Our card this week is Donna Martin, the Eight of Hearts from Florida.

Donna Martin was stabbed and killed in her own home in South Florida back in 1999.

And police believed that the man who may have killed her was the very same man who had turned Boca Raton into a hunting ground.

But police have been unable to pin Donna's murder on him. That suspect even went to prison for

other crimes, but now he's a free man. And police believe solving Donna's murder could help

save other women in Florida.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck. The When Donna Martin hadn't shown up for work by lunchtime on Tuesday, January 12th, 1999, her colleagues at ADT security services were pretty worried.

She had relocated to join the company in Boca Raton,

Florida, less than two years before. And they knew her well enough to know that it wasn't like her

to go AWOL. So one of her coworkers volunteered to stop by Donna's apartment and check on her. It was 11.45 a.m.

when she made it to Donna's apartment, and from the very first moment, she saw the front door slightly ajar, she knew that whatever kept Donna from work wasn't good.

She pushed the door open to reveal a quiet living room. Too quiet. She made her way toward the kitchen and reached for the light switch to better see,

but when the bright light washed over the kitchen, she saw a horrifying sight.

Donna was on the floor next to the fridge, covered in blood,

and still wearing the green suit she'd worn to work the day before.

Grantic, the colleague, called for help, but when paramedics arrived, they quickly realized

there was no hope of reviving Donna.

Retired detective John Van Houten, who everyone on the squad calls Hootie, was the lead

detective on Donna's case for many years.

I mean, even starting from day one.

He told our reporters that when he first entered Donna's apartment, it was clear that she'd

been stabbed, and he was pretty sure he knew with what.

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