Our card this week is Deborah Sue Moore, the jack of clubs from Texas.

When a young mother was stabbed to death outside an apartment complex in Odessa, Texas in the

spring of 1986, police initially suspected her estranged husband could be behind the crime.

But when three other women were attacked in the same area that same week, investigators were forced to reconsider their

theory and grapple with a bigger question, did they have a serial predator on their hands?

And that's a question that they are still asking to this very day, but perhaps with

your help, they'll finally get an answer. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the death.

Music The Just before 3 a.m. on May 17, 1986, a woman's scream rang out in the Viva apartment complex in Odessa, Texas.

Alarmed by the piercing sound of distress, a man named Dale ran out of his second floor unit

and down a set of stairs into the open-air courtyard of the two-story building.

And he noticed a trail of blood along the sidewalk leading to the door of Apartment 51. And as he knocked on the door,

he heard a man cry out, oh my God. When the door opened, Dale saw a woman soaked in blood,

lying motionless on the floor. The man who opened the door had already called police. And as he

ran to the parking lot to flagged down first

responders, Dale started CPR on the unresponsive woman. When police and paramedics arrived and

began assessing the woman, the man who'd flagged them down told them that she was 25-year-old

Deborah Sue Moore. They saw that Deborah had been stabbed at least once, and they weren't going

to be able to care for her there, so they loaded her into an ambulance and rushed her to the local

hospital. But it wasn't long before official word came back that Deborah hadn't made it.

By the time they got that news, detectives at the Viva apartments were already kicked into

high gear,

speaking with witnesses. First up, the occupant of apartment 51, and the man who'd called 911.

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