Joyce "Tina" Gallegos (7 of Spades, Utah) and Gabrielle DiStefano (3 of Spades, Utah)

The Deck

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🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Joyce “Tina” Gallegos is believed to have been murdered sometime around August 11, 1982. Ten days after being reported missing on August 11, a fisherman spotted her body on a sandbar in Utah’s Ogden River. A month after Tina’s body was found, a construction worker just outside of Ogden discovered another body —this one wrapped in plastic and left in a ditch. Law enforcement have long suspected Tina and Gabby’s cases are linked, and a recent discovery has solidified that suspicion for good.

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0:00.0	Our hearts this week are Joyce Tina Gallegos and Gabrielle Distofano, the seven and three
0:10.5	of spades from Utah.
0:12.7	In 1982 Tina and Gabby mysteriously disappeared from the same northern Utah city only days
0:18.4	apart.
0:19.4	When their bodies were found just miles from each other, many people took notice of the
0:23.2	similarities in their cases, and a recent development in the case has permanently linked their
0:28.7	two murders.
0:29.7	For 40 years their cases have been unsolved, but police are still hopeful the right person
0:34.5	is out there, who has the power to bring their killer or killers to justice.
0:39.9	I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.
1:09.9	It was 2005 at the Weber County Sheriff's Office in Utah.
1:20.6	The agency's stack of cold cases were piling up.
1:24.3	So then Sergeant Janice Van Orden decided to revisit some of the cases that she'd been
1:28.7	watching collect dust on the shelf for years.
1:31.7	Particularly two of the county's coldest cases that had been brought to her attention
1:36.8	by a friend of hers who was an investigator at the Weber County's attorney's office.
1:41.9	This was the 1982 murders of Joyce Tina Gallegos and Gabrielle Distofano.
1:47.7	Law enforcement in Weber County had long suspected that the two cases were related, but today
1:53.8	no one could prove it.
1:55.0	It was just a feeling.
1:56.9	Gabby and Tina didn't know each other, but they ran in the same circles.
2:00.7	Both girls were killed in 1982 within a few days of each other.
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