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The Deck

George Jares (6 of Clubs, Wisconsin)

The Deck

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True Crime

4.69.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

From the outside, 43-year-old George was a family man: a former greeting card salesman turned restaurant owner who loved his kids, the outdoors, and working hard. But after George was shot three times and left for dead in his restaurant’s parking lot, details of his life began to emerge that painted a rather different picture... And the surprising twists that detectives uncovered led them to suspect that George had been targeted by a hitman. For nearly forty years they’ve been looking for the shooter and, more importantly, the person who hired them.

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0:00.0

Our card this week is George F. Jarris, the six of clubs from Wisconsin.

0:09.3

From the outside, 43-year-old George was a family man, a former greeting card salesman turned

0:14.9

restaurant owner who loved his kids, the outdoors, and working hard.

0:19.4

But after George was shot and left for dead in his restaurant's parking lot,

0:23.4

details of his life began to emerge that painted a rather different picture.

0:29.0

And the surprising twist that detectives uncovered led them to suspect that George had been targeted by a hitman.

0:36.6

For nearly 40 years, they had been looking for that shooter, and, possibly more importantly,

0:42.5

the person who hired them.

0:44.9

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck.

0:48.4

The Deck. I'm I'm I'm

0:55.0

I'm

0:56.0

I'm

0:57.0

I'm At around 1.30 a.m. on August 3, 1986, a.m., a.m. on August 3, 1986, a woman named Marcy in Eagle River, Wisconsin, was drifting off to sleep when a loud

1:29.6

popping noise jolted her out of bed. It sounded like gunshots coming from just outside her home.

1:35.7

So she ran to the window to see what was going on. I mean, it was still dark, but she was able to make

1:40.7

out a lone figure walking across her yard away from this local supper club down

1:45.7

the street called the Arbor. That's when she alerted authorities. Less than three minutes after

1:51.2

that call, two city officers responded to the restaurant. From the sidewalk, there didn't appear

1:56.7

to be anything amiss. But as they made their way to the back of the property,

2:01.5

they heard what sounded like someone gasping for air.

2:05.3

Here's former Vilas County Sheriff's Detective

2:07.4

and current evidence tech,

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