What happened to Arizona teen Alissa Turney, who disappeared in 2001?
Alissa Turney was believed to be another teen runaway. A killer's false confession led authorities to take a closer look. When Michael Turney reported his 17-year-old stepdaughter Alissa Turney missing in May 2001, Phoenix police believed she was a rebellious runaway. There was a note in her room saying she was headed to California, and her friends and siblings said she was weary of her stepfather’s overly strict rules and couldn’t wait to turn 18 and be on her own. Then, in 2006, the case went from a presumed runaway to a possible homicide. A convicted murderer in Florida, Thomas Hymer, claimed to be a serial killer and seemingly confessed to killing Alissa. Investigators found his claims of being a serial killer and the confession to be false, but it resulted in two Phoenix detectives taking a closer look at the teen’s disappearance. It wasn’t long before they began to suspect something wasn’t adding up, and they turned their attention to Michael Turney as a possible suspect. Tur...