Chapter 32
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HATTIE HARPER:
Welcome back to The J & J Hour. I’m so happy that you’re with me again tonight. Know that I appreciate every one of my listeners and followers. You’re the ones who keep us going and provide us with the push to do what we do.
It’s been a busy few days. Exciting ones. First, let’s recap for any new listeners before we talk about what comes next.
Allison Finch disappeared on April 3rd. Her car was found abandoned at a remote vista area outside Briar Falls. According to the cops, she left town and started over.
Allison was twenty-seven years old. Married. No children. She worked online, and she kept all her money in a private account. That detail matters more than it should, and yet it barely made it into the original case file.
Her vehicle was recovered within forty-eight hours of her disappearance, but it was never properly processed. There was no forensic sweep, and no fiber analysis.
Let that sink in. There was a missing woman, and no one thought to look closer.
When my team obtained images of the car taken at the scene, we noticed something immediately. A dark stain on the passenger-side seat. It could be nothing. Coffee. Mud. Oil.
But no one ever tested it, so no one ever proved it was nothing.
That is not how investigations are supposed to work.
Now, listen up.
I have it on good authority from an anonymous source that Allison Finch was saving money. Quietly. Carefully. She wanted out of her marriage. She wanted something better than the life she felt stuck inside.
Allison was not a woman who walked away from people she loved.
She was a woman preparing for escape, and those two things are not the same.
Now this fits the narrative that Briar Falls police have been pushing about how maybe she took off and left on her own, but listeners [dramatic pause for effect], I’ve been out there to that vista area, and it is des-O-late.
According to my source, she was planning, but a woman planning wouldn’t pick that spot, trust me.
Because of public interest generated by this podcast, the Oregon State Police have agreed to step in and reprocess the evidence, starting with Allison’s vehicle. That means the case will no longer be in my hands, and for the record, that’s a good thing.
For the first time since we started looking into the disappearance of Allison Finch, this case is no longer resting in the shadows. The Oregon State Police are stepping in.
Justice is not about ownership. It’s about outcomes, and listeners … we’re getting close to an outcome.
You hear that, Galloway? An outcome.
You dragging your feet won’t stop the wheels of justice.
Still, I won’t pretend it’s easy to step back. The J & J Hour was built on the idea that when systems fail, we can still make a difference.
If you have any information about Allison Finch, now is the time to come forward. You can contact the Oregon State Police directly through the Criminal Investigations Division, or submit tips anonymously through The J & J Hour website, where my team will forward information to investigators.
To Allison, wherever the truth of your story lives now: people are finally looking where they should have looked all along.
This isn’t the end of the story.
This has been The J & J Hour: Episode 42: What Happens Next?
If you have tips about Allison Finch, you can contact me through the usual channels or leave an anonymous voice message using the link in the show notes.
r/SmallTownSecrets
thread: Briar Falls PD about to have a VERY bad week
u/MillTownRumors: If Galloway didn’t process that car, his career is toast. That dude sounds like hella bad news.
u/BackroadTruth: Or he retires quietly and goes to live somewhere and drink beer and mow his lawn on one of those tractor things.
u/MillTownRumors: Nah. Too much attention now. Podcasts change the rules. That guy is fucked.
u/BackroadTruth: Damn, hope you’re right. Allison deserves more than a shrug. Hope they can find her body.