Our card this week is Tessie Tormoris, the ten of diamonds from Mississippi.

When 37-year-old Tessie went more than a month without contacting any of her six children,

her mom had this sinking feeling that something was wrong.

Her loved ones never thought over five years would go by without hearing from her.

But here they are.

Still in the same stagnant spot.

Still wondering what really happened.

And still waiting for Tessie to come home.

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

Music I'm Ashley Flowers, and Carolyn Parden was at her wit's end.

Some of her daughter's children had been staying with her kind of on and off, but she usually wasn't their sole caregiver. Their mom Tessie would normally swing by every so often to see them.

I mean, at the very least, she would call to catch up.

But days were turning into weeks without so much as a phone call.

Well, she would go off for a week or two, but she always came back.

She was never gone over a week or two, maybe not even two weeks.

I waited, you know. But I said, well, she's going to come back,

you know, because she always came back to her kids. That was Carolyn, you just heard. And by the time

a little more than a month had passed without hearing from her daughter, Carolyn knew that she had to

call the police. And now you'll hear from Lieutenant Shane Bozeman with the Jackson County Sheriff's Department,

who was involved in the case from the very beginning.

January the 29th, 2020 is when she actually filed the missing person's report

and said that nobody had spoke to her, which it wasn't unusual for Tessie to disappear for a few weeks at a time or something like that with the circles that she ran in.

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