Voices for Justice

Voices for Justice

Voices for Justice is a true crime podcast hosted by Sarah Turney, sister of missing teen Alissa Turney. Every episode ends with a call to action. Don't just listen to their stories; be a voice for them.

Episodes

July 31, 2025 42 mins
On a cold morning in 2011, Julia Biryukova pulled her car to the side of the road, claiming it ran out of gas. She says she left her 2-year-old son, Sky, asleep in the vehicle while she took her 4-year-old daughter to get help. When she returned, Sky was gone. What followed was a case that has continued to stun the local community and, really, the nation for nearly 15 years. 2-year-old Sky Metalwala was reported missing from Be...
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This episode originally aired in December 2024. John Cornelius, or J.C. McGhee, was shot and killed in his home in Bridgeport, Ohio, on July 11, 2002. His daughter, Madison, has been searching for answers by any means possible, collecting records, conducting interviews, and creating her own podcast, Ice Cold Case, to raise awareness and get justice for her father.  Anyone with information about the murder of J.C. McGhee is urg...
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July 17, 2025 47 mins
On October 17, 2021, 39-year-old Heidi Planck left her son’s football game at halftime and was never seen by her family again. What followed was a trail of bizarre clues, security video from outside a swanky high-rise apartment building in downtown LA, a missing dog found wandering alone, and a company tied to a massive financial scandal. But at the heart of it all is a woman, a mother, who still needs to be found. Anyone with ...
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July 10, 2025 48 mins
Six-year-old Lilly and four-year-old Jack Sullivan vanished from their rural Nova Scotia home on May 2nd, 2025. Their disappearance sparked an immediate and massive search effort, involving hundreds of volunteer searchers, K9 units, helicopters, drones, and specialized RCMP units, meticulously combing miles of the dense, challenging terrain near Lansdowne Station.  Despite these efforts, there have been no confirmed sightings of ...
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July 3, 2025 53 mins
In the summer of 2019, two friends met up at a very popular park and within 14 minutes, they were both shot and killed in broad daylight. While it’s been 6 years since their murders, at the end of May 2025, their names were back in the news as investigators began looking into a murder-suicide they believe may be related. Kate Brown and Carnell Sledge were shot and killed at the Rocky River Reservation in Fairview Park, Ohio, on J...
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June 26, 2025 46 mins
It was a quiet evening in Mesa, Arizona, January 2, 1999. Eleven-year-old Mikelle Biggs was just waiting outside her home for the sound of the ice cream truck. But in the span of just ninety seconds, she vanished without a trace. Her bicycle was left behind, one of the wheels still spinning. For more than two decades, Mikelle’s case has haunted the community, raising more questions than answers. In this episode, we revisit the day ...
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June 19, 2025 47 mins
At the end of May 2025, Whitney Decker reported her three daughters, Paityn, Evelyn, and Olivia Decker, missing from Wenatchee, Washington, after their father, Travis Decker, failed to return them after their scheduled visit with him. She reported them missing less than two hours after they were due back home with her. However, a few days later, the girls were found deceased. Travis Decker has been charged with three counts of fi...
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June 12, 2025 45 mins
When 19-year-old college student Bryce Laspisa set out on a late-night drive from Northern California to his parents’ home in Southern California, no one could have predicted what would happen next. After a series of strange events and a car crash, Bryce vanished, leaving behind a wrecked vehicle and a trail of questions that remain unanswered to this day. 19-year-old Bryce David Laspisa went missing from the area of Castaic La...
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June 5, 2025 45 mins
A photo was taken of 18-year-old Debanhi Escobar in the early morning hours of April 9th, 2022, on the side of a highway near Monterrey, Nuevo León, in Mexico. She was dressed for a night out, standing in the dark, far from where she was supposed to be. The photo taken of her that night would become one of the most widely circulated images in the country. But what happened before that moment and what followed has raised more quest...
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May 29, 2025 44 mins
This is a case that has the public torn. A fire breaks out in a farmhouse in rural Tennessee that levels it to the ground, two sets of remains are found, and two sets of remains are missing. Law enforcement says that everyone died in the fire, but the fire marshal disagrees. Chloie Leverette and Christopher Gage Daniel were last seen on Sunday, September 23, 2012, in Bedford County, TN. At that time, Gage was seven and was describ...
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May 22, 2025 36 mins
Just after midnight on May 10, 1996, a motorist in Brown County, Texas called 911. They report that they’d been driving along Farm Road 2126 when they saw a burning car. It was parked just off the road, near the entrance to a gun range. Minutes later, a second motorist called 911 to report they had spotted a body lying near the burning car. When the fire department and Sheriff’s deputies show up, the car is engulfed in flames. Whil...
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May 21, 2025 7 mins
A quick, off-the-cuff update about Alissa. Alissa Turney was 17 years old when she went missing from Phoenix, Arizona, on May 17, 2001. Her stepfather, Michael Roy Turney, remains the primary suspect in her case. Anyone with information is asked to call the Phoenix Police Department at 602-262-6151. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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May 17, 2025 10 mins
Alissa Turney was 17 years old when she went missing from Phoenix, Arizona, on May 17, 2001. Her stepfather, Michael Roy Turney, remains the primary suspect in her case. Anyone with information is asked to call the Phoenix Police Department at 602-262-6151. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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May 15, 2025 45 mins
In 1974, 14-year-old Margaret Ellen Fox left her family home in Burlington, New Jersey, full of hope and anticipation. She was on her way to what she believed would be a promising babysitting job — a chance to earn a little money and take one more step toward independence, but Margaret never came home. Fourteen-year-old Margaret Ellen Fox was last seen boarding a bus on June 24, 1974, in Burlington, NJ. She has blue eyes and brown...
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May 8, 2025 42 mins
14-year-old Emily Pike went missing from her group home in Mesa, Arizona on January 27, 2025. Her remains were found on February 14, 2025, off Highway 60 North near Milepost 277 on Forest Road #355, just east of Globe, Arizona. Her case didn’t garner much attention until the Gila County Sheriff’s Office leaked an internal memo describing the horrific way she was found. Her case has since sparked outrage and demand for reform in cas...
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May 1, 2025 46 mins
Over Labor Day weekend in 2015, Henry McCabe, a father, husband, and respected community member, disappeared after a night out in Minnesota. For weeks, the only trace of Henry was a disturbing voicemail he left shortly before vanishing that has haunted his family, friends, and investigators ever since. That voicemail and Henry’s case have been the subject of a massive amount of speculation, rumors, and hostility. Anyone with infor...
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April 25, 2025 46 mins
On a quiet afternoon in November 1969, 22-year-old graduate student Betsy Aardsma was studying in the stacks of Penn State's Pattee Library when she suddenly collapsed. Despite decades of investigation, her case remains one of Pennsylvania's most haunting unsolved mysteries. Anyone with information is asked to call the Pennsylvania State Police tip line at 1-888-292-1919 or email tips to tips@pa.gov. For more information about th...
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April 17, 2025 46 mins
This episode originally aired on May 24, 2024. In 2015, 26-year-old Elizabeth Salgado moved from Mexico to one of the safest cities in the United States, Provo, Utah, to further her education. Just three weeks later, on April 16, 2015, she went missing. Her remains were later recovered, and her death is believed to be a homicide. Anyone with information is asked to call the Utah County Sheriff’s Office at 801-851-4000. Follow us...
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April 10, 2025 56 mins
When 28-year-old Jennifer Harris went missing on Mother’s Day in 2002, rumors swirled in the small town of Bonham, Texas. All eyes were on two men…one was her ex-boyfriend and business partner, and the other was her ex-husband, who she’d recently started seeing again.   But nearly 23 years later, between odd witness statements, missing evidence, and a pretty strong conflict of interest, Bonham residents and Jennifer’s family are le...
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April 3, 2025 51 mins
On the warm evening of August 6, 1989, 13-year-old Blanca Elisa Roberson left her home in Aransas Pass, Texas — and was never seen again. In my two-part coverage of Elisa’s case, I and Elisa’s sister Ruby revisit the day she vanished, explore the details surrounding her disappearance, and examine what may have happened to Elisa Roberson.   Anyone with information is asked to contact the Aransas Pass Police Department at 361-758-522...
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