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Discretion is it by it's in immediate
murder. Idyllic locations seem to have a

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moment where everything changes for the worse. Community is known for being comfortable and

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carefree, are often tainted by unspeakable
evils. Asheville, North Carolina, is

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nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
It's an area of breathtaking beauty and is

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a popular destination for tourists. Those
who love the outdoors enjoy hiking on the

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trails, where they can marvel at
the numerous waterfalls and enjoy whitewater rafting.

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The Blue Ridge Parkway is a four
hundred sixty nine mile stretch of road that

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runs near Asheville and offers America's favorite
drive. Visitors flocked to the region to

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tour the builtmore estate and enjoy the
thriving local arts scene. However, this

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vibrant region was cloaked in something more
dark and sinister. It was January two

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thousand when a teenager named zeb Quinn
mysteriously vanished into the night. His disappearance

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left authorities puzzled and his parents heart
broken. For seventeen agonizing years, authorities

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learned that zeb Quinn was murdered and
they had a suspect named Jason Owens.

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Shockingly, Zeb's murder was not the
only one linked to Jason. He also

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admitted to the gruesome murders of a
local family. What was once a place

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where people could live peacefully in homes
with their doors unlocked quickly morphed into somewhere

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people had to look over their shoulders
in fear. Zeb Quinn was born May

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nineteen eighty one and was remembered by
those who knew him as a good kid.

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Jerry and Denise Quinn. Zeb's parents
divorced when he was young. Zeb

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lived with Denise, who was a
pediatric intensive care nurse. He didn't really

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have much of a relationship with his
father until he was sixteen years old.

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Zeb attended and graduated from Robertson High
School. He was a member of the

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high school's Reserve Officer Training Corps or
ROTC, and planned on attending Ashville Buncomb

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Technical Community College after graduation. To
earn money, Zeb worked at a local

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Walmart. In his free time,
He enjoyed fishing and playing pool, Tommy

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Hill, figure clothes, and cologne, where items Zeb would purchase with the

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money he made at Walmart. He
loved his job and took it very seriously.

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He would not let his own mother
use his Walmart discount card because it

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was against their rules. It was
at Walmart where Zeb met Jason Owens.

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They occasionally played pull together, and
on the evening of January second, two

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thousand, Zeb was working when he
struck up a conversation with Jason in the

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parking lot. They chatted and Zeb
mentioned that he was looking to upgrade his

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car. Jason knew of a car
for sale in a nearby county and offered

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to show it to Zeb after he
got off work. They planned to drive

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separately to check it out. Zeb
got off work at nine ten pm and

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the two stopped at a local convenience
store to grab a soda. According to

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Jason, when the two men were
driving separately, Zeb pulled off to the

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side of the road. Zeb had
a pager on him and it went off.

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Neither man had a cell phone,
so Zeb told Jason to wait while

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he found a pay phone to see
what the page was for. When Zeb

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returned ten minutes later, he allegedly
bumped his car into the back of Jason's

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vehicle. Jason told investigators that Zeb
was upset, but apologized about bumping into

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Jason's car. He offered to pay
for any damages, but told Jason that

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he received another page and could not
make the trip to see the car.

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There was something bothering Zeb. Jason
watched Zeb drive off, and he told

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investigators that was the last time that
he saw him. Later that evening,

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Jason showed up at a local hospital
and was treated for a head injury and

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broken ribs. He claimed he was
in a car accident. Strangely enough,

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a report about the incident did not
exist. It was discovered later that the

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person paging Zeb was a woman named
Anah Eustache. She was Zeb's aunt.

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When questioned by investigators, Anah denied
calling her nephew. They also discovered something

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strange about the location where Zeb made
the call. It came from his dad's

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apartment. Jason told investigators that Zeb
was not gone for long to make the

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call. If he did make the
call from his dad's apartments, then he

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would have been gone longer than Jason, and claimed he was also Zeb's father,

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said that he was not at home
at the time the call was made

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to Ienah Eustach. Ienah claimed that
someone had been in her apartment without her

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permission, and they made mysterious phone
calls using her phone. Ienah said that

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her phone was found in a different
place where she left it, Plus she

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noticed someone damaged a picture in her
home. The night Zeb disappeared, Denise

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Quinn paged him at a round ten
pm because he had not returned home from

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work. Maybe he had stopped for
a game of pool and forgot the call.

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Hours passed and Denise grew more and
more nervous. She spent the next

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day frantically looking for her son.
She tried calling Misty Taylor, a girl

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that Zeb was talking to at the
time. Misty claimed she didn't know where

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Zeb was and didn't see him the
night of January second. A supervisor of

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Zeb's at Walmart received a call on
January third, someone claiming to be Zeb

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called in sick. The supervisor knew
better because the caller sounded nothing like Zeb.

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It was also reported that Zeb wasn't
one to call in sick. On

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a hunch, the supervisor dialed Star
sixty nine on their phone for the number

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from the caller. It was traced
back to the place where Jason Owens worked.

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Jason admitted to investigators that Zeb asked
him to call in sick, pretending

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to be ZEB. Investigators asked Jason
to take a polygraph test and he passed.

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Pause. I feel like anytime I
mentioned on this podcast someone taking polygraph

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tests and passing or failing or being
inconclusive, I always have to tell you

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my personal opinion on polygraphs. They
are basically useless. I mean, police

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use them as leverage, but they
are not admissible in court for a reason.

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It's basically a coin flip as to
the results you're going to get.

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Investigators also learned that Misty was rumored
to be hanging out with Aina Eustitch the

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night Zeb went missing. Misty was
something of a crush Zeb. She was

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not single. In fact, she
had a boyfriend named Wesley Smith, and

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it's believed that he was considered abusive
in his relationship with Misty. Zeb was

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aware of Misty and Wesley's relationship.
Those that worked with Zeb recalled he was

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afraid of Wesley. A missing person's
case was filed. Zeb Quinn had disappeared

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and clues were few. Two weeks
after he vanished, Zeb's car was found

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in the parking lot of Little Pigs
Barbecue. Employees did not recall seeing a

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car in the parking lot before five
pm the previous day. Zeb's car had

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two exclamation points and lips drawn on
the back windshield. Someone used pink lipstick

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to draw them on the windshield.
In the car was a three month old

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black Lab puppy retriever mix. The
windows had been cracked and the puppy was

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fine. Also found in the car
was a mysterious magnetic hotel key. The

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key didn't don't have any identifying information. The site of the abandoned car was

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near the hospital where Zeb's mother and
sister worked. Also, there were claims

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that a mysterious woman was seen driving
Zeb's car before it was discovered. Local

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law enforcement was stumped and Zeb's mother, Denise, decided to hire her own

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private investigator. All eyes were on
Aina Eustitch, Misty, and Jason Owens.

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The town was plastered with missing person
flyers. Psychic was called in to

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assist. The psychic was handed Zeb's
Walmart vest and a vision appeared to the

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psychic. It wasn't happy news.
Zeb, according to the psychic, had

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died and was buried. A woman
Zeb's sister encountered at the hospital where she

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worked, shared a chilling vision that
haunted her for days. This unnamed woman

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told Zeb's sister that she saw Zeb
in these vivid dreams that she was having.

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He was dead, but he had
been buried in a shallow grave near

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a stream. There was a construction
site in the woman's dream, plus,

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Zeb was holding something in his right
hand. She had no idea what he

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was holding, only that he was
holding something. The woman would also explain

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that these visions led her to believe
that Zeb's death was an accident. A

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horse shoe, for some reason,
was visible at times. Two years after

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Zeb went missing, Jason was involved
in a high speed chase with Asheville police.

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During the chase, Jason fired shots
at the police. He was caught

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and arrested. A yellow ribbon had
been tied around the family's tree at Denise's

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house. It had faded and become
worn. As the months turned into years,

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Zeb's family and friends watched the case
go cold. They hoped for an

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answer, and the answers arrived.
In March of twenty fifteen, but in

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an utterly horrifying way. Christie and
her husband Joseph J. T. Cod

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were reported missing. The CODs were
both in the entertainment industry. Christie was

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a celebrity chef that had appeared on
the Food Network, and JT worked as

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a grip. A man had been
seen on their property. He was carrying

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large bags and tossed them into the
dumpster. Christie's family was concerned when she

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and her husband did not arrive at
Mississippi for a planned visit. Something was

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obviously wrong, so they called the
police in the Ashville area for assistance.

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When authorities arrived at the halm of
Christie and JT, they found their belongings

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in a dumpster. Law enforcement learned
that the mystery man on their property dumping

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items was a neighbor. His name
was Jason Owens. Jason lived a mile

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away from Christie and JT. His
property was searched by investigators and they made

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a horrifying discovery in a wood stove
or human remains. Jason told investigators that

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he was doing work at the Cod
residence when his truck became stuck. The

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CODs were asked by Jason to help
get his truck unstuck, then he claimed

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that he accidentally ran them over.
Jason then backed his truck up and ran

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them over a second time. He
claimed he panicked, dismembered the CODs,

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and burned the remains. Also,
Christie was pregnant when she died, adding

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to the tragedy. When asked why
he did it, Jason stated that he

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knew he would get manslaughter and just
wanted to hide the evidence. An investigation

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of his truck showed no damage,
plus it had just been cleaned. Jason

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even robbed the Cod residence and sold
some of the belongings to make it look

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like a robbery gone wrong. Investigators
had Jason as a main suspect in the

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disappearance of Zeb Quinn and the Cod
killings. They searched Jason's property after a

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family member admitted Jason started digging a
fresh pond on his property after Zeb disappeared.

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Concrete had been poured on that spot. Investigators found fabric, leather materials,

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and unknown hard fragments that linked Jason
to Zeb's disappearance. Jason informed his

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defense attorneys that a family member that
has never been named killed Zeb, dismembered

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him, and burned the remains.
It was April twenty seventeen when Jason Owens

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was sentenced to a minimum of fifty
nine and a half years in prison without

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the possibility of parole. Jason was
the last person to see zeb Quinn alive,

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and he claims to this day that
someone else did that to Zeb.

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Families want closure when a loved one
is murdered. It's uncertain if zeb Quinn's

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family will ever experience that moment of
closure. We don't know who took Zeb's

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life for sure, although the clues
do point to Jason Owens. Also,

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there are still questions about the mysterious
pages Zeb received the night he went missing.

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Who parked his car at the barbecue
restaurant? Why was a dog left

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in the vehicle? Did Jason do
this all by himself? Also? Why

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did it take investigators some fifteen years
to obtain a search warrant for his property?

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All the answers are with Jason Owens, and maybe he'll eventually tell the

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truth. That is ten Minute Murder
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