'COME HOME': HUSBAND FRANTIC, SAYS WIFE, SPECIAL ED TEACHER VANISHED OVERNIGHT
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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3.9 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
When Linda Brown misses the first day of school after winter break, loved ones know something is wrong. Linda would never let her students down.
Linda is a beloved special education teacher at Robert Healy Elementary School in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, happily married to Antwon Brown. Chicago PD is desperately searching for the missing school teacher.
The special educator was last seen by her husband on Friday evening and by neighbors Saturday morning. Linda misses a weekly appointment that day, and isn’t answering her phone. Concern turns to fear when Linda hasn’t returned home on Sunday.
Though Antwon last saw Linda Friday night, neighbors say they spotted her Saturday morning near their home.
Linda’s purse, with her wallet and phone, is missing from the home, and her phone rings when called.
Family members and friends retrace the teacher’s last known steps, but don’t find any leads.
Her sister’s husband, Lorenzo, tells “Crime Stories” staff that Linda’s vehicle has been located at 35th and Lake Park. Security footage also shows her walking across a pedestrian bridge alone on January 3, at around 3 a.m., according to the husband.
Linda is 5 feet tall, 130 pounds, with brown hair and eyes, last seen wearing a long, puffy black coat with shiny Ugg-style boots.
Authorities are searching the area where her blue Honda Civic, plate number CX57470, was located on Wednesday afternoon.
Anyone with information on Linda Brown should contact Chicago PD SVU detectives at 312-747-8380.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Matthew Mangino - Attorney, Former District Attorney (Lawrence County, PA); Author: "The Executioner's Toll: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States"
- Dr. Janie Lacy - Licensed Psychotherapist and CEO of Life Counseling Solutions, Author of "How To Heal From A Toxic Relationship: A Guide To Reclaiming Your Mental Health and Happiness," and Host of “The Resilient Professional” Podcast on YouTube; Instagram & Facebook: @JanieLacy
- Brian Fitzgibbons - Director of Operations for USPA Nationwide Security (leads a team of investigators specializing in locating missing persons), and Former Marine and Iraq War Veteran; Instagram: @uspa_nationwide_security
- Rhonda Dequier- Founder of Missing In America Network
- Leslie Moreno - Reporter at FOX 32 Chicago; Instagram: LeslieMorenoTV
- Sydney Sumner - Investigative Reporter, "Crime Stories"
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Please come home. That is a desperate |
| 0:14.1 | husband's frantic plea as his wife, a beloved special ed teacher, vanishes overnight. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:26.3 | A quiet day in Bronzeville turns into a nightmare. A local woman spends the day with her husband, laughing and bonding at home. |
| 0:33.6 | By the next morning, she vanishes, never calling, and leaving behind unanswered questions. |
| 0:39.2 | Something is way, way off. |
| 0:43.2 | He is making desperate pleas for her return. |
| 0:46.9 | I want you to hear Antoine Brown. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm broke down. |
| 0:51.5 | I don't know what to do. |
| 0:52.8 | I did everything. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm talking to people. We got people on it. We got people searching for it. I'm out of options. I don't know what to do. I don't know |
| 1:01.2 | what to do, but just wait. Chicago PD desperately searching for missing school teacher Linda Brown. |
| 1:07.5 | Last scene Saturday morning, Linda misses a weekly appointment that day and isn't answering |
| 1:12.2 | her phone. Linda's five feet tall, 130 pounds with brown hair and eyes. Last scene, wearing a long, |
| 1:18.5 | puffy black coat with shiny Ugg-style boots. Authorities searching the area where her blue |
| 1:23.8 | Honda Civic plate number CX5-7470 located Wednesday afternoon. Anyone with information |
| 1:30.8 | should contact Chicago PD SVU detectives at 312-747-8380. That original sound of the husbands |
| 1:39.8 | from our friends at Fox 32, Chicago, I want to break down what you were just hearing from Dave Matt |
| 1:45.6 | Crime Stories investigative reporter. That was a lot of information. You got me drinking out of the |
| 1:52.3 | fire hydrant right there. Too much, too fast. And as you know, Matt Mangino joining us in our |
| 1:57.6 | all-star panel tonight, he's a veteran trial lawyer and author of the executioner's tale. |
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