Our second card this week is Maria Delacoro Maldonado Ambries, the Joker from Indiana.

It all happened in a matter of minutes.

A single mother of two was brutally attacked in her own home in front of her two children,

then abducted and left for dead less than a mile away.

Her violent end left detectives with so many questions,

questions they're still seeking answers to even two years later.

But one strong tip might just lead them to her killer.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is the deck. And then Oh, It was a little before 5.30 p.m. on

on the It was a little before 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, January 29th, 2022 when dispatch at the Fort Wayne

Police Department began answering a flurry of calls. The first was from a frantic woman saying that her employer's

children had just called and told her that someone broke into their home and took their

mom, Maria Ambries.

Almost simultaneously, another line rang.

There had been shots fired in that same area.

And then another dispatcher took a call about a vehicle that had crashed into someone's home

near where the shots had been fired

and less than a mile away from where Maria had been abducted.

The timing and location of these reports had to be more than just a coincidence, but police who were dispatched had no clue what they were going to step into.

There was snow on the ground, as was typical for the Northern Indiana City in the wintertime,

and I'd imagine that that had to have slowed up first responders time to the scene. in the too late. Here's Detective Brian Martin with the homicide division of the

Fort Wayne Police Department. So what happened was law enforcement was

arriving on scene. They observed a small SUV in the front yard of a residence.

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