May 17, 2001. Phoenix, Arizona. 17 year old Alissa Turney was spending her last day as a Junior at Paradise High before summer break. Her sister, Sarah, expected their father, Michael, to pick her up from school but he didn't show. She went on to a friend's house where, later, her dad finally arrived. But he was concerned. Alissa was missing. Phone calls and visits to neighboring homes on their street revealed nothing but in Alissa's room they found her phone and a note. Join us as we discuss the disturbing case of Alissa Turney and the incredible push for justice led by her sister Sarah (Voices For Justice).
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asked about two men that had robbed the store and
their accents, were very thick and they
referring to plug ins, and I had no idea
I plug her was so I reached out to one of our australian fans and said what the hell is plug her and she said there.
flops there thongs
That's the only reason why I made that comment on the episode, because I thought that's. Why
guys over there called them, but apparently a lot of them. Don't call them pluggers, they call them thong, so that works. That's it
is here in America, if you
about Georgia, Vs Washington, VS, Minnesota they'll have different.
slang terms for things, and we understand that. But when we look at other countries, I think we tend to
we'll find that too and think oh well,
It's a term that comes from Australia, all Austria
and use that. But it's not necessarily the case, and I mean even in the south, they call soda coke and in the north they call it pop. It's just
funny, because we got so many comments coming in about plugins and thongs, and it was funny because then people would catch
thong and realize that to us thong would sound ridiculous. It's completely
and then something you wear on your feet: lots of feedback about the case. A lot of people believe it's foul play ah for the
Ray Rivera case. I get there
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I do wish we had said was we kind of wish they would treated as foul play so that this would be invested.
It's a more because even the
you and I on most days, look at this and think looks like suicide. There are still questions. It just doesn't feel like it.
properly investigated. I would be
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tonight's case. Aaron happened, may seventeenth of two thousand and one it takes place in
Nix Arizona, it's a discipline,
in this case, but
on the face of it, you could
easily written off as a teen runaway, but the
where you dig
all I got to say, is wow I'm
surprised that long for
it hasn't moo.
Further on this case. So with that, what are we Talkin about tonight? Iron tonight,
talking about the disappearance of Alyssa
attorney who, if
she's still alive. Today would be there
six years old Alyssa was three years old when
mother Barbara Foreigner gotten
Reed to a Michael Turney. He had
three children of his own from a previous marriage and Barbara had two children of her own John and Alyssa. Now, Michael Stepdad,
wind up, adopting Alyssa you making
Alyssa his own daughter.
and then Michael and Barbara, will have another child together named Sarah Sarah's,
five years younger than Alyssa. Now
in nineteen. Ninety three
Our bureau wool die
of lung cancer,
Alice is only nine years old. Sarah
four
the rest of the children were much older, so they had moved out. This is pretty devil
waiting for the family, to have Barbara,
pass away. I mean. Obviously
Alyssa, is a step daughter and
Sarah is the biological daughter of Michael in their treated fair.
We differently. There brought up fairly differently
Sarah is obviously
Free Run of the house and everything, whereas Alyssa has very strict rules she has to adhere to which
causes some conflict and issues in the family. Let's get to what he
on this fateful day,
Alyssa is seventeen at the time she
in high school. It was
The last day of her junior year at Paradise Valley, high school. It was a short day cuz, it's the last day of school
for some reason, her stepfather, Michael Picks,
from school early so they can go.
grab lunch together. It is said that they had an argument
while they were eating, because
Alyssa was asking for more freedoms, more leeway before she goes into her senior year. It's a
that when they got home Alyssa
stormed off to a room and
Michael, not wanting to argue and fight with her any longer left, so she could blow off some steam.
And he wanted to go, run some errands and pick up Sarah from school. So that's!
car the last time, Michael will see Alyssa
Michael Pick, Sarah up, but he
I was her that he's
worried about Alyssa because she isn't answering her phone
so we asked Sarah to call her butt cheek,
get a hold of her sister either. Then they got to the house and they
Found a phone in a room, it was
Vibrating
and there was a note that read dad and Sarah. When you drop me off at school today, I decided that I really am going to California. Sarah, you said you didn't want me around. Look you got it. I'm gone! That's. Why
my money dad.
took three hundred dollars from you Alyssa this note
was written in Alyssa's handwriting. Just in case you wonder, could anyone else have written the note it wasn't
it wasn't somebody else's handwriting it. It was a list, but people who have look
this now do say that it looks like that. The notice
in two parts that it was written at two different times.
is she sank where she's going she left her
I behind, and that's just so strange, not only that, but her
room is kind of in disarray. Her backpack has been dumped out,
for the most part, it's not obvious that she is packed any clothing in a bag or anything like that from there
Michael started.
Knocking on neighbors doors, and
he went to her usual hang out spots. He started calling our friends, but no one had
information. So
That's when he decided to go to the police station to report,
his daughter missing at around eleven p dot m. She has tailed
authorities about the note and about
She had said that she was
go to were ants in California, so they take it. Just
and as a simple runaway case they
Go to the house to look for evidence. They don't treat this as foul play at all
in their minds. There is no crime scene, it's a a missing!
teen. So that's
where this case kind of begins but a weak ass
duh Alyssa, disappeared, Michael,
receives a phone call at five, a dot m in the morning from
California number to his landline and he
I that it
Alyssa it, but it didn't really sound like her and she curses Adam and says
to leave her alone and then hangs up now, Michael, we need to give you a little bit of background about him,
he's kind of a paranoid guy. He has a security devices all round the house, security cameras and a
passive recording device on the phone, but
this phone conversation that came in
five. A m was not recorded and Michael
games that he reviewed all the video footage from May
contains the dish
went missing and he didn't see anything that was suspicious. He
he asks the phone company and the police for phone
to his home and it's
aimed that you know they said no
so he he soon
the phone company and day
have to hand over the records now this phone
all came from Riverside California and it was twenty nine seconds long. My
presents this to the police as proof
Alyssa has indeed run away to California, but there's no
evidence that it was a calling. It was just
he has a log of a call that came in.
Riverside California. That's it.
This case goes cold for about
I mean died. I dont know how else to say. There's no leads. There wasn't a case. Yeah, there's nothing. He went to the
least to report his daughter, missing and in subsequent
discussions with the police. He basically presenting the case that she had run away to California
He then took Alyssa with them to California. A few times too
pass out flyers and ask people.
They had seen Alyssa things like that, but this is
being presented as she's a runaway. That's it
well there, not as though the police are making calls. It's not like they're, coming out to interview anyone or to look at the room or anything. So it's
Can I go called a just was never picked up. True
Sarah talks
about how distraught her father
was during this time. She said that he would stay in bed for days on end, wouldn't get up. When do anything- and I would
say that that sounds like
natural reaction of a father who is
lost his daughter there
depressed and unmotivated. But it's not
Oh two thousand and six that a man named Thomas
Wertheimer, whose
a convicted killer. He has
spin sitting in prison. He was arrested for killing a woman named Sandra Goodman. He said
I her in a hotel room and he was kind
of her murder and die
could make some sense because
far as anyone could tell Alyssa had never shown up at her aunt's house. She had,
never applied for a job and the
that she had in her bank account which totaled about eighteen hundred dollars was never
withdrawn. So this
is appear as though some
terrible, had happened to her. So this
Guy Thomas he's talking about
how he's killed twenty one, women, mostly teenagers,
and he's shown
pictures of missing girls and he starts picking photos
and one of them is of Alyssa and
he tells authorities that he,
found her in and like a van and then
got her to come with him on this joy ride of keep kind of, kidnapped her and took her with him, and then they ended up
going to a motel together, because at this point Alyssa's his girlfriend
She was all strung out on heroin and drugs and that's
or he will end up, strangling her in a week
kinky sex act well
when the investigators look into this there's. No,
evidence that a lesser was addicted to drugs.
so she was seventeen in high school. She might have smoked, pie,
and drink, so the
ass, a gaiters verlag. This doesn't really add up and it's not like a less has been missing for awhile and her life is gone down,
the tubes, this Thomas,
hi. My guy is saying I picked her up the day
she went missing. So is there a thinking
confession is total bs. Now this
does kick start. The investigation
start looking into what might have happened.
In that day and
there is a lot of family members and friends during this time that have been
talking about Michael
Michael has a bit of a background in
if gators find that three months before Alice's disappearance Michael had bought,
A large amount of lie. Now
for those of you that don't know why can be used for a lot of everyday home
projects, but for the
part you'll hear about it being used to cover up the smell of decay
now Michael will claim that he was doing a project and at the time that he bought the lie, he also purchased a bunch of concrete. I had to
will this because I didn't know,
You can also use lie to get rid of. Carcasses
so it's possible
I guess that some people,
could surmise that the lie
The concrete was used somehow to get rid of a body
friends and family talk about how Alyssa had told them that Michael was inappropriate with her and that she
woke up and found Michael on top of her things like that. So
thus to gaiters start shifting their attention to
step stepfather now, at the time
Alice's boyfriend was John and he
the authorities about a story that Alyssa had told him it involved. Michael her dad
take her out of school early and then driving her down into the desert, where he
tried fooling around with her and all of these,
of come forward to say how
Her stepfather had been Interpol.
Fit with their many many times? So? Where do you start right?
or asking Michael what happened that day.
Ortiz start calling him asking him questions but his
statements about the day
of Alyssa's disappearance. Is they for the most part sync up, but there's tiny differences that he'll come up with for one
a very forthcoming about picking her up from school early.
that day and they
when it's obvious
if he did. He claim that
Alyssa was planning on breaking up with her boyfriend and that's why he had to go pick her up early from school, but Alice's boyfriend job
is saying no
I we were doing fine,
authorities are going through their text messages start trying to that John. They can't find anything that points to John detectives would speak to Michael over the
but he never agreed to come in and
formally interrogated or
I ever agreed to take a polygraph. He
not give them any dna samples. He will talk
about the surveillance tapes the day of her disappearance. First thing he says, is I reviewed them? There was nothing there
Then he claims that the cameras were not turned on or they must have.
malfunctioned I don't know. I think that you would know
Your daughter goes missing that day and it's the most detrimental time
if your life is the most depressing time of your life, I would just assume that you would know why
Cameras were not working,
there's some issues with the cameras, because one is Penn
wait is. He is those cameras.
Probably were never down
they were of his moment. It was like a moment in time because he would have.
had them running, constantly
I guess as a way of saying. Yes, I do have footage, he provided authority,
it's with tapes from the
event camera the white camera.
Reza camera hidden in event and in
One of the scenes Alyssa had a fight with her
my friend and in another one. She was
making out with someone so blatantly.
just pause on that real quick Eric's
dad had a hidden camera, an event in his daughters room, Sir veiling. Her all the time got it as one of paint that clearly he had
control over the situation from the beginning, because when he went and told the police that his
Step, daughter was missing. He was
to tell them that she probably ran away to California, and then he provided
additional so called evidence that backed up that theory or that
and so now they're trying to play catch up. Yours later,
and they're asking about surveillance, tapes and
I have to get a warrant Justin. This is in December of two thousand and eight because they,
obviously aren't going to get anything from him. So there
going to have to take it now at this point
they have moved to our.
We'll cross the street, they were renting, they old House and Michael bought a house.
Literally on the same block investigators, actually get warrants for both addresses they're not going to find
at the rented house, because he moves everything out of that house. They do check, though,
before the raid detective
I asked Sarah to come into the station
I tell her that they think that her father is involved in her sister's disappearance and that
they believe, Michael has.
Molesting Alyssa now
Sarah
doesn't want to believe any of this, and she has been advocating for her father and Ben
in his corner this entire time. But what
they find once they re the property earn.
obviously what they find backs up. This idea,
that the surveillance cameras were running because
found many recordings, but
Urban Lee there were
recordings from the day, Alyssa actually disappeared or from the day,
that Michael got that phone call to go off the
buy here a little bit they had in
dude other family members who had talked to Michael about that phone call, but he had told
while different stories
one of them said he
Damn that he heard her saying dad dad.
and another one said yeah. He didn't answer that call so just different stories, but back to this warrant,
when they were searching the house. They also recovered a bond
style sex tape of Michael and Diane Boardman. That's an expert
friend. He was in a relationship with her at one time, but then- and this is
what was said that they had
and a snuff film
film had in it's a woman being kidnapped, bound and killed.
and it was actually edited so that the scene of her
I killed played sir.
Ole times back to back. They all
found
notarized behavioral contracts that might
what had made Alyssa sign. One stated that he had never,
sexually abused her
was actually signed a year before she disappeared
There is also a letter written by Alyssa, where
he claimed that she had been molested by her stepfather
Another contract said
that list it was not to engage in sexual activities. Yet another
contract was one for the parents of one of her friends which
outlines the conditions by which Alyssa could sleep over at their house.
the next thing the
ex pity fines is now
teen semi automatic rifles.
Van full of gasoline tanks, silencers or suppressors. Twenty
six homemade pipe bombs and
eight ninety. Eight page manifesto called die
Ray of a madman martyr. This
is grilled: domestic terror,
d to me. Aaron. It has
Well, he does and they found multiple.
copies of that, so called manifesto. It was actually written by Michael Tourney and it had a
to do with his beef with the International brotherhood of electrical workers who he had previous.
He worked with and had accused of unsafe working conditions, and
accused them of killing Alison
journey and in the manuscript
even talks about how he took revenge,
these men and killed them. But what else does a manuscript say because it deaf
references the bombs Justin
so it says that he was going to blow up. The van
with the bombs and gasoline at their building. The I b e w building yeah
this union building and then
shoot any survivors before killing himself. He
as weird stories about these men.
He calls them assassin sometimes, and
they're the ones that killed a lesser and then he killed them now
oddly enough later
a story, a hiker, will
up in does
wooded area- I guess of the California Desert and you'll find, remains
these two men and the
or will say that they had died of natural causes and that they had
I'd be for illicit disappearance, so that's kind of odd that he would
this up. I don't really know what to make of this error, and besides this guy was planning an attack. He would
it's going to
blow this van up
so the
Gators they will arrest.
I call that day as he's gone,
out to his mailbox when they
you get him. He has
guns and a knife on him. He will
a pleading guilty to heal
whoa possession of unregistered pipe bombs. I didn't know you could register a pipe bomb but and he'll be
sentence to ten years in federal prison now I just gotta stop here era the guy has
numerous weapons illegal explosive devices
film
and he is sentenced to ten years in federal prison. I
happen to have a cousin who
was selling method feta and when she was arrested, she
is given five years hard for each firearm. She had on her. She served
fifteen years and this guy
got ten just puts things in perspective.
But at this time Sarah and her brother John, they
really believe that
your father wasn't as bad as the authorities were making him out to be, and so,
it came time for that sentencing hearing they date
had to stick up for him because they
never known him to be violent,
the problem was Michael
hired a forensic psychologist. He testified
That Michael was very low
play to exhibit future violent behavior that
Dangerous, you think, but I like
about this, though, is this: this expert was giving his opinion. It wasn't bought. It wasn't paid for do you I mean
was hired, but he did his job. So the judge,
he said
putting a lot of innocent people in danger. The only way we can protect society and deter
as for doing what you are doing is to impose a harsh sentence, and I guess the time
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now that he's in custody, the detectives have opera
unity, perhaps to talk to Michael some more about a less disappearance, but he's not there
cooperative. He will not
talk to investigators, but he does make
appearance on ABC
when twenty, where he's interviewed,
he talks about how he worried for Alyssa a little bit
he mostly speaks about Alice's personality and her character in a very
disparaging way. I didn't
and him to be sympathetic towards her at all
myself but
anyone can interpret his interview differently. He
that she had a learning disability because of that he had to. I guess.
be a little tougher on her keep tabs on her more than he would his other children
some would say this is an excuse and
Maybe what it is he just
she was very impulsive. She was naive
and she needed constant supervision so that she didn't put herself in harm's way, which is
almost ironic because she disappeared now you and
I talked about this interview which people can watch.
On Ebay, cease, twenty twenty, which, on Kenya, Onus Youth,
like you is kind of softball. With his questions, I thought he actually brought more tough questions to the forefront than I expected, but he did.
Seem to go after Michael, a little bit
challenging him about what he may have said or done with Alyssa
and I could tell at least that Michael was uncomfortable.
He absolutely was, but I just didn't feel like he had much sympathy
didn't come off very caring about his missing daughter
the time has passed and he just as over it. I don't know, there's a disaster
in point, and I dont know if anyone else has taken it this way. But there's a disturbing point where Michael
address the issue of Alyssa, telling her teacher
Diane was her name that Michael had seen she had told
teacher that she had
had sex with her father now
Michael said: that's because she
not kissing a boy meant sex, but
What if he was kissing a lesser
what, if he's explain what actually happened. Yeah, that's
weird thing for like a nine year old to tell their teacher I'm having
sex. If my father, there are
family, video tapes galore that
are really creepy. There's one
where she's swimming in a slow.
Pool at a motel six
a teenager and
time she's playing, I think, she's swimming with her. You know her friend or a sister and she
starts asking Michael her stepdad to stop filming her,
it's making her very uncomfortable, but he just keeps telling her. He doesn't care about her,
there's a another video where
Sarah's. Actually, video
on a camping trip
are kind of on this dirt road. This trail and me
I telling Sarah to stop recording but Sarah's
trying to get over
the attention and Michael
she's in a bad mood. Don't disturb her right now
and illicit, turns around to the camera and says dad's, a pervert
now initially
God doesn't even respond to this weird,
accusation that dad's a pervert
you know I would just assume that any father would be like. Don't you
that word, don't say that you don't even know what that means something to that effect, but instead he
grabs the camera. Out of sir,
hand in
sang and Alyssa is a stupid moron. That's
response and
It's a weird thing for Alyssa to say
so I mean this is really looking bad. All of his actions and videos are just not coming
not very well earned. Also in the interview he did on a b c. He talked about
The government was after him and that
his military record does not even reflect that. He
in Vietnam. Michael had
you're skeletons in his closet. His brother had
shot his wife in the back multiple times
was a nineteen seventy four Michael
happened to be at a police deputy and it's real.
where that he went in tampered with evidence by removing bullets from the crime scene to try
his brother out
why he ended up resigning from the police force
you know you add up all this stuff, the pipe bombs, the fact that he was making
his children sign contracts because he called it a parenting technique. He had a snuff film
in his possession. There's a lot more here. Trust me, but I'm saying
at this point in time. When you look at all the stuff, that's already transpired and the fact that it's very clear that he,
trying to steer the police from before they even had wind of what was going on that this was this.
but runaway case that
is where the
target lies if you're searching for a lesser, you start with Michael Turney and so on,
I like they gave up right, I mean, with all of
the information that they have. They really
want to get him to talk, but he's been so difficult to deal with
and he's even tried to take that manifesto and turn it into something. It's not. He tried to say. Oh, that's just a work of fiction, but
I think people know better. In twenty fifteen,
Michael was sent a letter by the Phoenix chief of police, he wanted, Michael to speak,
the police because they believed he had.
Information that can help them analysed.
case now. Michael
didn't just send a yes or no answer back. He sent a
six page reply and said
only agree to be.
Her viewed about this case? If it's
on CNN, live and
he be allowed to question every member of his family. The gene
who presided over his pipe
case two detectors from the
speedy.
and John walls and
you know some other requests and
and all of those people to be subjected to polygraph tests. Obviously no one would ever agree to all that. So it wasn't gonna happen
if the words he should have just said. No, I'm not going to talk to you.
Narcissism, fantasy,
or can we not tell the difference? Sometimes
They can tell the difference, but it seems that Sarah
She still has faith in her father,
The new stations are asking her to come on and talk and she's pleading with her down
she's like you need to come on and start advocating for your daughter, essentially
you need to start doing some damage control for your reputation here, because your
not coming off well and Michael.
says yeah, that's not going to happen in hangs up the phone on Sarah she's saying
have interviews set up. Let's get
you on and you can come off.
More sympathetically when you talk about your daughter, but he just hangs up on her. Is this what
changes her opinion, or at least,
Her to look at him in a new light, because
maybe she's so close. She can't see it yeah. I would say that
definitely one of the turning
it's for her and
Sarah now is,
talking to family members and go
through these family videotapes, she finds out that Michael had
sexually assaulted his first,
wife's sister,
He was only sixteen years old and on top of that, Barbara
while she was dying of cancer, he went in assaulted, her sister.
when Sarah talk to some of illicit friends they are.
Told her that Alyssa didn't
want to move out after
school because
she didn't want to leave Sarah alone with Michael,
it's kind of a dark thing to hear when you're
investigating the disappearance of your sister. She finds out that there's
another claim of a videotape from a cousin, the city,
tips never been found.
His cousin was an alcoholic needed some help. He went and stayed at the house, this
says that he popped in a way
Yo Tape, labeled,
doctor Dolittle. And what
actually showed up on. The screen was what he
thought was Alyssa and
friend laying on the couch
only wearing shorts, no tops and newspapers.
Over their faces and they don't appear.
be conscious and
but he's videoing them in the cousin.
Didn't stick around long enough to figure out
what was going to happen next,
it's alleged that this cousin goes and talks to other family members, a grandmother and an aunt tells them about it. They are like yeah that that sounds like
equal Sarah's, talking to
her cousin, her her grandmother and her aunt.
All alleging
this. Video was real and that they are.
I thought that Michael was a creepy dude. I am thinking if
this videotape didn't illicit
call to authorities
what's going on with this family
I'm sure Sarah has her own opinions about the
we drama and how well people dead or didn't get along with each other. But well. If this video
really does exist and that's kind of proof of some sort of sexual.
he's going on
but also how it's possible that perhaps some family members suspected, but
go might have been up to but didn't do anything.
You know, I I know that we look back in
you can see how there have been some beef.
Views
phrases that are used over time, that people got com
both using that when we look back now, we say no, that's wrong,
take steps further and say: yeah he's
kind of weird he's
if creepy, but if you're filming your daughter or stepdaughter topless
or without her consent. Things like that. That's something that should be stopped.
Someone should have done something, but then again, these are all stories that have trickled down
time
still I. I would hope that especially today
be more mindful of these things and would step up when we knew something
is wrong and do something about it. Michael
get released from prison
a little early on March in March,
twenty seventeen now at this point
Sarah's thinking, what's going on,
I haven't authorities moved on him, she's
talking to authorities and saying I have these
YO tapes. I have other family
telling me these really disturbing stories and
Authorities are giving
a kind of the run around saying you know we don't have enough. You know we there's not enough evidence here to go after him, but then that changes.
two detectives. Let her know
that they were planning to charge. Michael turning analysed
this case, and so
You can imagine how she felt about that.
What they said was were waiting till he's
a prison and then will charge him because
don't want the sentences combined. They want fresh char.
is fresh sense, but just days before,
or Michael Turney was released. The department
had a change of mindset. I guess and those two
sectors that talked Sarah they were taken
that case
and so Sarah wanted to know what now,
and they said well, you have two options: if you want
your dad be prosecuted for the disappearance of your sister behalf too,
know where her body is or
We have to have a lot of media attention on this. There needs to be more pressure put on this
Well, obviously, you know Sarah doesn't know where her sister is or where her remains are, but maybe she can.
get media attention. So that's what she did well
went to the media and a lot of them didn't want to talk to her, they just they felt like
story was too old and whatever
Deuces they had
so Sarah went out, started
stuff on her own
and apparently she made a tik Tok video that got like
the million views
so she's becoming a viral sensation. I hate to use that term on her own
by advocating for her sister herself and
That's when the network's start asking her for interviews but Michael
end up getting out of prison a little bit early in March of twenty seventeen and
Sarah, who is now one hundred percent gone
done one, eighty on how she feels,
but her father, one
to confront him- and she
tells him that she wants to meet him at a in a neutral environment. Like a Starbucks, of course, Michael thing
is that, oh my, my daughter is here to welcome me back. You know to freedom and reconnect with me, but
he gets kind of a rude awakening when they go to Starbucks,
because she immediately starts
confronting him about what he
done to Alyssa and
he's saying like YO, where you getting these crazy ideas and he's just like
laughing at her and being
condescending to her naughty.
taking the conversation seriously but
at one point he says, be there at the death bed
and I'll give you all the honest answers you want to hear and then Sarah comes
This is why don't you just tell me now
and he goes well. You have already have your answers and then the car
Station keeps going
and then he says, all agreed
I confess, if the state
agrees to give me lethal injection with
In ten days of his confession, yeah I mean that
that's a weird one error, because it's not
actually a confession, but it is
it's a very strong indication that he knows a lot more than he's. Let on, if you think
He said you already have your answers, so he know
by the questions, she's been asking him that she knows he's involved just
like he always has in this case he wants leverage he wants
out of this, and
this case it sounds like now. He wants death. He wants
the government to put him to death. You know
some some of you at home might be thinking
how do we really know? This is how I happen to know. Sarah recorded this in
higher conversation, sober
I have to worry about, who said what
this is actually on record yeah the whole,
was recorded
She has her own podcast where you can go. Listen to this whole conversation,
let me just say that there,
No
good evidence that
Michael has done this, but
after listening to this conversation, he has with Sarah
what's the saying Aaron and I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens
not saying Michael. Did it, but Michael did it question where here
There is also something about Sarah saying,
that she had found a map and Michael stuff, and it was,
Ark, coordinates depicting a location in the California desert. Now she couldn't get
them to move on this location, and I find that
at your saying, because what we know in this case is that Michael, while there's no evidence showing that he definitely did this there
is a lot of evidence that he has recorded things written down,
things taped things he's made.
It's all along the way, so if he may,
if Mark coordinates where he put Alyssa. That would not
surprise me, I'm surprised they weren't.
Able to find things in that raid. They did like
said there was.
if not hundreds of
family video that Sarah went through and started posting.
I don't know if they were really
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where is this case now Justin, because
we know. There is a lot of suggestive or circumstantial evidence that Michael Turney knows a lot more about what happened to Alissa Turney
it has been going on as of twenty nineteen? Twenty twenty, a lot of
raising of awareness, mostly a lot of pod key
ass ends. You know, alternative media
covering this, like the pod,
missing Alyssa to try to get
more pressure on law enforcement to do something. Now,
twenty nineteen, the Phoenix Police Department did
submit Alice's case to the prosecutor's office and
This was on NBC Dateline sergeant,
he said that on twenty second of twenty nineteen, the case
formally submitted to county attorney
questing homicide charges against Michael Roy Knee, but
we're still waiting for something to happen, because, as of that date, nothing is
forward from there. But, as you said,
Their attorney has raised a lot of awareness
has done an amazing job of taking this case from obscure and not in.
The gated two
was going to hear about it.
I've been following this case for while I've spoke,
into a lot of other podcasters that have covered it and something that
is really impressed.
to me, though, is when I listen to Sarah. Do interviews or talk
The case
she's
very level headed? She is very passionate.
But she doesn't let her closeness to the case get away from her anymore. She doesn't think
that there is a huge conspiracy theory or cover up by police. She
This knows now how
system works she does
understands that
you know. Sometimes you gotta do it yourself and that's what
she's been doing for several
Yours now ended
takes a lot of dedication and diligence to do what she's doing and
keep a level head and not lose
you're cool, as
the research involved. In this case, Sarah was asked some questions and
are the questions was in your blog
and this is at just
as for Alyssa dot com in your blog
sprain, brainwashed by believe my Father part two. What do you mean By-
hey imaginary time in the military
I remember her father had said that he had
the time the military he had seen war. He had seen action.
and Sarah's answer was: he lied for many years about being in the Vietnam WAR and seen combat when that was not the case here.
did he lied at his bomb trial. So
you know I said earlier that maybe she's too close, but the
the thing to remember here is that people who
Our predators who are who are
committing crimes they aren't like that, all the time necessarily they have on
sides to them and if he
not preying on Sarah. He
We presents differently to Sarah, then he does to Alyssa. So I guess
the point is in this case. It makes sense that she was trying to stand up for her father early on
but as soon as she understood what actually had been happening she has.
And everything in her power to find just
as for her sister Alyssa, and so she,
does have her website justice for Alyssa dot com, and then she also has the voices for justice podcast and, like you said
If you listen to the podcast, you can hear the audio and it's
finally, something that people need to pay attention to, because while we cover cases once in awhile, where
kind of saying someone might be involved and they have not been arrested.
for that crime? Well, this is why
I raising awareness is so important because
there's enough here that were saying that we believe that the
Phoenix. Police department did the right thing by submitting a less his case to the prosecutor's office and were
damn sure, hoping that that prosecutor's office can do something with it
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