Episode Transcript
We are not a family that is all up in each other's business.
Speaker 2We never have been.
Speaker 1We 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 lived her life, My brother lives his life.
Speaker 3It hasn't been easy to get people in Telena'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 Telina'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 Telena as Jenna, her birth name.
Speaker 1My sister kept a part of her life private from the family.
Tolena, I believe comes from that secret part of her life.
The secret part that we all knew was the secret part.
We just didn't know the details of the secret.
Speaker 3As you may recall, Telena was part of the Gorrian 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 of the dominant gender and women are naturally subservient.
For the better part of a decade, Tealina lived as a twenty four to seventh slave to her husband Tom or Master Csarius, doing whatever and acting however he wished in the bedroom and outside of it.
Speaker 4Gore was a world of slaves and beautiful women of human domination by the alien secret priest kings.
Speaker 5Did you have any sense of what the Sacred life was about, like?
Speaker 2Did you get the sense that it was like sex relating?
Speaker 1Yes, we kind of got it that it was something along that line.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 3Tolena was active online and her nieces were too.
They saw the types of things she posted, the term she used, and eventually worked out that Tolena was part of the BDSM community and that that identity was very important to her.
Speaker 2We figured it out through clues amongst us.
Speaker 1We didn't talk to her about it, and when I say if, I mean me and my mom and my three daughters, we.
Speaker 2Had figured out that that was the secret life.
Speaker 3One day, Cheryl heard her sister Jenna refer to herself as Toelena.
Speaker 1When I first hear think Tolena.
I'm like Colna, And I finally got up enough nerve to.
Speaker 2Just flat out ask her, you.
Speaker 1Know, where did Helena come from?
But how did you come about choosing that?
And she was very evasive about it.
Speaker 4And it was also the world of Telena, the tempestuous daughter of Bor's great warlord.
She waited for the man who could subdue her, the man who would be her master.
Speaker 3When Cheryl learned that Teleina legally changed her name, she was surprised to find out that she kept Jenna as her middle name.
Speaker 1To me, it spoke of the acknowledgment that she had chewed different identities.
She still identified that Jenna because Jenna was her.
Speaker 2Identity to family and then the Telena.
Speaker 1I think that was probably the first time I kind of really felt that the duality and her embrace of the duality.
Speaker 3We 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 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.
Speaker 2We thought we were respecting her privacy.
Speaker 1She 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 that.
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.
Speaker 3From iHeart Podcasts, I'm Melissa Jelson, and this is what happened to Tealinazar.
I just took it to me that if she passed away from COVID, she was at peace with it because she would be with Tom.
Speaker 6How well did I adapt to being property?
Well, that depends on whether you ask me or Master, Lol.
Speaker 7We both kind of a trust.
You become really vulnerable with me, he cry.
Speaker 8Just because they're missing doesn't mean anything.
Was the fairies?
So all of us wear masks?
Right?
Speaker 3Episode five?
If I go missing.
Speaker 1My birthday is November the fourth, and her birthday is November the third.
She was born one day before I was one years old, so we were raised.
Speaker 2A lot like almost like twin.
Speaker 3Tealina's sister, Cheryl, is now a fifty eight year old nurse who lives in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1We grew up in Blimmington, Indiana, and then when I was twelve, where she would have been eleven, 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.
He went to church and.
Speaker 2You went to Sunday school and those kinds of things.
Speaker 3Cheryl remembers to Lena as a shy kid, someone she felt she had to stand up for.
Speaker 2I remember getting in fight.
Speaker 1Growing 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.
Speaker 2I am only five foot tall and she was five.
At ten, he ended up being much colored than me.
Speaker 1But I was a big sister when we were really young, even though there's only a year was in our personalities.
Speaker 2Somehow she seemed to be.
Speaker 1A little more free spirited, whereas I was always like very cask oriented and goal oriented, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3As kids, Cheryl and Teleina 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 Lovic, but she never had any kids.
Instead, Talina played the auntie role with glee.
Speaker 2I had four kids and so many would be tight es.
Speaker 1Firstly, run Christmas con and you know, she always made sure my kids had Christmas.
Speaker 2That was one of her deals.
Speaker 1She would bring a whole van full of presence, you know, and that was a good relief to us.
Speaker 3Cheryl's kids loved to come visit Aunt Jana, where they were often spoiled.
Speaker 1Navid 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.
Speaker 3Talina's close relationship with her three nieces, Cherie, Chantal, and Chelsea continued into their adulthoods.
The girls all settled in the Indianapolis area, close to Teleina and most of their extended family.
Even after Teleina moved to Oklahoma, she made a point to visit frequently.
Speaker 1Jana came through Indiana every two three four months, three four times a year.
Speaker 3By twenty twenty, Cheryl and Telena 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 Tealina.
Teleina was especially close with Chantal, 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 Chantal are chatting like usual.
Speaker 1It just happened that her and Chantelle, my middle daughter, have been communicating throughout the day on Facebook, which is something they often did.
Speaker 3Then Telena messages Chantal that she has to go.
She's tired and has a headache.
Speaker 1She 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 didn't get an answer, did get an answer, She didn't contact Scherie, the oldest one, and she's telling SCHERI, I think something's wrong here.
Speaker 3Then on April seventh, Chantal sees Telena's Facebook post I'll.
Speaker 6Catch up with everyone on the other side now.
Speaker 1When they decided that they needed to tell the family that something was going.
Speaker 3On, Chantale tells her mom, there's no way Telena wrote the post.
She thinks someone else must have.
Speaker 2Well, what makes you think it's not Dianna?
Speaker 1She said, this was sloppy, not at all, not at all like anything Janna would have written or the way she'd have written it.
Speaker 2She was alarmed immediately.
Speaker 3Once the whole family is in the loop about Telena'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 twenty seventh, that's the day chantal was last Facebook messaging with her aunt.
Speaker 1And now we're up to near two weeks later.
My immediate gut response was this is not good.
Speaker 2I just knew this was not good.
Speaker 1Of all the crazy things my sister would do and flighty things and air brain things she might do, just totally dropping off the face of the earth, he is not one of them.
Speaker 3A few days later, the Wagner County Sheriff's Department calls to Lena's family and speaks to her mother and brother.
Speaker 1I did it, being probably close to two hour talk with the both of them, and it was the questions that she would normally expect.
Is there any place you can think of she might have gone, Are there any friends somewhere that she.
Speaker 2Might have gone to visit?
What would she normally do?
And of course wended you laugh talk career.
Speaker 3Tealina's family, who are spread out across multiple states, face a difficult question.
Should they go to Wagner, Oklahoma to look for Tealina themselves in the middle of COVID lockdowns?
Speaker 1You know, so we had to wrestle around, well do we stay here and wage did somebody go out there?
Speaker 2That was really hard and we were torn about it.
Speaker 3Even if they went, they didn't know where to start looking.
Talina had kept so much of her life their secret.
Speaker 1She 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.
Speaker 3Cheryl and her family knew of only one person in Wagner that Talina had ever mentioned.
Speaker 2She talked about Mario Pine.
She had one hundred pictures of Marthy and her food.
They were the best friends.
Speaker 8Day were so close.
Speaker 3But the last time they'd seen Teleina she told them that Marty was out of the picture.
Speaker 9And she says, Marty and I are not friends and I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2And like, oh, we've heard.
Speaker 9About 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.
Speaker 7I was questioning him as early as beginning of May.
Speaker 3This is Jess, our internet sleuth in Minnesota.
A few weeks into her own investigation.
She's also discovering that Telena 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.
Speaker 7I probably spent six plus hours a day on FaceTime or the phone with him or texting about what we knew, theories, who we'd talked to.
We talked about a lot of stuff.
I mean, some of our conversations weren't even about Telena.
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.
Speaker 3When Marty talks about his relationship with Telena, 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 Tolena's that Marty had allegedly stolen from Telena a few months before her disappearance.
Speaker 7I'd heard from Rachel that in December, Marty had stolen from Telena.
Telena didn't exactly tell her what kind of theft it was, but she had told Rachel that Marty was no longer welcome in her home.
Speaker 3Jess also suspects that Telena had been helping Marty out financially for a while.
Speaker 7My thoughts at the time were that he was taking advantage of Telena monetarily wise, because there was at one point where he said, I missed my Teleina 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 she would help him, quote unquote help him with.
Where I think his idea was help was her fully funding it.
Speaker 3As 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 Telena would sometimes pay his phone and water bills, even chip in for his meds.
Speaker 7He 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.
Speaker 3Things were messy between Marty and Telena.
But when I asked Jess about Marty and Tellina'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.
Speaker 7I don't know if she was willing to forgive him for whatever it happened, or maybe he had paid her back.
The 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 Tulina and Marty.
I don't feel as a reliable source anymore.
Speaker 3By the pandemic's start, it looks as though Corey, not Marty, had become the primary recipient of Toleina's generosity.
According to Jess's research, Corey was living free in Telena's home.
She used Toelena's cars to get around, and while she worked odd jobs, it was Toelena's steady paycheck that provided the household income.
It seems in those crucial months before Toelina's disappearance, the people in her close orbit were shifting places.
Marty Starr was fading and Corey's was ascending.
Speaker 7She did remove him from her will and change it to Corey.
Speaker 3I was able to get a hold of a copy of Telena's will.
Speaker 6I Telena Jenna 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 which may positions of the prophet mind may die.
If you want missing, I appoint Corey Bamile Adams to serve as the personal representative of my estate.
Speaker 3The sleuths feels certain that Corey had something to do with Telena's disappearance.
I mean, becoming the beneficiary of someone else's estate months before they go missing, that's motive one oh one.
They've also heard through the grapevine about Corey burning Telena'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.
Speaker 10He was like, I've been talking to Corey, trying to get Hurt to tell me what happened.
He said at one point he'd he's Ben drove by the house to see if he saw anything weird, and that ahead of Corey.
Speaker 3But the sleuths aren't sure if he's being entirely transparent about his relationship with Corey either.
Here's Rosie.
Speaker 5I felt like he would give us half truth and then backtrack on things, and some of the stories that he told me I couldn't verify in any sort of legal records anywhere.
He wanted us to believe him so much that it felt like he was hiding something.
Speaker 3And they're hearing rumors from other people in Wagner that contradict how Marty describes his relationship with Corey.
Speaker 5I 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.
Speaker 3Jess, as usual, cuts to the chase.
Speaker 7I questioned about why he played both sides of the fence with Team Telena 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.
Speaker 3Just suspects maybe they're in cahoots, maybe Marty's telling Corey everything they're telling him, And Jess tells him that too.
Speaker 7Anybody 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 or 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.
Speaker 5Because 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.
Speaker 3Jess 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 Telena.
Other times she gives fake backstories to gain access.
Speaker 7I lied to a lot of people, a lot friends of Telena's, friends of Marty's.
I mean, I just lied my way into their life.
I manipulated them.
Speaker 3Can you give some examples of like the kind of lies we're talking about, Well.
Speaker 7There's a lot, Oh, I know so and so, you know, I lie about who I knew, or I think I'm one of the things I had said.
I was a private investigator, which is a huge lie, but it's a lie none the less.
I told people that I got their information from a friend of a friend, when i'd actually like use an app online to get their information.
Speaker 3When 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 Tealina, saying she was her friend.
Over the year I spent reporting this story, I've tried to confirm every detail just told me.
In some cases I only have her account to rely on, but her version of events has held up.
I believe she's been honest about everything that transpired and when it reflected negatively on her, and she's been especially candid when talking about the personal toll of all of this.
Speaker 7The whole thing seemed kind of Sometimes I felt like I was in over my head.
Speaker 3Talina'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.
Speaker 7The days are becoming blurred.
I talk too much to too many people.
All I wanted was to find a missing woman.
Want I ended up with with 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?
Speaker 3More than just her time and energy has just 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 Gorrian master she'd reached out to.
Speaker 7He sent me his id and a knife and called me a Gorrian slave and said he was going to come get me.
Speaker 3Another 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, just decides to take some precautions.
She gets a concealed Carrie permit and a gun based on advice she finds online.
Justin 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.
Speaker 5Like 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 miss, saying 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.
Speaker 3Whatever reservations just 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.
Speaker 2Were you scared at all?
Did you feel like?
Speaker 3What have I What kind of characters have I gotten myself involved with?
Speaker 10No?
Speaker 7Hmm, 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.
Speaker 3They're all waiting for something to happen, for an arrest, for a bit break in the case, for Telena to be found alive or dead.
Meanwhile, Jess continues her daily, no hourly check ins with Marty, who's growing more erratic and confused.
Speaker 7And then at nine point twenty, he says, I've been sitting here trying to find myself.
I said, what do you mean, and he said, I am trying 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.
Speaker 3Often it seems to Jess he's drunk or high when they're on the phone or texting.
Speaker 7I 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 onto her, so is everybody else.
He said, I love you, thank you for all you've done.
Speaker 3And then late one night, while sitting on the couch, she gets a call from Marty.
Speaker 7He was sitting outside Telena'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.
You can't kill somebody like that's He goes, well, she killed my Teleina wife.
And I said, if you 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 dating.
Speaker 3It's male eventh twenty twenty and Detective Joel Webber is at Telena 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 soal, lime powder, and kitty litter, the ladder of which is sprinkled around 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, where he 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.
Speaker 11I I would shake your hand, but I'll give an elbow to you.
Speaker 3The polygraph is being administered by Scott Miller, who works for the Department of Public Safety.
This is a recreation of some of their interview.
Speaker 8I don't think this is a I don't think you're a suspect.
I think we're here to clear you, right.
Speaker 11Yeah, 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.
Speaker 3Miller 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.
Speaker 8Here 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 Telena, do you intend to answer each question truthfully?
Yes?
Are you now currently sitting down?
Speaker 2Yes?
Speaker 8In your entire life?
Have you ever told even one lie about something embarrassing?
No?
Since April fifth, have you participated in any harm of Teleina?
Speaker 10No?
Speaker 8Do you sometimes drink water?
Yes?
Speaker 3It goes on and on like this, with Miller repeating the questions.
Speaker 8Are the lights currently on in this room?
Yes?
In your entire life, have you ever told even one lie?
Speaker 10No?
Speaker 8Since April fifth, have you harmed Telena?
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 fifth, have you participated in any harm and of Teleina?
No?
Do you sometimes drink water?
Yes?
In your entire life?
Have you ever told even one lie about something embarrassing?
Speaker 5No?
Speaker 8Do you know for sure who harmed Telena?
No?
Speaker 3They 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.
Speaker 8Yeah.
So, I've looked at it.
We've had three clean charts there at the end, but you were having problems on two of the questions, which two?
Did you harm Telena?
And did you do you know for sure who harmed Telena?
Those were two you had significant reactions to.
Speaker 11Really, 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.
Speaker 2I don't know what else to say.
Speaker 8I don't know the answerment here is, you know what, 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.
Speaker 3When Corey doesn't offer any explanations, Miller gives her some hypothetical stories.
Maybe there was an argument, an accident.
Corey says, no, Maybe Toelina wanted to end her life and someone helped her.
And maybe it wasn't even.
Speaker 8Corey barn 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.
Speaker 11I mean, Marty is the most obvious one.
I mean everyone would say it's Marty.
Speaker 3And she adds there was a recent rift between Marty and Telena, you.
Speaker 11Know, and the only animosity there towards the end is Marty.
Marty has had had a falling out this year because of he was originally the executor for her estate, and he was called several times stealing meds or he almost got a her car repossessed because he claimed it was his own on a bank loan, and then just a few other things where Telena came to me about year and a half ago and said, I can't trust him.
Speaker 3Even so, Corey says she doesn't think Marty would hurt Toe.
Lena 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 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.
Speaker 12This investigation has been unable to locate anyone that spoke with Telena or saw her since the twenty seventh of March twenty twenty.
Speaker 2She was going to get that bed to us.
Speaker 12She was checking to see.
Speaker 2If we're coming to get the best this weekend.
Speaker 1Her and Chantel had been communicating throughout the day on face that Jana had signed off.
Speaker 2She was going to lay down for a while and said that she would chat with her later.
Speaker 12This leaves to Lena unaccounted for for a full ten days before Corey says to Lena left home.
Speaker 7That next morning, the twenty eighth, I got a message that said, abort mission.
Speaker 2I've got a terrible migraine.
I'm saying in bed.
Speaker 6Today, abort mission.
I've got a terrible migraine.
I've been staying in bed today, bed today.
Speaker 12It has been discovered that Corey called in sick for Toelena to work on Monday, March thirty, twenty twenty, and told them she would not be at work for the remainder of the week.
Speaker 6My weekend migraine developed into a fever last night and it is currently hovering around around one hundred point five.
Speaker 12Another recently obtained screenshot from Telena's Facebook page on March thirty shows Talina saying she called her doctor and was told to stay in bed and self medicate.
Speaker 8I called my.
Speaker 6Doctor and was told to stay in bed and stay hydrated and self.
Speaker 2Medicate and call back or go to the er if my temper reaches is one o two.
Speaker 12We know this is untrue because of the information obtained while at the Wagner Community Hospital.
Speaker 6I think Oklahoma's medical artistet has stretched sin right now.
Speaker 7Stretched thin.
Speaker 12Subsequently, it was discovered there is no record that Telena ever went to the Wagner Community Hospital or was ever seen, even though Corey states she drove to Lena there herself.
It is verified that the hospital documented everyone that was screened, including people that were not admitted to the hospital.
Speaker 6Those of you who know me well know why I have DNR orders and my health directive, and I'm not going to let anyone into be any.
Speaker 12This investigation recently discovered Internet usage on Telena's cellular phone stopped at two fifteen pm on April seven, but the final Facebook post on Telena's account indicates she was quote almost there unquote at three point fifteen pm the same day.
Speaker 2Didn't feel up to driving, so hired a ride.
I'm almost there.
After I post this, I am turning off my phone.
Speaker 12This final post appears suspicious and unlikely to have come from Telena or her cellular phone.
Speaker 11Please respect my privacy and give me my alone time on the link with Tom.
Speaker 12Probable cause exists that Corey fabricated a final Facebook post on Telena Galloway's account.
Speaker 2I didn't want to be talked out of this plan.
Speaker 6I'll catch up with everyone on the other side.
Speaker 12Given 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 Telena Galloway.
Speaker 11I am thankful and green rateful that I do have someone watching out for me.
Speaker 2And running the household.
Speaker 3Next time on What Happened to Telenazar, things get wild in Wagner.
Speaker 2Out of instinct, I grabbed for my pistol, but I.
Speaker 3Did not have, and Jess's investigation reaches a fever pitch.
Speaker 7One of the last conversations Wolfe and I had had he was extremely drunken high and he's I can't believe you figured it out.
Speaker 3What Happened to Tealinazar is a production of iHeart Podcasts.
It's written, reported, and hosted by me Melissa Jelson, with writing and story editing by Lauren Hansen.
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