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Speaker 1: School of Humans.

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Speaker 2: On the last episode of Helen Gone Murder Line, I

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Speaker 2: discussed the case of Jared Green, a twenty year old

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Speaker 2: young man who went missing from Sarcy, Arkansas, on September thirtieth,

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four. We talked to Jared's sister, Shannon, who's

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Speaker 2: been fighting to get justice for her brother for almost

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Speaker 2: her parents had gone through when they discovered that Jared

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Speaker 2: had developed a drug habit, and as he began to

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Speaker 2: descend further and further into methamphetamine addiction, he started hanging

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Speaker 2: out more and more with Brandon Wheeler and Robert Webb,

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Speaker 2: two guys he knew from high school. According to police,

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Speaker 2: Brandon and Robert were involved in drug dealing. They'd given

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Speaker 2: owing Brandon and Robert a lot of money, somewhere between

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Speaker 2: seventy five hundred and eight thousand dollars. On September thirtieth,

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Speaker 2: Jared left home and met a friend at the Sarcey

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Speaker 2: night that he planned to meet with Brandon Wheeler and

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Speaker 2: smooth things over regarding this debt. After that night, Jared

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Speaker 2: later at a Walmart supercenter. The keys were underneath the

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Speaker 2: front seat, the windows were rolled down. Jared Green's family

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Speaker 2: has never seen him since that day. It's been almost

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Speaker 2: thirty years, and Jared Green's family wants answers and justice.

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Speaker 2: I'm Catherine Townsend. Over the past five years of making

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Speaker 2: my true crime podcast, Telling Gone, I've learned that there

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Speaker 2: is no such thing as a small town where murder

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Speaker 2: never happens. I have received hundreds of messages from people

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Speaker 2: all around the country asking for help with an unsolved

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Speaker 2: murder that's affected them, their families, and their communities. If

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Speaker 2: you have a case you'd like me and team to

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Speaker 2: Helen Gone Murder line at six seven eight seven four

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Speaker 2: weeks after Jared Green went missing, police find out the

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Speaker 2: people he allegedly owed money to, Brandon Wheeler and Robert Webb,

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Speaker 2: have left town and that their rental house is caught

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Speaker 2: on fire. Fortunately the fire did not burn down the

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Speaker 2: someone poured accelerant in the garage. Clearly this seemed like arson,

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Speaker 2: but no charges were ever filed. Now police were trying

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Speaker 2: to track down Brandon Wheeler and Robert Webb, they talked

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Speaker 2: Shelby said she was in her late teens at the time.

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Speaker 2: She lived with her parents, and she started hanging out

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Speaker 2: at the guy's residence in August. Not surprisingly, because these

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Speaker 2: become kind of a neighborhood party house. While she was

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Speaker 2: Shelby said she and Felix kind of hit it off,

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Speaker 2: Felix reappeared. When she asked him about the money, he said, basically,

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Speaker 2: as an investigator, I know, as other listeners of this

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Speaker 2: He said that he tried all the phone numbers that

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Speaker 2: He also called the phone company. Both the phone company

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Speaker 2: in my opinion, because Tim Webb asked for permission to

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Speaker 2: they could fill in some of those gaps. Unfortunately, Tim

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Speaker 2: Webbs seemed to hit a dead end. In the investigative notes,

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Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety five, Tim Webb tried again there's a

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Speaker 2: handwritten note in the case file saying, quote, on eight

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Speaker 1: End quote.

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Speaker 2: Then there's another memo about Chief Thomas saying there would

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Speaker 2: and then another note saying the investigator who had been

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Speaker 2: of the very legitimate questions he was trying to answer

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Speaker 2: Remember there was a mysterious caller who called police and

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Speaker 2: identified himself as Jared Green's father. Shannon said this was

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Speaker 2: an impersonator that never happened. On October tenth, nineteen ninety four,

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Speaker 2: They didn't identify themselves, but they told her this mystery

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Speaker 2: also wondering the screaming red flag. What was the story

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Speaker 2: Robert missing around ten months after Jared disappeared. According to Shannon,

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Speaker 2: people who know Jared had their own suspicions about what

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Speaker 2: investigator reported, during this time, the aforementioned individual, meaning Robert Webb,

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Speaker 2: Jared Green just before his own disappearance end quote. So

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Speaker 2: clearly police talk to people people who said they suspect

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Speaker 2: Shortly after that, investigators interviewed a man named Charles Langley.

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Speaker 2: Charles Langley was in prison doing time on an unrelated matter.

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Speaker 2: When police talked to him. Charles told police that Brandon

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Speaker 2: say Jason, though later Charles said he meant Jared was

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Speaker 2: no longer a problem, that he had been taken out

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Speaker 2: at the Walmart store and took care of him end quote.

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Speaker 2: At first this would seem to be a potentially groundbreaking

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Speaker 2: in this case, it was not all it was cracked

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Speaker 2: up to be, because later, when another investigator interviewed Charles

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Speaker 2: in two thousand, Charles recanted his entire statement. He straight

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Speaker 2: he didn't know Brandon and Robert. He said that his

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Speaker 2: most of which was a lie end quote. This is

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Speaker 2: So what can we do next? What needs to happen now?

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Speaker 1: We need someone to break their silence. We know people

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Speaker 2: Shannon and her family have just announced a new twenty

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Speaker 1: understand we're looking for Jared's remains. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: us to put him to rest. And that's really all

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Speaker 1: we want is just to know where he's at and

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Speaker 1: bring him home. And what I don't this is the

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Speaker 1: part that you know, there's a lot of this that

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Speaker 1: it's sickening, but I don't under and why if someone

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Speaker 1: had to kill him, why they didn't just leave him

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Speaker 1: where he could be found, because then we would at

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Speaker 1: least know, and then I wouldn't still be, you know,

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Speaker 1: forcing myself on the world to try to tell Jared's

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Speaker 1: this to keep cropping up, and all they have to

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Speaker 1: do is come forward, yeah and say here's the information

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Speaker 1: I have, I will share it. Nobody's going to jail

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Speaker 1: for the only charge that could possibly be applied would

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Speaker 1: be a murder charge. And if you didn't kill him,

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Speaker 1: then there's nothing, no reason why they shouldn't come forward

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Speaker 1: to say what they know.

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Speaker 2: So please, if you know anything, think about if this

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Speaker 2: was your brother, your sister, your parents lying awake at night,

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Speaker 2: agonizing over what happened to their child, wondering if they

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Speaker 2: could still be out there. Shannon Green just wants to

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Speaker 2: bring her little brother Jared home. I'm Catherine Townsend. This

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Speaker 2: is Helen Gone Murder Line. Helen Gone Murder Line is

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Speaker 2: a production of School of Humans and iHeart Podcasts. It's

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Speaker 2: written and narrated by me Catherine Townsend and produced by

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Speaker 2: Gabby Watts. Music is by Ben Solee and this episode

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Speaker 2: was scored and mixed by Miranda Hawkins. Executive producers are

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Speaker 2: Virginia Prescott, Brandon Barr, and Els Crowley. If you have

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Speaker 2: a case you'd like me and my team to look into,

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Speaker 2: you can reach out to us at our Helen Gone

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