The Day Alissa Disappeared

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The disappearance of 17-year-old Alissa Turney in Phoenix, Arizona, unearths dark family secrets, leading to a dramatic courtroom drama and an outcome no one saw coming. Andrea Canning reports. Andrea Canning and Josh Mankiewicz go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’: Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/3DjNOq1 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/51HHjEtl1063Dvs3pSddlN

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.0	You're looking out at Alyssa going to prom.
0:05.0	She looked really beautiful.
0:07.0	Was that the last time you saw her?
0:09.0	Yes, it was.
0:10.0	When he told me she was missing, I was shocked.
0:14.0	I was called by my father.
0:16.0	She had run away.
0:18.0	I want to find out what happened to my kid.
0:20.0	Sarah has become this big podcaster and advocate for her sister.
0:25.0	This is insane and should never happen to anyone.
0:28.0	We found hundreds of VHS tapes and audio recordings.
0:34.0	I made a fully stupid mistake and tried to talk to a listen.
0:38.0	How often is he coming to her work and recording her?
0:41.0	He comes on a regular basis.
0:42.0	That's stocking. This whole other side is
0:45.8	emerging of this family. Dark secrets now coming to light. I saw them
0:51.7	digging so I took my camera.
0:53.7	Oh my gosh!
0:54.8	And just started taking pictures.
0:57.6	They were gasping out loud.
0:59.8	He had enough explosives to take out our whole neighborhood.
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