Kyle Seidel (5 of Diamonds, Connecticut)
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What happened to Kyle Seidel on the night of his murder?
Our card this week is Kyle Seidel, the Five of Diamonds from Connecticut. Kyle Zeidel should have only been gone for about 20 minutes when he went to pick up Chinese takeout for his wife and their kids just a few days before Christmas in 2012. But something happened that night that changed the course of his fate. Instead of the Chinese restaurant, Kyle was found in the parking lot of a local bowling alley, shot by a mystery assailant with an even more mysterious motive. And detectives are hoping that you can help them crack this case. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck. It was the Friday night before Christmas in 2012, and 34-year-old Kyle Seidel was a little late getting home from work.
He'd been to his company holiday party and then stopped off at a dive bar with a friend. But the minute he walked through the door of his Waterford, Connecticut home at about 7.30 p.m., he switched into dad mode, greeting his wife Kate and their three young kids and agreeing to go pick up Chinese food for dinner. Kyle had just gotten his holiday bonus from his job as a laborer building docks at the Essex Island Marina. It was about $600 added to his paycheck, and he usually handed his checks right over to Kate to pay the bills. While at the party, Kyle's bosses usually also handed out some extra cash for the holidays. And I don't know exactly how much more Kyle got in cash, but on this particular night, he held on to at least $40 to pay for takeout from their regular spot, the Lucky Inn. Now, this should have been a quick trip. The restaurant was only about 10 minutes away. So as time started to tick by, Kate started to wonder what was taking him so long.
Now, she pushed aside her concern at first, telling herself maybe the restaurant was just really busy on a Friday night before the holidays. But then her phone buzzed with a text from her sister sharing news that was spreading fast through the small town. Someone had been shot at the local bowling alley. Now, Kyle never really went to the bowling alley or the bar connected to it, but Kate knew that he would have driven right past it on his way to pick up the food. And she instantly just felt sick to her stomach. So right away, she started trying to call Kyle, but his phone just rang and rang and rang until it went to voicemail. And phones were ringing over at the Waterford's 911 dispatch center around that time, too. It was about 8.20 p.m. when 911 dispatchers got back-to-back calls from people at the bowling alley saying a man was lying on the ground in the parking lot, bleeding from his chest. Here's Waterford detective Ray Carroll.
The third caller, a male who identified himself as a corrections officer, stated, looks like he's got a bullet hole to his chest. He moved his head for a second. His car is running. The door is open. He's on the ground. Looks like he might have gotten into an altercation and got shot.
When first responders arrived at the scene a few minutes after those calls came in, the injured man was barely conscious.
The sergeant asked the male, who did this? He asked again, who shot you? The male did not answer. The male's jaw quivered as if he was trying to speak, but he was unable to do so.
Investigators located the man's wallet and ran his tags to identify him. It was, indeed, Kyle, though Kate wouldn't know that yet. While she waited anxiously at home, hoping he would just pull into the driveway any minute, paramedics loaded Kyle onto an ambulance and rushed him to the hospital, just as investigators would continue to process the scene, starting with Kyle's car.
So based on the positioning of the vehicle, it was parked at an angle, so not totally within one parking spot. And the door was open, engine running, headlights on. So it seemed like he either pulled in quickly or needed to exit his vehicle fairly quickly.
Now, they didn't find anything of note in the car except for the $40 in cash that Kyle had taken with him to pay for the dinner that he never picked up. Outside of the car, investigators didn't notice any damage like bullet holes or shattered glass. The only thing left behind was a small open pocket knife on the ground near the car, one that they would come to learn Kyle carried with him often.
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