Speaker 1: Background.
Speaker 2: My roommate, Tea, has been missing since April, and I
Speaker 2: have been law enforcement's target since the beginning, thanks to
Speaker 2: a vindictive X and a disgruntled friend excluded from the will.
Speaker 3: In the summer of twenty twenty, Corey Bamley sets up
Speaker 3: a gofund me page to raise money for her legal fees,
Speaker 3: with a goal of twelve thousand dollars. In her post,
Speaker 3: Corey refers to Teleina as Tea.
Speaker 2: Tea has been suicidal for a couple years, had pre
Speaker 2: planned and pre paid for her own funeral, and repeatedly
Speaker 2: told those closest to her that she intended to carry
Speaker 2: out her final wishes in June twenty twenty. In April,
Speaker 2: she was convinced she'd contracted COVID nineteen, and I believe
Speaker 2: she accelerated her plans and left for a destination unknown
Speaker 2: to everyone but herself.
Speaker 3: If you left me in charge of home.
Speaker 2: Finances and pets, but I cannot honor her wishes while
Speaker 2: she remains missing no death certificate. Local law enforcement has
Speaker 2: targeted me based on malicious leads and a desire to
Speaker 2: close a case, regardless of the facts. This law enforcement
Speaker 2: agency has a bad reputation for this type of unprofessional behavior,
Speaker 2: and my legal representation is essential but draining me financially.
Speaker 2: If you are able to help in any way, it
Speaker 2: will not only be greatly appreciated, but it will be
Speaker 2: remembered once I've been vindicated. Smiley face.
Speaker 3: From iHeart Podcasts. I'm Melissa Jelson and this is what
Speaker 3: happened to Telenazar.
Speaker 1: The first thing I would say was how's your roommate going?
Speaker 1: And she always answered the best I've ever had.
Speaker 2: There's still part of me thinking that maybe someone will
Speaker 2: just call and say she's sick. Somewhere.
Speaker 4: He goes, well, she killed my Telena wife, And I said,
Speaker 4: if you know that, let's get the sheriffs.
Speaker 5: Just because they're missing doesn't mean anything was nefarious.
Speaker 4: I was angry with her. I was just on a
Speaker 4: mission to take her down.
Speaker 6: I wasn't scared.
Speaker 3: Episode six, One Step Ahead. It's May twenty eighth, twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: about two months since Telena disappeared. The Wagner County Sheriff's
Speaker 3: Office now believes that her roommate, Corey Baumerly was involved,
Speaker 3: and with a search warrant in hand, they go looking
Speaker 3: for the evidence to prove it. A team of detectives
Speaker 3: and deputies roll up on announced to Toelena and Corey's house.
Speaker 3: Detective Weber has been inside before with Corey's blessing. This
Speaker 3: time is different.
Speaker 5: When I told her that I had a search warrant
Speaker 5: was coming inside the house, she instantly her demeanor changed.
Speaker 5: She appeared to go kind of pale and began shaking
Speaker 5: real bad.
Speaker 3: Corey comes outside to meet the detectives, says she has
Speaker 3: a lawyer and will no longer be speaking to them,
Speaker 3: but that's not how this works. They show her the
Speaker 3: search warrant. She has no choice but to let them in.
Speaker 5: To get back in, she needed either a fingerprint on
Speaker 5: her doorknob or a code. She tried her fingerprint several
Speaker 5: times and it wouldn't unlock for her because her fingers
Speaker 5: wouldn't go into the fingerprint reader.
Speaker 1: She was trampling so bad. She had to try the
Speaker 1: code several times to get it unlocked.
Speaker 3: Inside the house, the deputies fan out. Weber explains what
Speaker 3: they're looking for, phones, computers, and asks Corey to locate them.
Speaker 1: I asked her where her phone was.
Speaker 5: We walked to the kitchen where she had her cell
Speaker 5: phone hidden inside a saucepan in a lower cabinet drawer.
Speaker 3: As for computers, Corey says she has none, so Weber
Speaker 3: goes hunting himself.
Speaker 5: Corey had placed two of her dogs in the bathroom
Speaker 5: of the master bedroom.
Speaker 1: I thought this was odd, given that.
Speaker 5: There was plenty of room in the yard for them,
Speaker 5: and she had kennels in the garage.
Speaker 1: I went into this bathroom.
Speaker 5: And found a tower computer hidden underclothing in the bathroom closet.
Speaker 5: I also located another laptop computer in the front bedroom closet.
Speaker 3: Corey seems on edge as Weber continues to search the house.
Speaker 3: He keeps an eye on her, and at one point
Speaker 3: sees her walk outside into the backyard.
Speaker 5: She appeared to walk slowly toward the northwest corner of
Speaker 5: the yard while scanning her head back and forth.
Speaker 1: It appeared she was looking for something.
Speaker 3: Intrigued by this, Weber retraces Corey's steps, goes to the
Speaker 3: same corner of the yard and doesn't notice anything in particular,
Speaker 3: but a little ways off, a fire pit catches Weber's eye.
Speaker 3: Up close, he finds burnt and melted remnants of a mattress.
Speaker 3: Corey burned it because of feed. He called her too.
Speaker 3: Weber takes some photos to document the scene. Back at
Speaker 3: the station. Digging into Corey's phone, the police finds something
Speaker 3: ominous Internet searches for how to remove blood from cement
Speaker 3: and how to moved blood from wood. They also find
Speaker 3: a photo of Corey's white cargo trailer. For weeks, sheriffs
Speaker 3: have been trying to locate this trailer. They think it
Speaker 3: might be key to understanding what happened to Telena, seeing
Speaker 3: as it seemed to disappear not too long after she did.
Speaker 3: When Detective Weber asked Corey about it on May ninth,
Speaker 3: she said she'd sold it earlier for one thousand bucks.
Speaker 5: It was there one day, and now it's not what's
Speaker 5: a trailer got to do with?
Speaker 1: It was mine, it wasn't Telena's, so okay.
Speaker 3: However, looking at the photo on Corey's phone, officers can
Speaker 3: tell that she took the picture on May tenth, a
Speaker 3: day after a meeting with Weber, meaning she lied again.
Speaker 3: But they still don't know where the trailer is. There
Speaker 3: had been at least one siding of it, though I.
Speaker 7: Told him that I had all that trailer over at
Speaker 7: Billy's Shields.
Speaker 3: Plave, Greg tells police during an interview that he saw
Speaker 3: the trailer on the property of Billy Shields, a neighbor
Speaker 3: who often cleaned Telena and Corey's house.
Speaker 7: We were going to a place to go pick up
Speaker 7: a pizza, and we drove by and saw that trailer.
Speaker 7: Spit made. It was plugged into an extension cord, Like
Speaker 7: there's an extension, like an orange extension cord going into
Speaker 7: the back of this trailer. And I thought, well, that's weird.
Speaker 7: Why would Corey have that over here, especially plugged in.
Speaker 7: She has her own house that she can plug it
Speaker 7: in over there.
Speaker 3: Greg had been characteristically candid with the police, telling them
Speaker 3: all about how he got rid of Telena's bed frame
Speaker 3: at Corey's request. He had voluntarily gone down to the station,
Speaker 3: but still it was intimidating being questioned about a missing person.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was the first time I'd ever been interviewed
Speaker 7: by Shaf's deputies like that. They had had a couple
Speaker 7: of people of interest, and I believe I was one
Speaker 7: of them. And I just sat down and just started
Speaker 7: the story and told him in there and they're looking
Speaker 7: at me, and I didn't really know what what to
Speaker 7: say or do.
Speaker 3: Greg continued to share information with the cops as they
Speaker 3: requested it. At one point, they asked him to verify
Speaker 3: the layout of Teleina and Corey's house. Who slept where.
Speaker 7: When they showed me pictures of the house, I said,
Speaker 7: that wasn't the bedroom that Telena stayed in.
Speaker 3: Corey had told police that Teleina slept in the front room,
Speaker 3: but Greg explained that Teleina's bedroom was actually in the
Speaker 3: back of the house, and looking at the photos, he
Speaker 3: saw that Telena's room had been totally disassembled.
Speaker 7: Corey had taken all of all of her stuff and
Speaker 7: put captain there, and I had seen the cats. I'm
Speaker 7: what the hell is this? Delena didn't let cats in
Speaker 7: the house. I felt like at that point, you know,
Speaker 7: she was trying to cover up a crime scene by
Speaker 7: putting all that cats. And they weren't clean. They were thinky, nasty,
Speaker 7: fishing and pooping everywhere. Cats. You know, I felt like
Speaker 7: she's covering something up.
Speaker 5: Grag told us Telena slept on the bed in the
Speaker 5: back bedroom on the left. This was extremely significant information
Speaker 5: because Corey lied during interviews and during the tour of
Speaker 5: the residents. She told us Telena slept in the front
Speaker 5: bedroom on the left. And the back bedroom was the
Speaker 5: TV room. This indicates Corey quickly completely rearranged the two
Speaker 5: bedrooms after burning the mattress. This also indicates that there
Speaker 5: was something very significant about this mattress.
Speaker 3: With all this new information, the investigation goes into hyperdrive.
Speaker 3: The detectives tracked down two storage units that Corey rented
Speaker 3: in two separate parts of the state, and after getting
Speaker 3: more search warrants for the units, they find a backpack
Speaker 3: containing two guns and a driver's license chopped up into
Speaker 3: little bits. Methodically putting the pieces back together, a picture
Speaker 3: emerges of a dark haired woman with a fixed gaze
Speaker 3: and her name Telena Janna Galloway.
Speaker 5: During the execution of multiple search warrants, evidence showed Corey
Speaker 5: cut up Toelena's driver's license and was hiding it in
Speaker 5: the storage unit.
Speaker 3: A week or so later, the Sheriff's office is back
Speaker 3: at Telena and Corey's house, this time with a search
Speaker 3: warrant that gives them free rein to take anything that
Speaker 3: could be evidence of a crime. They use that blue
Speaker 3: Star chemical in the room that is actually Tolena's, the
Speaker 3: one at the back of the house that had been
Speaker 3: turned into the cat room, and the floor glows just
Speaker 3: like the garage did. Elsewhere, officers find two more firearms,
Speaker 3: bringing the grand total to four.
Speaker 5: A subsequent interview in Search Warren of the victim's residence
Speaker 5: produced a firearm and the defendant's possession that she claimed
Speaker 5: the victim took with her when she left.
Speaker 3: Because Corey is a convicted felon, police are able to
Speaker 3: arrest her on the spot for possession of a firearm.
Speaker 5: She was handcuffed to and arrested and taken to Wagner
Speaker 5: County Jail.
Speaker 4: When I found out she was arrested, I was super excited,
Speaker 4: like maybe they got her, maybe they found something. Because
Speaker 4: we didn't know right away what she had been arrested for.
Speaker 4: We're all kind of connecting through conference calls from each
Speaker 4: person trying to figure out did you hear anything to
Speaker 4: do here, kind of talking to the neighbors.
Speaker 3: The sluts soon learn Corey is facing more than a
Speaker 3: dozen charges, including possession of a firearm as a felon,
Speaker 3: destroying evidence, and obstructing a criminal investigation, but not any
Speaker 3: charges directly related to Toleina's disappearance without a body the
Speaker 3: police or hamstrung still Jess and the other online sleuths
Speaker 3: take it as a win.
Speaker 4: It's like, Okay, maybe we're gonna have some answers, maybe
Speaker 4: they know something. It was a super exciting time for everybody.
Speaker 4: I think most people involved were like finally, as.
Speaker 3: The online sleuths celebrate, Jess notices that Marty is dealing
Speaker 3: with Corey's arrest differently.
Speaker 4: The only person who wasn't super excited and see more
Speaker 4: pissed off was Marty. He was he was pissed, but
Speaker 4: he was excited, but he was more angry about the situation.
Speaker 3: Corey's first night in jail, Jess gets a call. It's Marty.
Speaker 3: He tells her that he'd gone into Toleina's empty house.
Speaker 4: He told me that when he went in, he saw
Speaker 4: the will sitting on the counter. He saw Telena's will,
Speaker 4: and he had seen that Corey had circled and highlighted
Speaker 4: things about who's getting what and how she's trying to
Speaker 4: take everything and run. And he had this whole long
Speaker 4: story about how he'd been completely cut out and he
Speaker 4: was furious. And then he said he went to the
Speaker 4: garage and he took the chainsaw and pawned it because
Speaker 4: he needed to get some money to pay for a prescription.
Speaker 3: The way Marty's acting plants a little seed that maybe
Speaker 3: he was involved in some way.
Speaker 4: Something about that whole situation turned me off. Alarm bells
Speaker 4: were kind of in my head, not enough for me
Speaker 4: to accuse him of anything, but just enough in the
Speaker 4: back of my head to say, this isn't right.
Speaker 3: By this point, Jess is no stranger to the Wagner
Speaker 3: County Sheriff's office. She's called in tips many times, but
Speaker 3: this is the first time she calls in to report Marty,
Speaker 3: someone she considers a front.
Speaker 4: I'd said, hey, something about this made me feel weird.
Speaker 4: He broke into this house and he took the chainsaw,
Speaker 4: and we don't know where Teleina is and Corey's in jail,
Speaker 4: and the whole thing just seems weird, Like it seemed weird.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: The rustic house nestled in the trees used to be
Speaker 3: full of life, first Tolena and her husband Tom, then
Speaker 3: just to Lena, then Teleina and Corey, and for a
Speaker 3: little while just Corey and now no one except for
Speaker 3: a huge collection of animals, from donkeys to cats to
Speaker 3: many many dogs.
Speaker 8: She had like seven or eight dogs. Three were like
Speaker 8: pitball box and mixes that she kept in the backyard.
Speaker 8: And then there was a Bassett Hound and a chihuahua,
Speaker 8: and then there was Calena's a little dog, and then
Speaker 8: there was like three or four other dogs of Cory's.
Speaker 3: This is Rachel Parker, one of Helena's friends who lived nearby.
Speaker 1: And an animal advocate.
Speaker 8: I'm not going to sit down here and listen about
Speaker 8: these animals dying because they're not getting fed or what not.
Speaker 8: Her house sitter had reached out to me about the dogs,
Speaker 8: all of the dogs that were down there, and she's like,
Speaker 8: you know, Corey is in jail, can you come help
Speaker 8: me take care of these dogs.
Speaker 3: Rachel asks Greg to come with her.
Speaker 7: Rachel, you know, being the dog weaver that she is,
Speaker 7: and I mean, she wants to rescue every dog if possible.
Speaker 7: So we go over to Helena's house to see about
Speaker 7: these dogs. We hadn't talked to anybody to get permission
Speaker 7: from anybody. Rachel just knew felt like she knew Telena,
Speaker 7: and I felt like I knew them well enough that
Speaker 7: we could just pop over there and see what's up
Speaker 7: with the dogs.
Speaker 3: Pulling up to Corey's house, they noticed a U Haul
Speaker 3: trailer in the driveway. It's not Cory's white trailer, the
Speaker 3: one that police have been hunting. It's a different rented trailer.
Speaker 3: But being armchair detectives, they're curious and decide to open it.
Speaker 7: And I slung open the door and me and Rachel
Speaker 7: standing there, and she goes, oh my god, this thing
Speaker 7: sounds like Beth And I'm like, I know, it looks clean,
Speaker 7: but it just thinks, I mean, like somebody had packed
Speaker 7: dead fish in this thing or something and left it
Speaker 7: in the sun.
Speaker 8: Maybe there was nothing, you know, overtly unclean or anything
Speaker 8: about it. When we opened it up, there was just
Speaker 8: a really, really bad smell.
Speaker 7: I wondered, you know, if I should go ahead and
Speaker 7: call the U haul people and tell them where it's at,
Speaker 7: because Cory, the person that had rented it, was in jail.
Speaker 1: But we didn't.
Speaker 7: We left it all alone.
Speaker 3: Undeterred, they head into the garage.
Speaker 8: There were dog crates and stuff in the garage, and
Speaker 8: there was a pile of boxes and other bits and
Speaker 8: bobs in there. She had literally gone through and painted
Speaker 8: the floor around these areas. And I looked at that,
Speaker 8: and I said to Greg, that odd looking And we
Speaker 8: just kind of looked at each other.
Speaker 3: There's fresh gray paint on the garage floor, applied in
Speaker 3: a haphazard pattern. There's even a wet looking roller sitting
Speaker 3: in a tray of paint.
Speaker 8: Not like somebody had decided to paint their garage or whatnot.
Speaker 8: They're going to move everything out. She just painted around everything.
Speaker 8: It was just really weird. I mean, by then we
Speaker 8: all kind of had a suspicion that something bad had happened.
Speaker 3: They keep going in the house, Rachel notices something that
Speaker 3: isn't there.
Speaker 8: When we got to the kitchen, we noticed the freezer
Speaker 8: was not the freezer used to I think at one
Speaker 8: point it was in the garage, and then it was
Speaker 8: in the kitchen. Well it wasn't there.
Speaker 7: Jay wasn't meet and said, you guys should go ahead
Speaker 7: and take it. Our freezer is stuffed.
Speaker 6: Full of meat.
Speaker 3: Rachel is so struck by the missing freezer that she
Speaker 3: mentions it to a few other people, and as it does,
Speaker 3: news gets back to the sleuths.
Speaker 4: When we found out the freezer was missing from the garage,
Speaker 4: it was like how the hell, Like, how did she
Speaker 4: get rid of this freezer? Get it out of here,
Speaker 4: and then get arrested. It just seemed unreal. How the
Speaker 4: hell did the police miss it.
Speaker 3: Over the next few days, Rachel continues to feed the
Speaker 3: animals and begins the process of rehoming them. On one visit,
Speaker 3: she runs into another person, Billy Shields to Lena and
Speaker 3: Corey's housekeeper.
Speaker 8: I came in through the back gate and walk into
Speaker 8: the garage from the door into the kitchen, and she
Speaker 8: turned around and looked at me, and she just went white.
Speaker 8: Because Telena and I were very similar in looks and
Speaker 8: body structure in the whole nine yard. And she looked
Speaker 8: at me and she just started crying. She said, I
Speaker 8: thought you were Toelena. She said, you walked.
Speaker 1: Into the door.
Speaker 8: I swear to God, I thought you were Telena, And
Speaker 8: I mean she started crying, and do did I. We
Speaker 8: all knew at that point that something had happened.
Speaker 7: We didn't know what I think. In a day or two,
Speaker 7: Rachel ended up getting all of the dogs out of there.
Speaker 8: A couple of days after we moved the dogs. I
Speaker 8: was at work, Greg was over here at my house
Speaker 8: taking care of my dogs.
Speaker 7: I just happened to be over at Rachel's house letting
Speaker 7: her dogs out and Corey pulls up behind me.
Speaker 8: Fortunately, I have cameras all around my property and I
Speaker 8: saw what was going on. She pulled up behind him
Speaker 8: at my gate and kind of locked him into my
Speaker 8: into my driveway.
Speaker 7: She's completely blindsided me. I was closing the gate, walking
Speaker 7: up to the truck, pulled the truck door open, and
Speaker 7: she's walking around my truck. And I thought she was
Speaker 7: still in jail.
Speaker 1: And normally I carry it.
Speaker 7: Again, I mean, I've been in concealed carries for a
Speaker 7: long long time, and I would I had my pistol
Speaker 7: on me normally, out of instinct, I grabbed for my pistol,
Speaker 7: but I did not have and she just said where's
Speaker 7: my dog? And I'm like, I don't have them? And
Speaker 7: she goes, does Rachel have them?
Speaker 9: I said no, and she goes, did they get adopted immediately?
Speaker 9: And I said yes, And she turned around and got
Speaker 9: back in the car and left.
Speaker 3: Less than a week after her arrest, Corey is released
Speaker 3: on bond. News of this travels fast. Chantal Tolina's niece
Speaker 3: posts an announcement online which we've recreated.
Speaker 6: Corey got out of jail this afternoon. Everyone please be
Speaker 6: on alert. I don't want her to hurt anyone else.
Speaker 6: I fear for everyone who has helped in the investigation
Speaker 6: or spoken out about her. Please just all keep your
Speaker 6: eyes open.
Speaker 3: Jess gets a one line text from Marty.
Speaker 1: Hey, sweetheart, the fucking cunt got out.
Speaker 4: We thought she was going to get in a lot
Speaker 4: more trouble with the guns because she's a felon. I
Speaker 4: know a lot of police officers and sheriffs, and like,
Speaker 4: we know how important it is for pellons TB guns,
Speaker 4: especially here. I guess I don't know about Oklahoma, but
Speaker 4: it's a huge deal. Bones cannot carry firearms. We were
Speaker 4: looking up the penalties and it's like fifteen years per charge,
Speaker 4: and I was like, well, hell, we've got her on
Speaker 4: thirty years right there. We can be done and haven't
Speaker 4: gonna let her out.
Speaker 8: I was like, what the.
Speaker 4: Hell it's going on here? We thought we thought we
Speaker 4: had her.
Speaker 3: The sleuths are worried that the police aren't moving fast enough,
Speaker 3: or more accurately, that Corey is moving faster.
Speaker 4: It always felt like she was one step ahead of
Speaker 4: them and us no matter what. I didn't really understand
Speaker 4: how police worked and gathering their evidence and what they
Speaker 4: actually needed in order to arrest her.
Speaker 3: With law enforcement seemingly unable to hold Corey accountable, just
Speaker 3: starts to feel like it's up to her. If justice
Speaker 3: is going to be served, she may have to be
Speaker 3: the one to deliver it. But she's far away, so
Speaker 3: she deputizes Marty. She asks him to drive by the
Speaker 3: house and observe what's going on, and even to go
Speaker 3: through the trash after Corey puts it on the curb.
Speaker 3: It's a way for Jess to build her case against Corey,
Speaker 3: but it's also a kind of litmus test for Marty.
Speaker 3: After all, Jess is convinced that Corey didn't act alone.
Speaker 4: I'm saying, hey, I think somebody helped her, and he's like, no,
Speaker 4: she's super strong. He didn't want me to think the
Speaker 4: accomplished theory.
Speaker 3: In the days after Corey's release from jail, Jess notices
Speaker 3: that Marty's often agitated and upset, quick to turn on her.
Speaker 4: He'd get pissy that I didn't answer my phone, or well,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna call Rosie or I'll call Nicole. It's
Speaker 4: like call him, I don't know, sounds good.
Speaker 3: At one point, Marty tells Jess that Corey's been driving
Speaker 3: by his house. Jess tells him to call the police,
Speaker 3: but he has his own way of executing justice.
Speaker 4: He said, well, I've got my ar right here, so
Speaker 4: if she comes in, I'll shoot the bitch.
Speaker 3: Jess can't make sense of marty behavior. She doesn't know
Speaker 3: him well enough to understand what's going on inside his head.
Speaker 3: Is he acting guilty because he did something or is
Speaker 3: he scared because he knows what Corey is capable of.
Speaker 3: He tells Jess he's drinking more and not sleeping.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if it was fear or panic.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he was afraid. Warning bells were
Speaker 4: in my head. I was starting to think something was
Speaker 4: sketchy with him, more so than the drug use and
Speaker 4: the drinking.
Speaker 3: Still, Jess continues to talk to Marty multiple times a day.
Speaker 3: After all, Telena is missing, Corey is free. Jess and
Speaker 3: Marty they're in this together. Less than a week after
Speaker 3: Corey makes bond, It's Father's Day June twenty first, twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Jess and Marty send each other good morning texts.
Speaker 4: Like usual, I was doing something with my husband and
Speaker 4: the kids. I think you got a picture of us
Speaker 4: the car, maybe getting ice cream? And he had sent
Speaker 4: a picture of Captain America that he had. He had
Speaker 4: like an adult coloring book, and he colored Captain America
Speaker 4: and said, I've been working on this all day. We
Speaker 4: kind of bonded over our love of Marvel and Star
Speaker 4: Wars and whatever. And I remember saying Happy Father's Day
Speaker 4: because he's a stepdad. He said, oh, nobody said that
Speaker 4: to me in a long time. That was literally the
Speaker 4: last time I talked to him. I think it was
Speaker 4: Nicole that called me and said Marty's dead, and then
Speaker 4: I tried messaging him. I tried calling, and then I
Speaker 4: called the police station or the sheriff's office, and I asked, like,
Speaker 4: is he really dead?
Speaker 3: Just as told that Marty died of a suspected drug overdose.
Speaker 4: And then I became a little harsh with them and said,
Speaker 4: I know for sure that Corey did it. And that
Speaker 4: was another frustrating phone call where I was upset, obviously
Speaker 4: because he was dead, but they were frustrated that I
Speaker 4: was making accusations, obviously because legally I couldn't prove that.
Speaker 4: I still can't, But I said, I know she was
Speaker 4: driven by his house like he was texting me. She
Speaker 4: killed Telena now she killed him.
Speaker 3: Marty dies a week after Corey gets out of jail.
Speaker 3: To Jess, it's just too convenient.
Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden, he pawns a chainsaw
Speaker 4: and then he dies of fentanyl overdose. A user, I mean,
Speaker 4: he used for years, years, twenty thirty years, talking out
Speaker 4: their addicts that I know. I'm not saying an accidental
Speaker 4: overdose what is impossible. I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm
Speaker 4: just saying it seems like too big of a coincidence
Speaker 4: that that's how he dies.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, Marty's death hits Jess hard. Even though
Speaker 3: she suspects he may have played some role in Telena's disappearance,
Speaker 3: she has real feelings for him. It's a contradiction that
Speaker 3: she still struggles with today. I tried to get Jess
Speaker 3: to talk more about her reaction to Marty's death, but
Speaker 3: every time she tried, she became overcome with emotion.
Speaker 4: I get really upset when I think about Wolf. It's hard.
Speaker 4: It's hard for me to talk about.
Speaker 3: Because you did genuinely care about him.
Speaker 7: I did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it sucks because sometimes I wish I could call
Speaker 4: him right. There's just parts of me that wish he
Speaker 4: was still here. I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 4: I was really sad, it really hurt. I'm really uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: I'm still really simp and that he's gone. Because what
Speaker 4: if I'm wrong?
Speaker 6: I need I need a minute.
Speaker 3: Jess sent me a folder of her text with Marty,
Speaker 3: ostensibly to provide a window into her investigation to check
Speaker 3: facts and dates. But as I scrolled through the hundreds
Speaker 3: of messages, what I saw instead was a relationship developed
Speaker 3: two people who found each other in the strange blur
Speaker 3: of pandemic life, united by their shared obsession with what
Speaker 3: happened to Teleina'sar. The day after Marty dies, she texts him,
Speaker 3: please tell me you're okay, and then four months later,
Speaker 3: one last text, I miss you so fucking much.
Speaker 4: One of the last conversations Wolfe and I had had,
Speaker 4: he was extremely drunken high and he said, I can't
Speaker 4: believe you figured it out.
Speaker 3: Next time on what happened to Telena'sar.
Speaker 5: The findings inside the safe were extremely significant.
Speaker 3: A new discovery triggers a second investigation well beyond Wagner, Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: or even the mysterious disappearance of Telenasar.
Speaker 10: Do we feel safe living next door to Corey. No
Speaker 10: do our neighbors feel safe after our house was broken
Speaker 10: into No, none of us feel safe anymore, And.
Speaker 3: The Wagner County Sheriff's Office makes a big announcement.
Speaker 7: This press conference is regarding what originally started out as
Speaker 7: a missing person's investigation regarding Telena Galloway.
Speaker 3: What Happened to Telenazar is a production of iHeart Podcasts.
Speaker 3: It's written, reported, and hosted by me Melissa Jelson, with
Speaker 3: writing and story editing by Lauren Hansen. Our executive producer
Speaker 3: is Ryan Murdoch. For iHeart Podcasts, executive producers are Jason
Speaker 3: English and Karl Catele. Fact checking by Maya Shukri. Zoe
Speaker 3: Denkla is our associate producer. Jeremy Thal is our editor.
Speaker 3: Original music by Aaron Kaufman, with additional music by Jeremy
Speaker 3: Thal and Gideon Crevishe. Additional sound design by Marita speH.
Speaker 3: Episodes are mixed and mastered by Karl Catle. Voice acting
Speaker 3: by Lizzie Gore, Chris Ferry, Stephanie Frame, Pete Monica, and
Speaker 3: Molly Maslin. Our logo is designed by Edo Moore. Thanks
Speaker 3: so much for listening.