Sharon Jones (10 of Spades, Florida)
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What is the story behind Sharon Jones' disappearance?
Our card this week is Sharon Jones, the 10 of spades from Florida. The last known people to see Sharon Jones alive around Thanksgiving weekend in 1987 have something in common. They all attended the same party. And when the young woman showed up dead several days later, stories started swirling about what actually went down that night. More than 37 years later, her family's still hearing remnants of these rumors. Rumors they're hoping someone out there can help put to rest once and for all. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck. It was early in the evening on December 4th, 1987, when a guy named Grady made an unexpected pit stop at a vacant lot in Naples, Florida to take a leak.
How was Sharon Jones' body discovered?
It was a poorly lit industrial area. Especially at night, you know, December, around 5.30, 6 o'clock, it's getting dark. There's junk back there. People throw their garbage. There's some vegetation back there. It's in between two industrial buildings. Nobody's looking back there for bodies. But, you know, he notices something a little to his right. And he realizes this is a decomposing body. And when he's done going to the bathroom, he gets back in the car. And I believe initially he didn't go to the police. I believe he went home first and told someone. And then they went to the lobby of the police department and told him, hey, there may be a body located in the alleyway just north of Central Avenue on 12th Street.
That was Lieutenant Robert Young. He told our reporter that officers with the Naples PD went out to the scene and found the decomposed body of a woman who had been dumped, hidden away in a dark corner along with trash and debris.
She's bound behind her back with a red dress that was torn apart and it was used to bind her as well as wrapped around her neck to possibly strangle her. You can see the ligature around her neck and her arms that are bound. Looked like she had bindings on her ankles, but over the course of days, they somehow came apart or they were never put on that tightly.
What details were revealed from the crime scene investigation?
With her torn dress used as bindings and ligatures, she was left completely nude. And investigators didn't locate any undergarments at the scene. Due to her state of decomp, they assumed that she'd been left there for at least a few days or so. And it wasn't that shocking that she hadn't been found until now, considering most people would have no reason to venture into that area. So detectives collected everything they could from everywhere they could. high and low. On the ground, they didn't get much, aside from the pieces of cloth from her dress. Everything else just appeared to be random litter that was likely already there before their victim. But they didn't stop looking there.
And then they also went to check the rooftops, and they found she had a pair of beige slides, slippers, and they were actually found on the roof of this building. You just check to see if any evidence was thrown. Maybe a knife was, maybe a weapon was thrown over there. So you got to do your due diligence and you check the whole entire area.
I was honestly pretty impressed that they went as far as to check the roof. I know you can never be too sure upon first glance, but it didn't look like the victim had taken a fall or anything. And since this looked like a strangulation case, I'm not sure what they were expecting to find up there. But find they did, though they think that the shoes were tossed up there for some unknown reason rather than her having actually been up there before her death. With nothing but her dress and shoes, detectives didn't have a clue as to who she was. But the folks in the River Park community were starting to talk and they had a pretty good idea.
Well, there was a rumor going around that a body was found, and they gave a description, and then they finally found out that it was my sister.
Who was Sharon Jones and what was her life like?
That was Von Seal, and her sister was 27-year-old Sharon Jones.
And the police department called me because I worked for the city at the time, so they knew me. They called me in to tell me that it was my sister that they found over by the Naples Daily News. She was struggling with the drug abuse. I must admit, at first, I was giving her money to support her habit because I didn't want her to do that, you know, what they do to support the habit.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the story behind Sharon Jones' disappearance?
0:04–1:23
2
How was Sharon Jones' body discovered?
1:23–3:00
3
What details were revealed from the crime scene investigation?
3:00–4:56
4
Who was Sharon Jones and what was her life like?
4:56–7:40
5
What happened at the party on the night of Sharon's disappearance?
7:40–8:55
6
Who are the key suspects in Sharon Jones' case?
8:55–9:47
7
What did witnesses Maria and Monica reveal about the party?
9:47–22:49