完整的文字记录。起来，消失 - S1 E5 - 黑色卡车

完整的文字记录。起来，消失 - S1 E5 - 黑色卡车

: 前情提要：《崛起与消失》。

: 被审查最多的人是她的前男友马库斯-哈珀。他绝对厌倦了她。

: 她在哭，对某些事情感到不安。她非常不理智，她告诉我，如果她发现我在和别人约会，她会自杀。

: On Friday, October 14th at 6:43 a.m., Tara sent Marcus Harper’s mother an e-mail.

: 如果我不关心马库斯、你们所有人和他的感受，我就不会处于这种状态。如果这都是为了我，我就不会要马库斯。只要提醒马库斯我说过的关于发生在我甚至是他身上的事情。他留下这个，我就可能发生什么。

: 就像我说的那样，虽然在红薯选美的那个晚上，她知道有事情要发生。她就是不正常，每个人都可以告诉你她是正常的，但我知道她的行为不正常。

: The second piece of evidence was a business card found in Tara’s front door. The card belonged to a friend of Tara’s family, a police officer from a nearby town called Perry.

: 佩里警察局的希斯-戴克斯侦探。

: Late Sunday night on October 23rd, Tara’s mom was concerned because she wasn’t responding so she asked his family friend to go check on her. So he drove there with the sole intent of checking on Tara?

: 哦，是的。

: Do you think it’s odd that Heath Dykes didn’t see the glove on the ground?

: I think it’s unusual. You’re dealing with a veteran detective.

: 这些狗唯一显示出的迹象是一座被烧毁的房屋。我们确定它们是在对一些化粪池管道或污水作出反应。

: 该住宅被完全摧毁。被火烧毁的还有一辆2000年的福特探险车。该车属于迈克尔-兰克福德。我这里的消防局报告说，火灾的原因不明。

: 它完全被烧毁了。

: 你是否曾记得见过车主？你们在那里的时候，他有没有上来过？

: 基本上，你是在告诉我，除了住在那里的人之外，还有其他人拥有那里？

: 一个叫迈克尔-兰克福德的人拥有这辆车。房主并不拥有这个。

: Why was his vehicle there is what I’m getting at now. I don’t remember nobody talking about, “We’re gonna interview this guy.” I can’t believe nobody didn’t say nothing like that.

: 马库斯和迈克尔是朋友还是什么？

: 马库斯-哈珀和迈克尔-兰克福德在奥西拉警察局一起工作。他们是朋友，没错。

: 十年前的今天是最后一次有人报告看到塔拉-格林斯泰德或与之交谈。

: Officially, police are calling this a missing person’s case.

: GBI官员表示，调查人员...

: 发现乳胶手套在...

: 悬赏$80,000美元征集信息。

: 塔拉-格林斯德在哪里？

: From Tenderfoot TV in Atlanta, this is Up and Vanished, the investigation of Tara Grinstead. I’m your host, Payne Lindsey.

: The first thing I want to jump into in this episode is the fire on Snapdragon Road. If you missed last week’s episode of Case Evidence, I’m going to fill you in real quick. Let’s start with the basics. Why is this fire suspicious to me? One, it’s the only place in the entire 200 square miles they searched that the cadaver dogs made a hit on, and it wasn’t just one dog, it was several dogs.

: Number two, behind the house there was a Ford Expedition that was completely burned too but it didn’t belong to the homeowner. It belonged to a man named Michael Lankford. And Michael Lankford had actually worked at Ocilla Police Department at the same time Tara’s ex-boyfriend Marcus Harper did and they were friends.

: Number three, on top of all that, the fire marshal couldn’t determine what caused the fire. And it’s still undetermined to this day. I spoke to a man last week named Jim Hanley, who also had one of his search dogs hit on the house.

: I went down there with my search dogs and I brought another one in. They spent many hours sifting the debris. I mean, like about 10 hours. First of all, if they didn’t feel there was something there, are they going to do that, spend that much time and work? Yes, my dog had interest at the building. Was it Tara? I cannot prove it. That’s it — that’s DNA and that. My dogs been — was — she — I just put her down after 14 1/2 years but she’d been tested and tested and tested. Her nose was parts per quadrillion tested to. That’s as high as you can get.

: A dog is not like a person. A dog just does what it’s trained to do. To my knowledge, which is best as I can do, she never false indicated. Now you can. There is some chemical compositions that will trigger as the same as cadaverine which is what the dog is searching for. What she did at that house, I am 95 percent sure that it was cadaver. I believe that place, in my heart, has everything involved. I mean it has everything to do with this case. Everything.

: You’re on the right track. Was she there when the house burned? No. I’ll guarantee you that not. Was she there beforehand? Yeah. The body leaks, you know, bloats, in 80 degree weather. They can’t clean it up. There’d be a spot there from hell. “Okay, let’s burn it.” There was bushes in between the house and the car that didn’t burn.

: 他告诉我，房子和汽车之间没有火的痕迹，它们之间的灌木丛也没有被烧毁。这表明汽车和房子是分开烧的，这意味着是纵火，而不是意外。吉姆还告诉我，在他带着狗下来之前，他在一个聊天室里和一些人谈论这个案子，当他说他要去奥西拉时，有人威胁他。

: I kind of knew we must have ruffled some feathers on, I’m thinking the one involved because we were on the internet, you know, and in a chat room and discussing what could be happening and what should be done. And, you know, the plans were made and we’re making it work for this big search.

: You know, I got on there and they were asking me about canines and what you do and how you do it, you know, it’s just a normal chat room. All of a sudden, this guy gets on there and nobody’s antagonistic in this whole deal. And somebody writes, “You come down here, we’re going to punch you in the face and kick your dog.” Why would somebody say that? It was somebody involved and they didn’t want somebody searching a certain spot.

: 我与戈德温博士会面，他告诉我他在2006年时追寻的一条重要线索。

: I found a kid who lived right around the corner from Tara’s house on Ash Street. He told me that he was riding his bike around the area Sunday and he saw a black truck parked in the yard. He said that there was individual in there and that individual said something to him. Like a nasty comment.

: They came to interview this kid again when GBI went to talk with them, they actually searched their mama’s truck and they also searched her house. So they clammed up and never discussed anything about the black truck because it felt like they were being treated as suspects and no kind of composite. They never got anything close to that.

: Then I found another witness. From their porch, you can see Tara’s driveway and they saw a black truck. First at 7:30 Sunday at evening, parked in the driveway. The same person at 6:00 a.m. that morning, that person’s husband, who want to get milk saw the truck there at the house again.

: 那么你推测那辆卡车属于谁？

: I have no idea. GBI’s response, there’s hundreds of black trucks in Irwin County.

: 所以你认为那辆黑色卡车对这个案子很重要？

: Oh, I think so. Too many people seen it. Here’s another thing. A year ago, I got a, information about another report of a black truck incident. This was that Saturday night. The lady was backing up out of her driveway into the road and the car pulled the stop light and liked to hit her but it was a black truck but that was it. See, at the time, you could have done something. You could have done a DMV on it, The Department of Motor Vehicle, trucks in the area but it’s way too late now.

: According to Maurice, a lot of people saw this black truck that weekend, driving by Tara’s house or even parked in the yard next to it. And he’s convinced that the truck is related to Tara. Too many people have seen it but where are these people now? I spend a solid two months trying to find the kid who saw the truck. He claimed that he actually saw the man driving and that the man cursed at him when he drove by. If this kid really saw the man, then maybe he could remember what he looks like and maybe a sketch artist could do a composite. But this kid was really off the map. I mean I tried everything to find this kid but no luck. So I moved on to other witnesses.

: I remember the night that she went missing because me and my best friend was on the phone to. My house, when you go to Ocilla, you turn on the right on Paul Street and my property is down in the last block before you turn on Alder Street to go to her house. And her house was just on the next block on the right, a block away from me. Well, I remember, me and Kristy, the girl that was living in my house, we were on the phone because I was making the church bulletin for our church. I was having some complications and she said, “Don’t worry, I’m on my way, I’m gonna come help you.”.

: We were still on the phone as she got in her car. You know, Ocilla is usually really quiet right where we all lived, you know. Right there where Tara lived and I lived, it was really quiet. You didn’t have to worry about nothing. My friend said that she got in her car, all of a sudden she hollered. She said, “Dog, I’m about to back out of my driveway.” And she said, “Here come this black truck like if you backed out of Tara’s drive and came right up Alder Street.

: She said that truck came around off Alder Street and turned on Paulk Street flying, about rear-ended her, about run her over. And this was around midnight. It was a black truck and she said it wasn’t a new truck. She seen some lights coming up the road but, you know, she got in her car, was gonna, you know, back out anyway. They didn’t even stop for the stop sign.

: If you’re looking at Tara’s house, Alder runs down to the side where her carport is. When you come out of her driveway and come back to Alder, you wouldn’t make a right that would go like to her backyard, you would make a left. When he came up that road or whoever it was, came to that stop sign on Alder and Paulk, that’s my property. Well, they were coming up Alder that way and made a ride on to Paulk. So she said, “They never even stopped. They just made a right hand turn, come on Paulk Street.” She had to slam on brakes to keep from hitting her. And she said, “Girl, I don’t know who was driving that truck.” She said, “But, you know, they could have hurt me because if I wouldn’t have been paying attention and just backed on out, you know, they would have probably rear-end — I mean, you know, crashed our car pretty bad.”

: 你知道那是一辆大号的还是小号的卡车吗？

: It was something like older Ford F150 or, you know what I’m saying? A black one, a real older one. Not a new truck. But I’m just saying, for it to come up that road, to come up from that way that late at night and the same night that she went missing, I don’t know but it’s scary.

: 2009年2月，一段令人不安的视频出现在互联网上。视频中，一名男子的脸被伪装起来，他的声音也被数码化了。他宣称自己是一个连环杀手。他自称是 "抓我杀手"。在视频中，他声称已经杀害了16名不同的女性，其中他描述的一名女性被当局确定为塔拉-格林斯泰德。他说，他想玩一个游戏，他将通过一系列YouTube视频慢慢发布有关他的谋杀的线索。他警告观众不要试图发现他的真实身份，他的IP地址无法被追踪。

: I’ve decided to confess a few things but in order to do so, I’m going to give everybody a clue, many clues. The first person to solve this first video, I’m gonna have you send me an e-mail. I’ll post the address for the e-mail. This person out there that decides to play my game has a chance to become an actual hero. You have a chance to become something that I’m not. The only clues that I’m giving you are clues never released by the press or by police department.

: The Catch Me Killer tells viewers, “Play my game and solve my puzzles and I’ll lead you to 16 bodies one by one.” He claimed one of his victims was a case we’ve covered heavily here on Issues, Tara Grinstead, a 30-year-old teacher and former beauty queen mysteriously vanished from Georgia three years ago.

: The video sparked the attention of the media nationwide and the GBI launched an investigation to track down the man’s identity. Though the man’s face and voice are digitally obscured, police were eventually able to track down the man by his IP address. The man was 27-year-old Andrew Haley of Gainesville, Georgia. After a thorough police investigation, they were ultimately able to determine that the videos were part of a bizarre and elaborate hoax. Haley was eliminated as a substantial lead in Grinstead’s disappearance and was later charged and convicted of tampering with police evidence.

: This case seemed to be full of different false leads. Surprisingly, just this last week, another internet video surfaced. A man named James Rankin was hiking in the woods by his house in upstate New York when he stumbled upon something pretty creepy. Over two dozen trees all around him were covered with people’s missing posters and one of the posters was Tara’s. The video hit the internet just a few days ago and has since reached over 30 million views.

: So I come down the hill. And remember, we’re still in the woods, we’re still in the woods, right. Okay. I was like, okay, these are probably no trespassing signs or maybe it’s something for the wildlife or something.” Anyway, I’ll cut right to the chase because I might die. Look what these are. What the fuck is going on here? These are all different people. This is Utah, Florida, they’re all different. This one’s from Georgia. Now, look at this. Like look, where the fuck we are. Who the fuck does something like this?

: 虽然这段视频确实很诡异，但它很可能又是某种骗局。但为了播客的缘故，我找到了詹姆斯本人，让他告诉我这个视频的真实情况。

: There is a park nearby, it got some hiking trails. I’m going through the actual park and I see that little side trail branching off the main trail and I follow it. I see the end of the trail is like a fire pit and some things hung to the trees. I go down to take a closer look because I figure it’s either signs that say keep out. Some of the parks hang up signs with information about local plants and kind of animals you should be looking for. So I went down to check it out. So I get down there and it’s all these missing persons posters which caught me completely off guard cause I — it’s so incongruous to anything that I was expecting to see and anything I’ve ever seen before. It was alarming.

: You know, I’m looking around at where exactly I’m situated and seemed like what I needed to do other than get the hell out of there was get some kind of documentation about what I found. And I jumped on Facebook first and, you know, I wanted to kind of sound a distress call. I mean the longer I spent down there, the more fishy it looked.

: The minute I left, everybody that had seen this video, I got friends and people that I don’t even know and they’re all in complete agreement, “Take this to the police.” So that’s what I did. Told them what I found, I showed them the footage, you know, they were like, “Thank you for calling in. You did the right thing. Go home.” The next morning they — somebody from the office, they left a voicemail. They investigated. They were told by the homeowners at the property said that these posters were hung up by them as decorations for an upcoming Halloween party.

: A few episodes back, I talked briefly about Marcus Harper’s alibi. According to Marcus he was at the White Horse Saloon to watch his friend’s band. Then he left to met up with his friend Shawn Fletcher, an Ocilla police officer. They rode around together in the cop car that night and made several stops in reference to a man named Benny Merritt.

: So I made a request with the Ocilla PD to get the reports on Benny Merritt because if this didn’t add up, then Harper’s alibi didn’t add up either. When I got the reports back from Ocilla, none of them happened on Saturday night the 22nd. There was one that happened the night before and one on the 26th but not a single report for Benny Merritt on the 22nd.

: This was a pretty big deal. If there’s no reports on Benny Merritt, then maybe those stops didn’t happen. And if those stops didn’t happen, then where was Marcus Harper? But before I got ahead of myself, there was still one place I had to check, the Irwin County Sheriff’s Department. It’s possible that the reports weren’t filed with Ocilla but instead with the county. So I gave them a call.

: Can you give me one of the person’s name?

: 本尼-梅里特。

: 艾米？

: 本尼。

: 班尼？

: 是的。

: 好的。稍等片刻。这东西会很慢。

: It’s all good.

: M-E-R-R-I-T-T. I think that’s how you spell it. All we have is one report on him. Let me see if I can see what it’s about.

: 好的。什么日期？

: 事件发生日期是2005年10月26日至2005年10月27日。这是对住在Fillmore路的一位女士的袭击。报告日期实际上是2005年10月27日。

: 有没有关于本尼-梅里特的其他报告？

: No, sir. That’s the only one we got on him.

: I just got off the phone with the Irwin County Police Department. And I called them to see if they had any separate records about Benny Merritt, separate from Ocilla police. So he actually ended up looking it up on the phone when I was there and they only have one report on him and it’s on October 26th. That’s it.

: If that’s true, then somebody told a bold-faced lie. I mean I was a police officer. I know if there was no report, then that’s highly suspicious. The dispatcher gets a phone call, she has to write on the log when it came in and she has to put what was the resolution of that. If none of that exists at all, they’re just depending on the word of Marcus Harper.

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