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Ashley Flowers (0:04)
Our card this week is Shad Gande Kedia, the two of spades from Rhode Island. On a cold night in March 2013, firefighters responded to what they thought was a brush fire at a cemetery in Cranston. What they found instead was the body of a 22 year old aspiring rapper, strangled and then set on fire. Their investigation would uncover volatile disputes, A suspicious life insurance policy, and a man whose story kept changing. And when you hear what police have, it's hard to understand why this case isn't solved. But over a decade later, Shad's family is still waiting for answers. I'm Ashley flowers and this is the deck. It was late Wednesday night, March 20, 2013, in Cranston, R.I. a guy named Kevin had just parked his car getting ready to meet up with some friends, when he noticed flames flickering across the street in an old graveyard that borders the neighborhood called Picasset cemetery. Kevin called his friend who could see the fire from their apartment upstairs, and they called 911.
Detective John Cardone (1:42)
Class the fire department.
Dee Conway (1:44)
Hi.
911 Caller (1:45)
There's a fire right across the street from my house in a graveyard.
Detective John Cardone (1:49)
Okay, what's your address?
911 Caller (1:52)
438 Dyer Ave.
Detective John Cardone (1:54)
Okay. What's it like, some brush on fire or something?
911 Caller (1:58)
I don't know.
Julie (Shad's sister) (1:59)
It's just.
911 Caller (2:01)
It looks like it's getting there bigger. I don't know how to.
Dee Conway (2:05)
I don't know.
911 Caller (2:05)
I never reported something like this before.
Detective John Cardone (2:07)
Okay. I mean, it doesn't look like a building, though.
911 Caller (2:10)
No, no, it's a graveyard, but it's near buildings, so. Okay.
Ashley Flowers (2:15)
Crews found a patch of burning brush just past a small bridge near the cemetery entrance. And at first it seemed routine, but this was anything but. When they realized something in the flames looked human, they quickly changed course, locking down the scene and calling for homicide. By the time Cranston detective John Cardone arrived, the fire was out.