Margaret "Kay-Alana" Turner Part 2: The Shattered Window

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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On March 9, 2023, 27-year-old Kay-Alana Turner left a friend’s home in Silsbee, Texas, and headed toward Austin, about four hours away, apparently to see a friend. In the days leading up to March 9, Kay-Alana had not been sleeping well, and she didn’t seem quite like herself. Witnesses in the towns of Hockley and Tomball, Texas, interacted with Kay-Alana in the early morning hours of March 10. She had been asking people if she could sleep in their driveways. By this time, Kay-Alana’s phone had died. Around 6 AM, a homeowner in the Holly Creek Estates subdivision in Tomball, Texas, noticed Kay-Alana’s car in their driveway, and she was asleep inside. The homeowner decided to call someone from their homeowner’s association and other neighbors. They gathered around Kay-Alana’s car and attempted to wake her. Kay-Alana was scared and decided to drive her car away, but they blocked her. Then, an officer from Harris County broke Kay-Alana’s driver-side window. She bolted, first by driving her car through the yard, out through some farmland, and eventually into the woods, where the vehicle got stuck. With deputies behind her on foot, she decided to run. Kay-Alana dropped her phone along the way and later removed her shoes, full of glass from the broken window. In the days that followed, Kay-Alana’s loved ones began to compare notes and came to believe that she was suffering a mental health crisis that night. Despite extensive searches of the area where Kay-Alana was last seen, no trace of her, other than her phone and shoes, has ever been found.

If you have any information about Kay-Alana’s disappearance, please contact the Harris County Sheriff’s Office at 713-755-7427.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to the vanished ad free right now.
0:05.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or Apple Podcasts. When her birthday came and passed and we went out as friends to I guess celebrate we just had like a little birthday dinner and towards the end we all just spoke about things that we appreciated about her and I remember starting to talk about things and it was just very difficult to talk at that time and usually I can talk forever.
0:41.0	But it just kind of hit that we're here celebrating her birthday and she's not and there's been no word and we've done all this searching in the woods, taking up leads, talking to all these people.
0:56.6	It kind of comes in waves, but I would say when her birthday came and passed and there was nothing that was a big hit and then each
1:04.9	milestone after that you know 30 days 60 days. A March 9th 2023
1:12.3	27 year old Kayalana Turner left a friend's home in Sillsby, Texas,
1:17.5	apparently headed to Austin about four hours away, with the intention of visiting a friend. In the days leading up to March 9th,
1:25.8	Kealana had not been sleeping well and she didn't seem quite like herself.
1:29.8	Kaye-Alana's loved ones would later learn that witnesses in the towns of Hockley and
1:34.6	Tomball, Texas had interacted with Kayalana in the early morning hours of March 10th.
1:39.7	She had been asking people if she could sleep in their driveways.
1:43.4	By this time, Kailana's phone had died.
1:46.5	Around 6 a.m. a homeowner in the Holly Creek Estate subdivision in
1:50.9	Tomball, Texas, noticed Kalana's car in their driveway, and she was asleep inside.
1:57.0	The homeowner decided to call someone from their homeowner's association, and that person
2:01.8	allegedly contacted a local constable who lived nearby, along with other neighbors.
2:07.0	They gathered around Kayalana's car and attempted to wake her.
2:11.0	Kayalana was scared and decided to drive her car away, but they were blocking her in.
2:16.0	Then an officer from the Harris County Sheriff's Office broke Kayalana's driver's side window, and she bolted. First by driving her car through the yard out
2:25.1	through some farmland and eventually into the woods where the vehicle got stuck.
2:29.2	Deputies and other people from the neighborhood were behind her on foot.
2:33.7	And that's when Kayalana decided to run.
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