Whether its solitaire in solitary or a game of hearts in the lunchroom, three unsolved crimes that occurred in Gaffney, as well as the visage of a missing Gaffney man, will be staring at state inmates across South Carolina no matter their taste in card games.

Through a special program launched on Tuesday by the South Carolina Department of Corrections and the South Carolina Crime Stoppers Council, a special deck of cards featuring 52 unsolved cases will be sold in prison commissaries statewide.

Each card will have information about a different crime as well as a toll-free phone number for prison inmates to call if they have information.

Four Gaffney cases are included in the deck.

The king of hearts is William "Buck" Spencer, who was found shot to death in his residence at 707 4th Street in Gaffney on Nov. 8, 2001.

The queen of clubs is Perry Wayne Posey, who was found shot to death on Feb. 6, 2002, in his vehicle near the intersection of Interstate 85 and Exit 87.

The 8 of spades contains the unsolved case of Sheila Patterson Manley, whose body was found Dec. 11, 1996, on the entrance ramp of Interstate 85 near the 100 mile marker in Blacksburg.

The 3 of clubs is the case of Donnie Edward Pennington, a missing man who was last seen walking away from his home at 2211 Old Georgia Highway on March 4, 2006.

A local couple who knows the pain of uncertainty and loss is behind the effort.

Tom and Lorraine Lucas lost their son Brian almost five years ago when Brian and three others were shot to death at the Superbike Motorsports store in Spartanburg County. No arrests have been made in that case to this day, despite ongoing public pleas for help and a large cash reward for information.

"If we can solve one case with the first deck, all the work will be worth it," Tom Lucas said in a prepared statement about the new program. "We are confident that, at some point in time, some families with loved ones on these cards will get the relief that comes with solving the crime."

The first edition of the deck contains crimes committed in Spartanburg, Greenville, Anderson, York, Richland, Union, Aiken, Charleston and Cherokee counties.

According to the state Department of Corrections, the decks will be sold in all 28 of the state's institutions. A second deck with more unsolved crimes already is being planned.

It's hoped that inmates will see crimes they know or have heard about and come forward with information. There are 24,000 men and women incarcerated in the state system and the everchanging inmate population bought 14,000 decks of cards last year alone, meaning the new decks with unsolved crimes will be seen by many pairs of eyes.