Our card this week is James Rowe and John and Nancy Spivey, the Jack of Spades from Florida.

On a cool January evening in 1991, the three roommates hosted a small group of friends

in their St. Petersburg apartment for a night of drinks and card games.

But exactly what happened next that night has baffled investigators for three decades.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

On January 10, 1991 during the pre-dawn hours in the Tampa Bay area, a man who we're going

to call Ralph headed to pick up his three colleagues for work.

Ralph along with 60-year-old James Rowe and married couple John and Nancy Spivey who were

33 and 37 were all day laborers and made their living by picking up odd jobs through

a temp services agency in St. Petersburg where they lived.

He was around 5.30 that morning when Ralph climbed the stairs of the apartment complex and

knocked on the door to the small one bedroom, one bath unit.

But nobody came to greet him.

He couldn't even pick up any sounds of feet shuffling or people getting ready from inside.

Thinking maybe they were still asleep, he shrugged it off and went out to grab some coffee

and breakfast.

Since they got their work through the temp agency, they weren't expected to clock in at

a certain time, so it's not really a big deal, first come, first served.

Ralph returned about an hour later and knocked again.

But this time he noticed something out of place, something that gave him pause.

This time, the door was slightly ajar.

Now whether he noticed the door was slightly open the previous time he showed up at the

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