Lisa’s Devotion to Her Sister | Allison Foy's Murder, Part 1

Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On July 30, 2006, 34-year-old Allison Jackson Foy is last seen in Wilmington, North Carolina leaving the Junction Billiards Sports Bar where she spent the night drinking with a friend. The bartender calls a cab for Allison and the cab driver shows up at the pub around 2:00 am. Foy never returns home and has not been heard from since. In April 2008, two years after she originally went missing, Allison’s body was found in a ravine on a road called Carolina Beach Road.

In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum, talks with Lisa Valentino, sister of homicide victim Allison Foy regarding the disappearance of Allison, their childhood and what Allison was like as a person. What lead up to the disappearance and murder of Allison. Sheryl and Lisa also detail out efforts to keep the murder investigation going and how Detective Lee Odom has kept the hope alive.

Show Notes:

[0:00] Introduction to Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum
[1:41] Brief overview of the homicide case involving victim, Allison Foy
[3:25] Introduction to Lisa Valentino, Allison’s sister
[4:55] Question: Tell us about Allison. Growing up? Your family?
[5:51] “A comment that I've always gotten about her is that even if you met her for the first time, it seemed as if you had known her for a long time. She was just full of life… loved life.” -Lisa V
[6:30] The call Lisa received from her dad regarding Allison being missing
[9:36] Lisa details out going to Wilmington, hiring a private investigator, and getting connected with Monica and Cue Center for Missing Persons
[14:48] Question: Some time has gone by and then you guys get some information that some remains have been found. How does that come about?
[17:57] Law enforcement hits Lisa with another twist
[21:41] Question: Can you tell us what happened the night Allison went out to celebrate her new job with friends, and went missing?
[23:04] A cab driver... The only person of interest
[24:14] A second victim named Sonya manages to escape
[26:15] Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum details going to Wilmington
[29:46] A new witness comes forward
[29:54] Introduction to Detective Lee Odom
[32:06] The relationship between law enforcement and district attorney
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0:00.0	In high school, Walt and I would often park up on a hill overlooking the Atlanta airport to watch the planes take off.
0:16.5	We would lay on the hood of his cutlass and dream about getting on one of those planes for
0:21.2	some kind of wild adventure.
0:23.6	We would also play a game that we often played as children with my family, guests in the
0:28.2	destinations of the planes, and where the travelers were going and what they were going to
0:32.5	do when they got there.
0:35.1	Toward the end of one of these dates, Walt and I would tell each other one dream destination
0:39.4	we had and some adventure we wanted to take later in life. Every now and then, we would also
0:47.2	just fantasize about taking off to some faraway place and starting over, a place where nobody knew us. We could become somebody new, better,
0:58.6	or just different. Forty-two years later, we still sometimes talk about getting a remote cabin
1:05.6	in the middle of nowhere next to a river or jumping on a boat and just take it off to some unknown land. I jokingly tell my
1:13.7	own children, Jesus was not the Messiah in his own hometown. Sometimes to truly be who you're
1:20.4	meant to be, you've got to get gone. You've got to start over where nobody knows you. There's something comforting in that. There's something great
1:31.2	about getting lost, no map, no plan, no base. Sometimes for people, it's not a dream. It's a necessity.
1:41.6	Starting over was the necessary path for Allison Foy.
1:47.0	She didn't just crave a new town and new friends and a new job.
1:51.0	She needed it to give her marriage a fighting chance.
1:56.0	She and her husband decided on Wilmington, North Carolina, the small beach town that offered Allison
2:02.5	what she wanted, tourists in the summer, but that small town full of creative, fun, and welcoming
2:11.8	locals. Allison never got the chance to fully start over.
2:18.8	She was on her way.
2:20.4	She had new friends.
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