Our card this week is Georgia Smith, the 8 of Hearts from Minnesota. In 1999, 76 year old Georgia had plans to spend the 4th of July with her family at her

lakeside cabin one state over in Wisconsin. But a few days before they were all

set to leave, Georgia said that she needed to go there early on her own.

When her family eventually showed up to celebrate,

they quickly realized that this holiday wouldn't be anything like they planned.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is the deck. So, You're going to. When Brent, Kim and Cary all arrived to their mom's cabin in Minong, Wisconsin, they were expecting to find some sign that their mom Georgia was there.

Maybe the smell of barbecue on the grill.

Some decorations set up for the next day's 4th of July festivities, or at least some indication that she'd been working in the

yard that week as she usually did.

But the blinds in the windows were closed, and her 1984 Blue Mercedes sedan wasn't in the driveway.

At first, her adult children weren't that worried.

Yes, she hadn't been answering her phone,

but that wasn't too concerning, considering she didn't always respond right away and she was known to

unplug her landline at the cabin when she didn't want to be bothered.

It was only the afternoon on July 3rd after all.

Maybe she'd just gone to run an errand or pick up something

that she'd forgotten for their 4th of July get-together the next day. But the

more they thought about it and the longer they waited, the less likely that seemed, because she knew that her family was planning on coming to the cabin that weekend.

Feeling a sense of unease, they walked over to the neighbor's house, probably hoping he'd be able to quell the feeling of worry

starting to grow in the pit of their stomachs. But that's not what happened. Instead, the neighbor

said something that made their hearts sink.

He hadn't seen Georgia at the cabin at all that week.

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