Cold and Missing: Jason Jolkowski

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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.

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And I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.

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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases and missing person cases.

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Hello everyone and welcome back.

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Welcome back everyone.

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And welcome back to me.

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Yeah, you were feeling a little sick last week.

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Yeah, I'm happy to be here and serve the podcast once again.

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We're glad to have you back.

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I missed you.

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I miss you whenever we're apart, honestly.

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But I was just in the room over.

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Yes.

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Alright, episode 45?

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Episode 45.

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Alright, I believe this is a missing case, so I'm looking forward to get that name out

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there and learning about this person.

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Yeah, let's just get into it, huh?

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Sounds good.

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Today I have for you the missing person case of Jason Jolkowski.

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And this takes place in June of 2001 in Omaha, Nebraska.

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But first, a little bit about Jason.

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Jason is 19 years old in 2001.

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He was born June 24, 1981, and he would have turned 42 years old this past weekend at the

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time of recording.

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In 2001, Jason is 6'1", 160 pounds, and has brown hair and brown eyes.

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He lived with his parents and younger brother in Omaha, Nebraska, and was working to save

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up money to return to Iowa Western College, where he had been studying to become a radio

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DJ.

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He had gotten a job at the local college radio station, 89.7 FM, the River, where he went

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by JJ on the air.

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Jason has above average intelligence.

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He had a knack for recalling baseball stats at the drop of a hat.

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But he often had trouble with his interpersonal communication skills, according to his family.

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Jason was heavily involved in his parish at the Holy Name Catholic Church.

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The Sunday before he went missing, he read during the Sunday service.

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He read Proverbs 8: 22-31, and Romans 5: 1-5.

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He would often spend his free time at church praying as part of the parish's continuous

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prayer program.

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Everyone described Jason as a shy, quiet young man who would keep to himself, but would also

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go out of his way to help someone.

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And now the timeline of events.

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On Tuesday, June 12, 2001, the night before Jason disappears, he spends it with his family

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and family friends.

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His mother, Kelly Murphy, recalls that they had played a game where the goal was trying

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to make others laugh.

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Jason would always laugh first.

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Everything was good and he was in high spirits.

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The next day, Wednesday, June 13, 2001, Jason, at this time, worked at Fazoli's restaurant

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but had recently gotten a new job that he was going to start in the next week that he

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was very excited for.

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His new job paid more and had a tuition program, which would help him get back to college faster.

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He was scheduled to work at Fazoli's at 5.30 p.m., but Jason was called at 10.30 a.m.

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and asked if he could come in early.

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Jason's car was in the body shop getting worked on, so he said he would have to walk

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the four miles to get there.

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Jason's mom, Kelly, said that it would have been normal for Jason to take the long walk

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since his car was out of commission.

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Jason hops in the shower and starts to get ready for work.

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Before he leaves, his phone rings again and it's Jason's co-worker, Teresa Redd.

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She says that she'll pick him up and drive him to work.

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Jason asks that Teresa pick him up from Benson High School.

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Teresa recalls the conversation going as follows.

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Jason says, quote, OK, just meet me at Benson.

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And Teresa replies, OK, you better be there, end quote.

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They agreed to meet at 11 o'clock.

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According to Jason's family, he struggled with giving directions, so he picked the high

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school, which was eight blocks away from his home, and both him and his co-worker, Teresa,

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had graduated from there.

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At 10.45 a.m., Jason's 13-year-old brother heard a noise outside and saw Jason pulling

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the trash cans up from the curb.

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A neighbor, Chester Link, also sees Jason pulling the garbage cans up.

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Jason is wearing Blackwork slacks and his Blackwork shoes and is wearing a white Chicago

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Cubs t-shirt and wearing a Chicago Cubs baseball hat.

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He is carrying his red Fasoli's work shirt.

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Jason was last seen heading towards Benson High School.

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Teresa arrives at the high school and waits for Jason.

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She waits about 30 minutes before returning Fazoli's.

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When she arrives, she calls Jason's house back to ask why he didn't show up.

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Michael, Jason's younger brother, picks up the phone and it's discovered here that

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Jason is missing.

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Fazoli continues to call a few times throughout the day looking for Jason, but he also fails

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to show up for his 5.30 p.m. shift.

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When Jason's parents return home from work that day, that's when they are made aware

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that Jason is missing.

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Jason's parents, Kelly and Jim, believe that they had to wait 24 hours before they reported

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him missing.

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Investigators are later able to get the surveillance footage from the high school which showed

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that Jason never arrived there.

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So the next day, Thursday, June 14th, Jason's family reports him missing the next morning.

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Police write Jason off as a runaway and also, since he is technically an adult, he has the

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right to be missing.

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Jason's mom, Kelly, says, quote, And then it took at least another 10 days before the

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police took Jason's disappearance seriously.

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They assumed this was a typical teen runaway scenario, end quote.

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So 10 days truly do pass without any movement on Jason's case by police.

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So on Saturday, June 23rd, 2001, this is 10 days since Jason has been missing, police

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began canvassing the neighborhood where Jason was last seen.

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His mom, Kelly, says, quote, It's like he disappeared off of the face of the earth,

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end quote.

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The family believe firmly that Jason did not run away.

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When he left his home, he had no more than $60 on him.

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If he wanted to run away, they believe he would have waited for his car to get out of

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the shop.

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He would have picked up his last paycheck and he wouldn't have worn his work pants

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and work shoes.

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Nothing besides the clothes he left with was missing from his room.

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Investigators say that there had been no cell phone activity or bank activities since Jason

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disappeared.

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On Sunday, June 24th, this is 11 days, Jason's 20th birthday comes and goes.

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His family hopes that he'll walk through the door at any moment and this nightmare

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will be over.

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On Monday, June 25th, so this is now 12 days, police investigate Mahoney State Park.

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It's about 20 miles west of Omaha near the Platte River.

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A witness called in and said she saw a man matching Jason's description at the park.

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When police arrive, the witness is given a photo of Jason to look at and she becomes

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unsure if the man she saw was him.

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Police continue to search the park for several hours but find no sign of Jason.

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On Tuesday, July 3rd, 2001, this is 3 weeks now, a reward fund is started by Jason's

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parents' employers for any information that will lead to him.

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His family hopes that with offering money that the tips will start to come in.

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On Friday, July 13th, 2001, so this is one month since Jason's disappearance, in that

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time he did not reach out to the auto shop that was repairing his car.

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His parents will eventually retrieve the car from the shop and there is still no cell phone

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activity or bank activity.

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And as of 2023, there has never been any cell phone or bank activity in regards to Jason.

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Family also do not believe that he would harm himself.

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The family believe that his strong faith would have gone against this and he was excited

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about his life.

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He had a new job that he was looking forward to and his parents say that he was turning

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his situation around financially.

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He was very hopeful.

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Police say they have no leads in the case.

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On Sunday, July 22nd, 2001, Jason's family hold a prayer service at their home church.

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His mom Kelly says, quote, we feel someone somewhere knows something about where he is.

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We have to find that someone who may have seen something, end quote.

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And then the next big update we got is June 13th, 2002.

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So that's a year that Jason has been missing.

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But police still say they have no leads and no suspects at the one year mark.

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Jason's mom Kelly says, quote, I think we'll always continue to have hope.

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We have to hope and we will continue to have hope until we know what has occurred, end

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quote.

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And then each year at the anniversary, the local media will run stories about Jason's

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disappearance, but there's never any movement on the case.

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There's never any big updates or new information revealed.

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In October of 2003, Jason's parents start Project Jason and Project Jason's mission

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was to help families of missing individuals.

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And they also aimed to pass out free ID kits for Omaha's children.

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They will run Project Jason until 2018.

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But really, those are the last updates in regards to Jason.

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There's lots of stories about his family and how they've continued to cope with the grief

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of this loss.

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But like I mentioned before, there's no updates in those stories.

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In 2021, police say that the case is still open, but there are no leads and there are

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no suspects.

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To date, police have never said if they have been able to collect any evidence in this

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case.

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So with that, if you know anything about the disappearance of Jason Jolkowski or his whereabouts

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today, please call the Omaha police at 402-444-5657 or you can contact Detective Jim Reising directly

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at 402-444-4127.

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And the sources for the timeline today come from Omaha World Herald, the Des Moines Register,

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Lincoln Journal Star, Fremont Tribune, KETV, W-O-W-T News, The Catholic Voice, and CNN.com.

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So that is the case of Jason Jolkowski.

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Yeah, it's so odd to me that it just kind of seems like it's a case that just disappeared

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like him, but there's just nothing.

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Like he vanished.

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It's pretty odd for the date and time and his size.

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Yeah, and the middle of the day.

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Yeah.

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But also, you know, sometimes perfect circumstances offer up like a camouflage like that or something,

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sadly, like sinister to go down or like a crime.

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I'm hoping that it's a case of left and didn't want to be found, as sad as that is, but like,

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I guess that's best case scenario right now and that eventually his family finds out where

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he is.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's confusing.

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I don't really understand what happened.

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I couldn't remember if you said was that coworker interviewed more or that interaction?

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I don't know.

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It seems like that would be like where there would be more information, I guess.

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And that's not to say that I'm pointing a finger.

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It's just, it seems like maybe you are one of the last people to speak to him.

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I guess that's all that I'm saying.

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Yeah.

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His coworker, Teresa.

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Teresa, yes.

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I believe she was interviewed and we get a little bit of a report from her and newspaper

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accounts as to like what happens.

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If you research the story on your own, one thing that I did come across a couple of times,

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but I just couldn't find any other media reports to substantiate it, but something I came across

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like in true crime blogs, that there's a possibility that his coworker who was going to pick him

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up from the high school and take him into work, that instead of returning to work, she

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went to a gas station first to call his house and say, where are you?

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I've been waiting.

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And that call would have happened between 11:15 and 11:45.

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And Jason left his house at 10:45.

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So somewhere within that hour is where that conversation could have possibly happened.

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But from everything I read and was able to find in the media reports, she goes back to

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Fazoli's and calls from there to be like, why didn't you show up?

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And that's when she gets his younger brother.

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And they kind of realized that he's missing.

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But I don't know if they kind of write it off as like, well, maybe he did decide to

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walk.

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Maybe he's coming in at his scheduled time at 530.

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But his parents don't seem to be informed that Jason is missing until they get home

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from work.

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Yeah.

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I mean, just like he just walked away.

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It's just kind of what it seems like.

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Yeah.

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And police, you know, didn't jump into this case.

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What does that mean?

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They didn't jump into the case?

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You know, he was reported missing the next morning.

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And it took them about 10 days before they started to really look at his case and treat

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it as a disappearance.

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They thought he was over 18.

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Yeah, because he was 19.

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And they figured he was like a teen runaway.

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That's bananas.

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That's bananas, you guys.

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There's something I haven't understood about like, the law to like, just quickly make that

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call or why it's one that we gravitate to when I can't say, you know, for certain, if

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there's a statistic out there that someone is accumulated.

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But it seems like statistically, that's the wrong call.

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It seems like maybe listen to the people who know them.

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What feels like the people closest to the person, you know, missing or whatever are

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usually the people who are immediately under suspicion.

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And I am to a degree, I understand that.

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But I feel like if intuitively, if you're doing your job correctly, or serving the job's

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true purpose, then like, you judge based on feeling, which is how they make their very

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first judgment call of, oh, I was supposed to run away.

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I have a feeling.

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So it's like, okay, well, if you can make a call based on that feeling, maybe make it

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off of this feeling.

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You know?

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It's just like, I call BS on, I call BS on like rash decision making like that, especially

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in the first, like dig deeper.

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You know, ask more questions.

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Ask more questions.

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If there's not an answer, if you haven't scraped the bottom of the barrel, then you keep going

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when someone isn't there.

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Right.

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So I learned from everything that I read about Jason, he loved his family.

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He loved hanging out with his family.

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He would be on the phone with friends and be like, hang on, I have to go tuck my little

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brother in.

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Like, he loved his family.

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Yeah, like listening to you talk about him, I was like, oh, he kind of sounds like me.

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I'm like, this dude, like loves his car.

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Like, and when you know, he's someone who's doing well, he like feels good about that

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and like wants to stay on that trajectory.

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Probably wouldn't run away in the middle of like succeeding.

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You know, he's 19, he's getting older.

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He like needed a win.

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He was like, he was in a winning season.

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Totally.

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And the people around him knew that.

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So to say like, oh, probably run away.

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It's like, no, you know, he wasn't, didn't display any, anything like with like, you

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know, drinking or drugs where, where sometimes like random behavior like that would make

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sense.

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There's no evidence of that.

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Or at least to our knowledge, something smells off.

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And his parents feel firmly that if he was running away, like just at the basics, he

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would not have worn his like work clothes to run away.

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He would have been in tennis shoes and jeans.

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That's where I said it.

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We, it sounded like me.

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I was like, this kid's a planner.

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Like he loves his car.

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He would have called for his paycheck.

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Like I'm planning my runaway.

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I would have been the same way.

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I've been like, well, I need to make sure I have X amount of this for this.

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Like have a plan in place.

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You know, he's not a random dude.

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Right.

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And this is random.

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Right.

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What happened to him?

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Because obviously that wasn't his plan for the day.

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Like, it's not like he told someone, oh, I'm walking to work at 530.

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I have to walk.

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The Fazoli's was four miles from his house.

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So you know, that's like an hour and a half, two hour walk, depending on how fast you are.

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But you know, it's not like he told somebody, hey, I'm going to be walking like around three

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o'clock to get to Fazoli's.

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And you know, that was his plan.

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But this, it was like he was called in and he's like, okay, I'm going to start walking.

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And then the coworker is like, no, no, no, no, no.

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Like I'll come get you.

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This will be faster.

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Everything that he had planned for that day was different.

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So you know, if somebody had been watching him, it's like, that doesn't seem like what

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happened here at all.

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You know, like.

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I'm not going to speculate like what I think.

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I believe that the family probably lives in their mind, like within the worst fear of

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what they're speculating, what happened to their loved one.

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So I don't really, that doesn't really like serve our purpose here.

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In my opinion, as a true crime podcaster, what I think needs to happen is like, whoever

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knows something, I know, I believe 100% that someone who is alive has some serious information

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on what, on like on what happened in the whereabouts of him.

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Absolutely.

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Somebody knows something that needs, if you're out there, if you're listening, like now's

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the time, now's the time to come forward and say something like this family deserves peace.

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However, he comes home, he deserves to come home.

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And hopefully that is alive and well, but you know, like there's much peace that can

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be brought to the family.

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It should be brought to them.

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His mom is an amazing woman and she's talked a lot about Jason and has really kept Jason's

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case in the media over the years.

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And one thing she said that I thought was really perfect and, you know, summarize this

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kind of what you said is like, she has the right to hope until she knows what has actually

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occurred.

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I think it is the family's right to hold on to hope that he will come home safe and sound

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and walk through the door at 42 years of age and be like, let me tell you about the last

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22 years.

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But again, if you know something about what happened to Jason Jolkowski in June of 2001,

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please call the Omaha police at 402-444-5657 or you can contact detective Jim Reising at

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402-444-4127.

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I just want to wish him a happy birthday.

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Yeah.

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I know his birthday is yesterday, right?

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Yesterday.

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We're recording this on Sunday and it'll be posted on Monday.

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Yeah.

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Happy birthday, Jason.

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Happy birthday, Jason, wherever you are, buddy.

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We're thinking about you.

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Yeah.

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Send a big love to you and your family.

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Think that wraps us up for episode 45.

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Yeah.

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So like I say at the end of every podcast, if you can, while you're getting ready to

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go to your next show, if you could leave us review, I saw we had a couple new ratings

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in Apple podcasts and in Spotify.

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So thank you for leaving those five stars.

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Greatly appreciate it.

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If you have the time, if you could write us a little review in Apple podcasts.

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Wow.

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You become a huge hero in our home and we talk about you all the time and great esteem.

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So if you want that treatment, go ahead and write it and you will have.

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She usually runs into whatever room I'm in to read them to me.

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And most of the time I get a little misty eyed, I'd say.

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So if you want to cause that reaction in our home this week, you know how to do it.

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It's a pretty normal occurrence in our home.

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Yeah.

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Even just five flame emojis.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I would be over the moon about it.

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You can follow us at Instagram search cold and missing will pop up.

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We'll have pictures of Jason to show what he looks like and also some age progress photos

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to show what he would look like in his forties.

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So we can keep our eyes peeled for him.

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And if you want to learn more about us, about the podcast, other cases, you can head to

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our website, cold and missing.com and there we have all our episodes.

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They're organized really well.

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There's a couple of blog posts for episodes.

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There's information about your lovely hosts.

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That's Eli and I.

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You can donate to us.

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Everything you need to know is at our webpage, cold and missing.com.

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And with that, have a good week and stay safe, y'all.

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Stay safe, y'all.