Kelsie Schelling (10 Of Spades, Colorado)
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What happened to Kelsie Schelling in February 2013?
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Our card this week is Kelsey Schelling, the 10 of spades from Colorado. In February 2013, Kelsey was 21 years old and figuring out what her future would look like. She had close friends and family and surprising news to be excited about. Then one night after work, Kelsey got in her car and drove south from Denver to the city of Pueblo. And she was never seen again.
My hope was that her location would be revealed. And it wasn't.
Years after her disappearance, a jury would convict someone of Kelsey's murder. But her card remains in Colorado's cold case deck because the search for Kelsey isn't over.
I think it was described to us that it's 80 stories deep and 20 football fields long is what the area that we'd be looking at in searching was.
How did investigators build a murder case without a body? And why are they still asking the same question they started with? Where is Kelsey Schelling? I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck.
Before anyone knew Kelsey Schelling as a missing person, Laura Saxton knew her simply as her sweet, vibrant daughter.
Kelsey, I mean, just from the time she was a very little girl, was just always like full of life, full of energy, just very active and very loving, but spirited. She could give you a run for your money, too. She wasn't afraid to stand up for herself, but really soft-hearted, I would say, very caring person. very non-judgmental with people. She was just really a bubbly type personality, just very like sparkling eyes and a very beautiful smile. She could just capture you with her smile.
Kelsey spent the spring and summer of 2012 attending college in Costa Mesa, California. But by the fall, financial pressures brought her back home to Colorado, where she'd grown up. She settled in Denver, got her own place in a full-time job, and she reconnected with her on-again, off-again boyfriend of the last two years, Dante Lucas. Now, they met when they attended Northeastern Junior College in Sterling, Colorado. This was before Kelsey ever went out to California. She'd been at Northeastern studying psychology, and Dante was a popular 6'7 basketball star at the school with dreams of playing in the NBA one day. When they were together, friends and family say that Kelsey was devoted and committed to Dante in a way that they didn't always see returned.
In fact, when they were together, Dante never even met Kelsey's mother, Laura. She'd only watched him play basketball a couple of times. But what she did know about the relationship worried her.
It was more she was into him than he was into her. But I think that he didn't necessarily want her, but he didn't want anybody else to have her either. And so she would just tell me things like, you know, oh, he's flirting with this girl or that girl or whatever. And then when she would be just about ready to just give up, like she'd had enough of it, then he would really like pour on the charm and like treat her really well to suck her back in. And so it was just it was not a healthy thing going on at all for her.
It's hard to say why certain relationships get such a chokehold on people and pull them back in. It's not like Dante had a lot to offer Kelsey. By the time she moved back and they got together again, Dante had left college and was living back in his hometown of Pueblo, a city about two hours south of Denver. His basketball career hadn't worked out, and he was bouncing between staying at his mom's house and his grandma's house.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened to Kelsie Schelling in February 2013?
0:01–5:44
2
How did Kelsie's pregnancy impact her relationships?
5:44–10:04
3
What led to Kelsie driving to Pueblo the night she disappeared?
10:04–14:02
4
How did investigators begin to piece together Kelsey's case?
14:02–18:21
5
What evidence was found in Kelsey's car and how did it connect to her disappearance?
18:21–22:32
6
What role did Dante Lucas play in Kelsie's case?
22:32–27:19
7
What were the key developments leading to Dante's arrest?
27:19–37:45
8
What was the outcome of the trial and what remains unresolved about Kelsie's case?
37:45–44:49