LaQuandra “Shavonne” Slater (4 of Clubs, Michigan)
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Who is LaQuandra 'Shavonne' Slater?
Our card this week is LaQuandra Slater, the four of clubs from Michigan. LaQuandra, or Siobhan as most people called her, was known for being tough and independent. Everyone who knew the 38-year-old said she was outspoken, knew how to take care of herself, and wasn't one to be pushed around. Which made it all the more shocking when in December of 2016, she disappeared without a trace.
What happened to Siobhan before she went missing?
I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck. It was around December 8th, 2016, when Shamonia Wooten went to message her cousin, Siobhan, on Facebook. Siobhan hadn't posted anything for a while, not since, like, Thanksgiving two weeks prior. So, Shimonya wanted to see if everything was okay. So, she first fired off a message, waited to hear back. But it was five minutes, ten minutes, an hour later, still no response. And that was very unlike Siobhan not to reply. But what was even stranger was after Shimonya sent a bunch more messages, it appeared as though Siobhan... had blocked her. Now, Siobhan was known to be pretty headstrong and likely to hold a grudge if you had wronged her, but Shimonya couldn't see any reason why she would just block her out of nowhere. So she decided to switch tactics and call Siobhan's phone, except it went straight to voicemail. Shimonya called again, voicemail.
Several attempts later and all of a sudden the calls stopped going to voicemail and instead she got an automated message saying that the number had been disconnected and was no longer accepting calls. None of this was making sense. So Shamonia took the next step. She started reaching out to the people in Siobhan's circles. And as it turned out, nobody, including Siobhan's maintenance man, had seen her since Thanksgiving. So at this point, Shamonia started to get seriously worried. So she put out a post on Facebook to see if anyone had any information. But no one seemed to know a thing. So it was time to kick things up a notch. That same day, Shamonia drove over to Siobhan's apartment in Flint, Michigan.
What did the maintenance man say about Siobhan?
She didn't appear to be home, and her black Chevy wasn't anywhere in the building's parking lot. But Shimonya did run into her maintenance man, and he said that he usually saw Siobhan leave her house every morning at around 10 a.m., but he hadn't seen or heard from her in several days. And she was now late on her rent payment. Here is Flint Township Police Department Detective Lacey Lopez, who was put on this case around 2020.
He said it was really unusual for her because she typically always paid at end time. So he was also concerned.
Now, her maintenance man said that he'd called the emergency contact on Siobhan's lease multiple times and left multiple messages. But no one ever answered or called him back. We tried to look into who this emergency contact was, but the detectives never got that information. So with Shamonia there now and all signs pointing to something being wrong, the maintenance man agreed to let her do a welfare check.
What were the findings during the police welfare check?
They did go inside. Everything appeared to be normal in her apartment. There was nothing that was alarming or suspicious in the apartment. LaQuandra was a very neat person. The refrigerator still had food items that were fresh. Everything appeared to be pretty undisturbed.
But there was one sign that something wasn't quite right. Siobhan's pets. She had two snakes, which she kept in a glass enclosure, and they appeared to have not been fed for several days by that point.
The snakes not being looked after, it was extremely unlike Laquandra. Those were her babies, and she took care of them.
All of this was enough for Shemonya to know that something was definitely wrong. So that evening, at around 6.30 p.m., she went down to the police station to file a missing persons report. Police immediately did a search of local hospitals and jails, but they didn't find Siobhan in any of them. They did, however, find her Chevy in Impound. When they ran the plates on her car, they realized that it had been towed just days earlier after it was found abandoned in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Flint, six miles from Siobhan's home. Now, unfortunately, detectives couldn't find any link between Siobhan and anyone in that complex. So the car being there just added to the mystery of her disappearance.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who is LaQuandra 'Shavonne' Slater?
0:04–0:29
2
What happened to Siobhan before she went missing?
0:29–2:45
3
What did the maintenance man say about Siobhan?
2:45–3:45
4
What were the findings during the police welfare check?
3:45–6:27
5
What clues were found at Siobhan's apartment?
6:27–8:36
6
What does Siobhan's cousin reveal about her last days?
8:36–11:37
7
How did Siobhan's lifestyle contribute to her disappearance?
11:37–24:42