Our card this week is Willie Troy Price Sr., the King of Diamonds from South Carolina.

You may have already looked at your feed and noticed, but today I'm dropping two episodes

instead of just one.

The stories that you'll hear aren't connected, but they do have something in common.

They're both being investigated as possible cases of mistaken identity.

Things like these are hard to tell because oftentimes there's just not a lot to the investigation

once police realize that the victim wasn't who the killer thought they were.

But these victims still deserve to have their stories told.

So right now I'm going to tell you about Willie Troy Price Sr., a 53 year old South Carolina

man who was minding his own business inside his home one winter evening in 2017 when suddenly

a group of cowards shot into the house and then fled without a trace.

Willie's senseless death has puzzled investigators for five years as they've struggled to find

anyone who might have had it out for him, leaving them with one nagging question.

Was Willie even the intended target?

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

It was around 10.45 pm on January 18th, 2017 and a woman who will call Denise was in

her home on Plainview Road in Anderson County South Carolina winding down for the evening.

And that's when she was startled by several loud bangs.

They sounded like gunshots.

First, it was just two gunshots, then a series of eight or nine rapid fireshots after that.

Now Denise wasn't immediately alarmed because it just sounded like her neighbor a few houses

down doing some target practice in his yard as he often did.

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