Our card this week is Mary Frankie Harvey, the jack of hearts from Massachusetts. 42 years

have passed since Frankie was left for dead in a southeastern Massachusetts gravel pit.

Frankie's case is unique in a lot of ways, but one reason is because her story straddles

the state line of Rhode Island, where she was last seen alive, and Massachusetts, where

her body was found, which complicated the investigation from the get-go. And while her

case is still unresolved today, recent discoveries have revealed major breakthroughs that have

investigators truly on the cusp of solving her murder. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck.

November 29, 1980 was a gray, cool day in the small town of Renthem, Massachusetts. It was

the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and the day had been pretty quiet around town, until

that afternoon when Renthem Police dispatch got a call.

Renthem Police detective James Barrett said the dispatcher responded to the reporter's

call with a question, what body? The reporter said they heard on scanner traffic that law

enforcement was responding to a sand pit area in Renthem because someone had discovered

a woman's body. But Renthem Police had no idea what was going on, so a sergeant and

an officer drove out to route one, and to their surprise, they found Massachusetts state police,

and local media gathering in a gravel pit just off the highway.

So the reports describe somewhat chaotic crime scene. So it's indicated in multiple reports

that there appeared to be between eight and twelve vehicles in the crime scene area, like a

mix of media vehicles, as well as state police cruisers.

When Renthem PD approached a lieutenant with the state police, said that they'd gotten

a call from a property owner of the sand and gravel excavation company around there at

around one p.m. The caller said he found a woman who appeared to have been shot and killed.

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