Our card this week is Diana Ferris, the 10 of hearts from Connecticut.

In 1996, Diana, who went by Diana, was preparing to welcome her fourth child.

When one spring day, she was ambushed and brutally murdered in the privacy of her own home.

The investigation into her slang was quick to go cold, but a recent breakthrough in the

case has police more confident than ever that they're hot on the killer's trail.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Death.

It was about 6 p.m. when Claudia Rice arrived at his brother's apartment complex on Hartford's

north side to do an unofficial welfare check.

His brother, Harold, better known as Pookie, was locked up on a robbery charge, and no one

had been able to reach his live-in girlfriend, Diane, for a few days, which was out of

the ordinary.

So Claudia agreed to go check on her.

He went up and knocked on the apartment door, but there was no answer.

The door was locked, so he contacted a maintenance man to let him in.

As they set foot inside the small, one-bed, one-bath unit, nothing immediately seemed off,

but when they peeked into the bedroom, they saw a sight they could never unsee.

Their all-out on the bed was a woman who appeared to be Diane.

She was covered in blood and had a spiral telephone cord around her neck.

In a complete panic, Claudia and the maintenance man ran out of the apartment to get help,

and happened upon a police car just driving by.

They flagged down the officer, Sergeant Ed Moringer, and told him about the horrifying

scene they just found.

...