FL FL - Linda Louise Kerr, 15, Orlando, February 18th 1976

[theshadow45]

Linda has been missing for 46 years today.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Linda Louise Kerr – The Charley Project

 

[imstilla.grandma]

February 18, 1976. Orlando, Florida. 15-year old Linda Kerr leaves her home in order to walk to her boyfriend’s residence, but she never arrives and is subsequently reported missing. Investigators look into the possibility that Linda may have left the area with a biker gang and become an exotic dancer in another city, but this is never officially confirmed. Seven years later, one of Linda’s brothers, Keith Kerr, is charged with murdering his sister-in-law, Carol Kerr, but while there is suspicion that Keith could have also harmed Linda, no evidence is found to implicate him.

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 346 - Linda Kerr | The Trail Went Cold

February 18, 1976. Orlando, Florida. 15-year old Linda Kerr leaves her home in order to walk to her boyfriend’s residence, but she never arrives and is subsequently reported missing. Investigators look into the possibility that Linda may have left the area with a biker gang and become an exotic...

www.trailwentcold.com

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping, today is Linda’s birthday.

 

[Sleuthster]

The brother (Keith Barton Kerr) remains in jail after 37 years, despite being convicted for 2nd degree murder and being eligible for consideration for release as early as 1995. That probably says something about how he is viewed by the authorities.

Inmate Population Information Detail intresting fact, I was searching for his name for inmates current and released, theres a guy named Ralph Johnson who also goes by Keith Barton Kerr as an alias who was released. weird

 

[Sleuthster]

If Keith is still a person of interest I would suggest LE search in her neighborhood for a place she could be buried since he buried Ken's wife in his neighborhood

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Added to The Doe Network:

4671DFFL - Linda Louise Kerr

 

[theshadow45]

Linda has been missing for 48 years today.

 

[theshadow45]

Today is Linda’s birthday.

 

[theshadow45]

Linda has been missing for 49 years today.

 

[HopeRains]

Article clipped from The Orlando Sentinel

Clipping found in The Orlando Sentinel published in Orlando, Florida on 2/29/1976.

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Article clipped from The Orlando Sentinel

Clipping found in The Orlando Sentinel published in Orlando, Florida on 3/11/1976.

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Not finding any 1976 articles after November - authorities believe she ran away, she had been indicated as truant from school since last seen date. Her father believes she was abducted, among other reasons because she did not reach out to her mother on her birthday.

 

[HopeRains]

What happened to this girl? I don't know if it's accurate or not, but the podcast in the thread said she left at 4 PM to walk to her boyfriend's house and then was reported as missing in the early morning hours of Feb 19 when she didn't return. I mean his house was 3 blocks away, that's a 5-minute walk. February 18 was a Wednesday. Was it common for her to go to her boyfriend's and not return until the early morning hours on a school night? Did she really not arrive at her boyfriend's house? If he was expecting her, did he call the home to find out where she was? This is all just too strange.

 

[kdsmith21]

The Doe Network mentions Linda was a witness in a prostitution case and the arrestee was out on parole at the time of her disappearance and had threatened to get the girls who testified against him. I wonder who that was that she testified against?

 

[HopeRains]

The Doe Network mentions Linda was a witness in a prostitution case and the arrestee was out on parole at the time of her disappearance and had threatened to get the girls who testified against him. I wonder who that was that she testified against?

Thanks. I thought I read (and maybe even heard on the podcast) that she did not testify but that her friends did and they were both checked with and confirmed safe.

Here is what is in this thread:

Investigators have considered the possibility that Linda’s disappearance could be connected to her friends testimony at a prostitution solicitation trial about a year before her disappearance. Linda didn’t actually testify at the trial but knew some of the people whom did. Her father believes this is a likely reason for his daughters disappearance.

I'll go back to the podcast and grab the info from there - I believe that is where it was said the witnesses who did testify were confirmed as safe and had not seen her.

I don't know how accurate all of this is, just posting what has been said.

 

[kdsmith21]

Thanks. I thought I read (and maybe even heard on the podcast) that she did not testify but that her friends did and they were both checked with and confirmed safe.

Here is what is in this thread:



I'll go back to the podcast and grab the info from there - I believe that is where it was said the witnesses who did testify were confirmed as safe and had not seen her.

I don't know how accurate all of this is, just posting what has been said.

the other witnesses might have been safe, but he may have killed Linda. Maybe opportunity. I am just curious who she testified against , who threatened to kill the witnesses

 

[HopeRains]

I’ve been thinking about Linda’s case a lot over the last 48 hours, and especially overnight. Tossing things around in my head, not knowing anything other than what I have read here, listened to on a podcast, or found in news articles.

So incredibly brave and courageous. Providing a witness account in the solicitation for prostitution trial the year previous, she was 15 years old, maybe even only 14 at the time. What that tells me about her is that doing the right thing was important to her and she had a strong resolve to do so. I can only imagine that she would fight for herself in the same way.

She was last seen at 4 PM walking to her boyfriend’s house only 3 blocks away. If she did (or didn’t) know the offender was out on parole, I believe there is No way she would get into a vehicle with them or anyone else she didn’t trust without raising hell, and I believe someone would have heard or seen something. If people knew her in the neighborhood and around town, and I assume they did because she was reported as being seen after her disappearance, then I believe someone would have heard something. This was at 4 PM – kids coming home after school, stay-at-home Mom’s around, deliveries being made, early workers making their way home, etc.

I don’t believe she ran away – unless something was going on for which we have no knowledge - she took Nothing with her, not even her shoes. And never contacted anyone (that we know about).

I don’t believe she became a dancer in Jacksonville. That completely goes against her being a witness in a solicitation for prostitution trial. It simply does not fit.

Like her father believed all those years, I too, believe she was taken. I believe by someone she knew, trusted, and did not fear … she didn’t know what was to happen, and maybe they didn’t either. It just did.

I still have questions about the boyfriend. I never saw anything in print indicating he had been interviewed and cleared. Same applies to the solicitation offender.

I hope we find her.