Our card this week is Ruth Carter, the King of Diamonds from Ohio. The woman whose friends

called Mama Ruth or Miss Ruthie was only 50 when she was found gunned down in her home on the northwest side of Dayton.

Despite several people pointing to a single man as the likely culprit, her case didn't see resolution, not in 1999, not in the decades that followed.

But maybe that changes today with you.

I'm going to Oh, December in Dayton, Ohio is always cold, and December 13, 1999 was no exception.

But even at 10 p.m. 32-year-old Jack Bousman was braving the chilly weather to make his way to the home of his good friend Ruth Carter.

Jack had just gotten off of work and although 10 p.m. might be a little late for some,

Jack Ruth and a lot of their friends were night owls. So he wasn't worried about showing up that late.

Plus, Ruth had something she wanted him to take care of.

Between noon and 1230, Ruth Carter, he called her Mama Ruth, had called, and she said there was a mouse in her

room.

He wanted him to come over and get it.

He told her he had to go to work at two, couldn't make it, but he would come back when he got off work at 10 p.m.

That was retired Detective Doyle Burke who's one of the investigators working Ruth's case today.

He told our reporter that Jack arrived shortly after 10 and

let himself in the locked front door with a key that Ruth had given him. When he

entered he was met with relative silence. Normally the TV would be blaring and Ruth would call out to him when he walked in, but tonight all that could be heard was the soft chatter of the TV upstairs.

As he made his way inside, Jack spotted something else out of the ordinary.

Ruth's purse was sitting on the floor by the stairs leading up to the second floor.

And this really stuck out to him because she normally kept her purse in her

bedroom, never downstairs just out in the open. Now I'm not sure what he felt in

that moment, maybe confusion or worry.

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