Viola Pendergrass (Wild Card, North Carolina)

The Deck

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True Crime

4.6 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In the early morning hours of February 7, 1992, a 79-year-old woman was brutally murdered in the Charlotte, North Carolina, apartment where she’d lived for two decades. Viola Pendergrass — who neighbors called “ma” and was revered as the matriarch of her own sprawling family — was found stabbed to death in her bedroom. Her murder divided a once close-knit family and has stumped police for 30 years.

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0:00.0	Our card this week is Viola Pentegras, a wild card from North Carolina.
0:09.2	I felt compelled to tell you Viola's story even though she's not featured on a cold
0:12.8	case deck because she was the matriarch of not just her sprawling family, but also those
0:17.7	at the apartment complex where she'd lived for two decades.
0:21.5	Residents there even called her ma.
0:23.5	That is until one winter morning in 1992 when someone came into her home and viciously
0:29.1	attacked her, shocking a community and dividing a close-knit family.
0:34.3	I'm Ashley Flowers and this is the deck.
1:04.3	On February 7th, 1992 in Charlotte, North Carolina, Iris Howard called her grandmother Viola
1:17.1	to make sure that she could still watch her four-year-old son that day while she went to work.
1:22.2	Viola said yes and Iris was like, great, I'll see you in an hour.
1:25.8	Around 730, Iris loaded her toddler son into her car and headed towards Viola's apartment
1:30.1	a few minutes away.
1:31.6	When Iris got there, the door to Viola's second story apartment was locked.
1:36.7	This didn't make a ton of sense to Iris because obviously Viola was expecting her and she
1:40.5	typically just let herself in.
1:42.3	I mean this was part of their routine.
1:43.9	She watched him all the time and the door would always be open for her to come in.
1:48.4	So Iris knocked and called out for Viola, but as she listened for footsteps coming toward
1:53.8	the door, there was just silence.
1:56.8	Iris started to worry not.
1:59.0	She was going to be late for work but she was concerned about her grandmother.
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