Our card this week is My-Dung Tran, the 10 of Spades from Mississippi.On September 27th 2008, 51-year-old My-Dung Tran boarded a bus from her home in Pensacola, Florida to Biloxi, Mississippi for a trip to the casinos. She planned to stay for a couple of weeks to gamble with friends in the area. But on October 4th, 2008, My-Dung got into a cab outside of a casino and was never seen or heard from again. In the 16 years since then, her case has remained a mystery to Biloxi police. If you know anything about the 2008 disappearance of My-Dung Tran or her whereabouts from September 30th to October 3rd, please call Mississippi Coast CrimeStoppers at 1-877-787-5898 or submit a tip online at P3Tips.com. We have re-recorded this episode to correct the pronunciation for My-Dung Tran and her loved ones who are of Vietnamese descent. Our mission is to tell all victims' stories accurately and responsibly. We appreciate your feedback in helping us do so. View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/my-dung-tranLet 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 Myung Hyung, the Ten of Spades from Mississippi. Having recently sold the nail salon that she owned for years in Pensacola, Florida, 51-year-old Myung was enjoying her well-earned retirement. The mother of three spent her newly cleared-up schedule with her long-term partner at home, or...
on bus rides to Mississippi and Louisiana, where she would hit the casinos for a couple weeks at a time. She was even planning an upcoming trip back home to her home country of Vietnam to visit her family. But on October 4th, 2008, a fateful cab ride would postpone that trip indefinitely, and it would change the course of Mayong's life and so many others. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck.
In September of 2008, Mayong boarded a bus from Pensacola, Florida to Biloxi, Mississippi for a gambling trip, something that she'd recently gotten into the habit of. Here's Biloxi assistant chief of police, Chris Deback, the investigator on her case today.
From what I know, she would come over to Biloxi on the bus, sometimes with a friend, sometimes not. She'd usually stay a couple days to a week, and from what her family tells me, sometimes it'd be up to three weeks. So it wasn't anything unusual for her to be over here. But she always would call or keep in contact with a friend or something.
Except this time, she was strangely quiet. Two weeks passed, then three, then four. But her family hadn't seen or heard from her. When they got a call from one of their mom's friends who had also been ghosted, they really began to worry. The woman said that Mayong was supposed to visit her after her Mississippi trip, but she just never showed.
And she hadn't returned any of the woman's repeated phone calls either. So the family decided to take action. On November 5th, Mayong's son Vu decided that he needed to file a missing persons report with authorities in Escambia County, Florida, where they lived. What he told them was that his mom's last known location was in Mississippi. Well, you know how that works, not their jurisdiction.
So they called over to Biloxi where they got a hold of D-Back. They explained the scenario to him and put him in touch with Mayong's family.
One of the first things I did was call them to find out more about their mother and what she might have been doing here in Biloxi. Asked them the normal stuff. Does she have bank accounts? What's her cell phone number? Who might she contact? Who her friends were? If she came over with a friend.
I did ask them, we're talking about the end of September and this is beginning of November, why they waited so long. They kind of reiterated that whole three-week thing and it kind of made sense a little bit, you know, wasn't out of the ordinary. But once they started calling around, they couldn't get in touch with her.
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