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Oh, and for legal purposes, this episode is all my opinion, allegedly.

To be honest, I knew what I was signing up for when I started investigating this case.

I knew that some of these key players were dangerous, but nothing could have prepared me

for how mentally taxing and morally conflicting this experience has truly been.

I'm starting to feel a little more like a journalist, but unlike them, I can't clock out of this feeling. And as I get closer to

the truth, the weight of responsibility becomes heavier. But with that comes a wide range of other

emotions. Now the paranoia is setting in.

There's a murderer who is potentially still out and about.

Opening this can of worms would make anyone feel uneasy.

And I may not just be looking at a local drug dealer, but a more organized, high-level criminal.

I've started looking over my shoulder a bit more frequently, wondering how far I can really push these boundaries.

I'm closer than I've ever been to solving this case.

Even though it's getting more and more dangerous, I can't turn back now. In the early 1990s, my dad owned a bar across the Ohio River from Belmont County, Ohio, in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia.

Coined after his nickname, J.C., the bar was called Johnny Cooles.

The 80s and 90s saw a massive transformation from a federal level of how drug cases were handled.

Crack cocaine and heroin were becoming more easily accessible. In this area

specifically, a lot of drugs were funneling in from all directions with major cities to the east and

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