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What happened to Kent Jacobs? | Dateline: Missing in America

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🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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We’re sharing a special preview of the first episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz tells the story of Kent Jacobs, a 41-year-old man with a developmental disability who went for a walk near his mother’s home in Hope Mills, North Carolina in 2002 and never returned. Each of the six episodes will focus on one person’s story, as told by those left behind. Listen carefully to the details, descriptions and clues offered by family, friends and investigators. Something you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities crack a case. Follow Dateline: Missing in America and listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/mias2_fdlw

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0:00.0

Hi, Josh Manquets here with a preview of Dateline Missing in America.

0:04.8

In our podcast second season, we'll share six new, unsolved mysteries, and we hope somebody

0:10.8

listening may have a clue that could help crack one of these cases.

0:15.4

Could that somebody be you?

0:17.6

Here's Dateline Missing in America.

0:20.8

It was a little windy that March morning in Hope Mills, North Carolina.

0:25.4

Spring was just around the corner, on a crisp, dry day.

0:29.7

In a ranch-style house on McDonald Road, Kent Jacobs pulled on a familiar weekend uniform.

0:36.4

His black Harley Davidson sweatshirt, and his black sneakers.

0:41.6

Kent and his mom had a Sunday routine.

0:45.1

She would head to church.

0:46.9

He would take a walk.

0:48.8

Usually Kent turned right onto McDonald, and a quarter mile later made a left, passing

0:54.3

mobile homes and patches of woods.

0:57.7

During this stretch of country highway, it was common to see Kent walking alone.

1:03.8

And people knew him by his dark hair and ready grin.

1:07.0

It was a well-worn path for him.

1:09.2

You knew it was always the same, always the same.

1:14.4

That is Kent's brother, Keith Jacobs.

1:16.8

He says Kent's destination on his weekend walks was a place close to Kent's heart.

1:22.6

The neighborhood where Kent grew up, where he could hang out with his childhood friends

1:26.8

for a few hours.

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