Our card this week is Elizabeth Miller, the Seven of Hearts from Connecticut.

In the summer of 1994, Elizabeth's body was found outside of an abandoned building in

an area rife with crime.

As the years went by, investigators never uncovered any solid leads.

Until a pattern of brutal murders began to emerge in the area, leading them to suspect

there's more to her story than meets the eye.

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

A man named Angel was going about his morning in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford,

Connecticut collecting cans.

This spot wasn't known to be the safest area of town, like pretty high crime rates, a

lot of rundown infrastructure you get to picture.

But for Angel, it was the perfect place to find discarded cans.

And the relatively cool mid-June weather made it pleasant, all things considered.

Sometime before 7am, he made his way off the street and walked back behind an abandoned

apartment building.

The sidewalk led to this overgrown courtyard, and it was there, half covered by the thick

foliage, that Angel saw a person lying on their back across the path.

At first, he thought they might just be unconscious.

But as he took a few steps closer, he knew something much more sinister was going on.

The person on the ground appeared to be a middle-aged woman, but he could barely make out her

features because her face was swollen beyond recognition.

She was fully clothed, but even the clothes weren't super distinguishable because they were

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