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🗓️ 2 December 2025
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The United States Marshals Service joins the hunt for Coach Travis Turner, who is listed as a "Missing Person" last seen November 20. The Marshals Service is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest of Turner.
Turner's disappearance days before his undefeated football team's playoff game is now even more shocking; the coach is wanted on charges of possessing child pornography and using a computer to solicit a minor.
Virginia State Police say Turner is wanted on warrants for five counts of possessing child pornography and five counts of using a computer to solicit a minor. Police say additional charges are pending.
In the early stages of an investigation into allegations involving the coach, police head to the family home to interview Travis Turner. While on the way, investigators receive a tip that Turner is no longer at the home.
In a shocking update for fugitive Coach Travis Turner, the family says the last contact they had with the husband and father was as he left the family home on foot, walking into the woods with a firearm.
Turner goes into an area described as heavily wooded and mountainous, as investigators are on the way to his house to interview him about recent allegations.
There is no word on if the former coach was contacted ahead of time and fled the scene, but no charges had been filed against him at the time he left the family home. Turner was gone when investigators arrived.
Travis Turner is a former high school football star quarterback who captured three state titles as a player in the mid-90s, and who is now the head football coach at Union High School in Wise County, Virginia.
Turner has been the football coach since 2011, and this year the team is undefeated heading into the state playoffs. Turner and his paralegal wife, Leslie, have been married for going on 25 years and have three children, two boys and a girl.
The recent accusations swirling around football coach Travis Turner are not the first time Union High School has had to deal with allegations involving a coach/teacher.
Timothy Lee Meador, a teacher and coach at Union High School, was arrested on one count of child solicitation and two counts of indecent liberties.
Meador pleaded guilty to two felony charges of taking indecent liberties with a minor by a person in a custodial or supervisory relationship, and was sentenced to one year and three months in prison.
The same lawyer who represented Meador is also representing the Turner family.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:10.1 | The U.S. Marshals manhunt, an urgent update from the Marshals. |
| 0:16.2 | Coach Travis Turner, the famed high school football coach, vanishes into rugged terrains, the mountains |
| 0:24.1 | with a gun. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:27.4 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:28.6 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:30.5 | Union High School in Big Stone Gap, Virginia faces turmoil as head coach Travis Turner |
| 0:35.7 | mysteriously vanishes days before their undefeated football team |
| 0:40.0 | heads to the playoffs. |
| 0:44.3 | Why did he say that that the coach vanishes just before the big football playoff? |
| 0:53.4 | Correction. |
| 0:55.3 | The coach vanished into the woods, we believe, carrying a gun, according to a witness, |
| 1:02.1 | as L.E. law enforcement was on their way to his house to talk to him about child porn and about claims he solicited a child for sex over his |
| 1:19.5 | computer. |
| 1:21.1 | You think he vanished into the woods with a gun in a sweatsuit because of the upcoming football game? |
| 1:28.4 | I don't think so. |
| 1:30.0 | Listen. |
| 1:31.2 | Law enforcement headed to the family home to interview Turner. |
| 1:34.3 | On the way, investigators are informed Turner is no longer home. |
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