The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole – Details, episodes & analysis

In August 2021, 25-year-old Illinois State University graduate student Jelani Day was last seen leaving a dispensary in Bloomington-Normal, far from his apartment and with no clear reason to be there. His car was found abandoned miles away. Weeks later, his unclothed body was recovered from the Illinois River. The coroner ruled accidental drowning, but his mother refused to accept that answer. She launched a relentless public campaign that put a spotlight on how missing Black men are treated by investigators and the media. How did a focused, driven graduate student end up in a river with no explanation?

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In the summer of 2016, 29-year-old Kristal Anne Reisinger vanished from a remote Colorado gathering in the wilderness, leaving behind her young daughter. Those who knew her described a young mother navigating addiction and drawn to alternative spiritual communities. When her remains were eventually recovered years later in a remote canyon, they raised more questions than answers. Her case sits at the intersection of countercultural silence, rural law enforcement limitations, and a daughter still searching for what happened to her mother.

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Tara Leigh Calico disappeared on the morning of September 20, 1988, after leaving her New Mexico home for a routine bike ride. She never returned. What followed was a search filled with unsettling possibilities, small town rumors, and one of the strangest clues in missing person history: a Polaroid photo discovered months later that some believed showed Tara alive. Decades on, her case remains unresolved, suspended between local suspicion, haunting evidence, and the question of whether the truth has been hidden in plain sight all along.

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Chuck Morgan was a Tucson escrow agent who claimed he had become entangled with organized crime and powerful financial schemes. After returning home from a bizarre kidnapping filled with paranoia and cryptic warnings, he disappeared again. His body was later found under suspicious circumstances, along with a marked two dollar bill that seemed to hint at hidden messages. Was Chuck silenced for what he knew, or was something else at play? His death remains one of Arizona’s most puzzling mysteries.

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Sneha Anne Philip was last seen shopping in Lower Manhattan on September 10, 2001. The next morning, the attacks on the World Trade Center reshaped the world and Sneha disappeared into the chaos. Some believe she rushed out to help and died in the collapse. Others think she vanished before the towers fell. Her case remains one of the most haunting missing person mysteries connected to 9/11, filled with conflicting timelines, unanswered questions, and a search for truth that continues decades later.

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Jennifer Kesse disappeared from her Orlando condo complex in January 2006, leaving behind a locked apartment and no sign of struggle. Surveillance footage later showed an unknown person abandoning her car, but the suspect’s face was obscured at every frame. Jennifer was cautious, responsible, and building a promising future. Her sudden disappearance in broad daylight remains one of Florida’s most frustrating unsolved cases, defined by twelve seconds of footage that revealed everything and nothing at the same time.

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Before Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole reported on crime, they both experienced it and know how it can shatter a family. Now, they’re bringing those meaningful perspectives to The Final Hours, a true crime series that puts the magnifying glass on the final hours before someone goes missing.
From final conversations, to the last known steps, to red flags and red herrings, Sarah and Kourt understand the things that replay over and over in the minds of those who’ve lost a loved one. For them, justice means scrutiny, and making sure overlooked cases are finally heard. Launching February 23rd, The Final Hours is a Crime House Original, powered by PAVE Studios.

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In October 1981, 17-year-old Kurt Sova stepped outside a Halloween party in Cleveland to get some fresh air while his friend ran back in for their jackets. By the time that friend returned two minutes later, Kurt was gone. Five days later, his body was found in a nearby ravine, posed with his arms outstretched and both shoes missing, with no clear cause of death. Decades later, the police department that botched the investigation has been exposed for corruption.

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In August 2013, 19-year-old college sophomore Bryce Laspisa gave away his most prized possessions, broke up with his girlfriend, and spent 30 hours driving aimlessly through California. He sat motionless in parking lots, for hours, before his SUV was found crashed and empty at the bottom of a 15-foot embankment near Castaic Lake. He had shattered the rear window from the inside, leaving behind his wallet, phone, and laptop, but no trace of himself. Was Bryce running from something he never got the chance to tell his parents?

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In March 2000, 23-year-old Leah Roberts left her North Carolina apartment in the middle of the night, drove nearly 3,000 miles alone, and stopped at an Oregon gas station where security cameras caught her glancing back at the parking lot. Five days later, her white Jeep Cherokee was found wrecked at the bottom of a ravine in Washington State. Investigators discovered the engine had been deliberately tampered with. Twenty-five years later, no one knows what happened after she walked out of a Bellingham restaurant.

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The Final Hours is hosted by Sarah Turney & Kourtney Nichole

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