The Deck

By: audiochuck
  • Summary

  • For years, some law enforcement agencies have replaced the faces of traditional playing card decks with images of missing and murdered people and distributed those cards in prisons hoping inmates would come forward with information needed to crack these cold cases wide open. Now, audiochuck is dealing you in. Each week, we will be working with investigators and family members to bring you the details of some of the coldest cases from around the country in hopes that someone listening can finally bring these victims the justice they deserve.
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  • Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)
    May 7 2025

    Our card this week is Marjorie "Christy" Luna, the 4 of Spades from Florida.

    From the outside, Greenacres seemed like a picture-perfect place to grow up, with a park, school, and corner store stocked with sugary sweets and arcade games all within walking distance.

    For Christy Luna and her friends, weekends were spent roaming the neighborhood and playing outside barefoot. But this storybook community had darkness lurking just under the surface, and it reared its ugly head one May night in 1984.

    More than 40 years later, Christy’s friends are peeling back the layers and piecing together memories from their childhood, finding that what actually lay beneath was much darker than they ever could’ve imagined.

    • If you know anything about the disappearance of Marjorie “Christy” Luna in Greenacres, Florida, on May 27th, 1984, the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, please come forward. And if you had encounters with anyone named in the episode, or even similar encounters as described with men you didn’t know, detectives want to hear from you too. Perhaps you hold the missing piece to solving this mystery and putting a terrible person behind bars for whatever life they have left. You can remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County at 1-800-458-8477.

    Ways to contact the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office directly:

    • Main Number: 561-688-3000
    • Detective William Springer’s Email: SpringerW@pbso.org

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/marjorie-christy-luna

    Let us deal you in… follow The Deck on social media.

    • Instagram: @thedeckpodcast | @audiochuck
    • Twitter: @thedeckpodcast_ | @audiochuck
    • Facebook: /TheDeckPodcast | /audiochuckllc
    • To support Season of Justice and learn more, please visit seasonofjustice.org.

    The Deck is hosted by Ashley Flowers.

    • Instagram: @ashleyflowers
    • TikTok: @ashleyflowerscrimejunkie
    • Twitter: @Ash_Flowers
    • Facebook: /AshleyFlowers.AF

    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

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    40 mins
  • Lisa Staes (Jack of Diamonds, Wisconsin)
    Apr 30 2025

    Our card this week is Lisa Staes, the Jack of Diamonds from Wisconsin.

    In the winter of 1976, Lisa Staes was trying to figure out what exactly she wanted to do with her life. Like so many 20-year-olds, she’d just moved out of her parents’ house and started classes at a community college. She was embracing her independence as a young adult.

    But no one ever got to see how Lisa’s life would unfold. Because that same year she disappeared.

    It took nearly two years for investigators to figure out that Lisa had been murdered. But in the 49 years since, they’re still trying to uncover why, and, most importantly… who. And now more than ever, it’s a race against time.

    • If you have any information about the murder of Lisa Staes or her whereabouts between Chicago and Wisconsin in January of 1976, please call the Sauk County sheriff’s office at 608-355-4495 and ask for Detective Bulin. Or, if you’d rather remain anonymous, you can call the Sauk County crime stoppers tip line at 1-800-847-7285.

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/lisa-staes

    Let us deal you in… follow The Deck on social media.

    • Instagram: @thedeckpodcast | @audiochuck
    • Twitter: @thedeckpodcast_ | @audiochuck
    • Facebook: /TheDeckPodcast | /audiochuckllc
    • To support Season of Justice and learn more, please visit seasonofjustice.org.

    The Deck is hosted by Ashley Flowers.

    • Instagram: @ashleyflowers
    • TikTok: @ashleyflowerscrimejunkie
    • Twitter: @Ash_Flowers
    • Facebook: /AshleyFlowers.AF

    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

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    39 mins
  • Donna Martin (8 of Hearts, Florida)
    Apr 23 2025

    Our card this week is Donna Martin, the 8 of Hearts from Florida.

    Donna Martin was stabbed and killed in her own home in south Florida back in 1999. And police believed that the man who may have killed her was the very same man who had turned Boca Raton into a hunting ground. But police have been unable to pin Donna’s murder on him. That suspect even went to prison for other crimes, but now he’s a free man. And police believe solving Donna’s murder could help save other women in Florida.

    • If you were attacked in the Boca Raton, Delray Beach, or Deerfield Beach areas in the 1980s or 1990s, and you think you may have been a victim of David Miller, you can call Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County with tips at 1-800-458-8477 or reach out to Sgt. William Springer at ​​SpringerW@pbso.org.
    • Police are also interested in speaking with anyone who believes they may have had something stolen by David Miller that could have been recovered in the search of his property or who may have seen Miller around Donna’s apartment complex the evening of her murder.

    View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/donna-martin

    Let us deal you in… follow The Deck on social media.

    • Instagram: @thedeckpodcast | @audiochuck
    • Twitter: @thedeckpodcast_ | @audiochuck
    • Facebook: /TheDeckPodcast | /audiochuckllc
    • To support Season of Justice and learn more, please visit seasonofjustice.org.

    The Deck is hosted by Ashley Flowers.

    • Instagram: @ashleyflowers
    • TikTok: @ashleyflowerscrimejunkie
    • Twitter: @Ash_Flowers
    • Facebook: /AshleyFlowers.AF

    Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

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    39 mins
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Loving this so far. Honestly anything involving Ashley or Brit I’m on board! And can’t wait to see if anything gets to help solves these cold cases from listeners !

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Big Fan

I personally love all of their content, excited to see where this podcast takes us! big fan of bringing awareness to cold cases / missing people and at the very least letting their families know their loved ones have not just been lost in a stack of cases.
Stay safe!!

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Good, but Could be Better

I have high expectations of Ashley because I believe she is a trailblazer. Her stories, narration, and research are excellent. She tends to have trivial things that really ruin the podcast (not just this one. It's part of the trademark, I suppose! 😂)
The ads and their placement really ticks me off, especially because we don't have the option to subscribe and pay for ad-free content. Also, the intro at the beginning of each episode is unnecessary, and half a minute of theme music is just obnoxiously unnecessary! It's not even good music! Of the hundreds of podcasts I've listened to, only ONE had a stunning intro/theme song. It's the Culpable podcast, and the theme song is by the Dirt Poor Robins. You can find it on YouTube. If yours is not of that caliber, half a minute is far, far too long.

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Great podcast

I just finished both episodes and found them to be riveting. You find you want to do as much as you can to help these families

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Su

Ashley I can't thank you enough for covering Su's murder. I grew up in Saugus so I remember this vividly and I also happen to know Marlene personally. every single thing the detective said about her is 100% the truth. Marlene is one of the nicest sweetest strongest women I have ever met in my life. I hope that this gets off someday because Marlene really does deserve answers as well as Su deserves Justice.

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Excellence

I love this podcast. truly a good dive into cold case mysteries. I hope it's more.

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Love to Listen

I like to hear & learn about people's stories I've never heard before and I have yet to be disappointed. Thank you.

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Extraordinary

I stumbled across "The Deck" after I hade binged every episode of "Crime Junkie" and was in desperate need of my true crime fix. This has it all! The narrater keeps your attention and has a way of telling these extreamly intimate grusome events while being completly respectful of the victums memory and surviving family and friends privacy/feelings. Someone needs to tell these stories and she has been anointed to be that person.

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Ashley Flowers A +

She is even better investigating in this new series that she is doing! Good work!

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love this!

my favorite podcast ever! love anything audio chuck and Kendall Rae! thanks for still posting these!

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