New to the Pocatello, Idaho area, Linda was abducted by an unknown male from her home right in front of her nine-year-old brother on the evening of June 14th, 1981. Linda's clothing was found off an exit in Pocatello, Idaho a week later. Police thought she was a runaway, dismissing her brother's account of her being pulled out of the house until part of her skeletal remains were found in May 1982.