Missing Georgia teacher: Former student charged for murder

FITZGERALD, Ga. (AP) – A search continues in case of a missing Georgia teacher, but now, officers are searching for her remains.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge J.T. Ricketson tells multiple news outlets that investigators returned to a pecan farm Wednesday morning, searching for Tara Grinstead’s remains. Investigators dug through a wooded area Tuesday for Grinstead, who went missing from her Ocilla home in 2005.

Grinstead was a history teacher at Irwin County High School and three-time Miss Tifton County pageant winner. Her former student, Ryan Alexander Duke, was arrested last week and charged with murder in her death.

Details of investigators’ possible findings weren’t released. A judge issued a gag order Tuesday preventing law enforcement, potential witnesses, court personnel and family members from discussing the case.

The GBI declined to give the cause of Grinstead’s death.

The case of the missing Georgia teacher has perplexed investigators for more than 11 years.

Another missing woman, who has been missing from her NC home since 2015, was recently found dead.

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3/1/2017 9:05:59 AM (GMT -5:00)