A Sister's Fight for Justice: What Happened to Alissa?
REAL
Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On the 17th of May 2001, 17-year-old Alissa Turney went missing, on the last day of school. At first, she was considered a runaway, but as time passed, the police realised that this was now a murder inquiry.
After a killer serving a life sentence gave a false confession, investigators looked more closely at Alissa's home life. And that's when the case took a different direction....
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| 0:00.0 | A warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. Please use discretion. |
| 0:08.2 | This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault against a teenage girl. So please take extra care whilst listening. |
| 0:17.2 | Hi everyone, just before we start the show, I just wanted to highlight the lovely Patreon community I have, |
| 0:23.8 | and just to quickly explain what it is. Patreon is a platform where creators can offer exclusive content |
| 0:30.7 | and add free access to their podcasts, as well as extra content. For me, I charge the minimum tariff, just £2 a month, |
| 0:41.0 | and that includes early ad-free access to real and real lives, |
| 0:45.4 | a minimum of eight episodes a month, |
| 0:48.1 | as well as any deep dive series that I have coming up. |
| 0:51.5 | There's also a monthly live Zoom, |
| 0:53.7 | which is then released as an episode and a |
| 0:56.1 | monthly giveaway where a Patreon member is selected at random and they win a hamper of nice things |
| 1:02.3 | sent directly to them. There are also podcast and documentary recommendations and news regarding |
| 1:09.1 | upcoming episodes. |
| 1:17.0 | The £2 a month goes towards travel expenses and research resources to help with the deep dives and cases where the families or survivors might need something specific that I can |
| 1:23.1 | help with, including GoFundMe's or chipping in to advertise petitions they have that relate to their |
| 1:29.0 | case. If you'd like to find out more, the link to my Patreon is in the show notes. But regardless, |
| 1:36.1 | the most important thing is the time that you all take to listen. Thank you so much. Now back to the show. |
| 1:44.0 | Growing up, many of us will dream of our futures, |
| 1:47.8 | where we will live, what we'd like to do with our working lives, who we'll live with. |
| 1:53.5 | In today's case, a girl who grew up idolizing her older sister, but she would have her whole |
| 2:00.1 | world turned upside down. The dreams she once had |
| 2:04.7 | would change and now this incredible woman is fighting for justice for her sister every day of her life, |
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