Our card this week is Angelica Sandoval, the three of hearts from Colorado.

When police arrived at the scene of Angelica Sandoval's disappearance on February 24, 2011,

what they came across seemed eerily frozen in time.

Her 1995, four-door green Oldsmobile sedan was parked in front of her

two-bedroom duplex. Her keys were still in the driver-side lock, but the back driver's side door

of the car was hanging open, revealing a basket of laundry and her purse still inside the car.

The eerieness of that scene, the way that

Angelica had seemingly just been plucked away in the middle of such a routine task,

it left a heaviness that is hung over Alamosa, Colorado, since that 27-degree night.

I grew up in Alamosa, Colorado, born and raised here.

It's a case that if you grew up here, you kind of heard about, you knew about, you were

always aware of Anheleca Sandoval's case.

That's Captain Brandon Birch.

He clearly knew about Anheleka's case when he joined the Alamosa Police Department in 2017.

But he had no idea then that almost 10 years later, it would be his job to solve this 15-year-old cold case.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck. Three years after joining the Alamosa Police Department, a black binder in the investigations

unit caught the attention of now Captain Brandon Birch.

I was a detective in 2020 around that time frame, and as the years progressed, I had a case file that was sitting

inside of my detective cubicle that was sitting in there for years. And I never really looked at it.

And one day I remember I just opened my dresser drawer and I start looking at it and I said,

Hey, Cap, what is this? Oh, that's on Heliccan cassandoval's case file that's a cold case a missing

person case and of course it registers with me because i grew up here right and i start kind of

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