Our first card this week is Renee Rosita Harris, the King of Spades from Florida.

That episode is already in your feed. But this card and this episode is Kirsten Leonard, the nine of spades from Nevada. A while back our team at

Audiochuk received an email from Kirsten's family asking us if we would cover her case.

Specifically the email was sent by her nephew, Carson, who's named in memory of his aunt,

an aunt that he never got the chance to meet. That's because in June 1986 at just 22 years old

Kirsten was murdered in what can only be described as a senseless and brutal crime.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck. I'm going to. Oh, The afternoon of Thursday, June 26th, 1986 seemed pretty ordinary for a Reno-Nevada apartment manager

named Bill.

Ordinary and a little tedious even.

He was in the middle of doing probably the least favorite part of any apartment manager's job, collecting rent.

But when he knocked on Kirsten Leonard's door at the Gibson Apartments, he didn't get a response.

According to an article in the Reno Gazette Journal from 1995,

Bill had done the same thing the day before,

and Kirsten didn't answer then either.

And listen, dodging Rent Collection must not have been in character for her because by day two, Bill was becoming concerned.

And he wasn't the only one because about the same time, Kirsten's new boyfriend showed up at the apartment.

Only three weeks into their relationship, he'd spent the last few days of those weeks trying

to reach Kirsten with no luck.

So sensing something was wrong, the two decided that they needed to get a look inside the apartment.

And even though Bill's the apartment manager, he didn't actually have a key, only the owner of the building did.

So their only option was to gain access from an outside window.

Hereston's apartment was a first floor corner unit which made things easier for Bill

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