Zachary Michael Bernhardt (4 of Diamonds, Florida)
Nearly 26 years after the eight-year-old vanished from his second-floor apartment in Clearwater, Florida, his whereabouts remain a mystery....
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20 of 250 episodesTawnya Dawn Knight (3 of Clubs, Kansas)
When 15-year-old Tawnya first vanished into thin air on a cold winter’s night in 1996, law enforcement considered her a runaway, despite her...
Mary Kathleen Rodriguez (5 of Spades, Texas)
For more than three decades, the question of who killed 26-year-old Mary Kathleen Rodriguez has hung over the town of West Odessa, Texas. Kn...
Daniel Traina (8 of Diamonds, Florida)
49-year-old Daniel Traina was hard to miss. The Six-foot-four happy-go-lucky guy was always bopping around the West Palm Beach suburb of Lak...
Ilene Misheloff (Ace of Hearts, California)
Thirteen-year-old Ilene Misheloff normally walked the same path home from school most days. And on January 30, 1989, all signs indicate she...
Benjamin Rosario (Wild Card, Connecticut)
Most cold case investigators will tell you that murder is a dirty business. But once in a while, there’s a murder so horrific that it could...
Terrance “Konomi” Plummer (Ace of Spades, North Carolina)
It was Memorial Day weekend in 2010, and hot as hades in North Carolina, when 22-year-old Terrance “Konomi” Plummer Junior was found murdere...
Beverly Logan (10 of Clubs, Kansas)
When Beverly Logan, a gentle, 56-year-old certified nurse’s aide, was found murdered in her kitchen, the Salina, Kansas Police Department fo...
Anita Carlson (10 of Spades, Minnesota)
In late June 1987, the town of Bemidji, Minnesota, was gearing up for Independence Day weekend. Celebrations quickly turned to panic when An...
An Important Announcement from Ashley Flowers
A message from Ashley about the future of The Deck
Rosa McMillan (9 of Hearts, North Carolina)
On August 6, 1989, Rosa McMillian was found murdered inside that home. She had been brutally attacked—and sexually assaulted—in her own livi...
Kevin Nguyen (10 of Spades, Indiana)
On a cold December night in 2018, 25-year-old Kevin Nguyen went to see a band at a Fort Wayne bar and never came home. Surveillance cameras...
Kelsie Schelling (10 Of Spades, Colorado)
In February 2013, 21-year-old Kelsie Schelling had just learned she was eight weeks pregnant. Hours after her first prenatal appointment, sh...
Milagros Nieves (3 of Clubs, Connecticut)
For more than three decades, the family of Milagros Nieves never talked about her murder. She’d been stabbed 33 times in the presence of her...
Clarence and Marjorie Paulson (2 of Clubs, Minnesota)
In July 1984, Clarence and Marjorie Paulson, father and daughter, were reported missing from their home in Minnesota. At first glance, sheri...
Edwin “Eddie” Heath Sr. (King of Hearts, Delaware)
For the last eleven years, the mystery of who murdered 33-year-old Eddie has haunted the New Castle County Police. It looked to them like Ed...
Angelica Sandoval (3 of Hearts, Colorado)
When police arrived at the scene of Angelica Sandoval’s disappearance on February 24th, 2011, what they came across seemed eerily frozen in...
Jimmy “Jamie” Riddle (9 of Diamonds, North Carolina)
In the fall of 1991, just as the season was starting to change, a couple fishing at sunrise at a small lake in Fayetteville, North Carolina,...
Tonya Teske (The 2 of Spades, Idaho)
This week, we’re resurfacing an important old episode for you because we just learned more information about a person of interest who’s neve...
Nefertiri “Neffie” Trader (Queen of Hearts, Delaware)
Our card this week is Nefertiri "Neffie" Trader, the Queen of Hearts from Delaware. In the early hours of June 30th, 2014, 33-year-old Nefer...