Ash Kelley

That sounds about white.

It does.

So when he was released, he kind of just faded back into private life for like a minute.

But in the years that followed, he became a familiar face to the Asheville police, not just because of his link to the Zeb Quinn case, but also because of his tendency to get arrested for various petty crimes.

I mean, I wouldn't call drunk driving petty, but he got pulled over many more times and he also was a thief.

So years passed and the case grew colder and colder and colder.

And in the hope of eliciting some new leads, police released the surveillance camera footage from the convenience store where Zeb stopped just before he went missing.

So Captain Tom Ardima, hopefully I said that right,

said, I hope so.

I know.

When the tape failed to get a response from the public, investigators released a second tape the next year where they recreated the circumstances leading up to the disappearance, and that concluded with the discovery of Zeb's car in the parking lot.

investigator Daryl Fisher said, Yeah, we do.

But sadly, the video failed to produce any useful clues and the case was shelved as detectives shifted their attention back to active cases.

So Zeb's case sat on the shelf for another decade as his family and friends had to come to terms that he was most likely no longer alive.

It was also looking like they might never have answers for all their questions.

That's the worst part.

Yeah.

For all that time to go by and you probably wake up every single day with a new question about where your brother is, where your son is.

And they're just not being answered.

And you have, we say it all the time, like your mind fills in the holes.