Our card this week is Javid Akhtar, the Jack of Diamonds from Connecticut.

And hi, the deck listeners, Britt here.

And this week, Ashley's passing the mic over to me to deal you in on our last case of the year.

In this case is a special one.

It's a true testament to what's possible when our reporting team works

closely with law enforcement on decades-old cold cases, sparking new questions that send them

chasing down new leads, leads that hopefully will bring the answers loved ones have been searching

for for nearly 20 years. On a freezing cold winter night 17 years ago, Javid's wife, Raffia, was at home with

their young twins waiting for her husband to return from work at their small town convenience

store. But Javid never did come home. Shot once outside his store, he'd spend 10 agonizing

days fighting for his life in the ICU before succumbing to the injury.

To this day, no one knows who fired that fatal shot, but investigators are close to putting the pieces together.

I'm Britt Preywad, and this is the deck.

The deck. The It was around 9.15 p.m. on February 28, 2007, when a local sandwich shop owner named Brian closed up his store and

headed home from work. Even though it was only 15 degrees outside, he had his car window cracked open,

letting in just a bit of frigid New England winter air. And as he drove through the dark,

down Depot Street in East Windsor, Connecticut, he heard a sudden pop sound ring out in the otherwise

quiet night, loud enough for him to hear over his car radio. Seconds later, he saw two people

run across the road and jump over a fence that led to a nearby apartment complex. They appeared

to be running away from another local business in the sleepy small town, a convenience store called

the one-stop. Brian got the feeling that something bad had just gone down at the little corner

store, so he pulled into the parking lot to check. And sure enough, his gut feeling was right on the

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