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Now, when he got home Monday evening around 6:00, he says that Linda was there and she's agitated that she'd
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overslept. She had actually missed her own counseling appointment and was running late for work. So, she's
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hustling out the door at around 6:45 p.m. And he says that is the last time he saw her. She's wearing blue jeans,
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tennis shoes, and a blue jersey with the number 76 on it. She also had a necklace
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with the same number, which was her graduation year. He says she drove off in her yellow 71 Volkswagen Beetle,
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presumably to start her shift. But weirdly, that wasn't the last time he claims he saw her. Kind of. So, Don
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says that he went outside to talk to a neighbor at around 8:00 p.m. And while they're standing there chatting, Linda's
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car pulled onto the street and then just like left. And after that, Don says that
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he went to get something to eat. And then later that night, he called Linda at work, but then was told she never
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came in. So that's when he drove to her job and checked the parking lot for her car that wasn't there. And when he got
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back and looked around the house, he noticed that some of her things were missing, like a suitcase and some
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toiletries and clothes and shoes. Hence why he thought that she maybe just like left him on Monday. Now, the timeline
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gets murky here because the information that's available is limited. But we pulled what we could through records
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requests from like multiple police agencies. And our reporter Nina interviewed everyone she could get to.
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But still, what we don't know could fill a book. And I I'll get more into that later. But I'm not sure how seriously
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the agency, the Venita Park Police Department, took this at first. But according to Riverfront Times reporter
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Laura Higgins, Linda's family begins their own search right away. And two more days pass where they just get
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nothing.