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The Deck

Debra Elizabeth Espey (6 of Clubs, Florida)

The Deck

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True Crime

4.69.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A college campus in broad daylight in a town literally called “Niceville” might be one of the last places you’d expect a young collegiate to disappear from, but in March 1973, that’s exactly what happened. Debra Espey’s case spans more than 50 years, includes a primary suspect from the beginning, and has long been thought to have connection to other unsolved cases in the Florida panhandle. But for all the twists and misdirections, detectives are hopeful they can close this case soon.

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Our card this week is

0:05.0

is Deborah Espy, the six of clubs from Florida.

0:09.0

A college campus in broad daylight in a town literally called Niceville might be one of the last places you'd expect a young college student to disappear from

0:18.4

But in March 1973 that's exactly what happened.

0:23.0

Deborah Espy's case spans more than 50 years

0:26.0

with twists and misdirection all along the way,

0:29.0

but detectives are hopeful that they can close this case soon.

0:33.0

I'm going to. Oh, March 12th 1973 started as a typical day for Charles Espy, who dropped his daughter Deborah off at

1:16.0

Okalusa Walton Junior College for her Monday morning classes on his way to work.

1:21.2

Charles worked at the nearby Eglin Air Force Base and his day passed by normally.

1:25.8

By day's end, he'd headed home and expected dinner to be ready and his family to be sitting

1:30.5

around the table, but that's when he realized that his daughter Deborah

1:34.0

wasn't home and he knew that she should have been back from class by now.

1:39.2

When he asked his wife if she'd talked to Deborah, she said that she had that morning before school, but like that was it.

1:44.8

Deborah had asked to have some of her clothes ready for the next day and told her mom what she wanted for dinner that night.

1:50.4

Now we were fortunate enough to speak to one of Deborah's relatives for this episode.

1:54.8

Her name is actually Deborah as well and because she married Deborah's brother Wayne, she

1:59.2

shares the exact same name, Deborah Espy. She told our reporter that at the house everyone

2:05.4

started trying to recount their last interactions with Deborah to determine where

2:09.2

she might have been and Deborah's brother Wayne who went to same school, said that he had spoken to his sister

2:14.6

after their dad had dropped her off that morning.

2:17.4

He said Deborah came to find him after her morning class and said that she was ready to go

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