True crime followers outdoors of the small city of Ocilla are in all probability finest aware of the case by Up & Vanished, whether or not by listening to the hit podcast or watching the Oxygen documentary.
Payne Lindsey hosted each and is aware of the case inside and outside, seemingly greater than most.
Grinstead was final seen alive leaving a cocktail party on October 22, 2005.
Police visited her dwelling two days after she went lacking and located her automobile parked within the driveway. Upon coming into the house, they discovered her cell phone charging and the garments she had worn to the feast have been nonetheless on the bed room flooring.
There was nearly no signal of a battle, or Grinstead.
The investigation into her disappearance turned the largest within the historical past of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).
In 2010, Grinstead was formally declared lifeless however her physique has by no means been discovered.
The GBI acquired a tip about Duke in 2016 and he was arrested and charged with housebreaking, aggravated assault, homicide and concealment of a physique.
His former classmate Bo Dukes, with no familial relation, was arrested and charged with making an attempt to hide a demise, hindering apprehension and tampering with proof. In 2019, Dukes was convicted of serving to conceal Grinstead’s demise and sentenced to 25 years in jail.
It has all been a very long time coming for Lindsey, who has been subpoenaed within the case and courtroom take the stand within the remaining days of the trial.
‘They may name me, they might or might not. Both method it’s nonetheless surreal to me to be concerned within the case in that form of method,’ Lindsey informed earlier than the trial started.
He added: ‘I hope that we do hear lots of new proof as a result of if we don’t then I feel the case goes to be a tough one.
‘I feel he [Duke] is the precise assassin. I don’t know if they've sufficient strong proof to essentially make that case. I hope we be taught extra about what we find out about Tara and there’s a clearer story and extra proof.
‘Based mostly on what I find out about this, I feel that is going to be a tough conviction.’
Nevertheless, eager to not neglect the sufferer on the centre of the fascination surrounding the case, Lindsey stated: ‘That’s the saddest a part of this complete story is that it took over a decade to arrest anyone on this case and a lot time there was no solutions.’
Lindsey was solely six months into his Up & Vanished podcast exploring the Grinstead disappearance when the chilly case was resurrected with the tip about Duke.
‘It was arguably the craziest time of my life,’ Lindsey admitted. ‘When you return and hearken to season one, the primary 12 episodes it’s nearly like two totally different seasons, two totally different tales.’
Recalling the breakthrough with the arrest of Duke, the filmmaker stated: ‘That was a particularly lengthy day, everybody was calling me. I keep in mind that evening after they arrested Ryan Duke, then I additionally heard Bo Dukes’ title a few month later.
‘I began listening to one other model of this narrative that appeared to take advantage of sense and there was one other particular person concerned.’
Lindsey additionally described the chaos surrounding the arrests as like ‘residing out some form of true crime novel’.
‘That was completely surreal and not possible to neglect, it’s ingrained in me,’ he admitted.
‘So for all these years later to be at this level is overwhelming.’
The trial in opposition to Duke continues.
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