Season One Episodes
Episode 1: Take a Bath
On the morning of August 17, 1984, Darlene Hulse was at home in rural Argos, Indiana with her three young daughters when a stranger came to the door and forced himself on her.
Episode 2: A Stranger’s Wrath
Marie and Melissa Hulse ran to their grandparent’s house nearby and their grandma told police to hurry up and get to Ron and Darlene Hulse’s house where there was an intruder.
Episode 3: The Wooded Path
While search parties look everywhere, an unsuspecting timber buyer happens upon a body in the woods.
Episode 4: They Left Town
Police work their way through dozens of tips and zero in on two suspects, which take detectives from Indiana, Colorado, Alabama and back in order to interrogate the men they thought could be responsible for Darlene’s death.
Episode 5: He’s Gunned Down
A fatal shootout in Texas leads state police to finding bloody clothes and a newspaper clipping about Darlene in the dead man’s Indiana apartment, launching an investigation into him as a serious suspect in her murder.
Episode 6: Evil All Around
Police interview Darlene’s husband and we learn more about her, their relationship and their family’s routines.
Episode 7: Bring in the FBI
Police ask the FBI to analyze Darlene’s case and how it might connect to two others in the Argos area.
Episode 8: It All Goes Through One Guy
We join Darlene’s daughters on their quest for answers.
Episode 9: Let’s Go For a Ride
We visit the crime scenes in Argos and drive the escape route police think the killer took when he abducted Darlene.
Episode 10: Look at the Deeds
We study land records and see that a family farm near where Darlene’s body was found is tied to a suspect in the case, who was convicted of another nearby crime.
Episode 11: Bad Seed
We sort through tips from 1984 that suggested a fugitive who was on the run in Indiana during Darlene’s murder could’ve killed her.
Episode 12: P.I.’s Best Lead
We interview a private investigator who reviewed the case and came up with yet another person of interest based on pre and post-crime behavior.
Episode 13: Untangling Misinformation
We discover we’ve been given bad information about a person of interest.
Episode 14: A Massive Revelation
We consult an expert on questions we had about Darlene’s autopsy, and it turned everything we thought we knew upside down, not just about Darlene’s last living moments but also the man who killed her.
Episode 15: Next in the Investigation
We urge officials to do direct comparison tests to the partial profile, along with DNA tests on Darlene’s underwear.
Episode 16: Government Discretion
Seven months after we dropped The Deck Investigates, we’re back with an update on everything we’ve learned since then.
Episode 17: A Secret Confession
A new suspect name is dropped into our inbox, with third-hand information about him having confessed to Darlene’s murder.
Episode 18: Our Lingering Obsession
We go back to Argos to revisit a family we told you about previously, but focus on one brother in particular who was a recurring theme in our inbox after releasing The Deck Investigates.