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We are not a family that is all up in each other's business.

We never have been.

We are very close without having the need to talk or even see each other on a regular basis.

It's like, I live my life, she lives her life, my brother lives his life.

It hasn't been easy to get people in Talina's life to speak to me on the record.

It's clear she was well loved, and you've heard from some of her friends already.

I've reached out to many more and to her family, but for whatever reason, most have been apprehensive to participate.

I was able to talk to Talina's sister, Cheryl Jones.

She called me back the day she received my letter.

She said she was relieved to have the chance to talk about her sister.

She refers to Talina as Jana, her birth name.

My sister kept a part of her life private from the family.

Talina, I believe, comes from that secret part of her lives.

The secret part that we all knew was a secret part.

We just didn't know the details of the secret.

As you may recall, Talina was part of the Gorian community, a niche group of BDSM followers who live by the strict social structure outlined in the Gore books, a sci-fi series where men are the dominant gender and women are naturally subservient.

For the better part of a decade, Talina lived as a 24-7 slave to her husband Tom or Master Zarius, doing whatever and acting however he wished, in the bedroom and outside of it.

Gore was a world of slaves and beautiful women, of human domination by the alien secret priest kings.

Did you like have any sense of what this secret life was about?

Like, did you get the sense that it was like sex-related?

Yes, we kind of got it that it was something along that lines.

Yes.

Talina was active online, and her nieces were too.

They saw the types of things she posted, the terms she used, and eventually worked out that Talina was part of the BDSM community, and that that identity was very important to her.

We figured it out through clues.

Amongst us, we didn't talk to her about it.

And when I say us, I mean me, my mom, and my three daughters.

We had figured out that that was the secret life.

One day, Cheryl heard her sister Jana refer to herself as Talina.

When I first heard her saying Talina, I'm like, Talina.

And I finally got up enough nerve to just flat out ask her, you know, where does Telina come from?

How did you come about choosing that?

And

she was very evasive about it.

And it was also the world of Telina, the tempestuous daughter of Orr's great warlord.

She waited for the man who could subdue her, the man who would be her master.

When Cheryl learned that Telina legally changed her name, she was surprised to find out that she kept Jana as her middle name.

To me, it spoke of the acknowledgement that she had two different identities.

She still identified with Jana because Jana was her identity to family.

And then the Telina.

I think that was probably the first time I kind of really saw the duality and her embrace of the duality.

We all have duality in our lives, present different versions of ourselves in different contexts.

On Instagram, the image we portray might be a lot shinier than reality.

The voice we adopt on a work call might be more optimistic or confident than we really feel.

But what happens when the line between our different selves becomes sharper, severing the two worlds?

When the people in one part of your life can't protect you from the other?

We thought we were respecting her privacy.

She said she wanted this to be a private part of her life and we accepted that because that's the kind of family we are.

But I have to wonder, did she ultimately maybe feel a little alienated because of that too?

I think that's why she kept it from us.

She thought that maybe we wouldn't love her or accept her, maybe.

And the thing was, it wouldn't have changed it at all.

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I just took it to mean that

if she passed away from COVID, she was at peace with it because she would be with Tom.

How well did I adapt to being property?

Well, that depends on whether you ask me or master, LOL.

Um,

we built kind of a trust, he'd become really vulnerable with me, he'd cry.

Just because they're missing doesn't mean anything was nefarious.

So, all of us wear masks, right?

Episode five: If I go missing.

My birthday is November the 4th, and her birthday is November the 3rd.

She was born one day before I was one years old.

So we were raised a lot like almost like twins.

Talina's sister, Cheryl, is now a 58-year-old nurse who lives in Pennsylvania.

We grew up in Bloomington, Indiana.

And then when I was 12, or she would have been 11, my dad was transferred to a place called Washington Indiana my parents joined a Pentecostal church and that's the way we were raised it was strict you know we didn't have TV in our home growing up

you went to church and you went to Sunday school and those kinds of things Cheryl remembers Talina as a shy kid someone she felt she had to stand up for I remember getting in fights,

growing up because somebody would pick on her if they called her a name.

I would have to be the one to go and kind of shove them around when we were kids.

And then the funny thing was, when we got older, as we grew up,

I am only five foot tall and she was five foot ten.

She ended up being much taller than me.

But I was a big sis when we were really young.

Even though there's only a year between in our personalities, somehow she seemed to be a little more free-spirited, whereas I was always like very task-oriented and goal-oriented, that kind of thing.

As kids, Cheryl and Talina were inseparable.

As adults, their lives moved in different directions.

Cheryl went to nursing school, got married, and had four children before getting a divorce and moving to Pennsylvania.

Talina stayed in Indiana, wandered a bit to find her way.

She joined the National Guard, then got into computer programming.

Like her sister, she also got married and divorced at a young age to a man named Russell Lovick, but she never had any kids.

Instead, Talina played the auntie role with glee.

I had four kids, and so money would be tight, especially around Christmas time.

And, you know, she always made sure my kids had a good Christmas.

That was one of her deals.

She would bring a whole van full of presents.

And, you know, and that was a good relief to us.

Cheryl's kids loved to come visit Aunt Jana, where they were often spoiled.

They would spend weeks at her house and they always did fun things.

She'd take them one at a time, but everyone got a turn to go and spend a couple of weeks with Aunt Jana and do all of the fun things that Aunt Jana could.

Talina's close relationship with her three nieces, Cherie, Chantel, and Chelsea, continued into their adulthoods.

The girls all settled in the Indianapolis area, close to Talina and most of their extended family.

Even after Talina moved to Oklahoma, she made a point to visit frequently.

Dana came through Indiana every

two, three, four months, three, four times a year.

By 2020, Cheryl and Talina had fallen out of touch.

And so, when her little sister goes missing, she hasn't spoken to her in almost three years.

But her daughters are in regular contact with Talina.

Talina was especially close with Chantel, Cheryl's middle daughter.

They both had office jobs, and so it was common for them to send messages back and forth throughout the workday.

In late March, during the start of the COVID lockdown, Talina and Chantel are chatting like usual.

It just happened that her and Chantel, my middle daughter, have been communicating throughout the day on Facebook, which is something they often did.

Then Telina messages Chantel that she has to go.

She's tired and has a headache.

She was going to lay down for a while and said that she would chat with her later.

The next day, she's not online.

And then the next day, she's not online.

And then the next day, she's not online.

And so then she began to try to call her.

Didn't get an answer, didn't get an answer.

She then contacts Cherie, the oldest one,

and

she's telling Cherie, I think something's wrong here.

Then on April 7th, Chantel sees Talina's Facebook post.

I'll catch up with everyone on the other side.

That's when they decided that they needed to tell this family that something was going on.

Chantel tells her mom, there's no way Talina wrote the post.

She thinks someone else must have.

Well, what makes you think it's not Jana?

She said this was sloppy, not at all, not at all like anything Jana would have written or the way she'd have written it.

She was alarmed immediately.

Once the whole family is in the loop about Tolina's disappearance, they start comparing notes, trying to work out the last time anyone had any real contact with her.

The date they come up with is March 27th, 2020.

That's the day Chantel was last Facebook messaging with her aunt.

And now we're up to near two weeks later.

My immediate gut response was, this is not good.

I just knew this was not good.

Of all the crazy things my sister would do and flighty things and airbrain things she might do.

Just totally dropping off the face of the earth is not one of them.

A few days later, the Wagner County Sheriff's Department calls Tolina's family and speaks to her mother and brother.

They did a good, probably close to two-hour talk with the both of them.

And it was the questions that you would normally expect.

Is there any place you can think of she might have gone?

Are there any friends somewhere that she might have gone to visit?

What would she normally do?

And of course, you know, when did you last talk to her?

Talina's family, who are spread out across multiple states, face a difficult question.

Should they go to Wagner, Oklahoma to look for Talina themselves in the middle of COVID lockdowns?

You know, so we had to wrestle around, well, do we stay here and wage?

Does somebody go out there?

That was really hard, and we were torn about it.

Even if they went, they didn't know where to start looking.

Talina had kept so much of her life there secret.

She made it clear her life with these group of friends were her and Tom's private matter.

And that's what made it so difficult because we don't know this part of her life.

Cheryl and her family knew of only one person in Wagner that Talina had ever mentioned.

She talked about Marty Alpine.

She had 100 pictures of Marty on her phone.

They were the best friends.

They were so close.

But the last time they'd seen Talina, she told them that Marty was out of the picture.

And she says, Marty and I are not friends, and I don't want to talk about it.

And like, oh, we've heard about this, Marty, for freaking last five years.

And all of a sudden, boom, Marty's gone.

No explanation.

No, this is what happened.

Marty's gone.

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I was questioning him as early as beginning of May.

This is Jess, our internet sleuth in Minnesota.

A few weeks into her own investigation, she's also discovering that Talina and Marty's relationship may not have been exactly how he described it.

And she's beginning to suspect that he's been lying to her, which is tough because they've become very close very fast.

I probably spent six plus hours a day on FaceTime or the phone with him or texting about what we knew, theories, who we'd talk to.

We talked about a lot of stuff.

I mean some of our conversations weren't even about Talina.

They were about life.

Like we had conversations about when his mom was murdered, his mom was murdered in front of him.

And he got really vulnerable with me and sometimes like trauma bonding is a thing.

Talking about stuff like that with somebody, you get close really quick.

When Marty talks about his relationship with Talina, he makes it seem as though they were extremely close, the best of friends.

But Jess is learning new information that introduces some ambiguity into the picture.

For one, she finds out from another friend of Talina's that Marty had allegedly stolen from Talina a few months before her disappearance.

I'd heard from Rachel that in December, Marty had stolen from Talina.

Talina didn't exactly tell her what kind of of theft it was, but she had told Rachel that Marty was no longer welcome in her home.

Jess also suspects that Talina had been helping Marty out financially for a while.

My thoughts at the time were that he was taking advantage of Tolina monetarily wise, because there was at one point where he said, I miss my Tolina wife.

You know, if I went over there and I was upset, she would slip some money into my pocket and make things better.

So, I mean, that sat with me kind of funny, like she was financially supporting them.

And there was a bunch of stuff that he said said she would help him quote-unquote help him with where i think his idea was help was her fully funding it as marty explains to jess he suffers from chronic pain and addiction has had a hard time holding down a job on one of their calls marty even goes so far as to ask jess for some money for his pain medication but that's a line jess isn't willing to cross According to Jess, Marty said Talina would sometimes pay his phone and water bills, even chip in for his meds.

He needed painkillers, and she felt for him because she was kind of a bleeding heart with people and probably gave him the money to help him alleviate some of his pain.

And he was in treatment several times for illegal drugs, dependency of them.

Things were messy between Marty and Talina.

But when I asked Jess about Marty and Talina's friendship ending abruptly just before her disappearance, Jess didn't think it was that black and white.

As far as she could tell, the two had been communicating regularly.

I don't know if she was willing to forgive him for whatever had happened or maybe he had paid her back.

Their relationship was strained, but I don't know if she was willing to forgive or she was so used to that master-slave relationship that they had all enjoyed.

I can't speak to her feelings.

I never actually talked to Talina and Marty, I don't feel is a reliable source anymore.

By the pandemic's start, it looks as though Corey, not Marty, had become the primary recipient of Tolina's generosity.

According to Jess's research, Corey was living rent-free in Tolina's home.

She used Talina's cars to get around, and while she worked odd jobs, it was Tolina's steady paycheck that provided the household income.

It seems in those crucial months before Tolina's disappearance, the people in her close orbit were shifting places.

Marty's star was fading, and Corey's was ascending.

She did remove him from her will and change it to Corey.

I was able to get a hold of a copy of Talina's will.

I, Talina Jana Galloway of Wagner County, Oklahoma, being of full age and of sound mind and disposing memory, but sensitive of the uncertainties of life and desiring to make disposition of the property which I may die of being possessed.

I appoint Corey Bomale Adams to serve as the personal representative of my estate.

The sleuths feel certain that Corey had something to do with Talina's disappearance.

I mean, becoming the beneficiary of someone else's estate months before they go missing?

That's Motive 101.

They've also heard through the grapevine about Corey burning Talina's mattress, selling her items on eBay.

And Corey's criminal past suggests she's no stranger to lying and manipulation.

But what about Marty?

To the sleuths, he presents himself as someone who's also suspicious of Corey, even though they're friends.

He tells the sleuths he'll use his friendship with Corey to try to get more information.

Here's Brittany.

He was like, I've been talking to Corey.

trying to get her to tell me what happened.

He said at one point he'd even drove by the house to see if he saw anything weird and that it had upset Corey.

But the sleuths aren't sure if he's being entirely transparent about his relationship with Corey either.

Here's Rosie.

I felt like he would give us half-truths and then backtrack on things and

Some of the stories that he told me, I couldn't verify in like any sort of legal records anywhere.

He wanted us to believe him so much that it felt like he was hiding something.

And they're hearing rumors from other people in Wagner that contradict how Marty describes his relationship with Corey.

I remember he had said that he had gone over there and really laid into her and yelled at her, and the neighbor reported something completely different, that it was like a friendly interaction.

And, you know, it just felt he was very much trying to control the story.

Jess, as usual, cuts to the chase.

I questioned about why he played both sides of the fence with Team Talina and then Corey, because he'd always have good terms with her.

And he'd keep telling me, well, I have to play nice.

You catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar.

I have to, you know, play nice with Corey because then maybe she'll tell me something.

Jess suspects maybe they're in cahoots.

Maybe Marty's telling Corey everything they're telling him.

And Jess tells him that too.

Anybody that plays both sides of the fence is definitely not your friend.

And so I told him that.

I said, I can't sit here and confide in you about what we're finding about Corey and all these people that are coming to us with information when I feel like you're going to feed it right back to her.

You know, you come to us and you say, oh, Corey's doing this and I'm outside the house watching her do that.

And then I find out.

from somebody in Wagner that they seen you guys at the gas station together down by the lake together or that you were sitting outside the house or that you went into the house.

Like

it was a constant questioning.

Because Jess was the person who was calling and asking the questions, it really took up a lot of her time emotionally and mentally.

And I'm sure that it was draining for her to try to keep all of that straight.

Jess is starting to feel exhausted.

The investigation is hard work.

So is changing her persona with each new source she reaches out to, trying to get them to open up, trying to find the thing that's going to crack the case wide open.

Sometimes she pretends she knew Telina.

Other times, she gives fake backstories to gain access.

I lied to a lot of people.

A lot.

Friends of Telina's,

friends of Marty's.

I mean, I just lied my way into their life.

I manipulated them.

Can you give some examples of like the kind of lies we're talking about?

There's a lot.

Oh, I know so-and-so.

You know, I'd lie about who I knew.

Or I think I'm one of the things I had said I was a private investigator, which isn't a huge lie, but it's a lie nonetheless.

I told people that I got their information from a friend of a friend when I'd actually like used an app online to get their information.

When Jess told me all of this, that she lied to get information out of people, I had to wonder, could I trust her to be completely truthful with me?

After all, in her very first email, she had mischaracterized her relationship to Telina, saying she was her friend.

Over the year I spent reporting this story, I've tried to confirm every detail Jess told me.

In some cases, I only have her account to rely on.

But her version of of events has held up.

I believe she's been honest about everything that transpired, even when it reflected negatively on her.

And she's been especially candid when talking about the personal toll of all of this.

The whole thing seemed kind of

sometimes I felt like I was in over my head.

Talina's case is consuming Jess.

Day and night, she's strategizing with her fellow sleuths, managing Marty, and sharing her findings with the Wagner County Sheriff's Office, whose reaction to her tips vary depending on the day and their level of patience.

And for what?

Sometimes the absurdity of the whole endeavor catches her off guard.

What is she even doing trying to solve a missing person's case involving a woman she never met?

Jess keeps meticulous notes of her investigation and her feelings about all of it.

Here's a little glimpse of her writing from this time.

All I wanted was to find a missing woman.

What I ended up with was so much more.

My days are spent researching people, connecting dots that may not even be there, and chain smoking.

I sit back with my seeming cup of coffee and think, how did this happen?

More than just her time and energy, has Jess put herself in actual danger?

She's now entangled with people whose true nature and capabilities she doesn't know.

One day, she gets some threatening texts from a former Gorian master she'd reached out to.

He sent me his ID and a knife and called me a Gorian slave and said he was gonna come get me.

Another time, a gruff stranger comes into her bar and something about him, his accent, the way he talks to her, makes her extremely uncomfortable.

She's not sure, is she being paranoid?

Jess decides to take some precautions.

She gets a concealed carry permit and a gun.

Based on advice she finds online, Jess and Rosie create, quote, if I go missing folders, complete with a list of older passwords, photos of scars and tattoos, and the names of friends and family with descriptions of their relationships.

For safekeeping, the two women who first connected mere weeks ago share these confidential documents with each other.

Like my if I go missing file.

Yeah, like it just felt like something that we should do.

Like at some point, it kind of, our eyes kind of opened that,

you know.

I don't, I had never given that information to anyone other than my husband, and I don't think she had done the same.

And so just to have someone like outside of the bubble of people who we usually interact with to be like, if I go missing, call the cops and tell them X, Y, Z.

Like it just felt like at that moment, like it just felt like that made sense to share with each other.

And I still have her information and I know she still has mine.

Whatever reservations Jess has, she's undeterred.

And she has a feeling that this will all come to a close soon.

It has to.

Surely the cops have enough evidence to at least detain Corey.

Were you scared at all?

Did you feel like what have I, what kind of characters have I gotten myself involved with?

No.

I was angry with her.

I was just on a mission to take her down.

I wasn't scared.

So I was mad.

I think all of us were mad.

We were like, what the hell?

It's plain as day what she's doing, right?

Like, she might as well have a guilty light flashing on her forehead.

They're all waiting for something to happen, for an arrest, for a big break in the case, for Talina to be found, alive

or dead.

Meanwhile, Jess continues her daily, no, hourly check-ins with Marty, who's growing more erratic and confused.

And then at 9.20, he says, I've been sitting here trying to find myself.

I said, what do you mean?

And he said, I am trying not not to admit the man that I am.

I said, you need to get some sleep, but I can't get past the things I've done and should have stopped a long time ago.

Often it seems to Jess, he's drunk or high when they're on the phone or texting.

I said, you didn't sleep last night.

Just sleep on it.

Nothing's going to change if you sleep aside from your state of mind.

And he said, she can't get away with this.

I can't live with this anymore.

And I said, she won't.

The police are on to her.

So is everybody else.

He said, I love you.

Thank you for all you've done.

And then late one night while sitting on the couch, she gets a call from Marty.

He was sitting outside Tolina's house and he was drunk and high.

And you could always tell when he was drunk.

He was slurry and just, I wondered how he had driven there, right?

I said, what are you doing?

And he said, I've got my AR and if she comes outside.

And I was like, get home.

Like,

you can't kill somebody.

Like, that's,

he goes, well, she killed my Tolina wife.

And I said, we know that.

Let's get the sheriffs.

Like, let's, let's do this.

You can't, you can't just kill somebody.

Like, that's not,

I know you're mad, but let's get her in trouble, right?

Let's call the police.

Let's get the sheriffs out there if you have something.

He goes, I know Selena's dead.

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It's May 11th, 2020, and Detective Joel Weber is at Talina and Corey's house once more.

This time, he's there to use a chemical called Blue Star Forensic Spray in the garage.

This spray causes blood to glow blue.

I'm sure you've seen it on TV shows.

Corey shows the officers into the garage and tells them that her dogs had recently peed on the concrete.

She'd attempted to clean it up using a combination of chemicals she had around the house.

Bleach, pine salt, lime powder, and kitty litter, the latter of which is sprinkled around the the garage floor, still visible to officers.

They get to spraying and the results are instantaneous.

The floor glows.

There's a large area in the center of the garage, maybe two feet, in the same place where some of the kitty litter is.

The visual is striking, but officers know it's not conclusive of anything.

Bleach is also known to make Blue Star react.

So for now, the officers take photos and samples of the floor to be tested for DNA.

A week later, Corey goes to the sheriff's office for her scheduled polygraph appointment.

She's volunteered for a lie detector test in an effort to help police rule her out as a suspect.

Hi,

I would shake your hand, but I'll give an elbow to you.

The polygraph is being administered by Scott Miller, who works for the Department of Public Safety.

This is a recreation of some of their interview.

I don't think this is a...

I don't think you're a suspect.

I think we're here to clear you, right?

Yeah.

To my knowledge, there's not even

a crime at this point.

What we are trying to do is just clear me from my end because I was the last person to see her, at least to see her in our residence i'm here on my own accord because

i've been through six weeks of grief and i just want the grief to end

miller attaches the instrument to her body there's a cuff on her arm to watch the dips and rises in her blood pressure two electrodes on her fingers to measure her pulse and sweat production, and two tubes wrapped around her chest to track changes in breathing.

Miller explains he's going to ask her a series of questions multiple times.

He instructs her to be truthful, except for one question where she's supposed to purposefully lie.

This helps the machine establish the way Corey's body reacts to deception.

The question she's supposed to lie about uses the phrase, quote, in your entire life.

Here we go.

This portion of the test is about to begin.

Please remain still.

Do you understand?

I will only ask you the questions we discussed.

Yes.

Regarding the questions about whether or not you harmed Talina, do you intend to answer each question truthfully?

Yes.

Are you now currently sitting down?

Yes.

In your entire life, have you ever told even one lie about something embarrassing?

No.

Since April 5th, have you participated in any harm of Tolina?

No.

Do you sometimes drink water?

Yes.

It goes on and on like this, with Miller repeating the questions.

Are the lights currently on in this room?

Yes.

In your entire life, have you ever told even one lie?

No.

Since April 5th, have you harmed Talina?

No.

Are you currently sitting down?

Yes.

In your entire life, have you even told one lie to someone who trusted you?

No.

Since April 5th, have you participated in any harming of Tolina?

No.

Do you sometimes drink water?

Yes.

In your entire life, have you ever told even one lie about something embarrassing?

No.

Do you know for sure who harmed Talina?

No.

They finish up.

By this point, Corey's been in the interview room for over three hours.

Miller reads through the results and he tells Corey they need to talk about what the machine found.

Yeah, so I've looked at it.

We've had three clean charts there at the end, but you were having problems on two of questions.

Which two?

Did you harm Tolina, and did you...

Do you know for sure who harmed Talina?

Those were two you had significant reactions to.

Really?

Yeah, so...

I wonder if...

I don't know, if,

you know, there are just so many scenarios that go through your mind.

I try and not think about things when I'm answering questions.

I don't know what else to say.

say.

I don't know.

The instrument here is, you know, it doesn't like you and it doesn't dislike you.

It just reads your body and tells me you were deceptive on those two questions.

When Corey doesn't offer any explanations, Miller gives her some hypothetical stories.

Maybe there was an argument, an accident?

Corey says no.

Maybe Talina wanted to end her life and someone helped her and maybe it wasn't even Corey.

Barring a stranger, if you suspected something like that happened, not the nefarious stuff, but helping someone out, who would be the people you would suspect the most?

I mean, Marty is the most obvious one.

I mean, everyone would say it's Marty.

And she adds, there was a recent rift between Marty and Telina.

You know, and the only animosity there towards the end is Marty.

Marty has had

a falling out this year because of

he was originally the executor for her estate and he was caught several times stealing meds or he almost got her car repossessed because he claimed it was his own on a bank loan

and then just a few other things where Talina came to me about a year and a half ago and said, I can't trust him.

Even so, Corey says she doesn't think Marty would hurt Talina.

Miller says the detectives will talk to him if they haven't already.

Their conversation wraps up.

He tells Corey that while she didn't do so well on the test, she's free to go.

Detective Weber will be in touch soon.

Lie detectors are unreliable.

In Oklahoma and many other places, they aren't allowed as evidence in court.

Mostly, cops use them as a tool to to get people to confess.

And Corey didn't, so they can't arrest her.

But then, Weber finds evidence that changes their whole understanding of the timeline of events.

And he presents that evidence to a judge in order to get a search warrant.

This investigation has been unable to locate anyone that spoke with Telina or saw her since the 27th of March, 2020.

She was going to gift that bed to us.

She was checking to see if we were were coming to get the bed this weekend.

Her and Chantel had been communicating throughout the day on Facebook.

Jana had signed off.

She was going to lay down for a while and said that she would chat with her later.

This leaves Tolina unaccounted for for a full 10 days before Corey says Talina left home.

That next morning, the 28th,

I got a message that said, abort mission.

I've got a terrible migraine.

I've been staying in bed today.

Abort mission.

I've got a terrible migraine.

I've been staying in bed today.

It has been discovered that Corey called in sick for Talina to work on Monday, March 30, 2020, and told them she would not be at work for the remainder of the week.

My weekend migraine developed into a fever last night, and it is currently hovering around

100.5.

Another recently obtained screenshot from Talina's Facebook page on March 30 shows Talina saying she called her doctor and was told to stay in bed and self-medicate.

I called my doctor and was told to stay in bed and stay hydrated and self-medicate and call back or go to the ER if my temp reaches

102.

We know this is untrue because of the information obtained while at the Wagner Community Hospital.

I think Oklahoma's medical system is stretched thin right now.

Stretched thin.

Subsequently, it was discovered there is no record that Talina ever went to the Wagner Community Hospital or was ever seen, even though Corey states she drove Talina there herself.

It is verified that the hospital documented everyone that was screened, including people that were not admitted to the hospital.

Those of you who know me well know why I have DNR orders in my health directive, and I'm not going to let anyone into pay me.

This investigation recently discovered internet usage on Talina's cellular phone stopped at 2 15 p.m on april 7th but the final facebook post on talena's account indicates she was quote almost there unquote at 3 15 p.m the same day didn't feel up to driving so i hired a ride i'm almost there

after i post this

i am turning off my phone This final post appears suspicious and unlikely to have come from Talina or her cellular phone.

Please respect my privacy and give me my alone time on the lake with Tom.

Probable cause exists that Corey fabricated a final Facebook post on Telina Galloway's account.

I didn't want to be talked out of this plan.

I'll catch up with everyone on the other side.

Given the numerous fabrications offered by Corey and areas of suspicion surrounding Corey,

I believe it is likely she was or has been involved in the disappearance of Talina Galloway.

I am thankful and grateful

that I do have someone watching out for me

and running the household.

Next time, on what happened to Talinazar,

things get wild in Wagner.

Out of instinct, I grabbed for my pistol that I did not have.

And Jess's investigation reaches a fever pitch.

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

And he said, I can't believe he figured it out.

What Happened to Tolina Czar is a production of iHeart podcast.

It's written, reported, and hosted by me, Melissa Jeltson.

With writing and story editing by Lauren Hansen, our executive producer is Ryan Murdoch.

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Fact-checking by Maya Shukri.

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Original music by Aaron Kaufman with additional music by Jeremy Thal and Gideon Crevichet.

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