The Deck
For years, some law enforcement agencies have replaced the faces of traditional playing card decks with images of missing and murdered people and distributed those cards in prisons hoping inmates would come forward with information needed to crack these cold cases wide open.
Now, audiochuck is dealing you in.
Each week, we will be working with investigators and family members to bring you the details of some of the coldest cases from around the country in hopes that someone listening can finally bring these victims the justice they deserve.
Episodes (51)
Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)
Kyle Seidel was a 34-year-old dad to three young kids when he went to pick up Chinese takeout the Friday night before Christmas in 2012. His wife expected him to be gone for only about 20 minutes… but...
George Kirkland, Asia Norman & Lindsay Foster Hurr (2 of Clubs, Mississippi)
When George, Asia, and Lindsay were all fatally shot in the same house on a stormy Mississippi night in 2019, nobody in the area heard or saw anything. But in the days after the attack, rumors and...
Sharon Jones (10 of Spades, Florida)
The last known people to see Sharon Jones alive around Thanksgiving weekend in 1987 have something in common. They all attended the same apartment party. And when the young woman showed up dead...
Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson (King of Hearts, Connecticut)
Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson was 26-years-old when he was fatally shot outside his mother’s apartment in the Hockanum Park apartment complex in East Hartford, Connecticut. Dae Dae was killed just a few...
Susan Poupart (7 of Spades, Wisconsin)
When 29-year-old Susie went to a house party on her reservation, surrounded by friends and so close to home, she should’ve been safe. But when the mother of two left the party in a car with some...
Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
When 37-year-old Tessie went more than a month without contacting any of her six children, her mom had a sinking feeling that something was wrong. Her loved ones never thought over five years would go...
Carole Clement (Ace of Hearts, Florida)
When a beloved mother and grandmother is found stabbed to death inside her own home in an affluent seaside community, detectives are immediately suspicious of her soon-to-be ex-husband. But when his...
Jefferson West (King of Diamonds, Mississippi)
On July 2nd 2018, Jeff West, a 46-year-old father of four, got into an argument with his mom in the backyard of her house. In the heat of the moment, he apparently stormed off into the woods...
Agustin Chacon (King of Clubs, Texas) & Marshall McCarthy (5 of Hearts, Texas)
Agustin Chacon, 25, and Marshall McCarthy, 37, were both shot to death in their homes in the same Odessa, Texas, neighborhood on the same winter night in 1982. While Marshall’s case nearly had too...
LaQuandra “Shavonne” Slater (4 of Clubs, Michigan)
Thirty-eight-year-old, LaQuandra “Shavonne” Slater was known for being independent. Everyone who knew her said she was outspoken, knew how to take care of herself, and wasn’t one to be pushed around....
My-Dung Tran (10 of Spades, Mississippi)
On September 27th 2008, 51-year-old My-Dung Tran boarded a bus from her home in Pensacola, Florida to Biloxi, Mississippi for a trip to the casinos. She planned to stay for a couple of weeks to gamble...
William Alvarado (Ace of Spades, Connecticut)
William Alvarado was 73 years old when he was found stabbed to death in his living room in Willimantic, Connecticut in 2016. For years, his case was ice cold. But just recently, it started heating up–...
Debra Sue Moore (Jack of Clubs, Texas)
After a night out with a new love interest in May 1986, 25-year-old Debra Sue Moore was fatally stabbed steps outside her date’s apartment door. Police quickly zeroed in on her estranged husband as a...
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
When 32-year-old Javed Akhtar was fatally shot outside his convenience store in East Windsor, Connecticut, on a cold winter night in 2007, his wife, their two young children, and a community of loyal...
Deborah Perry (King of Spades, South Carolina)
Three decades have passed since 29-year-old Deborah Perry was found shot to death on a rural cul-de-sac outside Columbia, South Carolina, and her killer has never been caught. As cold case...
Wojciech Fudali (3 of Spades, Rhode Island)
On its face, this missing person’s case might appear to be a tragic tale of a young man experiencing some sort of mental break. But there are a lot of loose ends and strange occurrences that can’t...
Dominic Marino (2 of Clubs, Connecticut)
There had been many times that Mark Marino hugged his oldest son goodbye and feared he might never see him again. After all, Dominic was an Air Force vet who’d been deployed overseas more than a few...
John Phillips (Jack of Diamonds, Rhode Island)
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...
Alfonso McCoy Jr. & Debra Gomez (Queen of Clubs, Arizona)
It seems like more than just a coincidence that this couple is on that particular face of cards, because by all accounts, Debbie was Alfonso’s queen. They’d only been together a few years or so, but...
Randa Jawhari (10 of Spades, Michigan)
Randa was last seen on February 10th, 2009 at her apartment complex. By the next morning, she had disappeared without a trace, leaving a close-knit family of ten to unravel the mystery. Fifteen years...
Nikole Bakoles (3 of Hearts, Utah)
When duck hunters discovered human remains in an area called Saltair near The Great Salt Lake in Utah in the fall of 2000, investigators began the difficult task of trying to learn the real name of...
Elisa Gano (Queen of Diamonds, Arizona)
At just 30 years old, Elisa had already lived a lifetime of ups and downs. She often found herself experiencing homelessness while battling her own personal demons. All the while struggling to be a...
Anne Paetz (7 of Clubs, Michigan)
When 23-year-old Anne Paetz went out for cigarettes after midnight on July 2nd, 1999, no one in her family thought much of it. But while out, she crossed paths with the wrong person, and never made it...
Patricia Barrett (2 of Hearts, Utah)
When Patricia “Patti” Barrett got on a bus from Dallas to Salt Lake City in 1978, her family had no way of knowing they’d never see her again. For over 30 years they were left wondering what happened...
Ada Haradine (3 of Clubs, Indiana)
Our card this season is Ada Haradine, the 3 of Clubs from Indiana.
Jay Durnil (2 of Hearts, Nebraska)
Jay Durnil, 11, was last seen on April 29th, 1976 biking to the Elkhorn River in his family’s neighborhood near Waterloo, Nebraska. Jay’s dog Tex returned home that night but Jay was never seen alive...
Ralph Salazar & Alice Griego (Ace of Hearts, Utah)
Back in October of 2023, we were contacted by one of Alice Griego’s son, Frankie, about covering his mother’s case. He was a listener of The Deck and had previously heard us cover cases in Utah....
Brianna Vibert (Jack of Hearts, Michigan)
In the summer of 2017, Brianna was at a crossroads in her life. At the young age of 24, she was recently divorced from her husband and now living with an allegedly abusive boyfriend, all while...
Richard Chadek III (3 of Clubs Nebraska)
When an 11-year-old went missing from a quiet Nebraska suburb in 1986, an entire task force got to work searching for him. But as days passed by, their hopes for a safe return dwindled, and the...
The Deck Investigates S1 | Part 3
This is The Deck Investigates Season One, episodes 13-18.
The Deck Investigates S1 | Part 2
This is The Deck Investigates Season One, episodes 7-12.
The Deck Investigates S1 | Part 1
This is The Deck Investigates Season One, episodes 1-6.
Jeannette Drzewiecki (8 of Diamonds, Texas)
When 19-year-old Jeannette left the little rented house she shared with her husband Matt in Odessa, Texas on the evening of September 13th, 1982, he had every reason to believe she’d be back in no...
Mary Cooper & Susanna Stodden (Ace of Hearts, Washington)
For 18 years, no one has been able to figure out who killed Mary Cooper and her daughter Susanna Stodden while they were out for a scenic mother-daughter hike in the beautiful mountains of Washington...
Rebecca Williams (6 of Clubs, Nebraska)
For 13-year-old Becca, the summer break before her freshman year of high school was supposed to be a time for a fresh start. Gaining some new-found independence… maturing into a young woman…
But...
Eula “Kay” Miller (10 of Diamonds, Texas)
26-year-old Eula, who most people knew as Kay, was a strong and independent woman. She lived her life to the fullest – working hard and playing harder. But in the summer of 1970, that would all change...
Tina Milford (9 of Hearts, South Carolina)
The stories we cover on this show have made me more aware than ever how even the smallest of choices and chance encounters can change the course of a person’s life. A last-minute decision, or even a...
Dana Chisholm (Jack of Diamonds, Washington, D.C.)
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...
Ana Bell Juarez (King of Hearts, Texas)
Almost 30 years ago, Ana Bell Juarez disappeared in January 1997. But the exact details about her vanishing have never been fully divulged with detectives. Even today, as Detective Gonzales gets...
Maria del Socorro Maldonado Ambriz (Joker, Indiana)
Maria was spending what seemed like an average day with her two children when a masked intruder burst through the door and changed everyone in that home’s life. In just a matter of minutes, Maria, a...
Sarah Neal (6 of Diamonds, Nebraska)
16-year-old Sarah was not your typical teen. She was a multisport high school athlete who participated in basketball, softball, and track. She was a pretty darn good chess player, too.
But in June of...
Domaine Richards (Queen of Clubs, Connecticut)
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...
Joe Laughlin (Jack of Diamonds, South Carolina)
54-year-old Joe was a true “country guy", living a simple life in Anderson, South Carolina in 2012. He was a husband, father, provider, and handyman. It didn’t take much to make him happy. All he...
Bobby Ray Jones (8 of Clubs, Florida)
Bobby Ray Jones had just moved back to Walton County, Florida, in the late summer of 1971. It was a rebirth-of-sorts for this 33-year-old man. After getting caught up in a love affair and running off...
Linda "Lulu Ree" Caesar (9 of Spades, Connecticut)
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...
Douglas Wagg, Jr. (Wild Card, North Carolina)
33 years after Douglas Wagg, Jr. turned up on a lone stretch of railroad tracks in the middle of the night in rural Martin County, and over a year since Delia took on the case, the scope of what was...
Dorothy “Dee" Scofield (4 of Hearts, Florida)
Ocala Police Chief Mike Balken was just a toddler when 12-year-old Dee Scofield disappeared from a local department store. When he was a teenager, he remembers his parents bringing up the missing...
Debra Owens (7 of Diamonds, Florida)
Debra was a woman who deserved better than what she got in the last year of her life. Every day she woke up, she was a survivor of something or someone. Over 20 years after she was brutally murdered,...
Anna Hliaras (10 of Clubs, Ohio)
Anna Hliaras was a vigilant fixture in her Dayton, Ohio, neighborhood. She was essentially neighborhood watch before it was even a thing. And her mission was to make sure any and all disturbances in...
JaQuan Atkins (10 of Clubs, Virginia)
30-year-old JaQuan had a lot going for him in the spring of 2021. He had a good job and a tight crew of friends that he performed with as part of a local rap group. But most important to him – his...
Alexander Winspeare (Jack of Clubs, Florida)
At 93, Alexander Winspeare had been through a lot in his long life. He was a veteran of World War I, proudly serving his country. If anyone had earned the right to die with dignity and grace, it was...
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