[Calvin Locke]

These reality show contestants seem to die at disproportionate rates.

Some times, it's just not their fault.

There was that pregnant one-time Food Network contestant and her husband that were accidentally run over by their drug-impaired home contractor. They had stopped to help him with his disabled vehicle. No good deed goes unpunished as it began working again.

He dismembered and burned their bodies in a wood stove, then pawned a portion of the decedents' belongings.

[Zhang Fei]

[There was that pregnant one-time Food Network contestant and her husband that were accidentally run over by their drug-impaired home contractor. They had stopped to help him with his disabled vehicle. No good deed goes unpunished as it began working again.

He dismembered and burned their bodies in a wood stove, then pawned a portion of the decedents’ belongings.]

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That was the plea. My guess is that he murdered them and pleaded to a lesser charge to avoid the needle. The prosecution agreed because it wasn’t certain of being able to convict him. Both sides decided not to roll the dice on a trial. Owens was probably a murderous nogoodnik who was meticulous enough in covering his tracks that prosecutors had issues nailing his ass to the wall.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-admits-killing-ex-food-network-contestant-and-husband-burning-bodies-in-wood-stove/
[The Codds worked in the film industry in California and moved to Buncombe County seeking a quiet place to raise a family, friends told the Citizen- Times.

Owens was questioned – but never charged – in the disappearance and presumed murder of Zebb Quinn, 18, reports WSPA. Quinn disappeared in January 2000.

Asheville police detectives said Owens was the last person to see Quinn, who was an acquaintance of Owens’.]