Our card this week is Anne Klein, the 8 of Hearts from Indiana.

Anne was a loving wife and devoted teacher who was well on her way to earning a master's

degree.

When one winter afternoon in 1973, she was viciously attacked outside her classroom.

This episode is a special one because I've wanted to tell Anne's story ever since I first

heard about it years ago, long before we ever started this show.

I just didn't have enough information.

That is, until now, when the detectives working her case agreed to speak with us.

And they say that they might be closer than they've ever been to finding her killer.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

On January 18, 1973, college student Dennis Clem had just wrapped up his last class of

the day at Lockier College of Business in downtown Evansville, Indiana.

The business college was temporarily holding classes in the basement of the Old Courthouse

downtown due to a fire at the actual college campus a week before.

Now Dennis also worked as a custodian in the Old Courthouse, so in order to report for

work when he got out of class, all he had to do was go up a few flights of stairs and

he was able to punch in his time card.

On that particular day, his shift didn't start until 3.

Dennis had wrapped up his last class of the day a few minutes before that, like around

245.

So, to kill some time, he decided to go back downstairs to the basement where he'd just

been for a class and asked one of his accounting teachers, Mrs. Anne Klein, what grade he'd

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