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- Case 279: Zebb Quinn
In early January 2000, residents of Asheville, North Carolina, were told to be on the lookout for 18-year-old Zebb Quinn after he failed to return home after finishing his shift at Wal-Mart. A co-worker of Zebb’s, Robert Jason Owens, claimed that Zebb had sped off after receiving a mysterious message on his pager.
Two weeks later, an unexpected breakthrough in the case presents some bizarre clues. But as twist after twist emerges, the prevailing question remains - did Zebb Quinn leave of his own accord, or was he the victim of foul play?
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I can't believe that pagers are so old that he had to explain what they are...that means I'm really old, because I had a pager in the 90s. 😂
Me too (almost 47,) also explaining *69, and the fact that zeb had "just bought a new DVD player" LoL
@@pr0cessa I'm just a year behind you, and those explanations for the young'uns really have me feeling my age!
So that's a pager, but what's a pay phone?
Shut up
I am 22 and I knew what a pager was, some people are just stupid no matter what age my guy
Excellent work by the police by not investigating the guy who not only pretended to be Zeb, but was also admitted to hospital for serious injuries that morning. Dude was either paying them off or I'm an 8 foot tall alien.
No S##t!! OR, fingerprints, local Labrador Breeders, DNA in the car, shoe prints on brake & accelerator, etc WTF!? .. Yes, there was DNA testing & Internet back then. Lol!
@@daisydelarocha3688if his DNA had been in the car, it wouldn't have proven much - the two were acquainted, so it was quite likely that he'd been inside the car at some point.
"Zebb Quinn" sounds like the name of a Stephen King character
Eh ?
It’s kind of an epic name
Quinny was alright.
What about tarintino pulp fiction?
It's an awesome name
So very sad 😫. Zebb sounded a truthful, trusting young man who worked hard and didn't see evil around him.RIP
I'm evil
Casefile is the first true crime channel I listened to! About 3 years ago. I'm still here and still impressed!! ♥️
This is the best crime story channel out there,i like the long format and the depth they go into,its not rushed,and i dont feel shouted out,10/10
Why would they shout you out? Were you one of the journalists? Or maybe the person who did the disappearing…
*End of video*
“Shout out to the kidnapper and possible murder, and to the journalists who covered the story cheers mates 🥳🍻🍻”
@kd7100 they probably meant "and I don't feel shouted at" seeing as the rest of the comment was full of praise.
Great for CZcams Premium users. For the first 30 minutes I had the screen closed while doing some housework. Then I decided to eat some breakfast, and check the comments.
The friend of the couple who said that Jason creeped him out upon seeing him was spot on. Horrible that 4 vibrant lovely lives are snuffed out and the creep who did it is stil breathing
Wait, who was the fourth?
The baby
My sons name is Zeb Quinn.RIP my beautiful boy.❤
Rip
So very sorry this happened to Zeb. As a mother I can’t even imagine.
So sorry for your loss. RIP Zeb. ❤. What a cool name BTW. Zeb & I are the same age. Both of us have learning disabilities, worked at Wal-Mart(I worked @ Sam's Club), both of us hung out with the wrong crowd, & are way too trusting. I feel as though, if I knew him we would have been buddies. I'm jealous though. I wanted a pager so bad!! Lol! PS just know,, our loved ones in Heaven say, "Hello," many different ways. His favorite song/s will pop up on the radio out of nowhere, white feathers, random coins, heart shaped rocks, cloud formations, etc.. I am so sorry for your loss & the pain and suffering your family & you have endured.
❤RIP Zeb Quinn❤
💛 GodBless 💛
So sorry for your loss 💔
Im so sorry for your loss. He seemed like a good person its a shame rotten people will take advantage of someone so good. That really is a cool name. I hope you find peace 🙏
Somebody should have warned JT and Christy that Jason was a prime suspect in an unsolved murder. JT probably asked Jason for some of that $7000 back.
Another tragic, heartbreaking yet fascinating case. Thank you, Casefile. Well done!!!!
Early Casefile tonight... Wonderful. Thank you Casey and Team for always respectful, stick to facts reporting 👌
4:13 am. is definitely early.
Shout to all casefile listener's frm the 🇬🇧😎🙏👊👍✌
Listening in Suffolk !
@@anthonysawyer9140 Backatcha from Essex
👋 from the troubled U.S.
Hi from the Isle of Thanet, Kent.
@@amethyst1826 shout bk to u frm planet Thanet 😎🙏👊👍✌🇬🇧
I love the background video.. I somehow assumed it was a menacing killer. Only now realized it's the mystery narrator.
"you will be judged by the company you keep " - truly chilling case. Yes, I'm sure there is more to this case.
Misty Taylor and Wesley were directly involved. Jason's uncle could have broken into Zebb's aunt's house to make the pager call. But he had to be involved with Wes to have a reason. Maybe there was a local weed or meth ring that Zach found out about.
Asheville local here! I’ve never heard of this story. It’s strange to hear the names of the places you know in a video like this. Wonderful work!
Zebb sounds like he was a really sweet kid. He deserved better. RIP darling Zebb.
i think about zebb all the time living in Asheville, people still talk about the strange circumstances surrounding his disappearance. it made a lot of people stop saying “things like that don’t happen here”
What are most people in Asheville's theories about the puppy & abandoned car in the location it was in?
Dude tries to kill a police officer and gets only 8 months?! Yeah...that'll teach him.
I mean he probably should have gotten more, but realistically with the lack of rehabilitation in US prisons it would've tought him little regardless
You don't go to prison with months
So sorry for both families loss. I am relieved and glad that the persons involved in these deaths were caught.
Never believe someone when they claim they cremated a body. It's extremely hard to do, esp on a camp fire. It's pretty much impossible
Yea, BS to cremating bones on a campfire. Creepy small towns, there's always some weirdo family with shady secrets.
Thank you so much for not putting those sponsor adds in anymore, I think we all really appreciate it
They deserve to make money.
@@CPTSDRecoveryChatASMRtotally agree
Don't be so selfish. Ads are how these people make the money to keep us entertained. These videos are FREE. So suck it up about the ads.
Fuck ads
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**Binge* 😂
Your timing is always ON POINT!!!
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Thank you for telling your stories straight forward and keeping the ads short. I didn’t skip them in hopes you make more money. Making my Friday work day fly by!!
Saturday night casefiles yessss thankyou ! Watching from N Z 🇳🇿
Hi from Down Under 🇦🇺
As someone who lives in the same town as Zebb and frequents the same places, this town, sadly, is nowhere near as safe as people think. Nearly everytime I go to Walmart, I get harassed by someone, and crime is rampant in the downtown area. Literally on my way to dance one night I witnessed a forensic van taking photos of a murder scene. Sadly this stuff is common but people tend to assume the “small town charm” makes it safer than it is :( my prayers go out to his family
Great Saturday morning now!!!!
Thanks for the work.
I'm from Asheville and still live in WNC. I can't believe there isn't more videos about this case.
I remember when the Disappeared ep premiered for this case, before it was solved... Complete with reenactment of the lipstick/puppy... So bizarre!
That's the first time I heard of the case. Disappeared was a great show.
This particular episode had the "good" narrator 😊
Most early I've ever been! Keep up the amazing work casey and team!!!
I was friends with Zebb through mutual friends. This tragedy was horrible.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
Brilloant video, thank you! How sad, Zebb's words about friendship;-
RIP Zebb ❤❤
This long format is great for CZcams Premium users. For the first 30 minutes I had the screen closed while doing some housework. Then I decided to eat some breakfast, and check the comments.
*I missed the motive for murder.*
I don't think anyone really knows for sure.
Jason Owen claimed his uncle was hired by Wesley Smith to kill Zebb Quinn and he helped dispose of the body. He likely killed JT and Christe over money.
Love this channel
No matter how infatuated a guy gets with a woman, if she’s with an abusive man, do NOT get in the middle and do NOT entertain fantasies about taking her away from that man when she is showing no interest in leaving him.
Oh thats...
I don't agree, what a man in such a situation should do is get others involved, organisations that house abused women, her family, the police maybe, just don't make yourself the target, don't be the only person helping so you're not the only target.
Fact. You will end up with troubles, and will be the bad guy of the story as a thank for your efforts. Mind your own business. It just doesn't worth it.
Zeb was super young at the time & probably didn't know that yet.
@@c.w.8200this is the important part, but OP is right that you do not get involved. If she comes afterwards, that's fine, but don't get close to her while she's with an abusive prick.
Very underrated channel! Keep it up
This was masterfully done.
I’m 38 minutes in, at the beginning, the narrator talked about Zeb and Jason going to look at a car. Did Deb have cash on him that Jason would like to have? But it does sound like they fall because Jason turned up was significant injury’s. I would make is that Jason shot and police officers, normal people do not shoot police officers. Capable of murder might. Jason didn’t come home all night. Jason called into Zeba work. I’m going with Jason killed him. If he had accomplice, that part, I don’t have a hypothesis.
I was in school with someone called Jason Owen. A ridiculously normal name.
One thing about the US which suprised me when I flew and travelled thru it a while back is that how much native forrest cover it has . A remarlabky beautiful country, but nothing vwould induce me to walk in its numerous national parks , forrest trails without carrying a defence weapon and taking dogs and company with me . Way too many nut cases in the USA
Well, if you're ever in South Africa we also have plenty of wild places, even outside of parks, but you're more likely to die just walking around the streets in most of South Africa.
Cry, My Beloved Country.
Apologies to Alan Paton there.
Next time, try going in Canada, there's more natural forest without the nut people in it. The nature here is really amazing.
@@SurnaturalMDon't be naive. U can be murdered jogging down the street from ur home. There are plenty of cases from Canada of people being missing and killed my friend. Crime is everywhere. All u can do is be attentive and smart in ur sorroundings!!!
Our national parks are safe and beautiful.
Thanks Matey 👍
No mention of fingerprints being taken from Jeb's car or analysis of what was used to draw the lips on the back window of Jeb's car, or enough research of where the lab puppy came from,if they had this case may have been solved much much sooner
That was confusing. Seems like they got their man in the end but the middle bit is absolutely bizarre. I feel like Owens had a female accomplice though the dog seems like a female touch to me
This whole case is one Hillbilly-induced nightmare.
Zebb’s mother sounds like such a good person at least.
So the guy to last see zeelbb Jason ownes well his uncle killed zebb zebb had a crush on the girl Taylor Taylor's bf hired Owens uncle to kill zebb and ownes was used to lure the kid after work killed and Owens helped him dispose of the body. Owns got 14 years he was found guilty of a lesser charge and also he killed two other people Owens and was given a life sentance
true unexplained mystery, this one is going to get my down the rabbit hole
This is so weird my wife was just telling me about this the other day she knew this guy and it’s never been solved.
Sweet Jebb; deepest condolences to his mother and family and friends. I hope some peace and maybe joy have come to them.
How sad. 😢.
Well done like the case files of old
Cant stop the fiiiiiiire
I find that it seems to be a very "family" kept crime if their was a cousin love problem. Wesley put a "friend" make that pager call to get Zeb somewhere to "teach" a lesson to keep his hands off his kids mom.
Jasons life changed after Zeb dissapered if he became an alchoholic but he highly likely had an accomplice later of the couple. As someone clearly arson his place.
No justice
So very sad...
I’ve always wondered if the lips on the car were just drawn on by someone, maybe a kid, walking by the car after it was parked in the parking lot. The puppy was definitely left in the car to draw attention to it, though. I’d wonder if it sat there for a few hours and no one noticed, so * someone * placed the puppy in the car so that it would be “found” soon after.
The car wasn't hiding though, I think people were looking for it anyway, the lips are strange 🤷🏼♂️. Definitely doesn't look his car had crashed into the back of another car. The person who sent the page will have the answers 👍
... what?
Jason is lying people like Zebb close to his mom never missing work. Nope Jason is Lying 💯
You can’t burn a human body to ashes in a fire pit. It doesn’t reach high enough temperatures.
Still no , you can’t cremate a human body as in fire pit. You can reduce it down significantly and then spread those contents over field or lake or something, but like you would associate with cremated person.? No
You don't need to burn it to ash. Only enough to more easily dispose of the remainingbobe fragments. Even crematorium don't completely reduce a body; they pulverize any bone fragments before giving them to the decreased family.
I dont live far from Ashville. It used to be a nice town to visit but everyone is on drugs and just a bunch of weird Os . You'll see all kinds up there. My husband and I used to go to Ashville a lot when we were dating but now its like Charlotte N.C. I avoid both places. Cant think of a good enough reason to go to either place. But people are seriously weird in Ashville. People in Charlotte are just violent. I remember this case and its a good example of the weird I was talking about.
Sounds positively scary. I have no idea of what sort of town Ashville could be. Greetings from Granada, Spain.
I feel like all towns named Asheville are sketchy.
😂@@Tsumami__
@@Tsumami__like ashes to ashes .....
Maybe explain what Spin magazine was? 😅
Who left the dog in the car and who drew the lips on the windshield ? A person will be judged by the company he keeps .
I figured misty and her boyfriend were involved, i think jason is telling the truth, from minute 25 i thought jason was threatened to stay quiet, maybe misty got off on her boyfriend killing for her, and the car makes sense that she got it as a demented gift, clearly jason suffered knowing that his friend was killed and held back on telling anyone out of fear
Sounds like Zebb was a genuinely nice guy.
The Disappeared episode on Investigation Discovery channel about Zebb was literally called “Just A Nice Guy”. Such a sad case.
Awesome AI Narrator voice.
What was Jason's motive?
Nobody knows, Jason isn’t trustworthy
You've not seen nothing like a Zebb Quin...
Rip
Nothing like an Ozzi accent. I wonder if it is the ridge didge voice recording and not AI. You can hardly tell these days.
Come now, let us reason together…
If content disturbs you, you just need to put down your device and get outside a little more often.
People are far too thin skinned these days. We’re know we’re getting too soft when we start fearing the idea of thinking.
Go outside. Breathe. Live.
Sound fair?
Get a life.
Oh my lord number 1.
You're killing it! 😂
Oh my God a bunch of kids
Oh my lord it's your greatest accomplishment in life
The fact that every single video made these days comes with a "trigger warning" is more disturbing than the content ever could be.
This one was fucked up
So, in other words, JASON Owens, so why not just say so??
Are the north carolinas hill billy county ?
No, that’s your place.
Some parts of the Carolinas (North and South) are very hillbilly, but Asheville where Zebb was from is not. It's very suburban, well-serviced, and a popular tourist destination in the region. But it's also in the Appalachian region, so you get a few minutes outside the suburbs and it's very rural again, though I would say it's still not *hillbilly* until it's all mountains. (By the way, whether you meant it that way or not, "hillbilly" is often used to abuse rural mountain people in the US, though some of us prefer to reclaim the title. Signed, West Virginia hillbilly and proud of it!)
Zebb is dead
Content warnings are ridiculous
This sounds like a book report.
Zebb quinn maniac
This crime podcast sounds so amateur, no interviews at all? Just dull constant reading. 48hrs & Snapped podcasts are so much better!
Zebb sounds like he was a really sweet kid. He deserved better. RIP darling Zebb.