I am not sure what kind of dogs were used. They also used helicopter with thermal imaging.
Strangulation could also explain the broken tooth. ( bridge/partial)
LE went through the mobile home but did not process it(not even fingerprints)
also, there was a pair of laytex gloves on a table in the mobile home. Strange thing is that Linda is allergic to laytex.) We have tried to express this to LE but they don't find it unusual. But we defibately think it is strange.
BBM:
Hello, helpfindlinda. I bolded the statement above concerning the latex gloves. I am allergic to latex as well. I was a booking/classfication Lieutenant at the facility where I worked. Gloves is a huge part of the searching and fingerprinting of arrestees. You wear them as protection. I was also the authorized person for taking DNA, both blood and cheek swabs, then taught other booking officers how to do it. My point is that no way would a person who is allergic to latex even have any. I had to have special gloves with powder in my work because of the allergy.
Were the latex gloves the kitchen and cleaning type of gloves with the protective felt on the inside? The reason I ask is because I
can wear that type of latex glove because of the protective felt. Still, the gloves being placed on a table as if they had been recently used is a red flag to me.
My late husband was retired LE of a rather large city here in Louisiana. I was a commissioned deputy with the parish here for 10 years, so I have been around LE many, many years. I have read every post in this thread up to the one I am replying to. I have never seen an investigation conducted the way this one has.
I almost always come down on the side of LE, but not on this one. IMO, this investigation was botched from the beginning. When LE arrived on the scene of where Linda's SUV was found, they had no idea what they had. Upon arrival, the vehicle and surrounding area should have been cordoned off with crime scene tape. When you don't know what you have, you always approach it as a crime scene.
The vehicle should have been fingerprinted right then and there, IMO. The prints that could have been excluded would have been Linda's and the son's who found the vehicle. Then the vehicle should have been towed for further forensic testing. The husband's prints could have been tentatively excluded for the moment.
The glasses should have been investigated and fingerprinted. The quilt/blanket should have been forensically tested. Was the tooth broken at the top? I could go on and on, but won't. My point is that more wasn't done and it should have been.
LE used to be pretty straight up with the public when their help was needed to locate someone. Sometimes now you would think the family was asking LE for national security information rather than information they are entitled to as the victim's family. LE can and should keep some important points to themselves that only they and the abductor/murderer would know, but this entire shroud of secrecy is ridiculous.
Linda was a long time, loyal employee to the Moore's. For them to so quickly come out and make a statement about the possibility of Linda taking money was wrong of them, IMO. She was doing an almost 24 hour a day job for them by locking/unlocking the property for them 5 days a week and would have notified LE if anything happened at night while she was there. I simply do not 'get' that the Moore's would have come out almost immediately and implied there was maybe 'skimming' going on. Did they offer any proof?
Linda Reed disappeared under suspicious circumstances. I see her as a victim and cannot understand why LE doesn't as well. Negative and possibly untrue, hurtful things have been stated about a possible crime victim. The gossipy, unproven rumors have hurt the case, IMO. Every small town has people who want to repeat gossip and swear to the validity of his/her source, IMO. These people are often wrong.
I am a 62 year old retired widow, mother, and grandmother. I simply cannot envision any woman leaving their friends and family in the fashion that some people think this woman did. If she were close to her own mother, she would never put her elderly mother through this sort of thing, IMO.
Linda's bank account has not been touched, and her credit cards were in her purse. Look at all of the facts in this case and
not the gossip or rumors that is turning this victim into an embezzling, runaway woman who only cares about herself. Please give the victim and her family the benefit of the doubt here.
There needs to be a PI involved. While I personally do not care for Nancy Grace or Jane Valez-Mitchell, please appeal to them to get Linda's disappearance on their respective shows.
Okay, I have said my peace! My sympathy lies with the victim and her family here. Something is wrong. Very wrong, IMO.
MOO, MOO, MOO
