Jonathan Garcia-Valladares (7 of Diamonds, Arizona)

The Deck

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True Crime

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Being a 13-year-old kid can be tough, to say the least. But it seemed as if Jonathan Garcia-Valladares had it figured out. He was an overachieving student. He was a chess player. And on a crisp fall day in 2010, Jonathan was trying to get in shape for the football team, a sport he’d just joined. But on that day, his short life would come to an end. In the 15 years since, law enforcement is still trying to uncover why, and, most importantly… who would do this to an innocent young kid who had his entire life ahead of him.

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0:00.0	Our card this week is Jonathan Garcia Viadaris, the Seven of Diamonds from Arizona.
0:09.9	Being a 13-year-old is hard for most people. But for Jonathan, it seemed like he was close to nailing it.
0:16.9	He was about to finish eighth grade and had his site set on a special charter high school that
0:21.4	focused on the sciences. He wanted to be a surgeon when he grew up. And it wouldn't have been a
0:26.4	stretch. Jonathan was an excellent student, top of his class. He was the kind of kid who wanted
0:33.0	to do his very best at everything, including the school football team that he had just joined.
0:38.9	Although, somehow, one of the very first runs he took to get in shape for that football team
0:44.7	was the exact thing that cut his dreams short.
0:49.3	I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck.
1:29.4	Music flowers, and this is the deck. Phoenix 911, where... What happened? Someone that was shot in front of my house.
1:31.1	What happened?
1:31.9	Someone that was shot in front of my house. He's laying in the street and I'm moving.
1:35.1	Did you see who shot him?
1:36.2	Yeah, no, no. It's...
1:38.1	Most 26th Street.
1:41.2	Hurry.
1:42.6	Pup, pop, pop.
1:44.1	Those are the sounds that startled Tim Stevens awake in the early hours on November 7th, 2010.
1:50.6	His immediate reaction? Firecrackers. But no, he thought, who sets off firecrackers in November?
1:56.9	And then it hit him. Someone could be in serious danger. And here's the thing. Tim was a Navy
2:03.3	search and rescue veteran. He had been trained to respond in times of trouble. I mean, I think that's
2:09.5	sort of my, even still, if there's an accident, I usually, instinctively, I move towards the accident
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