Missing Virginia coach Travis Turner fuels tense school board meeting as judge seals case records: report

Virginia nationalist schoolhouse officials gathered for a contentious archetypal gathering since Union High School shot manager Travis Turner went missing amid an alleged kid pornography investigation. 

The Wise County School Board held a gathering Monday, astir 3 weeks aft Turner, 46, was seen walking into the woods adjacent his Appalachia location arsenic authorities were en way to question him astir the probe connected Nov. 20, according to WCYB. 

The meeting’s nationalist remark conception was reportedly removed from the agenda, angering parents who said they are acrophobic implicit a deficiency of connection from schoolhouse officials. 

However, Board Chair Larry Greear insisted the removal was owed to a closed league regarding employment, WCYB reported.

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Union High School caput shot manager Travis Turner has been reported missing, according to the Virginia State Police. (Leslie Turner/Facebook)

"We conscionable decided that contiguous we conscionable wouldn't person unfastened expression," Greear said. 

Greear reportedly pushed backmost against disapproval suggesting students' families are upset implicit what they judge is an contented with transparency regarding the probe into Turner. 

"Our main absorption is the kids, we privation to support them arsenic mean arsenic possible," Greear said, according to WCYB. "We person resources, we person counseling services disposable successful summation to what they ordinarily person astatine that peculiar site."

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Virginia State Police person launched a hunt for Union High shot manager Travis Turner, whose disappearance has stunned the Big Stone Gap community. (Virginia State Police)

Public remark is acceptable to beryllium reinstated astatine the board’s gathering connected Jan. 12, 2026, with parents telling WCYB they program to talk straight to officials then. 

The update comes arsenic a Wise County justice ordered a seal connected immoderate tribunal documents related to Turner’s lawsuit connected Wednesday, WCYB reported. 

In the days pursuing Turner’s disappearance, the shot coach, who disappeared amid a then-undefeated season, was placed connected "administrative permission with pay" pending reappraisal of an outer allegation, according to a erstwhile connection from Wise County Schools.

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Travis Turner was starring the Union High School shot squad done an undefeated play erstwhile helium disappeared from his family’s location successful Appalachia, Virginia connected Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Facebook/Leslie Caudill Turner)

Authorities aboriginal announced Turner had been charged with 5 counts of possession of kid pornography and 5 counts of utilizing a machine to solicit a minor. The territory aboriginal released an updated connection acknowledging that charges had been filed against the unit subordinate successful question, but stopped abbreviated of mentioning Turner by name. 

"The idiosyncratic remains connected permission and is not permitted connected schoolhouse spot oregon to person interaction with students," Superintendent Mike Goforth said astatine the time. "The part volition proceed to cooperate with instrumentality enforcement arsenic this process moves forward. Because this is an progressive ineligible substance involving personnel, the part cannot remark further."

Turner’s unit illustration leafage was besides removed from Union High School’s website successful the days aft the probe was announced, ABC 7 reported.

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Turner’s household has since issued an affectional plea for him to instrumentality location and look the charges, portion revealing the family’s location had been subjected to aggregate searches by officials, according to a connection released by their attorney. 

"The household of Travis Turner continues to cooperate with instrumentality enforcement efforts to find Travis. Their homes and properties person been searched aggregate times, with their consent," the family's attorney, Adrian Collins, said successful a connection obtained by Fox News Digital.

Collins went connected to corroborate that Turner was past seen carrying a weapon arsenic helium walked into the woods adjacent his family’s home, thing helium had done "multiple times passim the years."

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Turner’s wife, Leslie Caudill Turner, became progressively acrophobic astir her husband’s whereabouts erstwhile she noticed helium had near without his car, wallet, keys, glasses oregon contacts, currency and medicine medications. When helium failed to instrumentality home, Caudill Turner filed a missing idiosyncratic study with the Virginia State Police (VSP). 

The study sparked a monolithic manhunt for the coach, with authorities utilizing drones, K-9 units and ft patrols successful an effort to find him. 

The family’s lawyer pointed retired that transgression charges were not filed "until days aft helium failed to instrumentality home."

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"He was not a fugitive nor wanted by instrumentality enforcement astatine the clip helium went missing. His woman was not helping him escape, she was asking for assistance to find him," Collins said.

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) announced it is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for immoderate accusation starring to his arrest. 

Turner was past seen wearing a grey sweatshirt and sweatpants, according to Virginia's missing idiosyncratic database. Tips tin beryllium reported to 911, Virginia State Police oregon the USMS extremity enactment astatine 1-877-WANTED2 oregon online usmarshals.gov/tips.

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The Wise County School Board, VSP and USMS did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. As the hunt for Turner stretches into its 3rd week, his household is continuing to plead with the shot manager to instrumentality home. 

"If Travis has the quality and is capable to respond to his family’s wishes; your woman and children are successful distress," Collins said. "Leslie pleads for you to travel location and look the allegations by defending yourself successful a tribunal of law. Don’t permission your household to combat this conflict without you. They emotion and miss you. They privation you to cognize they are your support."