That pickup truck mentioned in the flyer belonged to Troy Zink. He says he gave her a ride that day, but dropped her off to go jogging (she was dressed in jogging clothes). Apparently, he'd had the truck detailed before police had a chance to look at it.

They'd been romantically involved in the months leading up to her disappearance, but had broken it off a while before she went missing. He was married and she was a teenager from a Mormon home. She wrote some stuff in her diary that was left in her room. Her parents found a letter that she wrote to Troy basically breaking off the relationship and speaking of her guilt that he was married, etc.

Zink had some previous sexual assault charges against him from some other woman. Can't remember if he was found guilty or not, but he was found guilty of a weapons violation and served time for that after Tera's disappearance. He owned a karate studio at the time of her disappearance and his father is an influential man in Redding.

Anyway, maybe some other weirdo picked her up, but it certainly sounds fishy to me.

Tera's been gone five years this month.