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I really feel confident that if more than one person knows what happened to Jason, the more publicity we can get,

and the more questions that are asked, eventually the truth very well may come out even after all these years.

These are the efforts that we are taking. In the cold case homicide unit, you have to understand we're very passionate about our jobs.

And we speak, our harmonies are the only things that we speak for those who can't speak themselves.

No one knows we're Jason's, so we have to be that voice.

Because I always kind of had this hope he was alive. The stories, the NCIS presentation, like, oh my gosh, they probably killed him. I can't imagine why.

In June of 1991, 20-year-old Jason dies returned from Operation Desert Storm when the USS Horn docked in San Diego, California.

Jason was now on leave and had a month to report to a new duty station in Pensacola, Florida.

Jason never showed up and was classified as an unauthorized absentee and later a deserter.

Before Jason disappeared, he mailed some packages back to his family in Louisiana. He phoned them and asked them not to open the packages.

The mystery of what was in the packages and what happened to Jason, loomed over his family for years.

What had he sent them? Military secrets? Was there some kind of conspiracy?

When Jason's younger cousin grew up, she embarked on a journey to find out what happened to him.

She opened the packages and started pressing for answers.

Amarisa and from Wondery, this is Episode 229 of The Vanished. Jason dies's story.

Hello, I'm Hannah.

And I'm Sirete.

And we are the hosts of A Red Handed, a weekly True Crime Podcast.

Every week on Red Handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.

From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of The Murdoch Saga.

Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Short Hand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.

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