Our card this week is Anne Pates, the seven of clubs from Michigan. In the summer of

99, Anne was in the prime of her life. A recent college student now living at home,

she was young, high energy, and carefree. It was normal for her to leave the house late at night

and then come back even later.

So on July 2nd, when Anne went out to grab a pack of cigarettes well after midnight,

no one in her family thought much of it.

But they had no way of knowing that it would be the last time any of

them saw her alive. I'm Ashley Flowers and this is the deck. Oh, The sun was barely starting to rise on July 2nd 1999 when mother of four Janet

Pates was woken up suddenly by her phone ringing.

She was confused to be getting a call so early, but that confusion gave way to concern when she

realized that on the other end of the line was a police officer. He was asking her to come collect her tan

1995 Ford contour that had been abandoned on the side of the highway in Genesee County.

Now this was puzzling to Janet because she hadn't taken her car out the previous night,

and she certainly hadn't abandoned it on the side of the highway in a county 20 minutes away from her Saginaw, Michigan home.

But the car that the officer described was hers, same model, same plate.

So with a bad feeling in her stomach, Janet agreed to go pick it up.

But she obviously couldn't get the car alone.

She needed someone to drive it back with her.

So she went to wake up one of her kids to go with her.

And that's when she realized that her 23 year old daughter, Anne,

wasn't in her room.

Actually, Anne wasn't home at all.

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