Greg Thompson
Appearances
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
Cory, she had a place out west of Muskogee, and she had some animals and dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, all kinds of stuff over there.
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
She had to do something with all the animals and all the corrals and everything that went with them. And here's old Greg, that's me. I volunteered to help Corey and we moved all of her stuff over to Talena's house.
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
Billy had a pretty good-sized yard. We fenced it in. She put the donkeys in there. They were little miniature donkeys and she liked them. They were cute. And they had this horse. It was like 13 or 14 years old. Super old. And it was like a horse made out of toothpicks and paper. I mean, it was so skinny. I was like, Corey, what's up with that horse?
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
And she goes, well, I've had people report me to the law and everything else about that horse. But I have a vet that says that it's sick. And, you know, we're just trying to let it live its life out. I don't want to put it down. You know, we're letting it live. And it eats, it drinks. It did everything a horse should have done. It just looked awful.
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
A couple of months go by and the old horse finally passes away. And Corey calls me like 9 or 10 o'clock at night and asks me if I had access to a backhoe. And I'm like, no, I don't. I have a tractor, but it doesn't dig holes like that. He said, okay, well, maybe I can get some help from a neighbor over here. Okay, so a couple of days go by. I end up over at Billy's.
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
I said, what happened to the horse? Where'd they end up burying it? And she goes, well, we didn't end up burying it. And I'm like, well, what happened to it? It's not here. And she goes, well, Corey butchered that thing. And I'm like, what? She said, yeah, she cut that horse up in tiny little pieces and put it in black trash bags and put it in the back of the Pontiac 6000.
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
and hauled it out to Muskogee and dumped it out for the coyotes. And I'm like, what? Who does that? And so I braided to Corey and we got to talking about it. I said, how did you? And she said, it took me a long time. I was able to do it. And she said, I just thought it was fitting to take it back out there where it had lived all its life and kind of return it back to nature and
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
Okay, that's freaking weird, but okay, whatever. I'm like, who even knows how to do something like that?
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
She was filing a missing persons report for Kalina. She had this big mask on, like you would use for, like, painting or something, you know, to keep perfumes out. We had talked for a minute, and I expressed my concern about Kalina missing and was asking her, do you know where she could possibly have gone?
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
She asked me to come over and pick up some scrap metal in their yard that they've accumulated or haul off trash or something like that.
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
So I get over there to pick up Corey's scrap metal and it was Talena's headboard from her bed and what was left of the mattress that I had just put on there. It had been burnt and all that was left was a metal wire frame that's inside the mattress. You know, we're loading this stuff up on there and I'm like, is this Talena's bed? And she goes, oh yeah, this is the sick bed.
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
This is where Talena was so sick. And, you know, to get rid of the germs and this and that, I just burned it all.
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
I pulled up on the scale and the lady behind the windows, she's looking at all my stuff and telling me to pull up. She walks out there and she goes, what size headboard is that? I told her, I think it's queen or king, whatever. She goes, do you mind if I have it? I'm like, I don't care. She goes, my daughter is looking for a headboard and I think that one would be perfect. I gave it to her.
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
That evening, Greg finds himself recounting this story to a friend. And I was like, I don't know.
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
Wolfie had this little get-together at our local fire department. It was to bring awareness to Talena's disappearance. I didn't go to it, but my wife just popped in and talked to Wolfie and his wife and some other people that were there. And she noticed that Corey wasn't there.
What Happened to Talina Zar
The Mattress - Talina Zar E4
My wife went over to the house and Corey met her at the, you know, answered the front door, but just barely cracked it and then came out. She wouldn't let her in the house. And Billy Shields, the lady that was cleaning their house, she went over there and Corey wouldn't let her in.
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.