Our card this week is Brenda Gattis, the Jack of Spades from Ohio.

None of Brenda's friends or family could have guessed that Thanksgiving 1990 would be the

last time they'd see the sweet 33-year-old mother of three.

For weeks it seemed like Brenda had vanished into thin air, but eventually finding her

just led to more questions that are still unanswered to this day.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck.

Day Nohio was fighting hard to keep the harsh Midwest winter away in December of 1990.

The whole month was unseasonably warm, and Wednesday the 12th was no exception, with

temperatures hovering between 50 and 60 degrees.

So two local salvagers, a man and a woman in their 30s, decided to take advantage of

the warm weather and scour their neighborhood for aluminum cans littered to the side of

the road that they could turn in for cash.

What better way to spend the day?

And what better road to walk than Guthrie Road, a twisting, turning street on the city's

southwest edge that has all the elements of a can-hunting gold mine.

It's pretty rural feeling with a slight ditch on either side.

Directly to the south is a big landfill, and on both sides of the road the ditch is lined

with thick, underbrushed, perfect for holding on to all kinds of aluminum treasures.

As the salvagers were scouring the dense brush, though, something caught their eye.

Some kind of large object lying beneath all the branches.

When the object came into focus, they were horrified to realize that what they were

staring at was the nude body of a deceased woman.

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