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In November 2007, Justin

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Gaines was 18 years old when

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he disappeared from a club in

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Duluth, Georgia, called Wild Bills, attended

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by thousands of college students. Later

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that night, he jumped into a car and

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was never seen or heard from again.

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Sean Kipe, creator of the mega-hit podcast

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In the Red Clay, Fox Hunter and

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In the Land of Lies, picks up

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one of the biggest missing person cases

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in Georgia history in the new podcast

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Drowning Creek. Hi, I'm Jason

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Hoke, CEO of WaveLand, and

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my audio network is on a mission to bring you

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wildly entertaining stories that you've never heard

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told like this before. Once again, I'm

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excited to work with Sean on our

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fourth collaboration, and I think this is

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one of his best podcasts yet. You're

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just seconds from a special preview of

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the new series called Drowning Creek. Drowning

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Creek is available now on all

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popular podcast platforms. Here's a sneak peek.

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Over 1,400 people go missing in America

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every single day. Nearly 20% of

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them are never seen again. Saturday morning,

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he's not home. He's not answering

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his phone. He's going straight to voicemail.

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Something's wrong. 18-year-old Justin Gaines,

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a college student, missing now three

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weeks. For almost eight years now.

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15 years ago in Gwinnett County. The disappearance

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of Justin Gaines began 16 long

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years of pain and heartbreak for

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a family desperate for answers. I want

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my baby to walk in the door and give

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me a hug. I want to look in his

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blue eyes again. And of frustration for investigators who

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can't let it go. You just pulled the scab

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off the wound. The part that's

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puzzling you about wine is the part

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that's kicked me in the gut every

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day for several years. But my investigation

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has uncovered a much darker story than

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I ever imagined. They said that he

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had really changed, that he had befriended

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some people that were into

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drugs. Shocking revelations reveal a secret

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life. He wasn't the same person

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that I knew. He just

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didn't feel like Justin. and

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lead me into an underworld of drugs,

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money, and murder. At some point, there's

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a tussle, and he chokes

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him out. So they wrap him up

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in a paint tar. One shoots him.

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They dump his body in Lake Lanier.

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My name is Sean Kite. In the

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most complex case I've ever taken on,

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I'll attempt to pick apart nearly two

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decades of mystery to find the truth.

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But that all relies on the willingness of

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witnesses to come forward. I've seen the worst

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of the worst right after buddies if they

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think it's going to save them. But not

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here, nobody's saying a word. To me, there's

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no such thing as a conspiracy that can't

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be broken. For the first

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time, law enforcement has opened their

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files to me on an open

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case that's anything but cold. And

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I'll confront the main suspect this entire

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case revolves around. They get brought

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justice. They want a conviction. They

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don't want to believe the truth. Dilling said

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he killed Justin. He took that earring out

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of Justin's ear the night that he was

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killed. No matter how you dress it up

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or make it look, I never

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tilt that way. The problem with

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this case is not just that

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we don't have a body. We

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don't have any physical evidence of

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death. In this investigation, the stakes

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are real, and so is the

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risk. My only word to you is to do it

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in broad daylight and be very, very careful. They've killed

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one, you know, like the

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old folks say when you ask them,

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does that dog bite? They say, you

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got teeth, ain't he? This is Drowning

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Creek, a 10 episode podcast series. When

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you hear everything that really happens, it's

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gonna blow your mind. How

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willing are you to

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dive into these waters? Coming

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soon, wherever you listen to podcasts.