Our card this week is Jimmy Jamie Riddle, the Nine of Diamonds from North Carolina.

In the fall of 1991, just as the season was starting to change, a couple fishing at sunrise at a small lake in Fayetteville, North Carolina, noticed something floating near the surface of

the water. At first, they thought it was a blow-up doll. But upon closer inspection, the couple saw

hair on the legs and realized this wasn't a doll. It was a human being, a person who would be

identified as 24-year-old Jimmy Riddle.

Jimmy was also known to some of their friends as Jamie, but how much their identity played

into their death isn't clear. What police have to go on are potential witness statements,

items left at the crime scene, and maybe, just maybe, DNA.

Nearly 35 years after Riddle's killing, there is a new detective on the case,

a detective determined to unearth answers once and for all.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck.

Music flowers and this is the deck. And this is the deck. The On the evening, On the evening of September 26, 1991, Max Riddle was sitting at home in Fayetteville when the phone rang.

It was someone that he knew saying that he should watch the news that night because his younger sibling might be on TV.

Now, the tone of the call must not have been ominous because Max sat back on the couch and held his baby thinking that his brother, who he knew as Jimmy, was going to be highlighted in some way.

Now, through our reporting, we learned that Riddle also went by Jamie on occasion, though their

family didn't know that, so throughout this episode, they will refer to their brother as Jimmy.

And because of that, you'll hear us refer to them brother as Jimmy. And because of that,

you'll hear us refer to them as Riddle. According to reports, a couple of friends say that Riddle used Jimmy and Jamie interchangeably and often wore feminine clothing. But no one knew exactly

how they identified. To their family, it didn't matter. I don't think it was ever talked about

because we wouldn't raise to be like that

to people and stuff. We were raised to be nice and be kind to everybody. And it doesn't matter

what they are, what they do. Riddle was loved within the family for being charming and charismatic.

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