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UPDATE: Alissa Turney

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True Crime

4.7352.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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An interview with Alissa's half-sister, Sarah, reveals she no longer thinks her sister ran away. She thinks Alissa was the victim of foul play and she alleges that the perpetrator may be her own father.

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0:00.0

On our last episode, we told you about the strange disappearance of Alyssa Turnie.

0:04.9

She went missing back in 2001, but it wasn't until a serial killer in Florida

0:10.1

falsely confessed to murdering her in 2006 that her case was finally investigated,

0:15.2

and police, friends, and family came to realize that Alyssa was likely the victim of foul play.

0:21.4

It took years for family members to find out that Mike Turnie, Alyssa's stepdad,

0:26.3

had taken her out of school early the day she went missing.

0:29.3

And although he had video surveillance in their home and recorded all incoming and outgoing phone calls,

0:34.9

the tapes from the day Alyssa went missing and the call she supposedly made to her stepfather a week

0:39.6

later from California could not be produced because they were either taped over,

0:44.7

or the recording devices were conveniently turned off. Mike became an immediate suspect in many

0:51.2

people's minds as his stories changed and new information about his relationship with Alyssa

0:56.4

surfaced. For a long time, family members stood by him, including Alyssa's half sister Sarah.

1:02.4

But in the years since Mike's arrest and his subsequent release from prison for making those 26

1:07.7

pipe bombs, information has come out that has changed Sarah's mind. And now she has become Alyssa's

1:15.2

number one champion advocating for justice and demanding answers from her own father.

1:21.5

The man she thinks did something to her sister.

1:52.0

When I saw myself on the 2020 episode, now as an adult, it's extremely difficult to watch.

2:02.4

I looked so naive and it's just really sad. I really believed that my father had nothing to do

2:09.9

with it and I could never grasp the idea that he could even try to hurt someone.

2:14.5

So it's extremely difficult to watch now. So I know you learned a lot in the 2020 special.

2:20.4

Like you and all of your family did the stuff that you never knew before. In our last episode,

2:24.9

we mentioned how it was the first time anyone in your family knew that Mike Turnie had actually

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