What Happened to Talina Zar — TRAILER
It’s April 2020 and the world is locked down. In Oklahoma, a woman named Talina Zar posts a chilling message on Facebook: she’s sick with COVID and heading to a remote lake, alone — to recover, or to die. Then, she vanishes. As days turn into weeks, strangers online — true crime obsessives with time to kill and nowhere to go — begin digging into her disappearance. What they uncover is something far stranger, and far more disturbing, than they could’ve ever imagined.. In Season Three of What Happened To…, investigative journalist Melissa Jeltsen unravels a mystery born from isolation, obsession, and a pandemic that made everyone feel like a potential suspect.
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Hey everyone, I'm on day nine of this virus and I am pretty sure it has reached my lungs.
It's April 2020.
The brand new coronavirus is upending life as we know it.
I made the decision at the onset that if it got bad enough, I would not go to the hospital.
And this Facebook post by a woman in a small town in Oklahoma sends shockwaves through the internet.
I didn't want to be talked out of this plan.
After I post this, I am turning off my phone.
I'll catch up with everyone on the other side.
The woman is named Talina Zar.
And after the post, she disappears.
Has anybody seen Talena?
Has anybody heard from Telena?
And there was nothing.
Nothing.
Some of her friends think maybe she lost the will to live.
People can be consumed with grease at different times.
Others aren't so sure.
I kept just kind of asking everybody, anyone else think this is strange?
Pretty quickly, the internet brings together a ragtag group of women across the country, bored true crime obsessives, looking for meaning in an upside-down world.
You'll notice that about me.
I don't lurk.
I'm out there.
I'm an action kind of girl.
It felt like I was living out one of like my fantasy dreams of being a detective.
They soon become entangled in the lives of total strangers.
I lied to a lot of people.
A lot.
And the world they uncover is beyond their wildest imagination.
I was like, this is, this is crazy.
I'm Melissa Geltson.
Join me on season three, What Happened to Talina Czar for a story that upended a community.
Little town had their skeleton.
I mean, they're not without.
Exposed secrets that could no longer stay hidden.
No one wanted to talk about anything.
And revealed just how far some people might go to find the truth.
He said, I've got my AR, and if she comes outside, and I was like, you can't kill somebody.
It's a story whose final chapter has yet to be written.
Two trials in two different states are set to take place as this season unfolds.
You're not going to solve it online.
Nobody's going to find her on Facebook.
I just had to know
how did this happen.
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