Our card this week is Dorothy D. Schofield, the four of Hearts from Florida.

Ocala Police Chief Mike Balkan was just a toddler when 12-year-old Dorothy Schofield, who most commonly went by D or D.D.

disappeared from a local department store.

When he was a teenager, he remembers his parents bringing up the missing little girl from his hometown.

Later, as a dad, it would cause him to lay awake at night, worrying about his own daughter.

And down the line, as a new new detective it would continue to haunt him

when he began investigating the case for himself and today even as chief of the

entire department he won't rest until he knows what happened to D. Schofield.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck. Oh, When afternoon rolled around on Thursday, July 22nd, 1976, Lena Schofield was starting

to regret the decision to let her pre-teen daughter go off by herself.

D had gotten tired of waiting in line for her mom to renew her license, so for

literally the first time ever, Lena agreed to let D leave on her own, just

across the parking lot to the J.M. Fields Department

store. Here's Ocala Police Chief Mike Balkan.

Dee had a pair of sandals that she had bought her sister that had broken so she was going to return them at the

J.M. Fields Department store by a watch band for her brother for his birthday.

And then the plane was to go take in a movie here in New Cala and ultimately go to dinner

before returning home.

Lena handed her the keys and told D to meet by the family's car when she had finished shopping

so they could go to the movies.

Lena expected her to be waiting in the car when she was done taking the written test but now

here she was waiting on D. The Florida Highway Patrol station at the time was

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