These Playing Cards Have an Extra Motive. Flushing Out Suspects. The 2,500 decks being issued to correctional facilities in southern Mississippi seek clues on missing persons and unsolved murders.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - A couple whose son was killed in a shooting want to raise money to print playing cards featuring unsolved homicides and missing persons cases from South Carolina.

Playing cards are known and used the world over—and almost every corner of the globe has laid claim to their invention. The Chinese assert the longest pedigree for card playing (the “ game of ...