True Crime Revolution: Sarah Turney Part 1
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Turney is the sister of Alissa Turney, an advocate, creator--host of Voices for Justice and Disappearances--and one of the fiercest voices pushing for radical change in true-crime media.
Sarah knows what needs to shift--she saw the worst of true-crime "entertainment" and media attention, and the lack of it, when her sister disappeared in 2001, and has experienced every possible situation family members and survivors face since then: insensitive headlines; misreported information; harassment; stories told thoughtlessly, or without consent, and more.
Sarah is on a mission, not just to team up with others who create what we've come to call ethical true crime, but to transform the entire industry for the good of the victims, families, and survivors whose stories it is built upon. In this two-part discussion, we cover some of the most current ethical issues in true crime today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Fall line. |
| 0:26.0 | I have the chance to sit down with someone who has become one of my favorite people in the true crime space. |
| 0:33.0 | Not just as a content creator, but as a thinker, a moral compass, and as someone who is willing to ask hard questions, |
| 0:40.0 | and believe that the intersections of crime and entertainment can and should be a better place. |
| 0:46.0 | I first met Sarah Turnie a few years ago at the True Crime Podcast Festival in Chicago. |
| 0:53.0 | Brooke couldn't make it that year. She just had a new baby, so I was representing the Fall line on a panel covering ethics and true crime. |
| 1:02.0 | Patrick Hines from True Crime Obsessed was moderating that panel, and Sarah Turnie was the lone family member who was joining us that year. |
| 1:10.0 | I think it was the first time that she'd ever spoken to an audience on the subject, but it would hardly be the last. |
| 1:17.0 | She had just launched her own podcast, Voices for Justice, that very same day. |
| 1:23.0 | Most of our listeners are probably familiar with Sarah's work, but just in case you haven't heard of her podcast or her story, |
| 1:31.0 | Sarah's sister, Alyssa Turnie, was just 17 years old when she disappeared. |
| 1:36.0 | Alyssa was finishing out her junior year in Paradise Valley, Arizona in May 2001. |
| 1:42.0 | She lived there with her sister, Sarah, and her stepfather, and Sarah's father, Michael Turnie. |
| 1:47.0 | Alyssa's last day of school, May 17, was also the last day that she was seen. |
| 1:54.0 | Michael Turnie gave authorities a variety of stories concerning Alyssa's disappearance. |
| 2:00.0 | She was treated as a runaway, and her case was not viewed as a missing person's investigation for years to come. |
| 2:07.0 | This is thoroughly explored in Sarah's podcast, Voices for Justice, which we urge you to listen to. |
| 2:13.0 | Sarah became convinced of her father's alleged involvement in Alyssa's disappearance and Alyssa's probable death, |
| 2:21.0 | and Sarah struggled to gain attention, any attention that she could for her sister's case, for years. |
| 2:28.0 | That sometimes led to her dealing with abusive media, or slam doors, |
| 2:33.0 | or the knowledge her story would be used in whatever way that outlets saw fit. |
| 2:38.0 | Eventually, Sarah decided to do things her own way. |
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