FL FL - Linda Carroll, 24, Crestview, 25 Sept 1984

[theshadow45]

Bumping, today is Linda’s birthday.

 

[Caring1]

11 Unidentified Person Exclusions

 

[theshadow45]

Linda has been missing for 39 years today.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Refreshing the link.

Linda Kay Carroll: 32 years of questions

CRESTVIEW — For 32 years, friends and family of Linda Kay Carroll have been in emotional limbo. Sept. 25, 1984, was the day Linda, 24, disappeared, leaving behind a 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-…

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The prime suspect in Linda's case was her husband, Dennis Wayne Carroll, who died in 2014. Penrod said the family was "99 percent sure" he was guilty, but there was never enough evidence to convict him. Shortly after Linda disappeared, Dennis took the kids, Melissa and Jason, and went to Tennessee. About 10 years ago, Donna and Cheryl made contact with their niece and nephew. Melissa is now married with three kids. Jason passed away in 2011, at the age of 27 from colon cancer.

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping, today is Linda’s birthday.

 

[Caring1]

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[Pennysmom1]

1611DFFL - Linda Kay Carroll

Sept 23, 2016

Family holds vigil three decades after disappearance

More than three decades after she disappeared, family members of Linda Carroll will hold a vigil for her.Linda Carroll went missing from her house on Kingston road in Okaloosa County 32 years ago.After meeting with investigators on Thursday, the family ho

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Linda Kay Carroll – The Charley Project

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Linda, circa 1984

• Missing Since 09/25/1984
• Missing From Crestview, Florida
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Date of Birth 03/10/1960 (64)
• Age 24 years old
• Height and Weight 5'4, 110 pounds
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, green eyes. Linda was a non-smoker in 1984. She has a scar on her right hip and a large gap between her two upper front teeth.

Details of Disappearance​

Linda was last seen in Crestview, Florida on September 25, 1984. Her parents dropped her off at her home on Kingston Road at 8:30 p.m. About half an hour later, neighbors heard screams coming from her home, then a car speeding away. Carroll was reported missing the next day later, when she didn't show up for work at Showell Farms Inc. She has never been heard from again.

Linda never picked up her last paycheck. Her purse and shoes were missing from her home. Her bed had been stripped and the sheets were missing, and there were clumps of hair scattered. A note addressed to Linda's brother was on the counter; it said she'd gone to Baker, Florida to do laundry and that he should wait for her. He was supposed to visit her the day of her disappearance, but didn't make it.

Linda was going through a divorce and custody battle at the time of her disappearance. Dennis Wayne Carroll, her husband of five years, had left her in August and taken their two young children, which upset her, as she was a devoted mother.

Dennis admitted he stopped her home on the night of September 25. He said she wasn't home, so he left and went to his mother's house in Meridian, Mississippi. Dennis is a suspect in Linda's disappearance, but he was never charged in her case and he died of cancer in 2014.

Linda was living alone at her Kingston Road home, which didn't have electricity. She lived frugally because she was saving money for a divorce attorney. She was working at her first job and had gotten a driver's license, although she didn't yet own a car. Her family describes her as an introvert with few friends. Her disappearance remains unsolved and foul play is suspected.

Investigating Agency​

• Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office 850-651-7400

Source Information​

• The Doe Network
• Florida Department of Law Enforcement
• The Northwest Florida Daily News
• Tennessee Missing and Unsolved
• Facebook Page for Linda Carroll

Updated 5 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated September 11, 2019; four pictures added, details of disappearance updated.

 

[Pennysmom1]

Lots of photos of Linda in this article, also newspaper clippings

Sept 23, 2016

PHOTOS: Linda Kay Carroll still missing after 32 years

PHOTOS: Linda Kay Carroll still missing after 32 years

www.nwfdailynews.com

 

[Aurora90]

Sounds like someone was waiting for her inside her house and attacked her when she got home. I wonder if the witness can describe the car they saw speeding off.. and if it matches the description of a car owned by someone she knew..

 

[theshadow45]

Linda has been missing for 40 years today.

 

[mlhenn]

Linda Kay Carroll – The Charley Project

Last updated November 18, 2024; details of disappearance updated.

Details of Disappearance​

Linda was last seen in Crestview, Florida on September 25, 1984. Her parents dropped her off at her home on Kingston Road at 8:30 p.m. About half an hour later, neighbors heard screams coming from her home, then a car speeding away. Carroll was reported missing the next day later, when she didn't show up for work at Showell Farms Inc. She has never been heard from again.

Linda never picked up her last paycheck. Her purse and shoes were missing from her home. Her bed had been stripped and the sheets were missing, and there were clumps of hair scattered, including a human hair stuck to the door jamb. A note addressed to Linda's brother was on the counter; it said she'd gone to Baker, Florida to do laundry and that he should wait for her. He was supposed to visit her the day of her disappearance, but didn't make it.

Linda was going through a divorce and custody battle at the time of her disappearance. Dennis Wayne Carroll, her husband of five years, had left her in August and gone to Tennessee, taking their two young children, which particularly upset her, as she was a devoted mother. He raised them after Linda's disappearance, and told them their mother had abandoned them.

Dennis stated that at on the day of her disappearance, he driving from Tennessee to his mother's house in Meridian, Mississippi. Although he told his mother he'd driven straight there, he admitted to police that he had in fact made a detour to Florida and had stopped at Linda's home on the night of September 25. He said she wasn't home so he left and continued on to his mother's.

A coworker of Dennis's from Tennessee stated Dennis had asked him about using ether or chloroform to put someone to sleep. After Linda went missing, he never made any enquiries about locating her. Linda and Dennis's son stated that over the years Dennis had made multiple statements about how to get rid of someone and not get caught. Dennis is a suspect in Linda's disappearance, but he was never charged in her case and he died of cancer in 2014.

Linda was living alone at her Kingston Road home, which didn't have electricity. She lived frugally because she was saving money for a divorce attorney. She was working at her first job and had gotten a driver's license, although she didn't yet own a car. Her family describes her as an introvert with few friends. Her disappearance remains unsolved and foul play is suspected.

 

[theshadow45]

Today is Linda’s birthday.

 

[smithd2278]

I am part of a crime club where we pair with the local authorities to help out with cold cases. I have been looking into Linda's case. From the outside looking in it looks like a cut and dried case, the custody battle, the husband taking the kids and moving out of state soon after. The struggle and the car speeding away. All things point to the husband. I am from this area; born and raised and still here and am compiling a list of unsolved crimes and missing women of the area. You will be amazed how many there are in relatively small towns. If anyone has something they would like to contribute to Linda's case; maybe something heard or read that would be amazing!

 

[spartanx]

I am part of a crime club where we pair with the local authorities to help out with cold cases. I have been looking into Linda's case. From the outside looking in it looks like a cut and dried case, the custody battle, the husband taking the kids and moving out of state soon after. The struggle and the car speeding away. All things point to the husband. I am from this area; born and raised and still here and am compiling a list of unsolved crimes and missing women of the area. You will be amazed how many there are in relatively small towns. If anyone has something they would like to contribute to Linda's case; maybe something heard or read that would be amazing!

Exactly, the husband did it with the help of an accomplice, he didn't do it alone... surely he went to Linda's house and ambushed her... he could have beaten her, killed her, and quickly taken her out of the house... it's possible he even had the hole in the ground ready to bury her or a trash container to dispose of her body... it was the perfect crime... the unfortunate husband lived peacefully and was never even charged... I hope his children, when they were adults, realized how bad their father was to their mother...
whatever it is
Rest in peace, Linda