Phoenix cold detectives who investigated the disappearance of a teenage girl nearly two decades ago have arrested her stiffness on a murder charge.
Alissa Turney was 17 when she disappeared in 2001, Maricopa County, Ariz., Prosecutors said Thursday.
On that day, she grabbed her head in her friend’s woodworking class at Paradise Valley High School and said her stiffness pulled her out of school early, they said. She has never been seen or heard from again.
An indictment accuses Michael Roy Turney, 72, of second-degree murder in her death, even though her body was not found.
Alissa Turney, 17.
(Maricopa County Office)
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“It’s overwhelming, but in a good way,” said county attorney Allister Adel, according to Fox 10 Phoenix. “This family has longed for them and to have answers for so long.”
Turney, who hired Alissa years earlier, was the one who told her she was missing, the station reported. Her mother died before she disappeared.
In 2008, a police search appeared in the house of Turney weapons and explosive devices, according to the station. They also accused him of planning to bomb a union hall.
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Meanwhile, police said Turney was also being investigated in connection with Alissa’s disappearance, Fox 10 reported.
In 2010, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the bomb plot. He was released in 2017.
‘I’m shaking and I’m crying. We did it, you guys. He has been arrested, ‘tweet of Alissa’s sister, Sarah Turney, reported the station.
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“Do not give up hope that you can get justice,” she said. “It took almost 20 years, but we did it.”
