Greg Thompson
Appearances
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
From the time that I met Corey Brumley, she was somebody that, you know, I could relate to. And, you know, at the time I was going through things that, you know, I could talk to her about.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
I like, you know, pilfering through stuff. I had done some other work elsewhere and accumulated a bunch of things and she was helping me, you know, kind of take inventory and possibly help me sell some of it.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
Little towns have their skeleton. I mean, they're not without.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
Widener is a small town. I don't even remember what the population is here right off hand. I want to say 3,000 to 5,000 people or something, but that could be totally off.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
When she came up missing and put this big Facebook post on there saying, I'm going to the woods to die, it didn't sound like her. Me and my wife, we talked about it. We live on Highway 69, and Highway 69 goes from the heart of Texas all the way into Kansas. At the time, you know, there was a lot of abductions and stuff from even Walmarts, you know, over here in our area.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
Outsiders don't normally take interest in what's here. With Talena not being from the area, that made her even more special, in my opinion.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
There was ladies picked up from Walmart for suspected sex trade type things. Me and my wife watch a lot of crime shows. We're armchair investigators over here. I mean... we get a little lead and we follow it and it you know we're not trained investigators is what i'm saying and so we just didn't know something like that could have happened to kalina
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
She hired me for like candy man stuff, like mowing and weed eating and banging TVs and just all kinds of candy man type stuff.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
Talena wanted to change the mattress out in her bedroom and she got a new mattress and needed somebody to unpack it and put it on and then haul the old one off. And so I did all that. Well, a couple of weeks later, she said that she didn't care for the mattress and wanted it returned. She's got another one coming.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
She wanted to help anybody and everybody.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
She helped us volunteer picking up trash a few times. I'd heard of her giving food to people that needed it or giving them little jobs to do, like me. She knew that I needed something to do, so she'd give me jobs. She had other people that would do little odd jobs for her.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
for somebody to move through the area from bigger towns and just take in the interest in what's going on here and trying to help people that live here. That made an impression on me.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
She was a self-proclaimed computer nerd. I called her my own little hacker.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
My wife was going to school at the time for her bachelor's and didn't know anything about PowerPoint presentations and, you know, Microsoft Office and all these things. And Kalina had worked for Microsoft and she wrote some of these programs. So she saw another opportunity to help my wife and she started helping her with these presentations and showed her how to do it herself and things like that.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
If she felt like she could help you out of the hole you're in, she was all in.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
We'd had Kalina and Cory over for dinner and a couple of times went out with them. You would have thought they were best friends that had known each other for a long time.