Our card this week is Donna Ingersol, the 10 of clubs from Minnesota.

On a snowy December night in 1990, 25-year-old Donna stormed outside and disappeared into the

night after a heated argument with her boyfriend, leaving behind several important belongings

and a twisted web of mysteries that investigators have spent decades trying to untangle.

But, some recent developments have present day investigators questioning everything they

thought they knew about the case and believing that they're closer than ever to cracking it.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

It was 2012 and Jim Warren had just been appointed police chief of Wabusha, a rural Minnesota

city hugging the Mississippi River and the Wisconsin border.

It's a tiny community like population 2500, ripe with small town charm where everyone

knows each other.

And aside from some issues with drug crimes and petty theft, not much ever goes wrong,

except for one cold night in 1990 when one of its residents vanished without a trace.

The woman's name was Donna and her case had been haunting chief Warren for years.

He actually reviewed the case back when he was a detective in 2006, helping the then-police

chief get Donna's story on social media.

And the details of her case stuck with him.

So much so that now that he was chief, one of his first priorities was doing everything

he could to warm up Donna's hopelessly cold case.

But before making any investigative steps, chief Warren wanted to form a cold case board

to go over the two decades worth of records and documents with a fine-toothed comb.

Not only to familiarize themselves with the case, but also to see if the initial investigators

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