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Murder in Miami

Introducing: What Happened to Talina Zar

Murder in Miami

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

What Happened to Talina Zar unravels the chilling mystery of a woman who vanished during the COVID-19 lockdown, the internet sleuths who wouldn’t let it go, and the dark subcultures and betrayals they unearthed.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm on day nine of this virus and I am pretty sure it has reached my lungs.

0:07.8

It's April 2020. The brand new coronavirus is upending life as we know it.

0:14.5

I made the decision at the onset that if it got bad enough, I would not go to the hospital.

0:21.6

And this Facebook post by a woman in a small town in Oklahoma sends shockwaves through the

0:27.7

internet.

0:29.1

I didn't want to be talked out of this plan. After I post this, I am turning off my phone.

0:36.3

I'll catch up with everyone on the other side.

0:38.9

The woman is named Talina Tsar, and after the post, she disappears.

0:44.9

Has anybody seen Tulina?

0:46.3

Has anybody heard from Talena?

0:48.2

There was nothing.

0:49.9

Nothing.

0:52.0

Some of her friends think maybe she lost the will to live.

0:56.7

People can be consumed with Greece at different times.

1:00.1

Others aren't so sure.

1:01.6

I kept just kind of asking everybody, anyone else think this is strange?

1:06.6

Pretty quickly, the internet brings together a rag-tag group of women across the country, bored

1:12.6

true crime obsessives, looking for meaning in an upside-down world. You'll notice that about me.

1:18.8

I don't lurk. I'm out there. I'm an action kind of girl. It felt like I was living out one of

1:25.6

my fantasy dreams of being a detective.

1:29.0

They soon become entangled in the lives of total strangers.

1:34.0

I lied to a lot of people, a lot.

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