Linda Stoltzfoos // 306

Going West: True Crime

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In June of 2020, an 18-year-old Amish girl went missing during the walk home from her Pennsylvania church. Within the first few weeks of her disappearance, while putting together eyewitness accounts and surveillance footage from the area, police were able to unravel the devastating truth about what really happened to her. This is the murder of Linda Stoltzfoos. BONUS EPISODES Apple Subscriptions: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-west-true-crime/id1448151398 Patreon: patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. Lancaster Online: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/a-full-timeline-of-18-year-old-linda-stoltzfoos-disappearance-so-far/article_e1701842-c3a8-11ea-9532-639eb8c87d9a.html 2. Lancaster Online: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/i-robbed-the-family-justo-smoker-admits-killing-amish-teen-as-new-details-of-her/article_c9ae6faa-eb1c-11eb-bc37-9b8e3433e660.html 3. Linda's Obituary: https://lancasteronline.com/obituaries/linda-sue-stoltzfoos/article_508892a7-a0d4-56aa-8a5d-0757143622b8.html 4. York Daily Record: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2020/07/13/police-more-details-missing-amish-teen-linda-stoltzfoos/5427056002/ 5. York Daily Record: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2021/04/22/what-we-know-linda-stoltzfoos-missing-amish-teen-lancaster-pa/7332890002/ 6. Fort Madison Daily Democrat: https://www.mississippivalleypublishing.com/daily_democrat/getting-to-know-the-amish/article_0f12313a-8ad4-5d8e-9387-6d8ad35cdd28.html 7. Bird-In-Hand community website: https://bird-in-hand.com/blog/6-things-to-know-about-amish-country/ 8. Fox: https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/the-search-for-18-year-old-linda-stoltzfoos-continues-in-lancaster-county/521-023b3eaa-6998-48a0-a054-7d5edce975bd 9. Splash 4 Ripples blog: https://splash4ripples.com/tag/vernon-deb-smoker/ 10. Amish Gazebos: https://www.amishgazebos.com/amish-or-mennonite/ 11. https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/who-is-justo-smoker-heres-what-we-know-about-the-man-charged-with-kidnapping-killing/article_4f4b53ba-c3b6-11ea-9ded-0f8dba90ea12.html 12. Lancaster Online: https://lancasteronline.com/news/ex-pv-wrestler-gets-12-1-2---30-yrs-for-area-holdups/article_3c4f1032-6610-598e-9d79-df3bf4859b30.html 13. Fox 43: https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lancaster-county/justo-smoker-the-killer-of-linda-stoltzfoos-is-sentenced-to-an-additional-17-years-for-violating-his-parole-by-state-parole-board/521-739e35aa-0983-47e1-a92e-8304c3f23706 14. CBS: https://local21news.com/news/local/search-for-stoltzfoos-continues-draws-comparison-to-40-year-old-crime 15. Leagle: https://www.leagle.com/decision/1986356351pasuper51355 16. Intelligencer Journal: https://www.newspapers.com/image/568662177/?terms=evelyn%20fisher&match=1 17. Fox 43: https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/linda-stoltzfoos-justo-smoker-update-lancaster-county/521-fc58eb3e-21f5-4494-a2b4-dd2f6b7ac6b3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is going on to crime fans?
0:16.1	I'm your host Teeve.
0:17.1	And I'm your host Daphne.
0:18.5	And you're listening to Going West.
0:20.5	Hello everybody, big thank you to Madison and Morgan for recommending today's case.
0:25.5	Takes place in Pennsylvania.
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0:31.1	I still sometimes see recommendations slip in through DMs or comments and stuff like that.
0:36.1	And we don't really ever check that kind of stuff.
0:38.7	I mean, we do check comments on our social media accounts about messages.
0:43.0	We just get so many.
0:44.9	Right now we have hundreds of cases on our list, but we are always welcoming new suggestions.
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1:03.4	You know, we probably did not see them and I apologize for that.
1:06.4	But if you do send us an email, those emails get vetted and we see them a lot easier.
1:10.4	Yeah, sometimes I like happen to look at DMs and messages and I'll catch a couple, but
1:15.3	it's more rare.
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