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http://www.couriernews.com/view/ful...brings-attention-to-sister-s-1976-murder-case
She was a 29-year-old Garland County deputy sheriff when she disappeared one Saturday night, and her car was found on a road outside Hot Springs the next morning. But her remains werent found until the following Feb. 12 on Jack Mountain, a rugged area about 8 miles from her car and in Hot Spring County. An autopsy showed that she died from multiple blows to the head, a homicide. No murder weapon was ever found, nor were her purse, her deputys badge or identification card.
That summer a first-degree murder charge was filed against a Hot Springs Police Department narcotics officer, Thurman Abernathy, with whom shed had an affair that allegedly resulted in a pregnancy. But over the next two years the case, built almost exclusively on hearsay, including what Linda told friends, and circumstantial evidence, fell apart. The charge was dropped, and then the case was submitted to a grand jury, which returned no indictment.
More than 38 years later, the case officially remains open but unsolved.
http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/so-open-the-grave/Content?oid=864331
Mike Fletcher was a young investigator for the Arkansas State Police in 1976, when he was assigned to investigate the disappearance of Linda Edwards, a Garland County deputy sheriff.
Toby Edwards, the deputys son, was just 6 the next year when wolf hunters found his mothers partially buried remains scattered on a wooded hillside several miles south of Hot Springs.
Toby was a cynic by 7. Thats when Lt. Thurman Abernathy, the chief narcotics officer for the Hot Springs Police Department, was charged with Linda Edwards murder. The following year, Tobys mistrust became set in stone when the murder charge against Abernathy was dropped.