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Kellie Poppleton – 9 of Hearts, California

Kellie Poppleton – 9 of Hearts, California

by Ashley Flowers | Nov 30, 2022 | California Cold Case, Episode, Western U.S. Cold Cases

Fourteen-year-old Kellie Poppleton was brutally assaulted and murdered on December 2, 1983, and for almost 40 years, calls for justice have gone unanswered. But now, with advancements in DNA forensics, detectives are more hopeful than ever that they might be able to...
Viola Pendergrass – Wild Card, North Carolina

Viola Pendergrass – Wild Card, North Carolina

by Ashley Flowers | Nov 16, 2022 | Episode, North Carolina Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases

In the early morning hours of February 7, 1992, a 79-year-old woman was brutally murdered in the Charlotte, North Carolina, apartment where she’d lived for two decades. Viola Pendergrass — who neighbors called “ma” and was revered as the matriarch of her own sprawling...
Rachel Hurley – 9 of Hearts, Florida

Rachel Hurley – 9 of Hearts, Florida

by Ashley Flowers | Nov 9, 2022 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases

Rachel Hurley, a whip-smart eighth grader on the verge of young-adulthood, spent the afternoon of St. Patrick’s Day 1990 out on a boat with friends. She was last seen headed down the beach on her way to meet her mother at a pick-up spot … but she never made it. That...
Joyce “Tina” Gallegos & Gabrielle DiStefano (7 & 3 of Spades, Utah)

Joyce “Tina” Gallegos & Gabrielle DiStefano (7 & 3 of Spades, Utah)

by Ashley Flowers | Nov 2, 2022 | Episode, Utah Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases

Joyce “Tina” Gallegos is believed to have been murdered sometime around August 11, 1982. Ten days after being reported missing on August 11, a fisherman spotted her body on a sandbar in Utah’s Ogden River. A month after Tina’s body was found, a construction worker...
Valincio Hill – Ace of Hearts, Kansas

Valincio Hill – Ace of Hearts, Kansas

by Ashley Flowers | Oct 26, 2022 | Episode, Midwest Cold Cases

On September 13, 2020, 17-year-old high school basketball player Valincio Hill was gunned down while standing on his own front porch in Wichita, Kansas, while hanging out with his family. For the past two years, Valincio’s murder has haunted the community of Wichita...
Brian Sullivan – 3 of Spades, New York

Brian Sullivan – 3 of Spades, New York

by Ashley Flowers | Oct 19, 2022 | Episode, New York Cold Case, Northeast Cold Cases

One July morning in 2007, 19-year-old Brian Sullivan made some calls to a friend, grabbed a hot breakfast from a local fast-food joint, then vanished, never to be seen or heard from again. For 15 years, Brian’s disappearance has haunted the greater Rochester, New...
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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.

Recent Episodes

Amber Hoopes – 9 of Clubs, Idaho

Late one night in September 2001, Amber Hoopes walked out to her grandparents’ auto body shop in Idaho Falls, Idaho to use the computer. After sending an email and logging off the computer around 1am, Amber vanished. Police have evidence that shows she was abducted...

Myrtle Cole – Queen of Spades, Minnesota

In the early morning hours of December 12, 1981, 81-year-old Myrtle Cole was fast asleep in her securely locked, small-town Minnesota home when someone broke in and brutally murdered her. For more than 40 years, the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office has dedicated...

James Foster III – 4 of Clubs, Virginia

It was a normal, warm Virginia day in April 2021 for a group of friends mingling outside a convenience store when out of the blue they were shot up by someone driving by, and 18-year-old James was killed. Over the past two years, Richmond police have uncovered...

Cody Woodson – 10 of Hearts, Virginia

What began as a normal April day in 2021 ended in heartache for the family of 20-year-old Cody Woodson when the college student was gunned down in the streets just outside of his apartment in an attack that police now believe was not meant for him.Courtesy of Metro...

Tonya Teske – 2 of Spades, Idaho

Tonya Teske was a free-spirited 18-year-old who chose to live her life on the open road by hitchhiking around the mountain west. On August 13, 1997, she was last seen in Montana at a truck stop before her body was discovered two days later on the side of a highway in...

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