A man charged with killing a high school teacher who vanished in 2005 from her rural Georgia home confessed more than a decade later to authorities, who found DNA from both the suspect and victim on a glove recovered at the crime scene, an investigator testified at a pretrial hearing.
Ryan Duke is scheduled to stand trial April 1 for the murder of Tara Grinstead, a history teacher and beauty pageant contestant whose disappearance has haunted rural Irwin County for more than 13 years. An investigator in the case revealed new details on the witness stand Monday as prosecutors sought to persuade a judge to deny the suspect’s request for bond.
Superior Court Judge Bill Reinhardt not only refused to grant Duke bond, news outlets reported, but also denied a defense motion to move the trial out of Irwin County because of pretrial publicity. The county of about 9,500 people is located roughly 180 miles (290 kilometers) south of Atlanta.
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