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. What they uncover is something far stranger, and far more disturbing, than they could’ve ever imagined.. In Season Three of What Happened To…, investigative journalist Melissa Jeltsen unravels a mystery born from isolation, obsession, and a pandemic that made everyone feel like a potential suspect.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey everyone, I'm on day nine of this virus, and
I am pretty sure it has reached my lungs.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's April twenty twenty. The brand new coronavirus is upending
life as we know it.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
I made the decision at the onset that if it
got bad enough, I would not go to the hospital.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
And this Facebook post by a woman in a small
town in Oklahoma sends shockwaves through the Internet.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I didn't want to be talked out of this plan.
After I post this, I am turning off my phone.
I'll catch up with everyone on the other side.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
The woman is named Telena Tzar, and after the post,
she disappears.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Has anybody seen kleen or is anybody heard from Kleina?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
There is nothing, nothing. Some of her friends think maybe
she lost the will to live.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
People can be consumed with grief at different times.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Aren't so sure. I kept just kind of asking everybody
anyone else think this is strange? Pretty quickly, the Internet
brings together a ragtag group of women across the country,
bored true crime obsessives looking for meaning in an upside
down world.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
You'll notice that about me. I don't lurk. I'm out there.
I'm an action kind of girl. It felt like I
was living out one of my fantasy dreams of being
a detective.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
They soon become entangled in the lives of total strangers.
I lied to a lot of people a lot, and
the world they uncover is beyond their wildest imagination. I
was like, this is crazy. I'm Melissa Jelson join me
on season three? What Happened to Telenazar? For a story

(01:51):
that upended a community. Little town have their skeleton. I mean,
they're not without exposed secrets that could no longer stay hidden.
No one wanted to talk about anything, and revealed just
how far some people might go to find the truth.
He said, I've got my ar and if she comes outside,

(02:11):
and I was like, you can't kill somebody. It's a
story whose final chapter has yet to be written. Two
trials in two different states are set to take place
as this season unfolds. So you're not going to solve
it online. Nobody's gonna find her on Facebook. I just
had to know.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
How did this happen?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
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