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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.

  • 33 minutes 29 seconds
    The Leighton Avenue Killings (9, 10, Jack, and Queen of Hearts, New York)

    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 massacre – and why?

    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever killed Michael Adams, Lachelle “Peanut” Powell, Michael Royal, and Jennifer Leasure.

    If you have any information, please contact Rochester PD’s major crimes unit at 585-428-7157 Rochester PD Contact or email them at [email protected]. You can also call Crime Stoppers at 585-423-9300 or submit a tip online.

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/the-leighton-avenue-killings

     

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    The Deck is hosted by Ashley Flowers. 

    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

     

     

    11 June 2025, 7:00 am
  • 26 minutes 32 seconds
    Sharon Glover (6 of Spades, Louisiana)

    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 decades. 

    • If you have any information on the murder of Sharon Glover, Det. Jackson urges you to reach out to him directly at (318) 681-0705. You can also submit a tip anonymously through Crimestoppers. 

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/sharon-glover

     

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    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

    4 June 2025, 7:00 am
  • 39 minutes 18 seconds
    George Jares (6 of Clubs, Wisconsin)

    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 by a hitman. For nearly forty years they’ve been looking for the shooter and, more importantly, the person who hired them.

    • If you have any information about the murder of George Jares in Eagle River, Wisconsin, on August 3rd, 1986, please come forward. You can call the Vilas County Sheriff’s Office at (715) 479-4441 and ask for any officer or detective on duty. Or, if you’d prefer to remain anonymous, you can call the Vilas County Sheriff’s anonymous tip line at 1-800-472-7290.

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/george-jares

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    The Deck is hosted by Ashley Flowers. 

    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

    28 May 2025, 7:00 am
  • 31 minutes 49 seconds
    REMEMBERING: Owachige Osceola (8 of Diamonds, Oklahoma)

    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 decade.

    Please join us in writing a letter to the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office calling for a formal independent review of the methodology used during Owachige’s autopsy. Below you will find a prompt you can use and the address to send the letter to.

    (WHERE TO SEND)

    Mr. John O'Connor

    Oklahoma Attorney General's Office

    313 NE 21st Street
    Oklahoma City, OK 73105

    [email protected]


     

    To Whom It May Concern:

    I'm writing in regard to the criminal investigation related to the mysterious death of Ms. Owachige Osceola in September 2013, which is being conducted by the Norman Police Department.

    As you may be aware, Ms. Osceola's cause and manner of death were classified by the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as "undetermined" despite credible evidence that she was intentionally strangled to death in the bedroom of her apartment.

    After hearing concerns expressed by Norman Police Department investigators working this case and closely listening to details about the criminal investigation into her death as reported by Audiochuck Podcast Network's "The Deck," I'm deeply troubled that the medical examiner's office has been unwilling to reconsider its original ruling — directly hindering further investigative efforts to pursue justice for Ms. Osceola and her loved ones.

    I implore the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office to reexamine evidence in this case and to insist that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner consider that Ms. Osceola's death was the result of a homicidal act. I also kindly request that this office publicly publish its conclusions in the matter.

    Respectfully,

    [YOUR FIRST & LAST NAME]

     


    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/remembering-owachige-osceola

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    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

    21 May 2025, 7:00 am
  • 26 minutes 3 seconds
    Sandra Ann Burris (5 of Spades, Louisiana)

    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 out, you get the right reporter dusting things off, asking questions… and you just might uncover new avenues of investigation. 

    • If you know anything about the disappearance of Sandra Burris, please contact St. Landry Parish Crime Stoppers by visiting their website, www.stlandrycrimestoppers, or by calling their tip line at 1-337-948-8477.

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/sandra-burris

     

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    The Deck is hosted by Ashley Flowers. 

    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

    14 May 2025, 7:00 am
  • 39 minutes 33 seconds
    Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)

    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.

    More than 40 years later, Christy’s friends are peeling back the layers and piecing together memories from their childhood, finding that what actually lay beneath was much darker than they ever could’ve imagined.

    • If you know anything about the disappearance of Marjorie “Christy” Luna in Greenacres, Florida, on May 27th, 1984, the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, please come forward. And if you had encounters with anyone named in the episode, or even similar encounters as described with men you didn’t know, detectives want to hear from you too. Perhaps you hold the missing piece to solving this mystery and putting a terrible person behind bars for whatever life they have left. You can remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County at 1-800-458-8477.

    Ways to contact the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office directly: 

     

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/marjorie-christy-luna

     

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    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

    7 May 2025, 7:00 am
  • 39 minutes 4 seconds
    Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)

    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 Lisa had been murdered. But in the 49 years since, they’re still trying to uncover why, and, most importantly… who. And now more than ever, it’s a race against time. 

    • If you have any information about the murder of Lisa Staes or her whereabouts between Chicago and Wisconsin in January of 1976, please call the Sauk County sheriff’s office at 608-355-4495 and ask for Detective Bulin. Or, if you’d rather remain anonymous, you can call the Sauk County crime stoppers tip line at 1-800-847-7285.
       

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/lisa-staes

     

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    30 April 2025, 7:00 am
  • 38 minutes 40 seconds
    Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)

    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 were attacked in the Boca Raton, Delray Beach, or Deerfield Beach areas in the 1980s or 1990s, and you think you may have been a victim of David Miller, you can call Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County with tips at 1-800-458-8477 or reach out to Sgt. William Springer at ​​[email protected].
    • Police are also interested in speaking with anyone who believes they may have had something stolen by David Miller that could have been recovered in the search of his property or who may have seen Miller around Donna’s apartment complex the evening of her murder.

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/donna-martin

     

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    23 April 2025, 7:00 am
  • 44 minutes 11 seconds
    Robert "Bob" Christian (4 of Spades, Wisconsin)

    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 killer could be to blame for his disappearance.

    • Today, Robert “Bob” Christian would be 65 years old. At the time of his disappearance, he was 5’10” and 210 pounds. He had brown eyes, shaggy brown hair, and wore eyeglasses. You can find his photo in the show notes. If you know anything about Bob's disappearance or movements around Wisconsin in September of 1977, please call Detective Tyler Pointon directly at 608-355-3205. You can also call the sheriff’s office’s non-emergency line at 800-377-1195. Or, if you prefer to remain anonymous, you can reach Sauk County Crime Stoppers at 1-888-TIP-SAUK.

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/robert-bob-christian

     

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    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

    16 April 2025, 7:00 am
  • 38 minutes 17 seconds
    Gwendel Greenblatt (6 of Diamonds, Florida)

    Our card this week is Gwendell Greenblatt, the 6 of Diamonds from Florida.

    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 Gwendel “Gwen” Greenblatt in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the Royal St. George apartments on February 5th, 2003, please come forward. You can remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County at 1-800-458-8477.
      • Additional ways to contact West Palm Police directly:
        • Phone Number: 561-822-1900 (Ask for Detective Aaron Sam)
        • Detective Aaron Sam’s Email Address: [email protected]

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/gwendel-greenblatt

     

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    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

    9 April 2025, 7:00 am
  • 40 minutes 3 seconds
    Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)

    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, who he encountered there, and why they shot him. Investigators think they know who pulled the trigger, but they don’t know the why… they’re hoping that just one new piece of evidence could help them find answers and bring his killer, or killers, to justice. 

    • If you or anyone you know has information about Kyle Seidel’s murder, please call the Waterford Police Department tip line at 860-437-8080 or call Waterford detectives directly at 860-442-0645 or 860-442-9451.

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/kyle-seidel

     

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    The Deck is hosted by Ashley Flowers. 

    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

    2 April 2025, 7:00 am
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