Introducing: The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole from Crime House
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What are the overlooked details in disappearance cases?
When someone goes missing, the headlines focus on what happened, but the truth often lives in the smallest details. I'm Sarah Turney. After my sister disappeared, I learned how those final hours, the last conversations, the last decisions can haunt families forever.
And I'm Courtney Nicole. After seeing crime impact my own family, I've learned how overlooked moments, missed red flags, and unanswered questions can change everything.
Together, we're bringing those lived experiences into the work. This is The Final Hours, a Crime House original powered by Pave Studios, a podcast that puts the moments before a disappearance under a microscope.
Listen to and follow The Final Hours wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Monday.
Hey, Cluminati, it's Kaylin.
How did Sarah Turney's personal experience shape her advocacy?
We're taking a short break this week, but we didn't want to leave you without something to listen to. And I'm so excited to share something special that I know you're going to love. If you're especially drawn to our missing person segments on Clues, then you need to check out the new Crime House original, The Final Hours, hosted by Sarah Turney and Courtney Nicole. you might already know sarah from her podcast voices for justice she actually produced a long-form podcast on the disappearance of maura murray so shout out sarah and you might know courtney from her popular true crime instagram account crime with court with sarah having lived through the pain of her sister's disappearance and courtney having seen firsthand how crime can impact a family they bring powerful lived experience to every case looking not only at what happened but also what led up to it
Each episode of The Final Hours examines the moments just before a person disappears. Think the routines, the timelines, and the small details that often get overlooked. Because every disappearance has a moment when everything still feels normal. A text that doesn't raise any concern, a routine that goes unchanged, a door that closes just like it always has. Until it doesn't. The Final Hours puts those moments under a microscope. And we have the first episode for you right here. In it, Sarah and Courtney examine the 2006 disappearance of Jennifer Kessie, who vanished on her way to work, leaving behind a mystery that still haunts investigators today. I mean, I personally have not been able to stop thinking about this case since I first heard about it.
If you like what you hear, be sure to follow The Final Hours on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen. New episodes drop every Monday, and you can find a link to the show in the episode description.
This is Crime House. You're squinting at a blurry black and white surveillance video. It's dated January 24th, 2006. The time is 1259 p.m. It's taken at the Huntington-on-the-Green condominium complex in Orlando, Florida, and shot from a distance.
What routine did Jennifer Kessie follow on the day she disappeared?
In between the camera and the parking lot are what appear to be two swimming pools. A few seconds later, a car pulls into the fenced-in lot beyond those pools. It's a 2004 Chevy Malibu. It stops and nothing happens for the next 32 seconds. Then the driver steps out. On foot, they head back in the direction they came.
Luckily, another camera gets a closer shot of the driver. A minute later, that person is recorded walking past a gate. They appear to be male with short hair, not very tall, about 5'3 or 5'5. And they're dressed in a light colored outfit, maybe a uniform of some kind. But there's something frustrating about these videos. They glitch, only catching every two or three seconds of the scene. Because of that, the driver's face, the suspect's face, is always blurred or blocked by the fence.
And because of this seemingly tiny issue, Jennifer Kessie's disappearance is a total mystery, even today.
Every year, over half a million people go missing, and that's just in the United States alone. Most of those stories barely get a headline. Some don't even get a flyer or a tip line. And when cases do get media attention, we usually only get the broad strokes.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the overlooked details in disappearance cases?
0:01–0:55
2
How did Sarah Turney's personal experience shape her advocacy?
0:55–2:57
3
What routine did Jennifer Kessie follow on the day she disappeared?
2:57–5:26
4
What were the circumstances surrounding Jennifer's last known moments?
5:26–9:47
5
What evidence was found after Jennifer's car was discovered?
9:47–13:52
6
How did the police respond to Jennifer's disappearance initially?
13:52–17:48
7
What leads emerged in the investigation years after Jennifer's disappearance?
17:48–21:56
8
What are the implications of access to case files for families of missing persons?
21:56–47:41
Speakers
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