BODY Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, some of my favorite stories are stories involved

in people that kind of lift themselves up out of their points of origin along the way.

People that come from rural backgrounds folks that may have stories involving homes that

didn't have running water indoor plumbing but yet they wind up being successes. Today I want to

talk to you about Linda Collins. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is BODY Bags.

My friend Jackie Howard executive producer of crime stories from Nancy Grace is going to tell

us today a little bit about Linda Collins. Jackie where we got? Joe Linda Collins was an

Arkansas state senator and she was beloved. Everyone who spoke about Linda Collins mentioned that

she was passionate about politics and passionate passionate about the area that she represented.

When family and friends had not heard from Linda for over 24 hours, her family went to the

home her son specifically and found her body under a tarp at the end of the driveway. Obviously the

state that the body was found in indicated that foul play happened and Joe we know with any

investigation as Nancy Grace has taught us all through the years you start looking at the closest

people to the victim and then work your way out. Well one of the closest people to this victim

was her ex-husband and they had a very contentious divorce. So when an investigation starts, Joe,

we start with the loved ones. Yeah we do and you know to put it kind of in investigative

parlance you know one of the terms that we use is is called intimates and you know when you hear

that term has got various connotations for different people but intimates for us are those people

that in dwell your little universe I mean you know for all our listeners you know think about the

people that you come in contact with day after day the most contact most of us at least are going to

have or the most frequent contact but those individuals that are most familiar with us they're going

to know our comments and goins they're going to know the life that we lead you know even things like

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