Our card this week is Joseph Polici, the Jack of Hearts from Connecticut.

Joe was a father of three and a successful restaurant tour when he was abducted and shot

to death in 1973.

Everyone in Stanford seems to know who's responsible.

The real mystery is why hasn't anyone ever been charged with Joe's murder?

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

It was early afternoon on Sunday, February 4, 1973 and in Stanford, Connecticut, a young

woman named Tony was headed home after church.

She was a couple of blocks away, driving on Wind Over Lane when something caught her eye.

Parked by the side of the road at the corner of the intersection was her red Pontiac,

which she had loaned to her big brother, 32-year-old Joseph Polici.

She was surprised to see it, because this isn't a road that people typically park on,

because there's really no space to park.

But she also knew the Pontiac was having some transmission problems, so she figured maybe

it just broke down.

In which case, Joe would have made the quick walk back to their parents' house.

But when she got home, only their father was there.

When she asked about Joe, her dad told her that he left the house about an hour and a half

ago, like around 11 a.m.

They knew he had plans to visit his three children and then go work at Polici, which was this

popular Italian restaurant that had been owned by their family for decades, and Joe

tended bar and helped operate the place.

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