Update 4: Surprise call

Missing Alissa

Ottavia Zappala

Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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I speak with Alissa's biological father for the first time and learn a lot of interesting new things Listen to Silent Waves at silentwavespodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Missing Alissa, a podcast documentary series about the unsolved disappearance of Alissa
0:06.5	Turnie, a teenage girl from Phoenix, Arizona.
0:12.5	Alissa has been missing since 2001.
0:15.5	People are saying a lot of things about me and where was I and why was I involved in my
0:26.0	childhood life?
0:27.0	Well, I want to know the truth.
0:30.0	Hi, I'm Octavio Zapala.
0:32.9	In this update episode, I want you to hear from Alissa's biological father, Steven Stromb.
0:39.0	That was him just before.
0:41.7	Steve lives in the northwest with his wife, Karen.
0:44.3	You will be hearing from her in this episode as well.
0:46.9	And I didn't know how to reach him.
0:49.0	He barely got to know Alissa, so I wasn't even sure how much information he'd be able
0:52.4	to contribute.
0:53.4	But he called me after he found out about this podcast and we ended up spending hours
0:57.6	on the phone.
0:58.8	He hasn't been able to share his version in 30 years, so he gets pretty emotional at times.
1:04.0	Both angry and sad.
1:05.7	And I've had to ask him some pretty tough questions towards the end of this episode.
1:09.4	Well, I'm trying to say things that not hurt anybody's feeling.
1:13.7	I wanted to come out and I wanted to tell the truth, but I wanted to say what was on my
1:17.4	mind because it was unfair to me and to this situation.
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