Our card this week is Daphne Hope, the eight of spades from Colorado.

In the summer of 2001, Daphne Hope vanished.

And for over seven long years, her case disappeared into the reams of files at the Denver

Police Department. And even when new detectives did start

digging, no one has been able to piece together exactly what happened to Daphne. Over the years,

theories about her disappearance have varied widely, from sex work and drug deals to a serial killer.

There was even speculation that Daphne wasn't missing at all,

that she was hiding in protective custody.

And then there's the man she lived with at the time.

What might he know about her disappearance?

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck. In November of 2008, the Aurora Police Department started looking into a seven-year-old missing persons case,

that of 34-year-old Daphne Hope.

The case had just been transferred from the Denver PD, who had discovered while moving older files to a new database, that Daphne had

technically gone missing from Aurora. So Denver had sent over a letter and a one-page file,

both which contained old details about the case, along with some recent follow-up.

The detective that came across this case and realized it needed to go to us did do a social

security number check on Daphne to see if there had been any activity in the last seven

years, and there was none.

That's Detective Jason McDonald of the Aurora Police Department.

Now, he didn't start working Daphne's case until September of 2025.

And he was able to dig into the limited detective notes from 2008

to share what the Aurora team had to work with,

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