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Paul Jason Cowart

Case from Mooresville, MO dated May 03, 1989

Victim Details

Paul Jason Cowart

Male

White / Caucasian

Mooresville

MO

1989-05-03

21

Paul

Jason Cowart

07/07/2026

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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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  • Ray and Faye Copeland - Wikipedia
  • Washington Post: ELDERLY COUPLE CHARGED WITH FIVE MURDERS
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    I’ve been digging into the background of Ray and Faye Copeland, and it’s chilling how deceitful ... ...Read More
    11/02/2024
    Has anyone else been digging into how Ray and Faye Copeland managed to evade capture for so long? I�... ...Read More
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