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Hi, Josh Mankiewicz here with a preview of

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Dateline Missing in America. In

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our podcast second season, we'll

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share six new unsolved mysteries

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and we hope somebody listening may have a clue

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that could help crack one of these cases. Could

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that somebody be you? Here's

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Dateline Missing in America. It

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was a little windy that March morning in

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Hope Mills, North Carolina. Spring

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was just around the corner on a crisp,

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dry day. In a ranch-style

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house on McDonald Road,

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Kent Jacobs pulled on a familiar weekend

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uniform, his black Harley

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Davidson sweatshirt and his black

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sneakers. Kent

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and his mom had a Sunday routine.

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She would head to church. He

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would take a walk. Usually Kent

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turned right onto McDonald and

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a quarter mile later made a left, passing

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mobile homes and patches of woods.

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Along this stretch of country highway,

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it was common to see Kent walking

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alone and people knew him

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by his dark hair and reddy grin.

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It was a well-worn path for him. He knew it was

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always the same, always the same. That

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is Kent's brother, Keith Jacobs.

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He says Kent's destination on his weekend

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walks was a place close to

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Kent's heart, the neighborhood

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where Kent grew up, where he could

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hang out with his childhood friends for a few

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hours. Kim Baber is

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Kent's sister. I'm just saying

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Kent is all you had to say. Everybody

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knew who he was. Most

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Sundays Kent's mom got home first. She

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knew Kent would walk through the door by 5 p.m.

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and he was never late. Until

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that Sunday, March 10th, 2002.

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That was the moment when everything changed

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because that was the day Kent Jacobs didn't come

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home. Walked in my mom's house

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and my mom's home

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by herself, upset, crying. I

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knew in my gut then, I was like, this

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is bad. It was a different kind of

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upset for my mom for the first

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time that I'd ever experienced when it came

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to Kent. I knew my mom knew something

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was wrong. Before we go

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on, here's something important to know about Kent

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Jacobs. He was a 41 year

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old man with a developmental disability

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that had left him with the mental capacity

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of a child. If Kent

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were in trouble, he might not

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even know it or he might not

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know how to escape it.

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This is a story about a man everyone

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liked and about

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his family's unrelenting search

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for answers.

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I dream about him still quite a bit. I'll

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be honest with you. Your life changed a lot

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as a result of this. You left New

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York? I did. It's

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also the story of a mystery that

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haunts a retired detective. It

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keeps me up at night. I play the shoulda,

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woulda, coulda game. She

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found a tantalizing clue buried

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in a case file. It might

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or might not be the key to

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unlocking this puzzle.

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You think this is all

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gonna end with Kent

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Jacobs being found? I hope so.

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I pray it does. Thanks

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for listening. Search for Dateline

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Missing in America to hear the first two episodes

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of season two and follow

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now.