Blaine Alexander

Tara was most certainly killed after she got out of the shower.

Her roommates helped police develop a timeline of the crime.

Tara was very much a creature of habit.

Yes, she was.

She had a very specific morning routine.

Yes.

Walk me through that.

She'd get up at like 6.30, shower, and then make her cheese grits.

That was her breakfast and choice?

That was her breakfast, yep.

Every day?

Yep.

And then go back and get ready.

In fact, patrolman Jerry Salters saw Tara's bowl in the sink.

After her last breakfast, she would have gone to blow dry her hair in her bedroom like she always did.

Her hair is very thick, so she'd sit usually at the foot of her bed, flip her head over and just sit there and just blow dry it.

Investigators noticed another detail sealed in by the fire itself.

So that helps you kind of narrow down a window of time of death.

Sometime between 7.30 and 9.30, they figured.

Initially, as you're walking through, you don't see any evidence that, you know, somebody had gone through drawers or tried to take anything.