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 apartment 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 them put to rest once and for all…If you know anything about the murder of Sharon Jones in Naples, Florida in 1987, we hope you’ll come forward for this family. You can remain anonymous by submitting a tip through Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers online or by calling them at 1-800-780-8477.Additional ways to contact Naples Police directly:Napes Police Department AppNumber for Naples Police Department: (239) 213-3000Lieutenant Robert Young’s Desk Line: (239) 213-4823Email for Naples Police Department: [email protected] Robert Young’s Email: [email protected] View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/sharon-jones 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.AF Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!
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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.
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.
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.
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