Our card this week is

this week is Dana Chism, the Jack of Diamonds from Washington, D.C.

I've been telling victim stories for six and a half years now. I've been a consumer of them for even longer.

And in all that time, few stories have haunted me the way that Dana's has.

Her killer was bold, so confident police would never catch him that he

taunted them. And for nearly 30 years he's been able to get away with it.

But I think that's coming to an end, because even though it seems like he tried to do everything he could to erase himself from Dana's apartment and her life, it looks like he didn't cover all of his tracks.

He may have just left something behind. didn't cover all of his tracks.

He may have just left something behind that could finally give him away.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck. Oh, On Monday, February 27th, 1995, over 400 miles away from DC in Rock Hill, South Carolina,

the landline at the Chisholm residents rang out in the middle of the night.

It woke up Johnny and Joe Gary from a deep sleep, and in his half a week state Johnny clocked

the time close to 1.30 a.m. and for where they lived in the South everyone knew you

didn't dare make a call past supper time unless of course it was an emergency.

Groggy and days Joe Gary was the one to answer the phone, but the person on the other end spoke loud enough for Johnny to hear.

And it was a man introducing himself as Detective Lewis Douglas with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C.

And to their utter shock, the detective said that their 25-year-old daughter Dana was in jail.

The detective explained that they had this sting operation at the

Omni Hotel there in DC and Dana was one of the women that they'd arrested that

night for charges related to sex work. Now that didn't sound like their daughter at all.

I mean, Dana had an office job in the city.

The only time she'd ever really been in trouble

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