BEAUMONT, Texas — Family and friends of a woman who has been missing since March 2023, hope that a podcast will bring the closer to finding her.
The parents of Margaret Kay-Alana Turner are preparing to spend the holidays without their daughter. They hope "The Vanished" podcast can bring national exposure to the case.
It's been 257 days since the now-28-year-old Kay-Alana vanished in Tomball.
"Kay-Alana is the smartest girl I've seen in my life," said Rosa Calhoun. "She's super sweet. She just wants to help everybody. She loves everybody."
Since March 10, Robby and Rosa Calhoun have explored every option to try and find their daughter.
"I've done between 15 and 20 podcasts. I've kind of lost track of how many I've done, said Rosa "The only hope of getting her story out there is to continually tell it over and over again."
Brittany Mendoza has been Kay-Alana's best friend for 14 years.
"The night before she went missing, she kind of had some things out of character. She ended up telling me 'I haven't slept in a while, I've been having trouble sleeping.'," said Mendoza. "I know when I did get to speak to her that day, that she needed to drive. And that she just wanted some time to drive."
Mendoza tells 12News when she didn't hear from her the following morning, she knew something was terribly wrong.
"It was not like her to go missing like that and not communicate with anyone," Mendoza said.
A change in medication could have played a part in her run-in with Harris County Sheriff's deputies, according to Mendoza.
"That's when I had made some comments of this odd behavior and her kind of having memory lapses," she said.
On the day she disappeared, Kay-Alana was parked in a woman's driveway and refused to leave. When deputies arrived, she allegedly drove off into the woods. Her car was found abandoned and no one has heard from her since.
"There is nothing. There has not been one credible sighting there has not been one credible tip," said Robby Calhoun.
Kay-Alana's friends and family just want her to be back home, safe and sound.
"We have a Kay-Alana sized hole in our hearts and there is nothing that will fill that hole there's nothing that can replace her, and we will search for her until the day we find her, or until the day we die," said Rosa.
Her family vows to keep searching and not give up hope.
Turner is said to have last been wearing a loose-fitting pink dress, "with what appeared to be marker drawings on her arms in black ink," according to a Montgomery County Sheriff's Office release. She is described as a woman who is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs about 110 pounds. She has brown hair and blue eyes.
Turner has a tattoo on her right collarbone of a ribbon with the number “13” above it, according to the release.
If you have any information on the disappearance of Margaret Kay-Alana Turner contact Texas EquuSearch or local authorities.