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Manuel Mozqueda Ruiz – 5 of Clubs, Florida

Manuel Mozqueda Ruiz – 5 of Clubs, Florida

by Ashley Flowers | Jan 10, 2024 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases

What began as a pursuit of the American dream ended in tragedy on August 16th, 2004. Manuel was working construction jobs in Atlanta, GA, and Freeport, FL – until he was murdered and dumped along a dirt road in Freeport. After 20 years of only questions and no...
Darlene “Dee Dee” Webb – 9 of Diamonds, Florida

Darlene “Dee Dee” Webb – 9 of Diamonds, Florida

by Ashley Flowers | Sep 6, 2023 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases

The night was still young when 20-year-old Darlene left her friends at a local Daytona Beach bar to go get some shut-eye before work the following morning… but little did they know, as she walked out into the darkness of the night, that’d be the last time they’d ever...
Renee McBreen – 2 of Spades, Florida

Renee McBreen – 2 of Spades, Florida

by Ashley Flowers | Jun 28, 2023 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases

When Renee was 22 years old, her main goal was to provide a good life for her son Caleb. But in September 1992, Renee was attacked in her Jacksonville, Florida, home after hosting Caleb’s 3rd birthday party. While Renee’s killer spared Caleb’s life, their actions took...
Kyle Byrtus – 8 of Hearts, Florida

Kyle Byrtus – 8 of Hearts, Florida

by Ashley Flowers | Feb 8, 2023 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases

In 2013, 25-year-old Kyle Byrtus was found murdered on the side of the road. For the past nearly ten years, his mother has spent her days fighting for justice — and recently, she learned that justice may not be as far out of reach as once thought. Courtesy of...
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...
Roberta Johnson – 10 of Diamonds, Florida

Roberta Johnson – 10 of Diamonds, Florida

by Ashley Flowers | Oct 5, 2022 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases

In April 1999, U.S. Army veteran Roberta Johnson was joyfully anticipating some major milestones for her family, including the imminent birth of her son who was due any day as well as watching her then-17-year-old daughter, Arkeisha, collect her high school diploma at...
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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

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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