Our card this week is George Jares, the 6 of Clubs from Wisconsin. From the outside, 43-year-old George was a family man: a former greeting card salesman turned restaurant owner who loved his kids, the outdoors, and working hard. But after George was shot three times and left for dead in his restaurant’s parking lot, details of his life began to emerge that painted a rather different picture... And the surprising twists that detectives uncovered led them to suspect that George had been targeted by a hitman. For nearly forty years they’ve been looking for the shooter and, more importantly, the person who hired them.If you have any information about the murder of George Jares in Eagle River, Wisconsin, on August 3rd, 1986, please come forward. You can call the Vilas County Sheriff’s Office at (715) 479-4441 and ask for any officer or detective on duty. Or, if you’d prefer to remain anonymous, you can call the Vilas County Sheriff’s anonymous tip line at 1-800-472-7290.View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/george-jaresLet 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 George F. Jarris, the Six of Clubs from Wisconsin. From the outside, 43-year-old George was a family man, a former greeting card salesman turned restaurant owner who loved his kids, the outdoors, and working hard. But after George was shot and left for dead in his restaurant's parking lot, details of his life began to emerge that painted a rather different picture.
And the surprising twist that detectives uncovered led them to suspect that George had been targeted by a hitman. For nearly 40 years, they had been looking for that shooter and, possibly more importantly, the person who hired them. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck. At around 1.30 a.m.
on August 3rd, 1986, a woman named Marcy in Eagle River, Wisconsin, was drifting off to sleep when a loud popping noise jolted her out of bed. It sounded like gunshots coming from just outside her home. So she ran to the window to see what was going on.
I mean, it was still dark, but she was able to make out a lone figure walking across her yard, away from this local supper club down the street called The Arbor. That's when she alerted authorities. Less than three minutes after that call, two city officers responded to the restaurant. From the sidewalk, there didn't appear to be anything amiss.
But as they made their way to the back of the property, they heard what sounded like someone gasping for air. Here's former Vilas County Sheriff's detective and current evidence tech, Cherise Rosga Anderson. She was assigned to this case in 2004.
They weren't sure what was going on. And when they came upon the pickup truck in the back to the south of the building itself, they discovered a male laying on his back. He was still alive. And I do see an officer notified dispatch at 1.35 a.m. that they had a victim with a severe head injury and an ambulance was needed. So that was within three minutes of the actual call.
Officers immediately recognized the man as the owner of the restaurant, 43-year-old George Jarris. He'd moved to the area the summer before to open Arbor, which quickly became a successful business. The Arbor was home to Wisconsin's best brandy old-fashioned and served a prize-winning prime rib.
But now, its owner was lying unconscious on his back and appeared to be suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the right side of his head. As officers called for backup, George was rushed to the hospital. It was 2.30 a.m. when George's younger sister, Lenore Penny Volchek, got the call that her brother had been shot. She was living in Illinois at the time where they'd both grown up.
It was a crushing blow to me. After that, I never wanted to answer the phone in the middle of the night because I didn't want bad news like that.
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