Paul Jason Cowart, a White 21-year-old man, vanished into the backroads and barn lots of northwestern Missouri at the tail end of a scheme that was already turning deadly. By the time his name surfaced publicly, it wasn’t in a help-wanted ad or a paycheck stub—it was tied to a grim pattern investigators would come to understand as a string of killings connected to Ray and Faye Copeland, an elderly farm couple operating in and around the Mooresville/Chillicothe area.
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