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What Steven says next is far from reassuring. He wasn't on this getaway with these
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guys, but he sure seems to know a thing or two about it because he starts rambling on something about a strip
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search, about Cole freaking out, and then he says something that stops Chris cold.
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I think they killed him. They who? That is exactly what Chris is trying to figure out. He is asking all
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of the questions. Like, a strip search for what? Why was he freaking out? Who are you talking about? And that's when
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Steven starts filling in some of the blanks. He tells him that the guys Cole was traveling with, Julian and Jeremy,
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they weren't [music] just passing through North Carolina for Thanksgiving. They had driven there all the way from
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Minnesota to buy drugs. And he says they went to meet up with some like very dangerous dudes, and
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afterwards something must have gone wrong. >> [music] >> And this is like the foundation shaking
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for Cole's parents. Like, this is never the kind of story they would ever [music] expect to be hearing involving
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their son. I mean, obviously you never really know who might be struggling with substance use or fall into a lifestyle
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of dealing, whatever, but Cole, like this was never something they ever had to worry about with him before.