![]() ![]() When he returned later with Sarah, Alissa Turney had vanished. In his telling, he returned her to the family home around 1 p.m., then left to run errands. He claimed that he took her out to lunch to celebrate the end of her junior year but that he and Alissa had fought. Michael acknowledged that he’d taken Alissa out of school that day. ![]() “On that day she poked her head into her boyfriend’s woodworking class at Paradise Valley High School and said her stepfather was taking her out of school early,” the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office later explained. Sarah Turney Alissa Turney turned 17 only a month before she disappeared.īut then, on May 17, 2001, the last day of the school year, Alissa Turney vanished. An average student, she had a boyfriend, a part-time job at Jack-In-The-Box, and dreams beyond her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. Her four older brothers had moved out of the house, and Alissa still lived at home with Michael and her little sister, Sarah. She had grown up in a blended family under the care of Michael Turney, her stepfather, who’d adopted her when her mother died from lung cancer.īy 2001, Alissa was a junior in high school. The Strange Disappearance Of Alissa Turneyīorn on April 3, 1984, Alissa Marie Turney lived an outwardly typical life. And in 2020, police charged Michael Turney with her murder. It soon became apparent that Alissa Turney had not merely disappeared. Suspicious that he had hurt Alissa, Sarah began to build a case against her own father on social media. He monitored her phone calls, set up home surveillance cameras, and even filmed her while she was at work. Michael Turney had always kept an abnormally close eye on Alissa, his stepdaughter. But then, Sarah thought more about her dad. The police found it credible and considered her another teenage runaway in Phoenix. When she vanished, her father showed Sarah a note purportedly written by Alissa saying she was going to California. ![]() Years after Alissa Turney’s disappearance on the last day of her junior year of high school in 2001, her sister Sarah wondered if she’d done more than simply run away from home as her father, Michael Turney, and the police believed. Maricopa County Attorney’s Office Alissa Turney was a junior in high school when she vanished in 2001. ![]()
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