Remains found in wood stove in cooking show finalist’s death

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Cristie Codd was a contestant and finalist on "Food Network Star" during its eighth season.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Human remains were found inside a wood stove at the North Carolina home of a man charged with killing a contestant from the TV show “Food Network Star,” her husband and their unborn child, a sheriff said Friday.

Cristie Codd was a contestant and finalist on "Food Network Star" during its eighth season.
Cristie Codd was a contestant and finalist on “Food Network Star” during its eighth season.
Cristie Schoen Codd, and her husband, Joseph “J.T.” Codd, were likely killed three days before they were reported missing, Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan said at a news conference. He said investigators aren’t ready to discuss a motive for the crime.

The sheriff also released search warrants that showed deputies took 11 knives and a saw blade as well as “debris from wood stove” and “debris from yard” from two of Robert Jason Owens’ homes near Asheville.

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