Our card this week is Oki Al-Kite, the 9 of hearts from Colorado.

This is part 2.

If you haven't listened to part 1, pause here and go back so you can follow along.

In part 1, we unpacked the beginning of the investigation into the murder of Oki Al-Kite

in Aurora, Colorado.

Al was tortured and murdered in 2004, shaking that quiet community to its core.

But early on, detectives had a suspect, Robert Cooper, a man who had rented out Al's

basement and then disappeared, leaving a trail of phone numbers, addresses, and other identifying

markers behind.

Except, they were all fake.

When we left off, Agent Tom Sobiaski with the Aurora Police Department was digging

through Robert's phone records and tracking down all of the people he had called.

And he was about to make a discovery that left investigators scratching their heads.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

As Agent Sobiaski started working his way down the list of people Robert had contacted

before Al's murder, he noticed a pattern.

A bunch of them had ties to the University of Colorado Hospital.

Some of the renters only had placed ads like in the library at the University of Colorado

Hospital.

Ninth in Colorado or nearby businesses or in printed like directories for people that

were renting to students at the teaching hospital.

Some people only had their ads in those so that Killer had to be down there at the hospital,

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