April 22, 1985. Vanita Park, Missouri

27-year-old wife and mother Linda Sherman does not show up for her shift at work,

and her abandoned car is soon discovered in an airport parking garage.

Since Linda had recently filed for divorce from her controlling husband, Don Sherman,

he is suspected of being responsible for her disappearance.

Five years later, a skull is found outside Don's favorite restaurant,

and after it has kept an evidence room for 14 months, police receive an anonymous note

confirming that the skull belongs to Linda. In spite of this, Don maintains his innocence,

and the rest of Linda's body is never found. After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and we've got a pretty bizarre case to cover today,

the 1985 disappearance and death of Linda Sherman. This story was featured on one of the later

seasons of Unsolved Mysteries, and needless to say, that show had no shortage of cases

where a woman went missing under suspicious circumstances, and the finger was pointed directly

at the husband. In this particular case, Linda Sherman had been trapped in an unhappy,

tumultuous marriage, with her controlling husband, Don Sherman, so when Linda vanished without a

trace shortly after she filed for divorce, it wasn't too surprising that Don became the subject

of suspicion. But this story is a little different from the norm. Five years after Linda went

missing, a skull was discovered outside her estranged husband's favorite restaurant,

and was eventually identified as belonging to her. To this day, the rest of Linda's remains

have never been found, and no one knows who was responsible for placing her skull in a public place,

or why they did it. While there definitely is good reason to be suspicious of Don Sherman,

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