Feb 20, 2019 · James Alan Neal, 72, was arrested in Colorado Tuesday for allegedly killing Linda O'Keefe, 11, and leaving her body in a ditch. On July 6, 1973, 11-year-old Linda O’Keefe disappeared while...

Aug 20, 2022 · In July 1973, a typical day in Linda O’Keefe’s life quickly turned into a nightmare after her summer school ended. She was kidnapped, killed, and dumped in a ditch, leaving the girl’s family distraught.

Feb 20, 2019 · A man has been arrested through DNA and genetic genealogy in the decades-old cold case killing of 11-year-old Linda Ann O’Keefe, who was strangled to death in Southern California in 1973 ...

Aug 28, 2022 · The unsolved murder of Linda O'Keefe baffled investigators for nearly 45 years – could telling her story on social media help solve the case?

Jul 24, 2020 · James Alan Neal, 73, an inmate at the maximum-security Theo Lacy jail in Orange for the 1973 sexual assault and strangling death of Linda O'Keefe, 11, was transferred to a local hospital on May...

Feb 21, 2019 · O’Keefe, 11, was abducted on July 6, 1973, as she walked home from summer school, the Newport Beach, California, Police Department said. Her strangled body was found the next day. Their mother "carried that guilt the rest of her life," Borgeson said.

Aug 25, 2022 · I’m Linda O’Keefe (or Linda ANN O’Keefe, if I’m in trouble with my mom). Forty-five years ago today, I disappeared from Newport Beach. I was murdered and my body was found in the Back Bay.

Jul 23, 2020 · O'Keefe was abducted while walking home from school in the summer of 1973. Her strangled body was later found dumped in a ditch in Newport Beach's Back Bay. DNA evidence collected at the crime scene eventually linked Neal to the homicide with the help of data from a genealogical website.

In 1973, Linda Ann O'Keefe, an 11-year-old Girl Scout, was abducted and murdered while walking home from school. Learn the story of the innovative police solution 45 years later that led to the capture of her killer.

Aug 25, 2022 · Newport Beach Police give 11-year-old Linda O'Keefe a voice on Twitter hoping to solve her cold case 45 years later.