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Behind You

S2 E9: Killed by her Best Friend: Case of Linda Collins

Behind You

Hailey Elizabeth

True Crime

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Linda F. Collins was an American businesswoman and politician who served a single term from 2015 to 2019 as a Republican member of the Arkansas Senate. She was loved by most and was passionate and drivenO She was given the nickname “The Linebacker” for how much she put her heart and soul into her work. And one of the people she loved most was her best friend Becky O’Donnel. Becky was not just Lindas PA, but her best friends and the girls did everything together. They shopped, traveled, made memories and even leaned on each other in hard times. That is until on June 4th, 2019 when Linda is found stabbed to death in her home. And as police investigate on who did this, they’ll later uncover that Becky may not be as great of a friend some may have thought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, my name is Haley Elizabeth and if you don't know who I am, this is my true crime

0:04.7

podcast where once a week I sit down and I talk about all things true crime, ranging from murders,

0:09.9

disappearances, cults, all the way to the biggest drug bust in history the biggest

0:13.5

bank ice in history all things true crime so if you're interested in any of that you

0:17.4

can subscribe to the YouTube channel every Wednesday for the visual version or you

0:21.6

could head over to Spotify Apple wherever you can find

0:24.1

podcast every Tuesday for the audio version now for today's case we are going to be

0:29.2

talking about the case of Linda Collins Smith now there is a lot to get through so we're just going to hop right into it.

0:36.3

In Pocahontas, Northern Arkansas, home to about 7,000 people, was a very homely and suburban town.

0:44.8

It was the type of town that lived up in the mountains,

0:47.7

and so it always had the best sun rises and the best sun sets.

0:51.6

And on June 4th, 2019 2019 two men were walking up to the home of 57 year old Linda

0:57.9

Collins Smith and the reason why these two men were walking up to Linda's home

1:02.3

was because neither of them had heard from Linda for the past two days and they were getting a little fearful of what had happened to her.

1:10.0

She wasn't responding to any of her calls, any of her text messages, neither even her emails.

1:16.0

So when they walked up to the property, they noticed that it was a little odd to see her truck

1:20.5

outside of the house.

1:22.2

So that does mean she is home which made things a lot more

1:26.2

scarier. The men walk up to the front door but the door was locked and so they go around

1:31.2

to all of the windows to which all of those are locked as well,

1:35.1

but then they realize that the back door was unlocked.

1:38.3

The men walk inside and it's dead quiet and the house is quite a mess right now mostly because Linda was

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