I'm sure you noticed two episodes in your feed today and that's because they're

both a little shorter but despite their length we wanted to tell you both of their stories.

Our first card this week is Anna Halaris, the 10 of clubs from Ohio.

Anna was no doubt a fixture in her neighborhood. Some called her watchful, protective, and fierce,

while other neighbors viewed her vigilance as grumpiness, the get-off-my-lawn type of person to stay away from.

But Anna was never deterred by how her neighbors perceived her. She dedicated her time to keeping an eye out on the neighborhood, determined

to investigate every sound or commotion she heard outside.

And detectives think that may have made her a target for someone.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck. So, And then. It was a little after midnight on August 9, 1981 when Mary Adams got to the house that she had

fully-year-old Anna Halaris.

Mary had just gotten back from a vacation with friends

and by this time of night she fully expected her sister to be sound asleep in her room.

Here's retired Detective Doyle Burke describing the night.

Mary Adams, her sister, she lived with her sporadically, mostly on weekends. She was

gone between August 3rd and August 8th,

was not at home.

She comes home and finds the front and rear doors

to the residence lock.

So she starts banging on the doors, you know, looking in the windows, no answer.

Unable to get into the house, Mary walked a block over to the nearest pay phone to call their brother

Angelo. She wasn't just calling him because she was locked out. She was worried. Her

instincts told her that something was wrong and she needed reinforcements. It was close to

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