The Murder of Hailey Buzbee: Hocking County and Perry County in Ohio
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
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Summary
Police have found the body of 17-year-old Hailey Buzbee in Ohio's Perry County. Investigators believe she was murdered in a short-term rental in neighboring Hocking County.
Today, we talk about updates in the case and get some insights from a source familiar with that part of Ohio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Anya, and today we're going to talk about the Ohio counties where 17-year-old |
| 0:05.2 | Haley Busby of Fisher's Indiana was believed to be murdered and the one where her body |
| 0:11.5 | was just discovered. Content warning, this episode contains discussion of murder, including |
| 0:16.7 | the murder of a child and the sexual abuse of children. So this is a case we've been carefully monitoring. |
| 0:24.1 | It's incredibly disturbing. |
| 0:26.3 | A 17-year-old girl named Haley Busby disappeared on the night of January 5th, |
| 0:32.2 | 2026, early morning hours of January 6th. |
| 0:35.9 | And she was believed to have left her home in Fisher's Indiana |
| 0:40.6 | on her own accord. Police initially said she was a runaway. And then they upgraded or changed |
| 0:47.5 | that status to endangered missing juvenile, indicating an extreme concern for her safety. A big investigation was launched. Haley's family |
| 0:57.1 | was out there raising awareness of her case too. I think it caught a lot of national attention. |
| 1:02.5 | People were extremely disturbed by the mysterious circumstances of her vanishing. And all around the |
| 1:07.7 | country, this story resonated with people. It resonates with parents. It's a scary situation. And they shared this story on social media. We talked about the case a few times on our show so far. Unfortunately, the case has reached a devastating conclusion because on Sunday, February 1st, 26,, officials in Fisher's, Indiana called a press conference |
| 1:29.9 | during which they announced that they believed that Haley was dead. And then on Monday, February |
| 1:37.9 | 2nd, 2026, news broke that investigators had found Haley's body. And today, February 3, |
| 1:44.1 | 2026, it's come out that Haley was |
| 1:46.1 | found specifically on Sunday in Ohio's Perry County in the Wayne National Forest. Now, this is a |
| 1:52.7 | case that has understandably and certainly really, I think, gripped a lot of Indiana. People |
| 1:59.4 | were hoping that Haley would come home safe, |
| 2:02.2 | and it's devastating that she won't. But what I wanted to do with this episode, because we heard |
| 2:08.0 | from a really helpful source in Ohio, is contextualize where this all took place, because I think |
| 2:16.2 | that's important. It's hard to understand a case or what |
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