In January 2000, 18-year-old Zebb Quinn clocked out of his Walmart shift in Asheville, North Carolina, and vanished. Two weeks later, his car was found abandoned in a restaurant parking lot—with the headlights still on, a puppy trapped inside, and a strange lipstick drawing scrawled across the rear window.

For years, suspicion swirled around the last person to see him alive, his coworker Robert Jason Owens. But it wasn’t until 2017—after Owens was convicted in another shocking case—that he was finally indicted for Zebb’s murder. Then, in 2022, a plea deal revealed a chilling new account: Owens claimed his own uncle, now dead, was the real killer.

This episode unravels the bizarre twists, alleged cover-ups, and lingering questions in a case that remains unsolved more than two decades later. Who killed Zebb Quinn—and why?

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