When someone goes missing, the headlines focus on what happened.

But the truth often lives in the smallest details.

I'm Sarah Turney.

After my sister disappeared, I learned how those final hours, the last conversations, the last decisions can haunt families forever.

And I'm Courtney Nicole. After seeing crime impact my own family,

I've learned how overlooked moments,

missed red flags, and unanswered questions

can change everything.

Together, we're bringing those lived experiences into the work.

This is the final hours,

a crime house original powered by Pave Studios,

a podcast that puts the moments before a disappearance under a microscope.

Listen to and follow the final hours wherever you get your podcasts, new episodes every Monday.

Thank you. Hello, hello, and welcome to us sitting in a room together, which for ages we couldn't do.

Having quite recently dragged ourselves through the global pandemic,

we know how fast and how life-changing the viruses can spread over this little blue dot that we have to live on

and how totally

inept governments can be at containing them.

So just imagine how entirely fucked we would be if the virus we were fighting to contain

did more than just weaken people or kill them.

What if instead there was a virus that changed people?

What if it took from people the ability to reason or recognize their own families? What if it replaced emotions with deep, atavistic rage?

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