Our card this week is Gina Ciphers, the 10 of spades from Kansas.

In 1995, 24-year-old Gina Ciphers was found dead in the trailer she shared with her boyfriend

and young son just a couple of hours after dropping her son off at daycare one winter

morning.

The viciousness of the crime shocked the Salina Kansas community, and after nearly three

decades of grief, her family is still searching for the answers to who killed her and why.

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

Jimmy Anderson wasn't expecting to get a phone call at work, especially in the middle of his shift at a machinery manufacturing company in Salina, Kansas.

But more surprising than the call was the caller.

It was the director of his son's daycare.

She told Jimmy that his girlfriend, Gina Ciphers, was supposed to pick up their toddler James at 11.30 that morning.

But it was a quarter to noon, and there was no sign of her.

That was totally unlike Gina, and after Jimmy called her and got no answer, he decided to go check on her.

She had their car that day, so he borrowed one from work and headed straight to their mobile home in the Faith Quirk trailer park.

He didn't even stop to get James first.

As he pulled up to their trailer a few minutes past noon, the first thing he noticed was their car parked outside.

And the moment he went inside, he saw why Gina hadn't picked up their son or answered the phone.

She was lying on the floor of their living room with a bag covering her face.

Here's Salina Detective, Ricardo Garcia.

I think he tried life-saving measures and then called 911 after that.

There was no saving Gina.

She was dead before he ever even arrived.

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