Our card this week is Janet Couture, the Jack of Diamonds from Connecticut.

There is an old saying in law enforcement.

A cold case is never really cold.

And today's story proves that because just last year, there was a new development

that closed this unsolved

murder case from 1973, proving that it's never too late. And in some cases, the answers might

have been in front of you all along. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck. It was around 3 a.m. on Saturday, October 13th, when 21-year-old Janet Couture turned to her sleeping boyfriend on the couch and uttered something pretty terrifying.

Janet had said to him, I think somebody might be in the house.

That's Detective Christina Johnston of the East Hartford Police Department.

She spent years pouring over the original reports from this case, including the accounts

from Janet's boyfriend, Jay Locke. According to those reports, after Janet told him what

she'd heard, Jay got up and took a look around.

Now, where she lived was a single building that was comprised of four separate units.

All these units were within the building but had their own separate entrances.

The front door that leads into the kitchen was unlocked and open, and the window was unsecure. Unsecure and open. But Jay didn't find anyone hiding out when he went through the

apartment room by room, making sure to close the open window as he did. The two-bedroom

duplex wasn't large, and Janet's roommate was away for the weekend,

so he cleared the place pretty quickly.

He said to Janet, I'm going to leave because he had to work in the morning.

So she says, okay, I'm going to go upstairs, I'm going to go to bed,

because she wasn't feeling good that day.

She was sick.

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