What Happened to Talina Zar
This investigative true-crime podcast examines the mysterious disappearance of Talina Zar during the COVID-19 lockdown. It follows internet sleuths as they trace her digital footprint, uncovering hidden subcultures and betrayals among her acquaintances. The series explores how online communities become involved in solving real-life mysteries and the dark secrets that surface along the way.
Episodes
Going to Court - Talina Zar BONUS
Melissa heads to Wisconsin to cover the ricin trial. Jess is there too, determined to come face to face with Kore. We hear powerful firsthand accounts from the victims and key investigators from Oklahoma. In a stunning moment, Kore's ex-husband takes the stand and reveals a shocking confession. As the jury prepares to deliver its verdict, the stakes couldn’t be higher. See o
Horizon - Talina Zar E8
In our season finale, five years have passed since Talina disappeared, but Jess continues to obsess over the details. Meanwhile, Talina’s family searches to define closure as a murder trial remains elusive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Safe - Talina Zar E7
Uncovering an incident in Wisconsin from 2014 sends Jess chasing a new set of questions. But as COVID stretches into the fall of 2020, the official investigation slows to a standstill…until a momentous discovery.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
One Step Ahead - Talina Zar E6
New evidence is popping up all over town - all over Oklahoma, in fact. The police seem closer than ever to solving the case when a sudden death throws Jess - and the investigation - for a loop.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
If I Go Missing - Talina Zar E5
Talina’s family gets involved in the search from afar. Meanwhile, the non-stop investigation starts to take a toll on Jess. And the police turn up evidence that upends the whole timeline of events.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
Weeks pass with no sign of Talina. Her friends, as well as the online sleuths and the local sheriff start to uncover strange clues—a burned mattress, a missing persons poster—all casting suspicion on Talina’s roommate, Kore. As the pressure builds, Kore shares her side of the story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa
Belonging — Talina Zar E3
Jess discovers Talina Zar isn’t the missing Oklahoma woman’s real name, and the meaning of the moniker unlocks a door to a fantasy world ripped from the pages of 1970s pulp fiction — a fictional world where men reign and women serve and a real-life subculture where people try to live according to the principles in the books. Talina may have found her people in this fringe BD
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
Jess and the sleuths connect with people who knew Talina Zar in real life. As the sleuths begin to formulate a picture of who Talina is, and what might have happened to her, they get the sense that not everyone is telling the truth. At the same time, local police begin their own parallel investigation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
Jess Trevino lived a quiet life of true crime fandom - until she stumbled upon Talina Zar’s cryptic Facebook post. Isolated because of COVID, Jess assembles an online team of amateur sleuths determined to find out where Talina went. As they get wrapped up in the lives of total strangers, the sleuths discover that the question of What Happened to Talina Zar ? has no easy answers.See omnystudi
What Happened to Talina Zar — TRAILER
It’s April 2020 and the world is locked down. In Oklahoma, a woman named Talina Zar posts a chilling message on Facebook: she’s sick with COVID and heading to a remote lake, alone — to recover, or to die. Then, she vanishes. As days turn into weeks, strangers online — true crime obsessives with time to kill and nowhere to go — begin digging into her disappearance. Wha
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