Our card this week is Sharon Cretorius, the Sixth of Diamonds from Ohio.

One September day in 1973, 13-year-old Sharon left her home just to run a quick errand.

An errand she'd run dozens of times before.

But that day would be different.

And for the last 50 years, her family and investigators have put all their hope and energy into

trying to determine what happened in just the 90-second window after she walked out the

door.

Maybe you out there listening can help.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck.

Afternoon was fading into evening on September 28, 1973.

And 15-year-old Richard Cretorius was sitting in the kitchen of an unusually empty and quiet

home unwinding after a long week of school.

His mother and three youngest siblings were out running errands, so it was just him, his

older brother Doug, and his younger sister Sharon at their four-bedroom cottage in Dayton,

Ohio.

But that trio went down to two when Sharon came rushing through the kitchen, making

a beeline toward the door.

She was leaving and told me where she was going.

She had a morning paper out and she didn't collect money from her customers at the same

time.

She delivered.

She would deliver it in the morning, typically in the dark before daybreak, but every week

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