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Stewart Simmons & Margaret Walden – Ace of Diamonds & Hearts, Colorado

Stewart Simmons & Margaret Walden – Ace of Diamonds & Hearts, Colorado

by Ashley Flowers | Feb 9, 2022 | Colorado Cold Case, Episode, Western U.S. Cold Cases

The bodies of Stewart Simmons and Margaret Walden were found in the fall of 1982 on the banks of the San Juan River, right where Colorado meets New Mexico. For years they went unidentified and were even buried without names to mark their graves. When a Colorado...
Linda Smith – 9 of Hearts, Idaho

Linda Smith – 9 of Hearts, Idaho

by Ashley Flowers | Feb 2, 2022 | Episode, Idaho Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases

Linda Smith was asleep in her bed in Pocatello, Idaho when she awoke to a man in her bedroom. The man took her, carrying her out through the living room where her little brother Ben was sleeping, and into his van in the back alley. Ben, who was 9 at the time, tried to...
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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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Maria “Mary Faye” Mendez  – Wild Card, Texas

Maria “Mary Faye” Mendez walked out of the duplex she shared with her family in Odessa, Texas, on Aug. 2, 1985, and seemingly vanished without a trace. Her sister-in-law watched Mary head in the direction of a local bar after fighting with her husband, who they knew...

Lawrence Riegel – 5 of Spades, Washington

When Lawrence was reported missing on January 10th, 2010, he didn’t exactly vanish without a trace. Between mysterious phone records and strange theories from a recluse who lived in an isolated trailer park, police had a good idea what his last movements were and with...

Gregory Fickess – Jack of Diamonds, New York

On a summer night in 1993, 19-year-old Gregory Fickess had just gotten out of his car in downtown Rochester when he was jumped in a seemingly unprovoked, fatal, act of violence. A case with no motive and few cooperating witnesses is tough to get very far. But when...

Jonathan Garcia-Valladares – 7 of Diamonds, Arizona

Being a 13-year-old kid can be tough, to say the least. But it seemed as if Jonathan Garcia-Valladares had it figured out. He was an overachieving student. He was a chess player. And on a crisp fall day in 2010,  Jonathan was trying to get in shape for the football...

Robert Gene Jones – 10 of Diamonds, Louisiana

Robert was known as a quiet man who stayed out of trouble, so when he was found shot to death in his home one morning in the winter of 2002, police were initially stumped when it came to both motive and culprit. That might’ve been because Robert was never the intended...

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