Marjorie "Christy" Luna (4 of Spades, Florida)
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Who is Marjorie 'Christy' Luna?
Our card this week is Marjorie Christy Luna, the Four of Spades from Florida. From the outside, Green Acres seemed like a picture-perfect place to grow up. A park, a school, a corner store stocked with sugary sweets and arcade games, all within walking distance. For Christy and her friends, weekends were spent roaming the neighborhood and playing outside barefoot.
What happened on May 27th, 1984?
But this storybook community had darkness lurking just under the surface, and it reared its ugly head one May evening in 1984. More than 40 years later, Christy's friends are peeling back the layers and piecing together memories from their childhood, finding that what actually lay beneath was much darker than they ever could have imagined. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck.
It was Memorial Day weekend, 1984, and Greenacre's small-town police department was probably preparing for a bit more action than usual. Hopefully nothing too bad, but it was possible that they would get a call to shut down some out-of-hand fireworks, bust a rowdy backyard barbecue maybe. But on Sunday, May 27th, at around 10.15 p.m., police got a call for something far more serious, something I'm almost sure they didn't see coming in their close-knit community. A mother phoned to say that her eight-year-old daughter, Marjorie Luna, who went by Christy, hadn't come home that evening. Detective William Springer with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office recounts that Christy's mom, Jenny, told police that she, her boyfriend, and her two daughters had just returned home that afternoon from a weekend getaway.
They drove up to Titusville, came back, stopped at two parks, Jonathan Dickinson State Park, and then they stopped at the Duke Boys Park. Then they came home. It was early in the afternoon. They were tired because they traveled all night. Christy slept because she was a little slump. And they all went to bed, and Christy came in and said, you know, the cats are hungry. I'll go get cat food.
What led to Christy's disappearance?
And she got some change, and she went to the store, which is right around the corner.
Christy's older sister, Allison, had woken up their mom around 8.30 p.m. to tell her that Christy still hadn't come home since taking off sometime between 2 and 3 that afternoon. Now, before getting police involved, the family took to the neighborhood themselves to see if they could find Christy at any of her usual spots, like the store, the park, her friends' homes. But after close to two hours of this, the freckled-faced, hazel-eyed little girl was nowhere to be found. So that's when they called the police. Law enforcement went on to do the same sweep the family had. And since they knew her plan was to pick up cat food, naturally, one of the first places they started at was the neighborhood store, Belk's.
Green Acres is just a small, sleepy little town with a store downtown that all the kids walked to because it was right there. It's not that big an area. And you could almost throw a rock from the house to the store. Everybody's kids walked to the store. And they came home.
Clerks at the store told police they remembered Christy coming in, buying cat food, and watching other kids play arcade games before leaving by herself. Based on all of our research, it sounds like Christy could have been there anytime between 2 and 5 p.m. Right after she left, there were witnesses who placed her outside by a house that was directly across the street within view of the store.
We don't have anybody that said they saw her getting into any type of car or anything. I talked to the people that lived in the house at that time, and they were young kids too. And they remembered Christy being there talking to them and watching the fireworks. And the one girl told me, yeah, I saw her walking back towards her house. And that's it.
In the days following Christie's disappearance, deputies scoured the surrounding areas with canine units and on mounted horses. They searched wooded areas and low-lying bodies of water in and around Green Acres, looking for any signs of Christie. But their findings were about as bleak as the weather that week.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Marjorie 'Christy' Luna?
0:04–0:27
2
What happened on May 27th, 1984?
0:27–2:45
3
What led to Christy's disappearance?
2:45–6:07
4
Who were the Rambo brothers?
6:07–11:49
5
What were the allegations against Victor Wanetti?
11:49–16:14
6
What new leads emerged years after Christy's disappearance?
16:14–21:18
7
How did Christy's friends cope with her disappearance?
21:18–22:54
8
What impact did Christy's case have on her community?
22:54–39:30