This is Missing Alissa, a podcast documentary series about the unsolved disappearance of Alyssa

Turnie, a teenage girl from Phoenix, Arizona.

Alyssa has been missing since 2001.

Hi, I'm Octavia Zapala and this is a bonus episode of Missing Alissa.

If you haven't listened to the original series, this won't make any sense to you.

I want to make a really cool announcement.

We have had a total of 100,000 downloads since launching this podcast six months ago.

Rather than I, feel really grateful and proud that you have all been enjoying this series

so much.

I'm especially thankful for the great reviews many of you have taken the time to leave.

Thank you so much.

In this episode, I bring to you Jessica Case, one of Alyssa's closest friends towards the

end.

She has not spoken to me before.

But before I do that, I just want to say something that has been on my mind and that I've

been discussing with Sarah lately.

As you know, Michael Turnie is a free man.

He's living in the Phoenix area at the moment, which is also where Sarah and I live.

At a time where gun control is a really hot topic, where Americans are debating who should

own guns and what should be done to address the alarming escalation of mass shootings of

the last few years, the topic of Michael Turnie obviously comes up.

This issue divides Americans because while some believe we need to reform policy and have

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