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The Deck

Randa Jawhari (10 of Spades, Michigan)

The Deck

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True Crime

4.69.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Randa was last seen on February 10th, 2009 at her apartment complex. By the next morning, she had disappeared without a trace, leaving a close-knit family of ten to unravel the mystery. Fifteen years later, detectives are still trying to find her and figure out what happened that fateful night… and who might be responsible.

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0:00.0

Our card this week is Rhonda Jihari, the Ten of Spades from Michigan.

0:09.1

Renda, known to most as Rhonda, was a natural-born artist, creative, full of energy, and always looking for her next project.

0:17.4

By the time she was 42, Rhonda had painted murals in Hawaii, appeared in movies and TV shows, and written her own book.

0:25.2

It was impossible to imagine anything could dim her light.

0:29.3

But on February 11, 2009, someone snuffed it out completely.

0:34.5

Rhonda disappeared from her apartment without a trace, and more than 15 years later,

0:39.8

detectives are still trying to find her. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck.

0:50.7

Music I'm On February 11, 2009, Anise Chahari woke up and waited for her phone to ring.

1:22.4

Ever since her 42-year-old daughter Rhonda moved into her own place, she called every morning at 7.30 to check-in.

1:29.4

And these check-ins were important because Rhonda was dealing with a chronic physical illness

1:33.4

and relied on her family to help her through her day. But on that morning, Anise's phone

1:39.3

didn't ring. When 20 minutes went by with no call or text, Anise knew that something was wrong.

1:46.8

Especially because Anise was taking care of Rhonda's six-year-old daughter Madeline at the time,

1:51.6

Rhonda definitely would have called to check in on Maddie. So at 7.53, Anise called Ronda

1:57.7

cell. No answer. At 8.10, she called again. Still, no answer. And here's Rhonda's younger sister, Didi.

2:07.8

Rhonda was very predictable. I mean, if she called at 8.30, she did it every day. She didn't just call it 8.30 randomly one day. And, oh, today I feel like this. No, she called all of us every day, all day long.

2:20.0

So Anise got in her car and drove over to Rhonda's apartment less than 10 minutes away in Fenton, Michigan.

2:26.4

And when no one came to the door, she used her spare key to get inside.

2:30.7

Rhonda wasn't in any of the rooms that she checked, but the kitchen light was on,

2:34.6

and it looked as though her bed had been slept in.

2:38.3

None of this was really caused for alarm yet.

2:41.0

Rhonda typically went to Catholic service in the mornings around like 8.15, after she got

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