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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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