Missing high school coach Travis Turner was being investigated for child porn and soliciting a minor, police reveal

NY Post ^ | 11/25/2025 | Emily Crane

[DFG]

Missing high school football coach Travis Turner was being investigated for child porn and soliciting a minor when he mysteriously vanished last week, cops revealed in a stunning update Tuesday.

The 46-year-old married father has been the subject of a missing person’s probe ever since he disappeared when cops headed to his home Appalachia, Va. last Thursday as part of an undisclosed investigation.

Police now say he is wanted for child pornography and five counts of using a computer to solicit a minor.

Turner, the head grid coach at Union High School in Big Stone Gap, is wanted on child pornography and five counts of using a computer to solicit a minor, state police said.

This is a developing story.

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[Liz]

Travis Turner.

[Liz]

Travis Turner.

[allendale]

Beware of covert, cryptic queers.

[Migraine]

Virginia. Just in case you’re interested.

[alternatives?]

Suicide?

[dfwgator]

Another Sandusky.

[catnipman]

or could just be on the lam ...

[alternatives?]

It is hard to hide five days with cell phones and credit cards.

[PGR88]

The man was living a completely hidden double life

then he got caught. There is no way out of that contradiction at that point.

Most likely result therefore is he went into the woods somewhere, and shot himself.

[lee martell]

Whether he’s guilty of these accusations or not, his public image has been forever changed. Being publicly accused of such acts is not something people just forget about, like being ‘accused’ of not recycling or properly separating your trash. Now, everyone knows his name.
It becomes a ‘Prove that you didn’t!’ situation.

[Tommy Revolts]

...married father

Good Lord.

[skimbell]

Strange country we live in here.
No way am I suggesting that this is in any way OK, but this guys life is OVER, while the scum in the District of Perversion go about their life without a care in the world.

[shotgun]

I worked with a gal whose husband was a Middle School teacher. She was drop dead gorgeous and he was equally studly. One day he told her he was sick and needed to stay home. This went on for about 2 weeks until the Cops showed up to arrest him for having sex with an 8th grade student. He decided he wasn’t going to jail and blew his head off with a shotgun while the cops were at the door.

At that time, she found out the school district had placed him on administrative leave and that he had lied to her about being sick.

My co-workers and I always had her figured as a cold fish, which drove him to seek outside attention. About a year earlier, she busted him having affairs with a couple of women on the school staff. So, if he wasn’t getting much loving before, I ‘m sure those affairs didn’t help in that department which eventually led to his self-destructive behavior.

[MayflowerMadam]

“He decided he wasn’t going to jail and blew his head off with a shotgun “

Whatever works.

[shotgun]

It did the job

[lee martell]

It’s rather sad. Even if the story is disproven, that Pandora’s box of Doubt, Distrust & Disgust has been flung wide open. You can bet each member of that family now feels like their walking under a hot bright Spotlight and ZOOM Camera whenever they step outside the family home.
High School Coaches are often semi local-celebrities already. Public people.

[DeplorableTrumpSupporter]

When my son gets a bit older, I’d love to coach his team, yet nowadays people might think I could be in coaching to molest kids. I think that is why youth sports are dieing. Why risk it? If you hug someone, that might be a trigger to busy bodies.

[Mathews]

Some hiker will find his remains...

[Buttons12]

My co-workers and I always had her figured as a cold fish, which drove him to seek outside attention.

So, his "drop-dead gorgeous" wife wasn't overtly sexy around her co-workers, therefore she drove him to adultery and that "didn't help" him resist child molestation.