Our card this week is Sharon Glover, the 6 of Spades from Louisiana. Early on November 14, 1993, just two weeks before Thanksgiving, Sharon Glover was found viciously stabbed to death on a rural backroad in northwest Louisiana. Rumors led Sharon’s family to believe the killer was someone close to them. But detectives are now releasing new information in this case for the first time, and they believe there’s been a different prime suspect lurking in the background of this investigation for decades. If you have any information on the murder of Sharon Glover, Det. Jackson urges you to reach out to him directly at (318) 681-0705. You can also submit a tip anonymously through Crimestoppers. View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/sharon-glover Let 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!
Chapter 1: Who is Sharon Glover and what happened to her?
Our card this week is Sharon Glover, the Six of Spades from Louisiana. Early one morning, just two weeks before Thanksgiving, the body of a woman was found viciously stabbed to death on a rural back road in Louisiana. Rumors led this woman's family to believe that the killer was someone they knew. But detectives are now releasing new information in this case for the first time.
Chapter 2: What details did detectives uncover about Sharon's murder?
And they believe that there has been a different prime suspect lurking in the background of this investigation for decades. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck. On November 14th, 1993, two locals were out driving about 20 miles outside of Shreveport, Louisiana's city center.
Chapter 3: What evidence was found at the crime scene?
When they turned off the highway onto the rural Mount Olive Church Road that dead-ended at the old missionary cemetery, their headlights barely cut through a dense fog drifting through the oaks. But as the mist cleared, something caught the driver's eye in a drainage ditch. It was the body of a woman laying face down.
When they got out and saw that the woman was covered in blood and not moving, they wasted no time and quickly drove to a nearby telephone to call the sheriff's office.
Chapter 4: Who were the initial suspects in Sharon's murder?
Deputies was dispatched to the scene. They identified the body as a Black female. At the time, she was unknown. She still had her clothes on and everything, but she had stab wounds to her body.
That's Detective Vincent Jackson from the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office. Though not the original investigator, Detective Jackson inherited the case in December of 2024. And he discovered that he's actually distantly related to this victim through his mother's side. Sometimes these tragedies hit a little closer to home.
Now, Detective Jackson could easily imagine the place where this woman's body was found. I mean, not much has changed since the 90s. Per the old reports, her body was found lying near a turnoff to a gated gravel road that led to a private farm. Now, her head was pointed toward the wood line and her feet toward the main road.
She was wearing blue jogging pants, a multicolored camouflage halter top, and a slip-on shoe on her right foot. The left shoe was on the ground next to her. Now, the back of her shirt was soaked in what appeared to be blood, but deputies noted that no blood had pooled beneath her body and there was no blood spatter on the ground.
Chapter 5: What did Sharon's family say about her last days?
By about 7.30 a.m., the scene had been secured and the sheriff's lead detective and the parish coroner had arrived. Everyone gathered around to watch as the deputy coroner turned the body over so she was laying face up. It appeared that this woman had been stabbed several times in her upper chest.
There were deep grass impressions on the victim's face, chest, arms, indicating that she had been there for at least a few hours, which posed a problem for evidence collection because it had rained the night before.
If there is any good DNA that could have been found on the body at the time, the rain could have washed it away, or it could have washed and mixed up other DNA that may be blown to her from her bleeding and contaminated the scene.
The rain wasn't all bad news, though. The road was muddy, and investigators quickly zeroed in on tire tracks left on the west side of the road. CSI techs took photographs and poured a cast of the tire impressions. But as Detective Jackson explains, they didn't yield any useful information in that moment.
TV shows, a lot of stuff, you know, you run the tire track and then you pop up with 15 tires and the type of car, it don't work the same way in the real world. So, you know, so if we have a vehicle, we could be able to take that cast and determine, hey, these tires are similar to these tracks. So this person is a person of interest.
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Chapter 6: What were the rumors surrounding Charles Glover?
This crime scene was so fresh, there weren't any persons of interest yet. But the soft ground did give investigators a strong idea of what happened. There, leading out from those tire tracks, were what appeared to be drag marks, which ended where the woman's body was found.
We just feel like her body was placed there from the way it was positioned. We had tire tracks, car pulls up, open the door. You can see like where somebody had her and her feet were dragging along on the ground.
In other words, there was evidence to suggest that the victim was already dead when she was unceremoniously dumped in that ditch, and they believed that she'd been killed elsewhere. Which meant that somewhere out there was probably another bloody crime scene. The woman's remains were transported from the scene by the deputy coroner for an autopsy.
In the morgue, her fingerprints were taken in hopes of identifying her. But it was 1993, and while online databases were technically a thing, Caddo Parish was still using physical print cards for comparison, which, as you can imagine, was a painstaking and time-consuming task. Now, 1993 happened to be the year when Shreveport had a record of 86 homicides, tied only in the year of 2021.
This coroner, who served all of Caddo Parish, was literally buried in bodies. Despite being overworked, the coroner was able to conduct the woman's autopsy within a day and determine that the stab wounds on the woman's chest were her cause of death, or as he wrote it in his report, a, quote, "'laceration of the heart and left lung.'"
Now, the number of stab wounds is information that Detective Jackson asked us to hold back. But he did note that the wounds didn't reveal much about the murder weapon, just that it was some type of cutting object, so not super helpful. In addition to the stab wounds that ultimately killed her, the woman sustained cuts to her arms in what the coroner theorized were defensive wounds.
The autopsy also revealed that someone had hit her on the left side of her face. And when the toxicology results came back, it didn't show any alcohol in her system. But she did test positive for cocaine. And the lab results added another piece of evidence — An unknown DNA profile was found on the woman's clothing. Incredibly, the rain hadn't washed everything away.
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Chapter 7: What new leads emerged after Sharon's identification?
But at the time, there were no suspects to compare this profile to. On November 15th, the same day as the autopsy, the Caddo Sheriff's Office got some exciting news. A match for the victim's fingerprints. She was Sharon Glover. Sharon was only 27 years old and a mother of two young children, 8-year-old Nikita and 6-year-old DeAndre.
Sharon was a local to Caddo Parish, and her prints were on file likely from a previous arrest. Though detectives couldn't locate any arrest record today, so they aren't sure what for, if that is the case. Sharon's friends and family had not yet reported her missing by the time authorities identified her body. But that doesn't mean that they weren't worried about her.
Sharon's daughter, Nikita, does remember that her mom made some chilling comments alluding to her own death in the week before her murder.
I feel like she knew that something was going to happen.
Sharon's daughter, Nikita Lewis, is now in her late 30s, and she looks back on her mother's last days as something of a warning.
My mom came down and she talked to me and she was like, you know, I want you to always look after your brother, no matter what. Always take care of him. And that's the last thing I remember her telling me. So I feel like she knew that something was going to happen.
Nikita's grandmother, Leanne Watkins, got a similar ominous message around the day of her daughter's murder too.
And that's when she called me up and said, Mama, if I don't see you no more, you have a happy turkey day.
But what Sharon's eerie comments meant remains a mystery to her mother and her daughter. They couldn't figure out if Sharon was actually afraid of someone in particular or if she had gotten involved in something dangerous. And when asked by our reporters to clarify what they believe this meant, Nikita and Leanne said that they never asked Sharon.
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