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Tonya Teske (The 2 of Spades, Idaho)

5/6/202635 min

Our card this week is Tonya Teske, the 2 of Spades from Idaho.

This week, we’re resurfacing an important old episode for you because we just learned more information about a person of interest who’s never been ruled out. His name is Mark Douglas Burns, and he's a terrifying individual. He came up in a Crime Junkie episode we dropped in the fan club in which Burns confessed to murdering a young mom in her home back in 2001. And the overlaps between him and Tonya’s last known movements cannot be ignored. 

Re-listen to today's episode closely... and then go check out the episode on Sue Gunderson Higgins in the Crime Junkie Fan club and tell me what you think. Could Mark be the missing link?

Tonya Teske was a free-spirited 18-year-old who chose to live her life on the open road by hitchhiking around the mountain west. On August 13, 1997, she was last seen in Montana at a truck stop before her body was discovered two days later on the side of a highway in Idaho.

  • If you have any information about Tonya’s murder, you’re asked to call the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office at 208-529-1200.
  • To listen to the Crime Junkie episode we mentioned on Sue Gunderson Higgins, join the Fan Club.

 

View source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/tonya-teske-2

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Clips

Hot Tub Theory Emerges
Explaining Odd Decomposition
New DNA Breakthrough
Truck Stop Lead Deepens
Suspicious Logs and a Tip
‘If The FBI Finds Out…’
Too Many Coincidences
Evidence Destroyed, Case Survives

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