Hello. This week I'm stepping away from the office to focus on something incredibly important.

The first ever search for my sister Alyssa's remains. After nearly 25 years, it's finally happening.

While I'd usually bring you an older episode from season two, I thought it was only fitting to go back to the very beginning of all of this, to the

very first episode of Voices for Justice. I published that back in 2019, and I want to give you

some context, updates, and hindsight about this episode. Of course, first is that when the police

told me they didn't have enough evidence to arrest my

father for Alyssa's murder in 2017, they suggested I get media coverage. The only problem was,

the mainstream media was not interested at all. So I went on every podcast and YouTube channel I

could find to cover Alyssa's case. And I literally mean

every single one. I lost count of exactly how many, but it's definitely upwards of 50. I even went

to a stranger's home late at night to interview for their YouTube channel with exactly three

subscribers. I know, it's not smart and it's not safe, but luckily they did turn out to be lovely people.

And after about two years of doing everything I could to get media coverage for Alyssa,

many of the true crime content creators I met along the way suggested I make a podcast about

her myself.

So in 2019, that was the new plan.

That summer, I'd just gotten back from my first crime con event in New Orleans. I was just a family member speaking on a panel about my sister,

but there I met with a producer from ABC 2020. There's an old episode about Alyssa from 2009

that I was desperately asking them to revisit an update. So I was jumping

for joy when they told me that they would. I was finally going to get some national media coverage.

There was just one giant hurdle to jump through first. They'd only do it if my father would

interview for the show, too.

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