Our card this week is Kelly D. Wilson, the 10 of spades from Ohio.

Kelly D. Wilson was a young woman whose life and career as a rising star in radio was

tragically cut short, with few clues left behind to piece together the mystery.

What happened to Kelly at the start of the new millennium shocked her fans, it horrified

her family, and it left detectives baffled to this very day.

Having her story to a wider audience might be the spark investigators need to kickstart

their work and to bring whoever took her life to justice.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

Monday March 25th 2000 was the start of a new week at U92 Radio, also known as WROU in

Dayton, Ohio.

Just three months after worldwide Y2K, fears had calmed, and people in the entertainment

and broadcast industry realized the world was not going to end.

The vice president of the station, Stan Boston, spent most days buzzing around the office, feeling

really good about the channel's programming.

U92 was known as R&B's station, so back then the channel played bands and artists like

Boys to Men, Destiny's Child, and Missy Elliott, who were all topping the R&B in contemporary

music charts.

And singers like Mariah Carey and JLo were helping blur the genre lines between pop and

R&B, and because DJs at Stan's station were also playing those artists all the time, the

channel just kept gaining more and more in popularity with listeners across Ohio.

And credited a lot of U92's recent success to one of his biggest disc jockeys, Nikki

Brooks.

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