Our card this week is Shelby Wright, the two of clubs from Washington.

What happened to Shelby in the summer of 2004 has been a mystery for more than two decades.

The 14-year-old boy, described as a computer whiz, is said to have walked away in the middle of the night with only his

laptop in hand, leaving behind his scooter, which was his only mode of transportation.

Rumors have swirled for years that Shelby came across something he wasn't supposed to see

or died in an accident that has since been covered up. But then, the case takes some weird turns.

Someone claims to have held onto a goodbye note from Shelby

and only turns it in weeks into the investigation.

Stories from those who last saw Shelby

in the middle of the night don't totally line up.

And a parallel investigation makes a hard laugh

and collides right in with Shelby's case in one of these strangest twists I have ever come across.

Are the rumors that circulated true?

Or could it be possible that Shelby's active online life put him in unknown danger?

Or is someone very close to Shelby holding on to a secret?

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck.

Music I'm I'm It was the early hours of July 27, 2004, when the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call from 14-year-old Shelby Wright, who said that he was

having suicidal thoughts. So a deputy drove out to the tiny, unincorporated community of Machias,

and that's where he found Shelby, alone at the same payphone he'd called from. But as they talked,

the deputy realized that Shelby was looking for a different kind of help

than he'd suggested in the call. Shelby was looking for a ride. Shelby told the deputy that he'd been

staying with his great-grandmother who lived nearby, but he was trying to get to his mom's place

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