Bryce Daniel Tarter
Missing since:01/30/10
Missing from: Savannah, GA
Classification: Missing
Age at disappearance: 19
Date of Birth:10/28/90
Height:6′0
Weight:155
Hair: Lt Brown
Eyes: Blue
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Circumstances of Disappearance
Bryce was at Georgia Southern at a party January 30.2010. He drove back to Armstrong Atlantic with some friends of his, who also had a dorm room. He did not live on campus, but was just hanging out with friends who did.It is believed he was heading home, in Guyton. The route believed he would take would be Highway 204 to Old River Road. There are other routes as well but family believes this would have been the most logical.
He left in his White 2000 Nissan Frontier Crew Cab Short Bed with Maine plates#944 7QD.
He had two identifying stickers on the rear windows. On the passenger side was an ATL Braves “A” and on the drivers side was a Falcons symbol.
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Short Clip Horse Teams- CUE Center search for Bryce Tarter- 02-20-10 Savannah GA
Massive ground search planned for Bryce Tarter
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) – Blake and Michaella Tarter don’t let a day go by without searching for their son, Bryce. “Every time we leave the house, we’re searching,” said Blake, Bryce’s dad.
The lack of clues of the 19-year-old’s whereabouts is wearing the Tarter family down. “Right now, we’re really no further along than we were twenty days ago,” exclaimed Blake. “I was frustrated two weeks ago. This is day 20. So amplify that.”
Bryce’s mom, Michaella, agreed. “It’s not until you’re in the middle of it that you realize, this is real,” she said,” And it’s heartbreaking. It is beyond difficult.”
Even more difficult, there’s been no activity on Bryce’s cell phone or bank accounts since he disappeared back on January 31 from an Armstrong Atlantic State University parking lot. His white, Nissan Frontier pick up truck is also gone.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigations and other law enforcement agencies have also been combing the woods and waterways, but have turned up nothing.”It’s extremely frustrating, ” said Blake. “We just don’t understand how Bryce and the truck can disappear. Somebody knows something.”
They are hoping a massive ground search planned for Saturday will turn up some clue to where Bryce might be found.
Monica Caison with the Cue Center for Missing Persons has also joined the search for Bryce. She said it’s important for people to continue to look for the missing 19 year old and his truck. “It is vital that we find the truck,” she said. “If the truck has gone off the road, and if he is harmed, we may be past the point of a rescue, but we still want to locate him and help this family bring him home.”
That may be the only way Blake and Michaella finally get the answers they need. “My son deserves to come home,” Michaella said tearfully.
“At this point, we need some closure,” explained Blake. “We need to find Bryce. I mean, we can’t even grieve yet. We don’t know where he is.”
The Tarters are hoping the community will help them out on Saturday. There will be another massive search for Bryce starting at Scott Stell park off of Little Neck Road. They’re asking volunteers to meet at the park at 8am, and please bring valid identification.
They will search the Little Neck Road area, and will have another group travel to the Statesboro area. Bryce was also seen at a party near the Georgia Southern Campus the night before he disappeared.
The CUE Center is hoping any one with an ATV, or with horses, will help with the search. The family has setup a website to help spead information about the search for Bryce, visit www.bringbrycehome.com.
New search planned for Savannah student
February 19, 2010 By The Associated Press
Quick Summary
New search planned for Savannah college student missing since January
SAVANNAH, Ga. – (AP) — Police and volunteers in Savannah will resume searching this weekend for an Armstrong Atlantic State University student who went missing nearly three weeks ago.
Bryce Tarter, 19, was last seen Jan. 31 when he left the campus at about 3 a.m. Campus Police Chief Wayne Wilcox says investigators suspect he most likely was headed home to Guyton, a neighboring city 35 miles west of Savannah.
Previous searches for Tarter of Kittery, Maine, have turned up no trace of the student or his truck, a white 2000 Nissan Frontier.
Wilcox said searchers on Saturday will retrace areas investigators have already checked in hopes of turning up new clues. He said police have found no evidence of foul play.
Traip grad Bryce Tarter still missing; massive search continues in Ga.
Traip Academy graduate Bryce Tarter remained missing Tuesday, 18 days after he was last seen early in the morning of Jan. 31, leaving the campus of Armstrong Atlantic State University in Georgia.
In the past week, said Lt. Joe Peny of the university’s police department, hundreds of law enforcement personnel from throughout eastern Georgia, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Savannah Metro Police Department and the Georgia State Patrol have joined the search.
Meanwhile, Tarter’s family has brought in an investigator from a North Carolina-based missing-persons organization, Community United Effort, which led volunteers scouring the area.
This week, Tarter’s story was profiled on the Web site of the television show “America’s Most Wanted,” and “Good Morning America” has contacted GBI agent Micah Ward.
Savannah police boats equipped with sonar have scanned the bottom of the Savannah River and other nearby waterways for evidence of Tarter’s white 2000 Nissan Frontier pickup truck. State Patrol helicopters have searched by air for the truck.
But neither Bryce nor his truck have been found.
The case is unusual, said Monia Caison of CUE, who arrived in Savannah last week. Caison has 16 years of experience investigating missing persons.
“I really thought I was going to go there and we would find him,” she said. “By now, the truck should have been found, with all the attention that’s being paid to this case.”
She said her organization alone had 75 volunteer searchers last Saturday, and fewer but still significant numbers every day last week.
“We had canine teams, ATVs and ground support, and we covered 27.2 miles, residential areas, wooded areas, side roads. I thought we would have found that truck,” she said.
She said she’s learned over the years to listen to the families of the missing person, and in this case, “his mother looked me straight in the eye and said, ‘My son did not just take off.’ He was very close to his mother, he was in honors classes and doing fine academically. This just doesn’t add up.”
Ward agreed. He said the case remains an active missing-person case and his office is still tracking leads. He said there’s “no real indication of foul play involved. I mean, anyone can be a victim of a random crime, but there tends to be so many clues in that kind of situation we’d have picked up on them by now.”
Bryce’s mother, Michaella, said the family is “trying to keep our spirits up.” She asked her friends in Kittery, Maine, to keep the prayers and support coming.
Meanwhile, she and her husband, Navy submariner Blake Tarter, wait for some news, any news.
“At this point, we’re getting frustrated, two and a half weeks into the investigation and they still haven’t found the truck,” she said. She said she’s heartened to hear the case is beginning to catch the attention of national media, “because it just means that many more people are looking for it.”
She said she wishes law enforcement authorities would share information more regularly with her family than they have been.
“We want to believe law enforcement is doing everything they possibly can. We just want to know. We sometimes feel like we’re bothering them. All we want to know is what’s going on,” she said. “Because our lives have stopped, and they won’t pick up again until Bryce is found.”
The Coastal Source -02/13/10
It’s been almost two weeks since an Armstrong Atlantic State University student went missing. The search continues for 19-year-old Bryce Tarter, and now one national group has joined that search.
19-year-old Bryce Tarter returned to the Armstrong Atlantic State campus around 5:00 am the morning of January 31st, after a night of partying in Statesboro with some friends. He hasn’t been seen since.
Saturday morning, the search for Tarter resumed at various spots around the area. Law enforcement agencies from nearby departments and as far away as Florida helped with the search which is now being coordinated by the Center for Missing Persons out of North Carolina.
“What we’re trying to focus on is getting deeper into the wooded areas along the route that we believe is one of the routes he possibly has taken,” said Monica Caison of the Center for Missing Persons.” And we will continue to look at another alternate route we believe he could have taken from the college to go home.”
Home, is Effingham County, which is where Bryce was headed after returning to Armstrong that night. He was driving a white truck on his way home, and finding that truck is vital to the search.
“We ask that people in the area in Savannah and in Statesboro to please search their properties,” said Michaella Tarter, Bryce’s Mom. “If you are a real estate agent or you own commercial property, walk your property, his truck is somewhere we just need to concentrate on finding his truck.”
“We just feel confident that truck has to be in this area, ” added Monica Caison. “And we really need to locate it.”
Dealing with a missing son is tough enough, however, knowing that a group like Center for Missing Persons is helping find him is comforting to the family.
“They’ve worked with law enforcement,” said Michaella Tarter. “They’ve asked questions that I didn’t even know needed to be asked, so they’re instrumental in bringing my son home.”
Something that hopefully, she’ll be able to do sometime soon.
Since being called in on the case earlier this week, the Center for Missing Persons has gotten America’s Most Wanted to put Bryce’s story on their website, with hopes his case can be profiled on the television show perhaps as early as next week.
Feb 13, 2010
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) – One family is still not giving up hope that their loved one will be found alive.
Nineteen year old Bryce Tarter has been missing for almost two weeks.
The Cue Center for Missing Persons has joined the search for Bryce.
On Saturday they gathered at L. Scott Stell Community Park – where they broke into teams.
Law enforcement officers and concerned citizens used all terrain vehicles and search dogs to canvass several area’s they believe Bryce or his vehicle might be found.
“We are trying to eliminate areas,” said Bryce’s father Blake Tarter. “We have teams with four wheelers, teams on foot, teams with dogs searching the grid area down the route Bryce may have traveled. Honestly, I have mixed emotions. I hope that we don’t find anything, but by the same token it does give us piece of mind that once an area has been cleared, that he is not there. We can center our search in other directions.”
If you have any information on this case, please call the Cue Center for Missing persons.
We will have the latest as new information becomes available.
Search Continues for Missing College Student
On Jan. 30, 2010, Bryce Tarter had a fun night out with friends. After dropping them off at their dorm, Bryce headed back to his off-campus home. That was two weeks ago, and he hasn’t been seen since.
In the early hours of Jan. 31, 2010, Bryce Tarter vanished from the campus of Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga .
The spring semester had just started at AASU, where Bryce is a student. It had been a busy week of classes, and he and some friends decided to pile in his 2000 Nissan Frontier Crew Cab Truck for a party at Georgia Southern University.
It was well after midnight when they all returned to the AASU campus. A short time later, Bryce got back into his truck to head to his off-campus housing where he was living with his aunt and uncle. Bryce never made it. He and his truck have not been found.
Bryce’s family and friends are just sick with worry. It is totally out of character for him to not be in touch by phone or e-mail. There has been no activity on his cell phone or bank account since he disappeared.
AASU Campus Police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are hard at work to solve this case. One search has already been conducted, and another one is planned for President’s Day Weekend. Family and friends are helping in the search, and the campus of AASU is plastered with posters of Bryce.
Let’s help find Bryce Tarter. If you have any information about his whereabouts, call us at 1-800-CRIME-TV.
Family and friends continue search for Bryce – WALB AlbanyFamily and friends continue search for Bryce It’s been over three weeks since Bryce Tarter went missing, and on Saturday family and friends gathered at L. Scott Stell Park in southwest Savannah to continue to search.20 Feb 2010
Massive ground search planned for Bryce Tarter – WTOC 11 SavannahMassive ground search planned for Bryce Tarter There’s still been no sign of the missing 19-year-old Armstrong Atlantic State University student. But his family isn’t giving up hope he will come home.20 Feb 2010
New search planned for Savannah student – FOX 24 MaconNew search planned for Savannah student SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – Police and volunteers in Savannah will resume searching this weekend for an Armstrong Atlantic State University student who went missing nearly three weeks ago.19 Feb 2010
New search planned for Savannah student – Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionNew search planned for Savannah student New search planned for Savannah student19 Feb 2010
New search planned for Savannah student – News 12 AugustaNew search planned for Savannah student Bryce Tarter, 19, was last seen Jan. 31 when he left the campus at about 3 a.m.19 Feb 2010
New Search Planned for Missing AASU Student – WSAV SavannahNew Search Planned for Missing AASU Student Police and volunteers in Savannah will resume searching this weekend for Bryce Tarter, who went missing nearly three weeks ago.19 Feb 2010
Cheerleaders aid effort to find friend – Portsmouth HeraldCheerleaders aid effort to find friend The hearts of so many Kittery, Maine, residents go out these days to the family of Traip Academy graduate Bryce Tarter, who has been missing since Jan. 31 from the Savannah, Ga., university he attended.17 Feb 2010
Tarter Search Get Help from Billboards, National Website – WSAV SavannahTarter Search Get Help from Billboards, National Website Digital Billboards placed in several spots around Savannah. America’s Most Wanted interested in case of missing AASU student.15 Feb 2010
Missing teen’s family searching for answers – WCSH 6 PortlandMissing teen’s family searching for answers KITTERY, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Bryce Tarter was last seen around 3:30 in the morning on January 31st, driving away from the university where he is a student. He has not been seen or heard from since.10 Feb 2010
Investigators search for missing Maine student – Bangor Daily NewsInvestigators search for missing Maine student PORTLAND, Maine — Authorities in Georgia are searching for a Kittery man who is a student at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah. Bryce Tarter, 19, was last seen leaving campus on …10 Feb 2010
Search in Georgia for missing Maine student – Maine TodaySearch in Georgia for missing Maine student PORTLAND — Authorities in Georgia are searching for a Kittery man who is a student at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah.10 Feb 2010
Family of missing student pleads for information – FOX30 / CBS47 JacksonvilleFamily of missing student pleads for information JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Bryce Tarter grew up in Camden County, and disappeared from his Georgia college campus.09 Feb 2010
GBI joins search for Armstrong student – Savannah Morning NewsGBI joins search for Armstrong student The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has joined local efforts to find an Armstrong Atlantic State University student missing more than a week.09 Feb 2010
Authorities search for missing Ga. student – The Union-RecorderAuthorities search for missing Ga. student Authorities are searching for an Armstrong Atlantic State University student who went missing a week ago. Bryce Tarter, 19, was last seen leaving campus on Jan. 31 and university spokesman Francisco Duque said campus police were notified he was missing days later.08 Feb 2010
Authorities search for missing Georgia student – WFXL Southwest GeorgiaAuthorities search for missing Georgia student Monday, February 08, 2010 at 1:17 p.m. (AP) — Authorities are searching for an Armstrong Atlantic State University student who went missing a week ago.08 Feb 2010
Search On For Missing College Student – WSB-TV 2 AtlantaSearch On For Missing College Student Bryce Tarter may be driving a white Nissan Frontier with Braves and Falcons stickers in the rear window.08 Feb 2010
If you have any information on this case please contact CUE Center For Missing Persons using the contact form below or contact Cue Center at (910) 343-1131 24 hour tipline (910) 232-1687.
All information submitted to CUE Center For Missing Persons is confidential.
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Monica Caison, point of contact with the CUE Center For Missing persons, is organizing another massive search this Saturday (2/20) in Savannah GA for missing Bryce Tarter. Volunteers are not only desired, but required. The plan right now is for everyone to meet at 8AM at L Scott Stell Park off Bush Rd in Savannah GA. Horseback teams and ATV’s are desired as well as ground pounders. If you have any questions please call Monica at 910-232-1687