Where Is Missing Fugitive Football Coach Travis Turner?

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🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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It’s been 7 weeks since Union High School’s head football coach vanished into the woods behind his home. 46-year-old Travis Turner was last seen on November 20th, days before his undefeated team was headed to a big semi-final game. 5 days after his disappearance, Virginia State Police revealed the coach was wanted on child porn and solicitation charges. Amy and T.J. go over the latest information in this deepening mystery.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.0	Hey there, folks. It is Friday, January 9th, and the coach of an undefeated high school football team goes missing.
0:15.9	Days later, he becomes a fugitive.
0:18.6	But here we are, nearly two months later, and we still don't know where he is.
0:25.4	And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J.
0:28.8	Roves, this was a fascinating case from the very beginning.
0:32.1	A lot of it had to do with the fact this was an undefeated high school football team in the middle of a playoff run and the coach
0:38.4	disappears. Yes, in the middle of a community where football is king. This was a man who had been
0:43.2	the head football coach for more than a decade, was beloved in his community, was a larger
0:49.0	than life figure. He was a football king. His father was before, there was legacy behind this man in a town of
0:55.5	2000, Appalachia, Virginia, and poof, he goes missing. And we still don't know where he is,
1:04.2	what condition he may be in, and any validity to the charges that are now hanging over his head. So let's go back then, Robes,
1:15.2	to the very beginning. This was a case that got national headlines from the very beginning. And all
1:20.3	we knew at the beginning was that he disappeared. Right. There's an undefeated high school football team.
1:25.5	They're having a great, great run, and poof,
1:28.8	the coach goes missing. Now, from the very beginning, robes, there was no indication. Again,
1:34.5	from the very beginning that he was wanted for anything. But the details, as we got them initially,
1:40.6	police were on the way to his house to discuss what? We don't know. but they made clear to us at the very beginning. He is not a suspect. We are not after him for anything. And the search begins. Yes, they just said that they had questions for him. At the same time, we also learned that the school where he taught union high school put someone on administrative
2:04.1	leave. So obviously those dots were connected but not confirmed. And even his own family was saying,
2:12.1	hey, this is unlike him. If there's any sort of insinuation of anything, he will be back to clear his name.
2:21.0	We trust him.
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