Who Killed the Senator?

Red Collar

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True Crime

4.4 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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When former state Senator Linda Collins is brutally murdered, everyone in her tiny Arkansas town becomes a suspect. Could she have been targeted by political enemies? Was her bitter divorce a factor…or could she have been involved in a fatal love triangle? The answer would shock the entire state. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/

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0:00.0	It was June 4th, 2019, and Benny Collins was at home and Pocahontas Arkansas.
0:07.9	When he got a call from his granddaughter, she asked Benny if he had heard from her grandmother,
0:13.3	his daughter, Linda Collins.
0:16.0	Benny said no, he actually hadn't talked to Linda in a few days.
0:19.8	Concerned, he left his house at around 5 p.m. and headed over to Linda's residence, a
0:25.3	brick one-story home off West Highway 90.
0:29.3	When he got there, he saw that Linda's son, Bich Smith, was already there.
0:34.7	By now both Linda's father and her son were worried.
0:38.3	They started looking for Linda together.
0:40.9	Benny was knocking on the door, hard, and walked around the back of the house.
0:45.3	He was beating on the windows and yelling Linda's name, but he got no response.
0:50.8	Bich went inside, calling out for his mom, but he saw no sign of Linda there either.
0:57.6	They were just about to leave the property when they passed by the garage and saw a tarp
1:03.0	that had been thrown over some stuff.
1:05.5	They pulled that tarp back, and that's when they saw the body.
1:09.4	Badly decomposed, lying face down, wrapped in a blanket.
1:14.7	It seemed obvious that the person under the tarp was dead and had been dead for some time.
1:20.8	Bich called 911.
1:22.7	He told the dispatcher that he'd found a body and he believed that it was his mom.
1:27.4	Police raced to the residents and immediately petitioned for a search warrant.
1:32.7	By the time the son set on that summer day, this murder had turned into the biggest story
1:38.1	in the state.
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