Father Can You Hear Me?... Apparently Not.

March 19, 2026·1 hr·5 clips

Sarah demands to know why her father told neighbors conflicting stories about Alissa's whereabouts after she vanished.

After nearly 25 years, the first search for Alyssa's remains is happening. The host explains that she is stepping away from the office to focus on it, then turns back to the beginning of the show. Instead of replaying an older season two episode, she returns to the first Voices for Justice episode, published in 2019. The years since have changed how that beginning sounds. She says police told her in 2017 that they did not have enough evidence to arrest her father for Alyssa's murder, and suggested she get media coverage. Mainstream media was not interested, so she took every podcast and YouTube appearance she could find. She lost count, but says it was definitely upwards of fifty. That is the pressure behind the show: not branding, not polish, just an urgent need to make someone listen. Then the call comes in. The host warns listeners that she was not ready for the most recent conversation with her father and that she gets emotional. She is clear about the limits. The episode includes mature discussion of death and sexual abuse, and she says some material was removed from the video. Her anger is direct and personal. She tells her father that one phone call in two years would have meant something if he loved her. He pushes back. She asks what normal parents do, then says admitting what happened would get her life back on track. From there, the questions get tighter: the neighbor who said Alyssa was on vacation with their aunts in California, the biker story, the movies. The episode sits in that hard space between public advocacy, family grief, and a daughter asking why the stories around Alyssa kept changing.

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A raw family confrontation shows how Alyssa's case moved from private grief into public view.

The episode finds its urgency in the first search for Alyssa's remains after nearly 25 years. It also circles back to the show's 2019 start, as the host explains that police told her in 2017 they did not have enough evidence to arrest her father, and that she turned to podcast…

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Press play if you want a raw family confrontation about the different stories told after Alyssa left.

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