Our cards this week are Michael Adams, Lachelle Powell, Michael Royal, and Jennifer Leasure, the 9, 10, Jack, and Queen of Hearts from New York. In the dead of winter, a fire consumed a home in Rochester, New York — but what firefighters discovered inside wasn’t an accident. Four bodies, bound, shot, and left in a scene so brutal it stunned even experienced detectives. Nearly a decade later, with no arrests and few answers, the question still haunts everyone left behind: Who could commit such a ...
Jun 11, 2025•33 min
Our card this week is Sharon Glover, the 6 of Spades from Louisiana. Early on November 14, 1993, just two weeks before Thanksgiving, Sharon Glover was found viciously stabbed to death on a rural backroad in northwest Louisiana. Rumors led Sharon’s family to believe the killer was someone close to them. But detectives are now releasing new information in this case for the first time, and they believe there’s been a different prime suspect lurking in the background of this investigation for decade...
Jun 04, 2025•27 min
Our card this week is George Jares, the 6 of Clubs from Wisconsin. From the outside, 43-year-old George was a family man: a former greeting card salesman turned restaurant owner who loved his kids, the outdoors, and working hard. But after George was shot three times and left for dead in his restaurant’s parking lot, details of his life began to emerge that painted a rather different picture... And the surprising twists that detectives uncovered led them to suspect that George had been targeted ...
May 28, 2025•39 min
Our card this week is Owachige Osceola, the 8 of Diamonds from Oklahoma. Recently divorced and living on her own in a new city, 27-year-old Owachige Osceola’s life was in a season of transition before she was killed in the bedroom of her Norman, Oklahoma apartment in September 2013. While the medical examiner who performed her autopsy concluded her cause and manner of death were “undetermined,” a detective who remains on the case today insists a killer has been allowed to walk free for nearly a ...
May 21, 2025•32 min
Our card this week is Sandra Ann Burris, the 5 of Spades from Louisiana. On a hot summer night in 2005, Sandra Burris and her best friend went clubbing in their small Louisiana town. The night started out like any other, but the friends went separate ways later in the evening, and sometime after that, Sandra vanished—and there’s been no trace of her since. As the 20th anniversary of Sandra’s disappearance approaches, her oldest daughter, Kelly Melancon, is still looking for answers. But it turns...
May 14, 2025•26 min
Our card this week is Marjorie "Christy" Luna, the 4 of Spades from Florida. From the outside, Greenacres seemed like a picture-perfect place to grow up, with a park, school, and corner store stocked with sugary sweets and arcade games all within walking distance. For Christy Luna and her friends, weekends were spent roaming the neighborhood and playing outside barefoot. But this storybook community had darkness lurking just under the surface, and it reared its ugly head one May night in 1984. M...
May 07, 2025•40 min
Our card this week is Lisa Staes, the Jack of Diamonds from Wisconsin. In the winter of 1976, Lisa Staes was trying to figure out what exactly she wanted to do with her life. Like so many 20-year-olds, she’d just moved out of her parents’ house and started classes at a community college. She was embracing her independence as a young adult. But no one ever got to see how Lisa’s life would unfold. Because that same year she disappeared. It took nearly two years for investigators to figure out that...
Apr 30, 2025•39 min
Our card this week is Donna Martin, the 8 of Hearts from Florida. Donna Martin was stabbed and killed in her own home in south Florida back in 1999. And police believed that the man who may have killed her was the very same man who had turned Boca Raton into a hunting ground. But police have been unable to pin Donna’s murder on him. That suspect even went to prison for other crimes, but now he’s a free man. And police believe solving Donna’s murder could help save other women in Florida. If you ...
Apr 23, 2025•39 min
Our card this week is Robert "Bob" Christian, the 4 of Spades from Wisconsin. In the Fall of 1977, Bob was just weeks into his freshman year at UW-Madison. He was a math whiz with a knack for computers and a big heart. At 18-years-old, there was no telling how far he’d go. But no one ever expected to be asking the question… Where did he go? Yet here we are almost half a century later, with that burning question and just a string of bizarre clues that leads many to believe an infamous serial kill...
Apr 16, 2025•44 min
If you’ve ever been alone and felt like you might be in trouble, maybe you called someone… made it known you were on the phone… made it clear someone else was listening. But chatting on her cell while walking up to her apartment in sunny South Florida during broad daylight, Gwen couldn’t have sensed her life was in danger. And even the friend on the other end of the line had no way of stopping the evil that was lurking just behind Gwen’s front door… If you know anything about the murder of Gwend...
Apr 09, 2025•38 min
Our card this week is Kyle Seidel, the 5 of Diamonds from 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 Kyle never came home again. A violent encounter on his way to the restaurant cut his life short. For 12 years, Kyle’s family has been left to wonder why Kyle pulled into a bowling alley parking lot on the way to the restaurant, ...
Apr 02, 2025•40 min
Our card this week is George Kirkland, Asia Norman, and Lindsay Foster Hurr, the 2 of Clubs from 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 conspiracy theories went wild. And more than five years later… detectives are still working to untangle them all. If you know anything about the triple homicide of George Kirkland, Asia Norman,...
Mar 26, 2025•29 min
Our card this week is Sharon Jones, the 10 of Spades from 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 several days later…stories started swirling about what actually went down that night. More than 37 years later, her family’s still hearing remnants of these rumors…rumors they’re hoping someone out there can help them put to rest once and ...
Mar 19, 2025•23 min
Our card this week is Dashaun “Dae Dae” Lawson, the King of Hearts from 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 days before Christmas in 2017 and left behind three children, all under the age of five. His family and the detectives working his case are confident that someone in their neighborhood must have seen or heard somethin...
Mar 12, 2025•33 min
Our card this week is Susan "Susie" Poupart, the 7 of Spades from 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 younger men, things took a turn for the worse. Susie never made it home, and six months later, her remains were found in a nearby forest. The men Susie was last seen with became immediate suspects, but to this day, there just is...
Feb 26, 2025•32 min
Our card this week is Tessie Temores, the 10 if Diamonds from 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 by without hearing from her. But here they are ... still in the same stagnant spot. Still wondering what really happened... still waiting for Tessie to come home. If you know anything about the disappearance of Tessie Temore...
Feb 19, 2025•26 min
Our card this week is Carole Clement, the Ace of Hearts from 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 alibi seemed to check out, they were compelled to look at less obvious alternatives. Was this a murder-for-hire plot, or could the killer be someone much closer to Carole than they’d previously assumed? If you know anything about t...
Feb 12, 2025•41 min
Our card this week is Jefferson "Jeff" West, the King of Diamonds from 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 surrounding her property… and has never been seen again. If you know anything about the mysterious disappearance of Jeff West from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, in July of 2018, we urge you to call Detective Sergeant Dustin Wei...
Feb 05, 2025•23 min
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 many leads for investigators to chase, Agustin’s hardly had any. A language barrier between police and Agustin’s roommates made things even harder. Now, more than 40 years later, one cold case detective is working through the different challenges in each case as she tries to solve both of these men’s m...
Jan 29, 2025•35 min
Our card this week is LaQuandra “Shavonne” Slater, the 4 of Clubs from 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. So, it was all the more shocking when, in December of 2016, she disappeared without a trace. If you know anything about the disappearance of LaQuandra “Shavonne” Slater in Flint, Michigan in December of 2016, we urge yo...
Jan 22, 2025•25 min
Our card this week is My-Dung Tran, the 10 of Spades from 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 with friends in the area. But on October 4th, 2008, My-Dung got into a cab outside of a casino and was never seen or heard from again. In the 16 years since then, her case has remained a mystery to Biloxi police. If you know any...
Jan 15, 2025•23 min
Our card this week is William Alvarado, the Ace of Spades from 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– all thanks to a tip that came in from a deck of cold case playing cards. Now, detectives are working around the clock to finally solve William’s murder – and they’re the closest they’ve ever been. If you or anyone you know ...
Jan 08, 2025•40 min
Our card this week is Debra Sue Moore, the Jack of Clubs from 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 suspect, but a string of attacks on several other women in the same area during the same week forced them to consider whether a serial predator could be to blame for Debra’s death. If you have any information about the death of Deb...
Jan 01, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Our card this week is Javed Akhtar, the Jack of Diamonds from 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 customers were desperate for answers. Police soon found the murder weapon, but solving the case wouldn’t be simple, and the investigation stalled for years. Now, after reviewing case files for this episode of The Deck, invest...
Dec 18, 2024•33 min
Our card this week is Deborah Perry, the 3 of Spades from 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 investigators follow new leads, Deborah’s daughter wonders if a pair of flowered pants and men’s underwear her mother was found holding could be the key to cracking the case. If you have information about the 1994 murder of Deborah Perry...
Dec 11, 2024•23 min
Our card this week is Wojciech Fudali, the 3 of Spades from 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 fully be explained away by a young college grad simply taking off on his own. If you know anything about the mysterious disappearance of Wojciech Fudali on December 6th, 2008 in Narragansett, Rhode Island, you can call Narraganse...
Dec 04, 2024•35 min
Our card this week is Dominic Marino, the 2 of Clubs from 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 times. But this wasn’t one of those moments. 30-year-old Dominic was just heading home after a short visit with his dad, both sure they would see each other again soon. Now that hug is a scene Mark will play on a loop in his mind ...
Nov 27, 2024•26 min
Our card this week is John Phillips, the Jack of Diamonds from 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 considered closed. But in 2001, after taking a closer look at the case files, detectives realized something didn’t quite add up… Today, they’re still working to uncover exactly what… or who… brought John to his death that Octob...
Nov 20, 2024•29 min
Our card this week is Alfonso McCoy Jr. & Debra Gomez, The Queen of Clubs from 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 according to both families, Alfonso always took care of his people. When he did choose to settle down, he was loyal to that one person. He was Debbie’s protector . But in the darkness of winter more than twenty ye...
Nov 13, 2024•29 min
Our card this week is Randa Jawhari, the 10 of Spades from 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 later, detectives are still trying to find her and figure out what happened that fateful night… and who might be responsible. If you know anything about the 2009 disappearance of Randa Jawhari or if you have any information about s...
Nov 06, 2024•33 min
