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John Phillips – Jack of Diamonds, Rhode Island

John Phillips – Jack of Diamonds, Rhode Island

by Ashley Flowers | Nov 20, 2024 | Episode, Northeast Cold Cases, Rhode Island Cold Case

Nineteen-year-old John Phillips was found dead and surrounded by dozens of weapons in a Rhode Island parking lot on October 28, 1986. His death was ruled a suicide, and for 15 years, the case was considered closed. But in 2001, after taking a closer look at the case...
Dana Chisholm – Jack of Diamonds, Washington D.C.

Dana Chisholm – Jack of Diamonds, Washington D.C.

by Ashley Flowers | Jul 24, 2024 | Episode, Northeast Cold Cases, Washington D.C. Cold Case

I’ve been telling victims’ stories for 6½ years now. I’ve been a consumer of them for even longer. And in all that time, few stories have haunted me the way Dana’s has. Her killer was bold, so confident police would never catch him, that he taunted them. And for...
Domaine Richards – Queen of Clubs, Connecticut

Domaine Richards – Queen of Clubs, Connecticut

by Ashley Flowers | Jul 3, 2024 | Connecticut Cold Case, Episode, Northeast Cold Cases

If you look at a picture of 25-year-old Domaine Richards, one thing stands out – his smile. A smile that could be infectious, but all the light Domaine had to bring to the world was taken away in November of 2007, and almost 17 years later, while police have at least...
Linda “Lulu Ree” Ceasar – 9 of Spades, Connecticut

Linda “Lulu Ree” Ceasar – 9 of Spades, Connecticut

by Ashley Flowers | Jun 5, 2024 | Connecticut Cold Case, Episode, Northeast Cold Cases

Linda “Lulu Ree” Ceasar’s story is not all that different from so many others. She was a victim of her circumstances, and then she was a victim again when, in the summer of 1983, her life was taken in the most brutal of ways. Over 40 years later, the...
Twana Smith – 7 of Clubs, Connecticut

Twana Smith – 7 of Clubs, Connecticut

by Ashley Flowers | Apr 10, 2024 | Connecticut Cold Case, Episode, Northeast Cold Cases

When Twana Smith’s body was discovered behind an abandoned building in Hartford in October 1997, she joined a growing list of the city’s vulnerable locals who fell victim to violent predators. And for decades, her case sat unsolved, gathering dust… even as detectives...
Rose Marie Gayhart – Queen of Diamonds, New York

Rose Marie Gayhart – Queen of Diamonds, New York

by Ashley Flowers | Mar 6, 2024 | Episode, New York Cold Case, Northeast Cold Cases

When 23-year-old Rose Gayhart left Dansville, New York with her boyfriend for Cape Coral, Florida in December of 1984, she was looking for a fresh start. But as Rose hugged her sister goodbye on that cold December day, neither of them could have imagined that it would...
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About The Deck

State prison systems and local law enforcement agencies have replaced the faces traditional playing card decks with images of missing and murdered people and then distributed those cards throughout prisons, hoping someone will recognize a case and come forward with information. In audiochuck’s weekly show, host Ashley Flowers is revealing the stories behind some of the cards with the help of detectives and victims’ family members who have gone on record hoping to see justice served.

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Daphne Hope the 8 of Spades, Colorado

In the summer of 2001, Daphne Hope vanished… and for over seven long years, her case disappeared into the reams of files at the Denver Police Department. And even when new detectives did start digging, no one has been able to piece together exactly what happened to...

Ronda Taylor and Bonnie Ryther – King of Clubs and 9 of Diamonds, Florida

There is a man serving a life sentence in a Florida prison for his part in the 1989 murder of a 29-year-old pregnant woman named Donna Callahan. Two brothers were ultimately convicted for her abduction – and each of them pointed to the other as the ultimate...

Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison – 9 of Diamonds, Iowa

In September 1980, a Holiday Inn hotel in rural Iowa became the scene of a shocking double murder: a couple was found dead in their hotel bed covered in lacerations. And the scene around them is one of the strangest and most puzzling I’ve ever come across in all my...

Tangie Sims – 9 of Diamonds, Colorado

When a young woman was found brutally murdered in an Aurora, Colorado alleyway in October 1996, one eagle-eyed detective zeroed in on forensic evidence he hoped would lead him to her killer. But one by one, that evidence ruled out every person they thought may have...

Thomas Mather – Seven of Diamonds, Iowa

Nothing causes the true crime community to stir more than a case with the open-ended question of did he? Or didn’t he? Well, except that is, when the question is did SHE? For longer than 32-year-old Thomas Mather was alive, a rural town in Iowa has been haunted by...

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