Roberta Johnson (10 of Diamonds, Florida)

The Deck

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True Crime

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In April 1999, U.S. Army veteran Roberta Johnson was joyfully anticipating some major milestones for her family, including the imminent birth of her son who was due any day as well as watching her then-17-year-old daughter, Arkeisha, collect her high school diploma at graduation in coming weeks. But on April 26th, Roberta’s body was found in a shallow grave off a dirt road. Investigators think one man may hold the answers to her murder ... except he hasn’t been willing to talk for over two decades.

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0:00.0	Our card this week is Roberta Johnson, the 10 of diamonds from Florida.
0:08.8	In the spring of 1999, 38-year-old Roberta Johnson had a lot to look forward to.
0:13.7	The US Army veteran had a job that she loved, working with at-risk children at a local
0:18.5	school.
0:19.7	She was also 9 months pregnant and would soon welcome a baby boy into the world.
0:24.1	And she was doing all of this while her teenage daughter was set to graduate high school in
0:27.8	the coming weeks.
0:29.2	But one April afternoon, all of that was taken from Roberta and her family when she
0:34.4	vanished from a parking lot of a grocery store and was brutally murdered.
0:39.2	I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.
1:09.2	It was a little before 11am on Saturday, April 24th, 1999.
1:18.7	In 17-year-old Arquisha Johnson was waiting for her mother to pick her up from Vanguard
1:22.8	High School in O'Cala, Florida, which is a town in central Florida about 80 miles north
1:28.5	of Orlando.
1:29.7	Arquisha was just weeks away from graduating, but she had spent that Saturday morning
1:34.3	in detention for a mouthing off to a teacher the previous week.
1:38.3	It was no big deal, really.
1:40.2	She'd spend a couple of hours in so-called Saturday school and then her mom, Roberta,
1:44.8	with whom she was extremely close, would pick her up at around 10.45 after running some
1:49.4	errands.
1:50.4	But 10.45 had come and gone and there was no sign of Roberta.
1:55.6	Arquisha thought, okay, it's Saturday, she's out running errands, she probably lost
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