MURDERED: Linda Smith

Crime Junkie

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True Crime

4.7 • 352.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Audiochuck’s newest weekly show, The Deck, is hosted by Ashley Flowers and takes true-crime listeners through a deck of playing cards that is unlike any other. For years, state prison systems and local law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have replaced the face cards of queens, kings and aces in traditional playing card decks with images of missing and murdered people. Investigators have passed these modified decks out in jails and prisons hoping that they will make their way into the hands of someone with answers. These are the coldest of cases where investigators have no choice but to show their hand in the hopes of getting killers to fold. Join Ashley Flowers every Wednesday as she works with investigators and victims’ families to recount the details of these cases in hopes that justice may finally be served. Listen to The Deck wherever you get your podcasts or visit https://thedeckpodcast.com/

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0:00.0	Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and you guys have known me as your host for
0:06.3	what, four years now? Well, what if I told you that I'm going to be your host on another
0:12.1	weekly audio-check true crime show that you are going to love just as much as crime junkie?
0:18.9	It's called The Deck. And don't worry, crime junkie isn't going anywhere. Now you just
0:23.5	get double the content, and we're going to bring attention to double the amount of cases.
0:28.0	Now, if you're a true die-hard crime junkie, then you might be familiar with something called
0:32.7	Cold Case Playing Card Decks. For decades, state prison systems and local law enforcement agencies
0:38.5	have replaced the faces of traditional playing cards with images of missing and murdered people.
0:44.2	And then they distributed those cards throughout prisons hoping that someone will come forward
0:49.0	with information. But starting today and every Wednesday going forward, I'll be dealing you in.
0:54.5	We're counting the details of some of the coldest cold cases across the country with the help of
0:59.8	investigators and victims families in hopes that justice will be served. Want to see what's in
1:04.6	the cards for The Deck? Well, take a listen to our very first episode right here.
1:16.4	Our card this week is Linda Smith, the Nine of Hearts from Idaho. In 1981, in her hometown
1:24.2	of Poca-Tella, Idaho, 14-year-old Linda Smith was abducted from her family's home. Whoever took her,
1:30.7	all those decades ago, snuck past her sleeping brother and into her bedroom, and to this day,
1:37.0	that person remains unidentified. To help tell us Linda's story, our team-interviewed Linda's
1:43.1	brother Ben on the 40th anniversary of his sister's kidnapping, what he remembers about this gripping
1:49.8	story will leave you shook. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck.
2:20.3	It's obvious that the photo of Linda Smith on her playing card is her middle school picture from 1981.
2:34.2	According to her younger brother Ben, it's exactly how she looked when she vanished from their home.
2:39.8	In the picture, she's got a little smile across her face and is sort of looking off to the side.
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