James Winston III (9 of Clubs, Kansas)

The Deck

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True Crime

4.6 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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James Winston III, a 35-year-old father of six, was waiting for a friend to come over in the wee morning hours of February 16, 2020, when two unknown individuals barged into his apartment and shot him to death. There are many questions still swirling around James’ homicide that leave detectives stumped, but there’s one thing those closest to the case are confident about: James knew his killers.

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0:00.0	Our card this week is James Winston III, the nine of clubs from Kansas.
0:09.6	In February 2020, James was sitting in his Wichita Kansas apartment when suddenly two
0:14.5	people barged in in the dead of night, shot him and fled, leaving behind a heartbroken
0:20.8	family.
0:22.4	Investigators think they know the motive behind James' murder, but their investigation has
0:27.1	been frustrated by a lack of cooperation from the very people that they think hold the
0:32.6	answers.
0:33.7	I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.
1:03.7	It was just before 3am on February 16th, 2020, and a woman named Tara Hampton had just
1:14.7	arrived at her friend James' apartment complex.
1:17.8	James had called Tara up an hour or so prior and had invited her to come over and hang
1:21.8	out.
1:22.8	When Tara walked up to his door, she noticed that it was slightly a jar, no big deal.
1:27.7	He had told her over the phone that he'd leave it unlocked.
1:30.8	And she could just let herself in whenever she got there.
1:33.3	So she did just that.
1:35.0	She stepped inside and looked down the hall into James' bedroom where she saw him lying
1:39.7	on his bed.
1:40.7	She walked towards his room and she must have assumed he was asleep because he wasn't
1:45.8	moving or responding to her.
1:48.0	But then she saw blood and lots of it.
1:53.2	Tara pulled out her cell phone and frantically dialed 911.
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