One Step Ahead - Talina Zar E6

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Speaker 21 Background.

Speaker 22 My roommate T has been missing since April, and I have been law enforcement's target since the beginning, thanks to a vindictive ex and a disgruntled friend excluded from the will.

Speaker 23 In the summer of 2020, Corey Bombley sets up a GoFundMe page to raise money for her legal fees with a goal of $12,000.

Speaker 23 In her post, Corey refers to Talina as T.

Speaker 22 T has been suicidal for a couple years, had pre-planned and pre-paid for her own funeral, and repeatedly told those closest to her that she intended to carry out her final wishes in June 2020.

Speaker 22 In April, she was convinced she'd contracted COVID-19, and I believe she accelerated her plans and left for a destination unknown to everyone but herself.

Speaker 22 She left me in charge of home, finances, and pets. But I cannot honor her wishes while she remains missing.
No death certificate.

Speaker 22 Local law enforcement has targeted me based on malicious leads and a desire to close a case regardless of the facts.

Speaker 22 This law enforcement agency has a bad reputation for this type of unprofessional behavior. And my legal representation is essential, but draining me financially.

Speaker 22 If you are able to help in any way, it will not only be greatly appreciated,

Speaker 22 but it will be remembered once I've been vindicated.

Speaker 22 Smiley Face.

Speaker 23 From iHeart Podcasts, I'm Melissa Geltson, and this is what happened to Talina Czar.

Speaker 26 The first thing I would say was, How's your roommate going?

Speaker 26 And she always answered the best I've ever had. There's still part of me thinking that maybe someone will just call and say she's sick somewhere.
He goes, Well, she killed my Talina wife.

Speaker 26 And I said, You know that. Let's get the sheriffs.

Speaker 21 Just because they're missing doesn't mean anything was nefarious. I was angry with her.

Speaker 26 I was just on a mission to take her down.

Speaker 23 I wasn't scared.

Speaker 23 Episode 6, One Step Ahead.

Speaker 23 It's May 28th, 2020, about two months since Talina disappeared. The Wagner County Sheriff's Office now believes that her roommate, Corey Bomaley, was involved.

Speaker 23 And with a search warrant in hand, they go looking for the evidence to prove it. A team of detectives and deputies roll up unannounced to Talina and Corey's house.

Speaker 23 Detective Weber has been inside before with Corey's blessing. This time is different.

Speaker 27 When I told her that I had a search warrant and was coming inside the house, she instantly, her demeanor changed. She appeared to go kind of pale and began shaking real bad.

Speaker 23 Corey comes outside to meet the detectives, says she has a lawyer and will no longer be speaking to them. But that's not how this works.
They show her the search warrant.

Speaker 23 She has no choice but to let them in.

Speaker 27 To get back in, she needed either a fingerprint on her doorknob or a code.

Speaker 27 She tried her fingerprint several times and it wouldn't unlock for her because her fingers wouldn't go into the fingerprint reader she was trembling so bad.

Speaker 27 She had to try the code several times to get it unlocked.

Speaker 23 Inside the house, the deputies fan out. Weber explains what they're looking for.
Phones, computers, and asks Corey to locate them.

Speaker 27 I asked her where her phone was. We walked to the kitchen where she had her cell phone hidden inside a saucepan in a lower cabinet drawer.

Speaker 23 As for computers, Corey says she has none. So Weber goes hunting himself.

Speaker 27 Corey had placed two of her dogs in the bathroom of the master bedroom. I thought this was odd given that there was plenty of room in the yard for them and she had kennels in the garage.

Speaker 27 I went into this bathroom and found a tower computer hidden under clothing in the bathroom closet. I also located another laptop computer in the front bedroom closet.

Speaker 23 Corey seems on edge. As Weber continues to search the house, he keeps an eye on her and at one point sees her walk outside into the backyard.

Speaker 27 She appeared to walk slowly toward the northwest corner of the yard while scanning her head back and forth. It appeared she was

Speaker 23 Intrigued by this, Weber retraces Corey's steps, goes to the same corner of the yard and doesn't notice anything in particular. But a little ways off, a fire pit catches Weber's eye.

Speaker 23 Up close, he finds burnt and melted remnants of a mattress.

Speaker 26 Corey burned it because the CDC told her to.

Speaker 23 Weber takes some photos to document the scene.

Speaker 23 Back at the station, digging into Corey's phone, the police find something ominous. Internet searches for how to remove blood from cement and how to remove blood from wood.

Speaker 23 They also find a photo of Corey's white cargo trailer. For weeks, sheriffs have been trying to locate this trailer.

Speaker 23 They think it might be key to understanding what happened to Telina, seeing as it seemed to disappear not too long after she did.

Speaker 23 When Detective Weber asked Corey about it on May 9th, she said she'd sold it earlier for a thousand bucks.

Speaker 21 It was there one day and now it's not. What's a trailer got to do with? It was mine.
It wasn't Talina's, so. Okay.

Speaker 23 However, looking at the photo on Corey's phone, officers can tell that she took the picture on May 10th, a day after meeting with Weber.

Speaker 23 Meaning, she lied again.

Speaker 23 But they still don't know where the trailer is. There had been at least one sighting of it, though.

Speaker 21 I told them that I saw that trailer over at Billy Shields place.

Speaker 23 Greg tells police during an interview that he saw the trailer on the property of Billy Shields, a neighbor who often cleaned Talina and Corey's house.

Speaker 21 We were going to a place to go pick up a pizza and we drove by and saw that trailer sitting there. It was plugged into an extension cord.

Speaker 21 there's an extension, like an orange extension cord going into the back of this trailer.

Speaker 21 And I thought, well, that's weird. Why would Corey have that over here, especially plugged in? She has her own house that she can plug it in over there.

Speaker 23 Greg had been characteristically candid with the police, telling them all about how he got rid of Talina's bed frame at Corey's request.

Speaker 23 He had voluntarily gone down to the station, but still, it was intimidating being questioned about a missing person.

Speaker 21 Yeah,

Speaker 21 it was the first time I'd ever been interviewed by sheriff's deputies like that. They

Speaker 21 had

Speaker 21 a couple of people of interest,

Speaker 21 and I believe I was one of them. And I just sat down and just started the story and told them.

Speaker 21 And they're looking at me.

Speaker 21 I

Speaker 21 didn't really know

Speaker 21 what to say or do.

Speaker 23 Greg continued to share information with the cops as they requested it. At one point, they asked him to verify the layout of Talina and Corey's house.

Speaker 21 Who slept where? When they showed me pictures of the house, I said that wasn't the bedroom that Talina stayed in.

Speaker 23 Corey had told police that Talina slept in the front room. But Greg explained that Talina's bedroom was actually in the back of the house.

Speaker 23 And looking at the photos, he saw that Talina's room had been totally disassembled.

Speaker 21 Corey had taken all of all of her stuff and put cats in there. And I had seen the cats and I'm like, what the hell is this?

Speaker 21 Talina didn't let cats in the house. I felt like at that point, you know, she was trying to cover up a crime scene by putting all that cats in there because they weren't clean.
They were. stinky nasty

Speaker 21 pissing and pooping everywhere cats you know, I felt like she's covering something up.

Speaker 27 Greg told us Talina slept on the bed in the back bedroom on the left. This was extremely significant information because Corey lied during interviews and during the tour of the residence.

Speaker 27 She told us Talina slept in the front bedroom on the left and the back bedroom was the TV room. This indicates Corey quickly, completely rearranged the two bedrooms after burning the mattress.

Speaker 27 This also indicates that there was something very significant about this mattress.

Speaker 23 With all this new information, the investigation goes into hyperdrive. The detectives track down two storage units that Corey rented in two separate parts of the state.

Speaker 23 And after getting more search warrants for the units, they find a backpack containing two guns and a driver's license chopped up into little bits.

Speaker 23 Methodically putting the pieces back together, a picture emerges of a dark-haired woman with a fixed gaze and her name, Talina Jana Galloway.

Speaker 27 During the execution of multiple search warrants, evidence showed Corey cut up Talina's driver's license and was hiding it in the storage unit.

Speaker 23 A week or so later, the sheriff's office is back at Talina and Corey's house. This time with a search warrant that gives them free rein to take anything that could be evidence of a crime.

Speaker 23 They use that blue star chemical in the room that is actually Talina's, the one at the back of the house that had been turned into the cat room.

Speaker 23 And the floor glows, just like the garage did.

Speaker 23 Elsewhere, officers find two more firearms, bringing the grand total to four.

Speaker 27 A subsequent interview and search warrant of the victim's residence produced a firearm in the defendant's possession that she claimed the victim took with her when she left.

Speaker 23 Because Corey is a convicted felon, police are able to arrest her on the spot for possession of a firearm.

Speaker 27 She was handcuffed and arrested and taken to Wagner County Jail.

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Speaker 26 When I found out she was arrested, I was super excited. Like, maybe they got her, maybe they found something because we didn't know.
right away what she had been arrested for.

Speaker 26 We're all kind of connecting through conference calls from each person, trying to to figure out, did you hear anything? Did you hear? Kind of talking to the neighbors.

Speaker 23 The sleuths soon learn Corey is facing more than a dozen charges, including possession of a firearm as a felon, destroying evidence, and obstructing a criminal investigation, but not any charges directly related to Talina's disappearance.

Speaker 23 Without a body, the police are hamstrung. Still, Jess and the other online sleuths take it as a win.

Speaker 26 It was like, okay, maybe we're going to have some answers. Maybe they know something.
It was a super exciting time for everybody. I think most people involved were like, finally.

Speaker 23 As the online sleuths celebrate, Jess notices that Marty is dealing with Corey's arrest differently.

Speaker 26 The only person who wasn't super excited and seemed more pissed off was Marty. He was pissed.

Speaker 26 But he was excited, but he was more angry about the situation.

Speaker 23 Corey's first night in jail just gets a call. It's Marty.
He tells her that he'd gone into Talina's empty house.

Speaker 26 He told me that when he went in, he saw the will sitting on the counter. He saw Talina's will and he had seen that Corey had circled and highlighted things about who's getting what and

Speaker 26 how she's trying to take everything and run. And he had this whole long story about how he'd been completely cut out and he was furious.

Speaker 26 And then he said he went to the garage and he took the chainsaw and pawned it because he needed to get some money to pay for a prescription.

Speaker 23 The way Marty's acting plants a little seed that maybe he was involved in some way.

Speaker 26 Something about that whole situation turned me off. Alarm bells were kind of in my head, not enough for me to accuse him of anything, but just enough in the back of my head to say, this isn't right.

Speaker 23 By this point, Jess is no stranger to the Wagner County Sheriff's Office. She's called in tips many times, but this is the first time she calls in to report Marty, someone she considers a friend.

Speaker 26 I'd said, hey, something about this made me feel weird. He broke into this house and he took the chainsaw and we don't know where Talina is and Corey's in jail and the whole thing just seems weird.

Speaker 26 Like it seemed weird. I don't

Speaker 21 know.

Speaker 23 The rustic house nestled in the trees used to be full of life. First, Talina and her husband Tom, then just Talina, then Talina and Corey,

Speaker 23 and for a little while, just Corey.

Speaker 23 And now, no one, except for a huge collection of animals, from donkeys to cats to many, many dogs.

Speaker 25 She had like seven or eight dogs.

Speaker 25 Three were like pitball boxer mixes that she kept in the backyard. And then there was a Bassett hound.

Speaker 25 and a chihuahua.

Speaker 25 And then there was Talina's little dog and then there was like three or four other dogs of corey's this is rachel parker one of talina's friends who lived nearby as an animal advocate i'm not going to sit down here and listen about these animals dying because they're not getting fed or whatnot her house sitter had reached out to me about the dogs all of the dogs that were down there and she's like you know corey is in in jail can you come help me take care of these dogs?

Speaker 23 Rachel asks Greg to come with her.

Speaker 21 Rachel, you know, being the dog lover that she is, and I mean, she wants to rescue every dog if possible. So we go over to Talina's house to see about these dogs.

Speaker 21 We hadn't talked to anybody, didn't get permission from anybody.

Speaker 21 Rachel just knew, felt like she knew Talina, and I felt like I knew them well enough that we could just pop over there and see what's up with the dogs.

Speaker 23 Pulling up to Corey's house, they notice a U-Haul trailer in the driveway. It's not Corey's white trailer, the one that police have been hunting.
It's a different rented trailer.

Speaker 23 But being armchair detectives, they're curious and decide to open it.

Speaker 21 And I slung open the door and me and Rachel standing there and she goes, oh my God, this thing smells like death.

Speaker 21 And I'm like, I know, it looks clean, but it just stinks. I mean, like

Speaker 21 somebody had packed dead fish in this thing or something and

Speaker 21 left it in the sun, maybe.

Speaker 25 There was nothing, you know, overtly unclean or anything about it. When we opened it up, there was just a really, really bad smell.

Speaker 21 I wondered, you know, if I should go ahead and call the U-Haul people and tell them where it's at, because Gore, the person that had rented it, was in jail. But we didn't.
We left it all alone.

Speaker 23 Undeterred, they head into the garage.

Speaker 25 There were dog crates and stuff in the garage, and there was a

Speaker 25 pile of boxes and other bits and bobs in there. She had literally gone through and painted the floor around

Speaker 25 these areas.

Speaker 28 And I looked at that and I said to Greg, that's odd looking.

Speaker 25 And we just kind of looked at each other.

Speaker 23 There's fresh gray paint on the garage floor applied in a haphazard pattern. There's even a wet-looking roller sitting in a tray of paint.

Speaker 25 Not like somebody had decided to paint their garage or whatnot. They're going to move everything out.
She just painted around everything. It was just really weird.

Speaker 25 I mean, by then, we all kind of had a suspicion that something

Speaker 21 bad had happened.

Speaker 23 They keep going. In the house, Rachel notices something that isn't there.

Speaker 25 When we got to the kitchen, we noticed the freezer was not there.

Speaker 25 The freezer used to. I think at one point it was in the garage and then it was in the kitchen.
Well, it wasn't there.

Speaker 23 She looks at me and said, you guys should go ahead and take it.

Speaker 26 Our freezer is stuffed full of meat.

Speaker 23 Rachel is so struck by the missing freezer that she mentions it to a few other people. And as it does, news gets back to the sleuths.

Speaker 26 When we found out the freezer was missing from the garage, it was like, how the hell? Like, how did she get rid of this freezer, get it out of here, and then get arrested? It just seemed

Speaker 26 unreal. How the hell did the police miss it?

Speaker 23 Over the next few days, Rachel continues to feed the animals. and begins the process of rehoming them.

Speaker 23 On one visit, she runs into another person, Billy Shields, Talina and Corey's housekeeper.

Speaker 25 I came in through the back gate and walked into the garage and opened the door into the kitchen and she turned around and looked at me and she just went white because Talina and I were very similar in looks and body structure and the whole nine yards.

Speaker 25 And she looked at me and she just started crying. She said, I thought you were Talina.
She said, you walked into the door. I swear to God, I thought you you were Talina.

Speaker 25 And I mean, she started crying and so did I.

Speaker 28 We all knew at that point that

Speaker 28 something

Speaker 25 had happened and we didn't know what.

Speaker 21 I think in a day or two, Rachel ended up getting all of the dogs out of there.

Speaker 25 A couple of days after we moved the dogs, I was at work. Greg was over here at my house taking care of my dogs.

Speaker 21 I just happened to be over at Rachel's house letting her dogs out and Corey pulls up behind me.

Speaker 25 Fortunately I have cameras all around my property and I saw what was going on. She pulled up behind him at my gate and kind of blocked him into my into my driveway.

Speaker 21 She completely blindsided me. I was closing the gate, walking up to the truck, pulled the truck door open and she's walking around my truck.
And I thought she was spilling jail.

Speaker 21 And normally I carry a gun. I mean, I've been a confused carry for a long, long time.
And

Speaker 21 I had my pistol on me normally. Out of instinct, I grabbed for my pistol that I did not have.

Speaker 21 And she just said, where's my dogs? And I'm like, I don't have them.

Speaker 21 And she goes, does Rachel have them? I said, no.

Speaker 21 And she goes, did they get adopted immediately? And I said, yes.

Speaker 21 And she turned around and got back in the car and left.

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Speaker 23 Less than a week after her arrest, Corey is released on bond. News of this travels fast.
Chantelle, Talina's niece, posts an announcement online, which we have recreated.

Speaker 23 Corey got out of jail this afternoon. Everyone, please be on alert.
I don't want her to hurt anyone else. I fear for everyone who has helped in the investigation or spoken out about her.

Speaker 23 Please, just all keep your eyes open.

Speaker 23 Jess gets a one-line text from Marty.

Speaker 27 Hey, sweetheart. The fucking cunt got out.

Speaker 26 We thought she was going to get in a lot more trouble with the guns because she's a felon.

Speaker 26 I know a lot of police officers and sheriffs, and like, we know how important it is for felons not to have guns, especially here. I guess I don't know about Oklahoma, but it's a huge deal.

Speaker 26 Felons cannot carry firearms. We were looking up the, you know, penalties, and it's like 15 years per charge.
And I was like, well, hell, we've got her on 30 years right there. We can be done.

Speaker 21 And then they let her out.

Speaker 26 I was like, what in the hell is going on here?

Speaker 26 We thought, we thought we had her.

Speaker 23 The sleuths are worried that the police aren't moving fast enough, or more accurately, that Corey is moving faster.

Speaker 26 It always felt like she was one step ahead of them and us no matter what. I didn't really understand how police worked in gathering their evidence and what they actually needed in order to arrest her.

Speaker 23 With law enforcement seemingly unable to hold Corey accountable, Jess starts to feel like it's up to her. If justice is going to be served, she may have to be the one to deliver it.

Speaker 23 But she's far away, so she deputizes Marty. She She asks him to drive by the house and observe what's going on, and even to go through the trash after Corey puts it on the curb.

Speaker 23 It's a way for Jess to build her case against Corey, but it's also a kind of litmus test from Marty.

Speaker 23 After all, Jess is convinced that Corey didn't act alone.

Speaker 26 I'm saying, hey, I think somebody helped her. And he's like, no, she's super strong.
He didn't want me to think the accomplice theory.

Speaker 23 In the days after Corey's release from jail, Jess notices that Marty is often agitated and upset, quick to turn on her.

Speaker 26 He'd get pissy that I didn't answer my phone, or, well, I'm just going to call Rosie or I'll call Nicole. It's like, call him?

Speaker 21 I don't know.

Speaker 26 Sounds good.

Speaker 23 At one point, Marty tells Jess that Corey's been driving by his house. Jess tells him to call the police.
but he has his own way of executing justice.

Speaker 26 He said, well, I've got my AR right here, So if she comes in, I'll shoot the bitch.

Speaker 23 Jess can't make sense of Marty's behavior. She doesn't know him well enough to understand what's going on inside his head.
Is he acting guilty because he did something?

Speaker 23 Or is he scared because he knows what Corey is capable of?

Speaker 23 He tells Jess he's drinking more and not sleeping well.

Speaker 26 I don't know if it was fear or

Speaker 26 panic. I don't know if he was afraid.
Warning bells were in my head. I was starting to think something was sketchy with him, more so than the drug use and the drinking.

Speaker 23 Still, Jess continues to talk to Marty multiple times a day. After all, Talina is missing.
Corey is free. Jess and Marty, they're in this together.

Speaker 23 Less than a week after Corey makes Bond, it's Father's Day. June 21st, 2020.
Jess and Marty send each other good morning texts like usual.

Speaker 26 I was doing something with my husband and the kids. I think he got a picture of us in the car maybe getting ice cream.

Speaker 26 And he had sent a picture of Captain America that he had, he had like an adult coloring book, and he colored Captain America and said, I've been working on this all day.

Speaker 26 We kind of bonded over our love of Marvel and Star Wars and

Speaker 26 whatever.

Speaker 26 And I remember saying Happy Father's Day because he's a stepdad. And he said, oh, nobody said that to me in a long time.
That was literally the last time I talked to him.

Speaker 26 I think it was Nicole that called me and said, Marty's dead. And then I tried messaging him.
I tried calling.

Speaker 26 And then I called the police station or the sheriff's office and I asked, like, is he really dead?

Speaker 23 Justice told that Marty died of a suspected drug overdose.

Speaker 26 And then I became a little harsh with them and said, I know for sure that Corey did it. And that was another frustrating phone call where I was upset, obviously, because he was dead.

Speaker 26 But they were frustrated that I was making accusations, obviously, because legally I couldn't prove that.

Speaker 26 Still can't.

Speaker 26 But I said, I know she was driving by his house, like he was texting me.

Speaker 26 She killed Telena. Now she killed him.

Speaker 23 Marty dies a week after Corey gets out of jail. To Jess, it's just too convenient.

Speaker 26 And then all of a sudden, he pawns a chainsaw and then he dies of a fentanyl overdose. A user, I mean, he used for years, years, 20, 30 years, talking to other addicts that I know.

Speaker 26 I'm not saying an accidental overdose isn't possible. I'm not saying it's impossible.
I'm just saying it seems like too big of a coincidence that that's how he dies, in my opinion.

Speaker 23 Marty's death hits Jess hard.

Speaker 23 Even though she suspects he may have played some role in Talina's disappearance, She has real feelings for him. It's a contradiction that she still struggles with today.

Speaker 23 I tried to get Jess to talk more about her reaction to Marty's death, but every time she tried, she became overcome with emotion.

Speaker 26 I get really upset when I think about Wolf.

Speaker 26 It's hard. It's hard for me to talk about.

Speaker 23 Because you did genuinely care about him.

Speaker 21 I did. Yeah.

Speaker 26 And it sucks because sometimes I wish I could call him, right?

Speaker 26 There's just parts of me that wish he was still here.

Speaker 26 I don't know how to explain it.

Speaker 26 I was really sad,

Speaker 21 it really hurt. Um

Speaker 21 I'm really uncomfortable.

Speaker 28 I'm still really sad that he's gone

Speaker 21 because what if I'm wrong?

Speaker 21 I need a I need a minute.

Speaker 23 Jess sent me a folder of her texts with Marty, ostensibly to provide a window into her investigation to check facts and dates.

Speaker 23 But as I scrolled through the hundreds of messages, what I saw instead was a relationship develop.

Speaker 23 Two people who found each other in the strange blur of pandemic life, united by their shared obsession with what happened to Talina Czar.

Speaker 23 The day after Marty dies, she texts him, please tell me you're okay.

Speaker 23 And then four months later, one last text, I miss you so fucking much.

Speaker 26 One of the last conversations Wolf and I had had, he was extremely drunk and high. And he said,

Speaker 26 I can't believe he figured it out.

Speaker 23 Next time on what happened to Talina Czar.

Speaker 27 The findings inside the safe were extremely significant.

Speaker 23 A new discovery triggers a second investigation, well beyond Wagner, Oklahoma, or even the mysterious disappearance of Talina Czar.

Speaker 22 Do we feel safe living next door to Corey?

Speaker 25 No.

Speaker 23 Do our neighbors feel safe after our house was broken into?

Speaker 36 No.

Speaker 26 None of us feel safe anymore.

Speaker 23 And the Wagner County Sheriff's Office makes a big announcement.

Speaker 27 This press conference is regarding what originally started out as a missing persons investigation regarding Talina Galloway.

Speaker 23 What Happened to Talena Zar is a production of iHeart podcasts. It's written, reported, and hosted by me, Melissa Jeltson, with writing and story editing by Lauren Hansen.

Speaker 23 Our executive producer is Ryan Murdoch. For iHeart Podcasts, executive producers are Jason English and Carl Cadel.
Fact-checking by Maya Shukri.

Speaker 23 Zoe Denkla is our associate producer. Jeremy Thal is our editor.
Original music by Aaron Kaufman with additional music by Jeremy Thal and Gideon Crevichet. Additional sound design by Marita Speh.

Speaker 23 Episodes are mixed and mastered by Carl Cadel. Voice acting by Lizzie Gore, Chris Ferry, Stephanie Frame, Pete Monica, and Molly Maslin.
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Speaker 23 Thanks so much for listening.

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