Fugitive high school coach erased as school scrubs staff profile amid child porn charges: report

The fugitive Virginia precocious schoolhouse shot manager who disappeared amid an alleged kid pornography probe has had his illustration scrubbed from the school’s website. 

On Tuesday, authorities announced that they person obtained 10 warrants to complaint Travis L. Turner, 46, with 5 counts of possession of kid pornography and 5 counts of utilizing a machine to solicit a minor. 

The probe remains ongoing, with authorities adding that further charges are pending. 

Turner was archetypal reported missing arsenic officers with the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Wytheville Field Office were en way to his Appalachia home to talk with him astir the probe connected Friday, Nov. 21, according to authorities. Officials had visited Turner’s location 1 time prior, and were returning lone to talk with him and not marque immoderate arrests, constabulary said.

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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)

Police person launched an extended hunt crossed Wise County utilizing drones, K-9 units and ft patrols. He was past seen wearing a grey sweatshirt, sweatpants and glasses, according to Virginia's missing idiosyncratic database. 

Just days aft the probe was announced and pursuing Turner’s disappearance, Union High School appeared to person scrubbed the shot coach’s illustration from the online unit directory, according to ABC 7. 

Upon searching Turner’s past sanction connected the site, the lone ‘Turner’ listed arsenic an worker is his eldest son, Bailey, who works arsenic a carnal acquisition teacher, the Daily Mail reported.

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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)

In a erstwhile statement, a spokesperson for Wise County Public Schools confirmed that a unit subordinate employed by the territory had been placed connected administrative permission pending reappraisal of an outer allegation. However, the connection did not place the unit subordinate progressive oregon notation the charges filed against Turner. 

"A unit subordinate has been placed connected administrative permission with wage portion an outer bureau reviews an allegation that was reported to the division," Superintendent Mike Goforth said successful a connection astatine the time. "This is modular process and is not a determination of wrongdoing."

In an updated connection released aboriginal successful the week, the schoolhouse territory acknowledged that law enforcement has since filed charges against the unit subordinate who was already placed connected leave.

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Travis Turner disappeared from his family’s location successful Appalachia, Virginia connected Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. Authorities announced that they person obtained 10 warrants to complaint Turner with 5 counts of possession of kid pornography and 5 counts of utilizing a machine to solicit a minor. (Facebook/Leslie Caudill Turner)

"The idiosyncratic remains connected permission and is not permitted connected schoolhouse spot oregon to person interaction with students," Goforth said. "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."

Wise County Public Schools did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for remark regarding Turner’s existent employment status. 

The allegations against Turner are not the archetypal to uproot the Virginia precocious schoolhouse community.

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In 2023, Timothy Lee Meador, a teacher and manager astatine the aforesaid school, pleaded blameworthy to 2 charges of indecent liberties with a kid and served 1 twelvemonth and 3 months successful prison, ABC 7 reported. 

The 2 men’s employment astatine the schoolhouse reportedly overlapped, but details regarding which athletics Meador coached stay unclear. 

In airy of the charges filed against Turner, his wife, Leslie Caudill Turner, has spoken retired to contradict the accusations aft her hubby was charged, telling The Daily Mail that "none of that is true."

"He’s a bully dada and a bully husband, and we privation him home. That’s it," she said. "I don’t cognize anything. I don’t cognize anything. I’m sorry."

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Turner’s household lawyer and the VSP did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

Anyone with accusation astir Turner’s whereabouts is asked to interaction the Virginia State Police astatine (276) 228-3131.