Our card this week is Jureen Mata, the Queen of Spades from Washington.

During the Yakima Police Department's annual Christmas party,

the news of 62-year-old Jureen's murder shocked every officer and their plus ones.

Doreen's house was known for its security cameras.

There were so many that you basically couldn't enter the property without being filmed.

So why was Doreen targeted?

And who was she watching on her cameras?

Or maybe the better question is, was someone watching Jureen?

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck. It was December 7, 2013, and Detective Drew Shaw was all ready for his department's annual Christmas celebration.

Despite it being an unusually cold day in Yakima, Washington, the department was ready to throw down.

But right, as everyone was about to dig into the food and drink,

Detective Shaw saw one of his colleagues trying to get his attention.

And in an instant, he knew something was wrong.

We were just sitting down at our department's annual Christmas party when Lieutenant Nolan Wince

waved me out and told me that there was a suspected homicide at a residence on Greenway.

So my wife and I left, I went home and changed and responded to the scene.

Detective Shaw arrived at Greenway Avenue just before 7 p.m.

As he approached the house, number 1809, his heart sank.

The residence was home to someone who he and many other Yakima officers knew of well,

62-year-old Jureen Mata.

Doreen was an eccentric lady who lived alone, and she called the police a number of times

over the years, mostly to report petty crimes. She actually had multiple security cameras

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