stirring up the suspects, is now digging for the truth …
One of the country’s most famous missing person cases came to a sudden resolution earlier this year when the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced an arrest in the death of Tara Grinstead. Grinstead, a teacher and successful beauty pageant contestant, had been missing from her Ocilla, Georgia, home since October 2005. She was 30 when …
