Ash Kelley

So Owen's wife, she said, I don't know much beyond those basic details.

And Jason wouldn't say much more.

So the motive for the crime now really still remains mostly a mystery.

I think he just wanted to rob them.

By the way, don't forget, Christy was five months pregnant.

Oh, I forgot about that.

Yeah.

Oh, shit.

So a few days after his confession to dismembering the bodies and attempting to destroy the remains, Jason was indicted on three counts of first-degree murder.

Good.

For the deaths of Christy, JT, and their unborn baby.

Ugh.

I'm glad he got three.

Yeah.

Facing the death penalty, he accepted a plea deal in 2017 and was sentenced to a minimum of 60 years in prison.

Now, the plea obviously brought the Cod case to a close, but for Zeb's family and the investigators who worked the case over the previous 15 years, it sparked a renewed hope that with his arrest for this latest horrible crime, they actually might finally get some answers to their questions about where Zeb was and what had happened to him.

The renewed interest in the case prompted some new leads from the public, including an unnamed relative of Jason Owens, who told investigators that, quote, before and after January 2000, Owens dug a pit on his Owens Cove Road property to burn items.

And sometime after January 2000, he poured concrete over the area and said he was going to make a fish pond.

Oh.

Yeah.