Disappearance of Zebb Quinn
| Zebb Wayne Quinn | |
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| Born | May 12, 1981 |
| Disappeared | January 2, 2000 (aged 18) Asheville, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Status | Endangered Missing for 17 years, 4 months and 12 days |
| Residence | Asheville, North Carolina |
| Known for | Missing person |
| Height | 5'9"-5'10" |
| Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) |
Zebb Quinn is an American man who went missing on January 2, 2000, in Asheville, North Carolina. Quinn was 18 years old and working at a Walmart in Asheville when he disappeared. To this date his case remains unsolved.
Quinn ended his shift at Walmart around 9pm on Sunday January 2, 2000. He met a friend named Robert Jason Owens in the Walmart parking lot before driving separately to look at a vehicle Quinn was considering buying. The two men were seen on surveillance footage at a gas station down the road at approximately 9:15pm. Owens later told police that sometime between leaving the gas station and 9:30pm, Quinn flashed his headlights, signaling for him to pull over. Quinn told him that he had received a page and needed to return the call. After Quinn returned from the pay phone, Owens described him as "frantic". Quinn told him that he needed to cancel their plans to look at the vehicle and, as he drove off, he rear ended Owens' vehicle. Hours later, Owens was treated at the hospital for fractured ribs and a head injury that he said he sustained in a second car accident that evening. No accident report was filed with police.
Quinn's mother Denise Vlahakis filed a missing person's report the next afternoon.
Two days after Quinn was last seen, a man purporting to be Zebb Quinn placed a phone call to the Walmart where Quinn was employed. The man told them he wouldn't be in to work because of illness. The coworker who received the phone call was familiar with Quinn's voice and became suspicious. The phone call was traced back to a Volvo plant where Owens worked. Owens admitted making the phone call, claiming that he was doing his friend a favor after Quinn phoned and asked him to call in sick for him. Owens denies any involvement in Quinn's disappearance but is considered a person of interest in the case.
During the investigation, police interviewed a woman named Misty Taylor, whom Quinn was interested in romantically. Quinn had developed a relationship with her in the weeks preceding his disappearance and had told his friends and family that Taylor's boyfriend, Wesley Smith, was abusive and had threatened Quinn after he discovered Taylor and Quinn had been speaking. Taylor and Smith deny any involvement in the disappearance.
A review of the phone records in the case indicates that the page Quinn received that evening was dialed from the home of his paternal aunt, a woman named Ina Ustich. Quinn had very little contact with Ustich prior to his disappearance, and she denied making the call. Ustich told police she was having dinner at the home of her friend Tamra Taylor, Misty's mother. Misty and her boyfriend, Wesley, were also present. Ustich later filed a police report stating that her house was broken into that evening during that time frame. Although nothing was stolen, she reported that a few picture frames were moved around.
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