Our card this week is Eddie and Frances Sazowskis, the three of clubs from Wisconsin.

Eddie and Frances were in their mid-70s and still working hard as successful scrap metal

dealers.

When one day, a monster showed up in their junkyard leaving behind a mystery that has

lasted for more than three decades.

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

A little after nine, a

clock on Wednesday, November 30, 1988, Herbert Baumgart arrived to his friend Eddie's house

to start the work day.

He was moving a little slower that morning because there was a fresh dusting of snow

on the roads in their small town of Shabwagon, Wisconsin, and he wanted to drive safely.

Herbert was 72 and only worked one day a week at his friend's well-known junk business.

Eddie's Jaloppie Jungle.

Jaloppie is a term for an old car and Eddie had fields full of old cars.

Eddie was 75, so a few years older than Herbert, and he ran the business with his 73-year-old

wife, Frances.

The two sometimes joked about retirement, but never fully committed.

Eddie was a junk dealer, which basically meant that he collected and bought old discarded

cars and car parts and other secondhand stuff to reseller trade.

The couple's property was massive, over 80 acres, and spread around it where several

barns and fields full of rusty old stuff.

He might have looked like a mess, but it was an organized mess, and Eddie and Frances lived

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