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The Deck

Charles & Jennifer Chia (Jack of Diamonds, Nevada)

The Deck

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True Crime

4.69.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Charles and Jennifer Chia could see their apartment complex from their school bus stop – that’s how close to their building it was. Such a small distance for something to go so terribly wrong. But a couple hundred feet is all it took for someone to stop the Chia siblings from making it home safely. That person has gone undetected for more than 34 years. But present-day detectives say their days are now numbered, as new technology could soon expose this nameless predator.

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0:00.0

Our card this week is Charles and Jennifer Cha, the Jack of Diamonds from Nevada.

0:10.0

The kids could see their apartment complex from their school bus stop.

0:14.3

That's how close to their building it was.

0:16.8

Such a small distance for something to go so terribly wrong.

0:21.1

But a couple hundred feet is all it took for someone to stop the

0:24.3

jaw siblings from making it home safely and that person has gone undetected for

0:29.1

more than 34 years. But present-day detectives say that that person's days are now

0:35.1

numbered, especially as new technology could soon expose this nameless

0:40.4

predator. I'm Ashley Flowers and this is the deck. So, You're going to. When retired Reno homicide detective Alan Fox looks back on any cold case. He's always trying to decipher what was

1:25.0

different about that day. Was there a change in the victim's schedule? Was there something

1:30.1

new going on in their life? And as it turns out, on October 18th, 1989, a lot was

1:37.1

different for 8-year-old Charles and 6-year-old Jennifer. Their mom was on an

1:41.6

international trip, so grandma was in charge of babysitting.

1:45.4

Not to mention, a nearly seven magnitude earthquake had just ravaged their neighbors across

1:50.2

the state line in California the evening before, and it had been all over the news.

1:55.6

So when late afternoon rolled around that Wednesday, the kid's grandma wasn't immediately

1:59.6

alarmed when the two didn't show up promptly after school.

2:03.0

After all, their typical routine had been turned upside down the past two weeks

2:06.6

while their mom, Ian, was away visiting family in Taiwan.

2:10.3

Even though they were young, the brother and sister could, for better or worse, already be trusted.

2:14.5

They were labeled as good kids, rule followers. The insinuation being that since third grader Charles

2:21.0

already wore a watch at his age which he was known to check

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