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This program contains disturbing accounts of violence and sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

My mother was an outgoing person, fun loving.

That was where her spirit was.

We went to his house, and it was kind of like earlier in the afternoon.

I was a little worried because it was a very angry killing.

They saw Linda laying diagonally across her bed.

It would have been a slow, slow, painful death.

He broke into our house and beat and strangled my mom,

and then left like nothing.

There was really no emotion from him.

The police, they came after Jeff quite a bit.

They collected DNA evidence.

They had no idea how valuable that would be 40 years later.

It was aggravating.

My mom was killed almost 40 years ago.

And every day, you think, well, was this son of a bitch

ever going to get caught?

You've been wanting the name for almost 40 years,

and then now, so you get handed the name, and it's like,

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