Every Mother's Wost Fear Movie (true story)

Tara Noble Internet Disappearance Case

This movie was based on the incident involving Tara Noble, a 13-year-old girl who was missing for two weeks from her home in suburban Louisville, Ky. on May 30, 1995. Before running away, Tara Noble had spent dozens of hours exchanging e-mail with people. America Online received a subpoena and cooperated fully in the search for Tara. According to Lisa Noble, her daughter, Tara, boarded a Greyhound bus headed toward a rendezvous with someone she met on the internet. That is when police authorities frantically took apart her computer. "The computer - that's what started this problem," said Norm Mayer, chief of the St. Matthews Police Department. They went straight for her e-mail. It was in Tara's computer correspondence that they found an invitation from someone named George to come stay with his parents in San Francisco. "We can run around our room naked all day and all night," George wrote. Tara's mother, Lisa Noble, also found a series of sexually explicit images that had been transmitted through. In June 1995 Tara called the FBI in Los Angeles and asked to be picked up. She was picked up at a phone booth on Hollywood Blvd. Tara had her computer for only 2 months before she disappeared.