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Cristie Schoen-Codd and J.T. Codd are pictured. (Buncombe County Sheriff's Office)

Police in North Carolina have found human remains that they believe belong to a missing "Food Network Star" contestant, her husband and their unborn child.

Robert Jason Owens (Buncombe County Sheriff's Office)

Cristie Schoen-Codd, 38, and her husband, J.T. Codd, 45, of Leicester, N.C., have been missing for more than a week. According to WLOS News 13 out of Asheville, N.C., suspect Robert Jason Owens, also of Leicester, told investigators where to find the remains of the Buncombe County couple.

The remains are in the process of being identified.

The couple was reported missing March 15 after Cristie Codd, a native of Biloxi, didn't show up for a family visit in Mississippi. She was five months pregnant when she disappeared.

Owens, 36, was charged March 17 - before the remains were found - with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of murder of an unborn child, breaking and entering and larceny after breaking and entering. Investigators believe that the slayings occurred five days earlier, on March 12.

Owens is also accused of breaking into the Codds' home and stealing a laptop, jewelry and a Glock handgun.

Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan told WLOS News 13 that Owens' wife has been helpful in the investigation. She told investigators that her husband admitted to her that he was driving a vehicle belonging to the Codds and that he had hit and killed J.T. Codd on the road where the couple lived.

Cristie Codd's identification and other personal items of hers were later found in a dumpster in a nearby community.

Zebb Quinn (Contributed photo)

Duncan told the news station that Owens was also a person of interest in the 15-year-old case of a missing Asheville man.

Zebb Wayne Quinn, 18, disappeared in January 2000, and Owens was the last known person to see him. He was named a person of interest during the Quinn investigation, but has never been charged.

Asheville Police Sgt. Dave Romick told WLOS News 13 that Owens' arrest in the Codds' slayings is a big break in the cold case.



"The fact that he has been arrested on three counts of murder, that is a huge event in the Zebb Quinn case," Romick said.

Watch the videos below to see WLOS News 13's reports on the Codd slayings and the disappearance of Zebb Quinn.