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Someone just needs to care enough. The only people left fighting for Linda are her family and more recently us
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>> because we actually tried reaching out to police for this episode, but right away we hit a wall. And it's a wall I'm
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really concerned about because no one is claiming this case. >> What do you What do you mean no one's
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claiming it? It's an unsolved homicide. Like it's listed as a homicide now. like
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there must be some police agency in charge of it. You'd think, but apparently about a decade ago, Venita
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Park PD was absorbed into the North County Police Cooperative, which is this like shared department that serves
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multiple small cities. And for some reason after that, jurisdiction over Linda's case just becomes murky. The
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co-op says that they can't find a full case file. Their attorney insists that the co-op is not the lead agency. And in
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fact, against all evidence to the contrary, he told us that he would be surprised if Venita Park was ever the
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lead agency because a department that small wouldn't have the resources. Okay. How would it basically be Lieutenant
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Web's life's work with two drawers full of files? Like his passion project, he worked on this his like
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>> even after he got like promoted to lieutenant >> like his whole career. >> Yeah. with Venita Park PD
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>> and but but he there's no >> but but it wasn't theirs. >> It's like >> that doesn't make any sense.
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>> It's infuriating. Patty has even tried going to the Venita Park mayor. She's tried going to the Missouri Attorney
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General's office [music] and everyone would meet with her and tell her they cared, they wanted to help,
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>> and then communication would just stop after that. which is to Patty like this
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slap in the face like her mother has just been forgotten or maybe worse like doesn't even matter to