Our card this week is Rose Marie Gayhart, the Queen of Diamonds from New York.

When 23 year old Rose Gayhart left Danesville New York with her boyfriend Bobby for Cape Coral, Florida in December

of 1984, she was looking for a fresh start.

But as Rose hugged her sister goodbye on that cold December day.

Neither of them could have imagined that it would be the last hug they'd ever share,

or that within three short months, Rose would be gone.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is the deck. So, You're going to. When Lori Travis answered the phone at her home in Rochester, New York on Christmas Eve of 1984, she was happy to hear her sister

Rose's voice on the other end. But she was surprised by what Rose was saying.

Her and her boyfriend decided they wanted to move to Florida and she called me up on Christmas

Eve and said we're headed to Florida in the morning if you want to see me.

Of the six Gayhart daughters, Lori and Rose had always been close.

So even though she was living with her husband and about an hour away from Danesville at the time,

Lori did what any good sister would do.

She hopped in her car and made the trip to see Rose

and give her a proper send-off.

And even as impulsive as this whole thing felt,

Lori could understand why Rose was eager to get out of Danceville.

She just wanted to start her life over, you know.

For someone so young, Rose had already experienced more than her fair share of tragedy and

hardship, including the death of her six-month-old son Danny

under suspicious circumstances

when she was just 19 years old.

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