Reny said she heard by word of mouth that Nelson got into a car on Dixie Highway, possibly with multiple people inside, and was not seen again. She questioned how it’s possible for the suspect or suspects to get away with such a crime “in this day and age.”

“I pray to God it gets solved because honestly she really deserves to be served justice. That was a tragic way to die at a very young age,” Reny said.

Woman found in canalMore than four decades have passed since a woman was found floating in a canal off of State Road 7 in a southern part of the county on June 3, 1980. PBSO detectives are still trying to find out who she was.

Featured on the four of diamonds, the woman was Hispanic with brown or black hair and brown eyes, in her mid-20s, weighed 120 pounds, stood no more than 5-feet-4-inches tall and had a slight overbite.

She had been stabbed in the chest multiple times and in her forehead, and her fingertips were cut off, the Sun Sentinel previously reported.

Cynthia Moffett

On a rainy spring day nearly two decades ago, Cynthia Moffett, 52, was murdered in a robbery at the Forest Oaks Golf Club west of Lake Worth in Palm Beach County. She is featured on the queen of spades.

A friend found Moffett outside the club, where she worked in the golf store, on March 23, 2006. She had been shot twice in the chest. Detectives in 2007 said they believed robbers entered the shop as it was closing down that evening, that Moffett likely fought with them and was shot in the store, then walked outside.

Detectives believed at the time the robbers fled on foot, possibly indicating they were familiar with the area. Her playing card says the robbers left with $300 in rolled coins.

Moffett’s relatives told the Sun Sentinel in 2014 that detectives had new leads at the time and multiple people of interest.

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit Det. Jeff Weissman told WPTV-Ch. 5 this March possibly up to three people were involved in the robbery and that as DNA technology has advanced, latent fingerprints and DNA swabs that were collected from the club house are being re-tested.

Teri Barbera, a spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office, said in an email that both the investigations of Moffett’s and Nelson’s murders remain open and that they “continue to review and submit evidence collected from these cases for further DNA testing.”

“That’s exactly what we’re praying for — that this testing, the DNA that they did gather at the crime scene … that the testing that they’re doing now, we’ll find someone that’s already in the system,” Julie Moffett Coker, one of Moffett’s sisters, told the Sun Sentinel.

She described her sister, who family called Cindy, as a loyal person and a “giver.” She was someone the family could call for any reason and know she would be there for them, her sister said.

“She would do anything for anybody, at a drop of a hat,” Moffett Coker said.

Moffett Coker said she and her family are “all on board for this,” of the new deck of cards.

“We think it’s a great idea … The bottom line, right, — somebody knows something,” she said.

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