Our card this week is Nicole Silvers, the five of diamonds from Colorado.

Nicole, who her friends all called Nikki, was a happy, free-spirited teenager, juggling

a part-time job, high school classes, and a busy social life.

When one day in the spring of 2014, she vanished.

We sent our reporting team to her hometown in Colorado to speak with investigators currently

working her case about why her story is so unique and why the circumstances

surrounding her disappearance remained so baffling.

What we walked away with was a revelation law enforcement had previously not known about.

A dark secret, one of Nikki's family members had been keeping for years.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

Around 6.30 in the morning on April 10, 2014, 16-year-old Dana Stofur was just waking

up to get ready for school.

As she made her way down the hall and to the kitchen, Dana noticed something that made

her pause.

The bedroom door to her friend Nikki's room was wide open, like not just a little bit

cracked, completely open, which was weird considering Nikki normally kept her door closed.

When Dana looked through the open door, she noticed that her friend wasn't in her bed.

Even more strange was the fact that Nikki's bed was made.

Normally she never made her bed.

Not seeing Nikki in her room or anywhere in the house caused Dana to ask a lot of questions

in her mind.

Where was she?

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