Our card this week is Corazon Franssen, the jack of diamonds from Utah.

In 1978, Corazon was just 26 and a widow after losing her husband from cancer five years

earlier.

And Corazon was still mourning the loss for her husband when she herself became a victim

of a horrifically brutal attack in the parking lot of her seemingly safe apartment complex.

I bet most of you have never heard of Corazon, much less her tragic story.

But it's one that our team hasn't been able to stop thinking about.

And once I'm done telling you what we've learned, I bet you won't be able to get Corazon

out of your head either.

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

February 5th 1978 was a Sunday.

And just after 8am, churchgoer David Lake was pulling into the parking lot of his Latter-day

Saints Chapel in Murray, Utah.

As David was parking his car, something unusual caught his eye.

It was a woman lying in the shrubs on the edge of the church parking lot.

And whatever had happened to her didn't look good because he could see that there was

some blood on the pavement.

David ran inside the church and alerted the bishop, this guy named Calvin Gillan, who in this

small town also happened to be the Murray Police Chief.

The two ran back outside to get a look at the woman.

She was in such bad shape they couldn't tell if she was even still alive.

So Chief Gillan called for the Murray Police Department and a county ambulance to come

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