Our card this week is My Dung Tran, the Ten of Spades from Mississippi.

Having recently sold the nail salon that she owned for years in Pensacola, Florida,

51-year-old My Dung was enjoying her well-earned retirement.

The mother of three spent her newly cleared up schedule with her long-term partner

at home or on bus rides to Mississippi and Louisiana where she would hit the casinos for a couple

of weeks at a time. She was even planning an upcoming trip back to her home country of Vietnam to

visit her family. But on October 4, 2008, a fateful cab ride would postpone that trip

indefinitely, and it would change the course of my young's life and so many others.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck.

Music is the deck. In September of 2008, My Dung boarded a bus from Pensacola, Florida to Biloxi, Mississippi for a gambling trip, something that she'd recently gotten into the habit of.

Here's Biloxi Assistant Chief of Police, Chris DeBack, the investigator on Maidung's case today.

From what I know, she would come over to Biloxie on the bus, sometimes with a friend, sometimes not.

She'd usually stay a couple days to a week, and from what her family tells me, sometimes it'd be up to three weeks.

So wasn't anything unusual for her to be over here.

But she always would, you know, would call or keeping contact with a friend or something.

Except this time, Maidong was strangely quiet.

Two weeks passed, then three, then four, but her family hadn't seen or heard from her.

When they got a call from one of their mom's friends who had also been ghosted, they really began to worry.

Because the woman said that Maidung was supposed to visit her after her Mississippi trip,

but she just never showed.

And she hadn't returned any of the woman's repeated phone calls either.

The family decided they needed to take action.

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