Our card this week is Dale Dinwitty, the nine of diamonds from South Carolina.

In 1992, Dale was a 23-year-old woman enjoying a night out with friends.

When suddenly, she vanished from a crowded club, never to be seen again.

Maybe the right person listening to this episode will change that.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

On September 24th, 1992, at 6.15 in the morning,

Dan Dinwitty was just getting out of bed.

He needed to let the family's dog out because he knew his teenage son Drew would sleep in and

not do it and the dog always slept in Drew's room, so it fell on Dad to make sure the morning

potty break happened. Dan shuffled down the hallway towards his son's room and was just about

to open the door when something else caught his eye. The door to his daughter, Dale's bedroom,

was slightly open. When he appeared inside, fully expecting to see his 23-year-old daughter

asleep, she wasn't there. The bed she slept in every night was empty.

And based on the way the bedsheets and pillows looked, it appeared as if no one had been there

all night. To make the scene even stranger was the fact that the radio and lights in the room

were still on. Dale had recently moved back into the family's Columbia South Carolina home after

graduating from a woman's college in Virginia with a degree in art history. She was back for the

time being because she made plans to attend grad school that fall at the University of South Carolina.

Dan immediately thought the site of Dale's empty bed was odd. He knew she was going out to a concert

the night before with some friends and figured she would be out late, but he never heard her say

that she wasn't coming home. And he knew his daughter well enough to know that it was unlikely Dale

was already dressed and gone from the house that early in the morning on a Thursday. She was scheduled

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