Junaliza Maturan Oroc Chappell Part 5: The Hit List
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 20 July 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In Part 4 of Junaliza Chappell’s story, we focused on Ashley and the weight she has carried since her mother disappeared. As Ashley grew older, memories from her early childhood began to connect with records, conversations, and details shared by the people who had been searching for Juna for years. Those discoveries were painful. They helped Ashley better understand her mother’s fear, but they also forced her to confront parts of her own story that remain unresolved.
We also examined the frustration surrounding Juna’s case: missing records, confusion over which agency had what, and the question of whether Juna’s disappearance ever received the attention it deserved. Retired U.S. Marshal Katrina, who had worked alongside Atlanta Police years earlier, still had files connected to the case. When Ashley reached out to her earlier this year, it reignited Katrina’s effort to get that information into the right hands.
In this fifth and final episode, we take a look at where things stand now. Nearly two decades have passed since Juna vanished. For many of those years, the people connected to this case had at least some peace of mind knowing that Timothy Chappell was behind bars. But his release date is now approaching, and for Ashley, Kareen, Faye, and Katrina, that has brought back fear they have never fully been able to put down.
In Part 5, we will discuss Tim’s alleged hit list, the concerns surrounding his release, the search for any remaining legal options, and why the people who have spent years fighting for Juna believe her case cannot be allowed to sit quietly in the past.
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| 0:00.0 | There's no doubt in my mind that Tim killed her. |
| 0:13.0 | There's several thoughts of where Juna is, where he did it, and what happened. |
| 0:17.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:17.8 | I waffle sometimes. |
| 0:20.7 | At one point, I told Detective Payne, well, what if I talk to him myself? |
| 0:24.6 | Because they hadn't talked to him. |
| 0:27.2 | I've thought about reaching out to him. |
| 0:30.3 | I got the prison that he's at, an inmate details. |
| 0:33.9 | I don't know. |
| 0:34.4 | Something in me is like, well, if I could just pretend I care about him or I want a connection, maybe I could get something out of him. |
| 0:42.7 | Based on what the informant had told me at that time, the information that he was gathering for me is that he had targets. |
| 0:53.1 | He had people that he was angry with, that he wanted to get |
| 0:57.0 | revenge on. Last week in part four of Junaliza Chapel's story, you learned the weight of what |
| 1:04.0 | Ashley has been carrying with her since her mother disappeared. For years, all she had were her |
| 1:09.0 | memories. But she began to question those memories as she grew up. |
| 1:12.6 | Then, as she started trying to understand what happened to her mother, what happened to her, |
| 1:17.6 | and why so many questions had been left unanswered for so long. |
| 1:21.6 | Ashley learned more from conversations with Katrina and Faye, who had done everything they could think to do to find |
| 1:27.6 | Juna in the years that Ashley was growing up. Then Ashley received court records she had requested, |
| 1:33.7 | and they began to confirm many of the memories that had always haunted her, and they also gave |
| 1:38.4 | her memories that she had since forgotten. She read the testimony of a psychologist who had worked |
| 1:43.5 | with Ashley for months while she was in foster care. |
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