Our card this week is Donna Lemon, the Seven of Spades from Idaho.

Donna was a young woman working as a nurse and had a hopeful future, but her life was

cut far too short.

And her death has been clouded in mystery for almost 50 years.

But all of that could change very soon.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

On July 5th 1973, in a beautiful area of Montana known as Gallatin Canyon, Sherry Pierce

was at her house waiting for her friend Donna to come over.

Sherry lived about 45 minutes southwest of a town called Bozeman.

Nowadays this region is a popular tourist attraction because of the Big Sky ski resort.

But back in 1973, the resort was just being built and a lot of the mountainous area was

undisturbed.

This particular week was the 4th of July and Sherry and Donna had made plans to go

horseback riding at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, something they did for fun all the time.

Well, 4 o'clock came and went and Sherry noticed that Donna was late.

After a few more minutes of waiting around, Sherry called Donna's parents house, which

was only about 5 miles up the road.

Now Donna didn't live with her parents, she was 20 years old and worked as a full time

nurse at the Bozeman Health Deacon's Hospital and had her own place.

But Sherry figured because it was a holiday week and Donna would have been going right past

her family's house in order to get to Sherry's, maybe Donna had stopped in to see her parents.

Unfortunately no one answered Donna's parents house, so Sherry waited a few more minutes

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