Our card this week is Deborah Perry, the 3 King of Spades from South Carolina. Three decades have passed since 29-year-old Deborah Perry was found shot to death on a rural cul-de-sac outside Columbia, South Carolina, and her killer has never been caught. As cold case investigators follow new leads, Deborah’s daughter wonders if a pair of flowered pants and men’s underwear her mother was found holding could be the key to cracking the case.If you have information about the 1994 murder of Deborah Perry please contact Crimestoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC.View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/deborah-perry Let us deal you in… follow The Deck on social media.Instagram: @thedeckpodcast | @audiochuckTwitter: @thedeckpodcast_ | @audiochuckFacebook: /TheDeckPodcast | /audiochuckllcTo support Season of Justice and learn more, please visit seasonofjustice.org. The Deck is hosted by Ashley Flowers. Instagram: @ashleyflowersTikTok: @ashleyflowerscrimejunkieTwitter: @Ash_FlowersFacebook: /AshleyFlowers.AFText Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!
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Our card this week is Deborah Perry, the King of Spades from South Carolina. Now, many of you may recognize my voice from other audio chuck shows like Counter Clock, season seven literally just kicked off last month, or Park Predators, our summer show, which is now a weekly show. I know last week you heard from Kylie Lowe, host of Dark Down East.
Well, this week, Ashley is passing the mic over to me to tell you about a cold case from the Carolinas that needs your attention. For 30 years, the unsolved murder of a young mother found shot to death on an isolated South Carolina cul-de-sac has haunted her family. They feared they'd carry the mystery of Deborah's death to their own graves.
That is, until our investigation raised new questions and sparked fresh hope. I'm Delia D'Ambra, and this is The Deck. At 11.20 a.m. on Sunday, October 23rd, 1994, two officers from the Richland County Sheriff's Department responded to a call about a possible homicide on quiet rural Chartel Circle.
As they pulled towards the end of the one-block street, they spotted something eerie that honestly sounds like a scene from a horror movie. Four people standing at the edge of a cul-de-sac, all pointing in the same direction, at the body of a young woman lying motionless on the asphalt.
He walked up and the first thing he noticed was blood around the head of this female, partially clothed, shoes and other clothing materials awry around her body. I'm pretty sure that the first thing he thought, oh, this is a murder. Not like an accident or something, it looks pretty heinous.
That's Richland County Sheriff's Department cold case investigator Jeff Fuller. He said when the officers took a closer look, they saw the woman had an apparent gunshot wound to the head, a likely source for all that blood pooled under it. And there was so much blood. He said there was no doubt she'd been shot right there where she lay now.
The young woman was wearing a white crew neck sweatshirt with a black bra underneath, but she was nude from the waist down, except for the socks on her feet and a pair of blue and green flower printed pants clutched against her chest and draped over her torso.
It looks like she's trying to cover herself up. So apparently that was done before she was shot because she was shot in such a way that she couldn't do it afterwards, I don't think.
There was no size marked on the tag of the pants, but when police carefully removed them from her grasp, they found a pair of men's briefs, size 32-34 waist, that were inside. As far as what else they gathered from around the scene, it was kind of a mixed bag. Some items felt significant, but they also had to wade through a lot of trash that was scattered around the general area.
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