… Looking and seeing my mom sitting in the living room weeping. Linda's father had been the one to identify her body.Ĭindy Borgeson: It's not making sense to me. Linda OKeefe was the middle child and shared a special bond with her dad, Richard. Was it someone I knew? A stranger? The man in the van? There are so many questions.” #LindasStory /LLiBk圓THS- Newport Beach Police July 7, 2018Ĭindy Borgeson: So, I get home from work around one and there's just lots of police cars around the house … I walk up to the porch and I see my dad just weeping uncontrollably. “The search for Linda Ann O’Keefe is now the search for Linda Ann O’Keefe’s killer. I said to my sister – I said, "What's going on?" And she said, "Linda O'Keefe is missing." They were in the alleys, they were in the streets. Jandi Pierle: Because there was police all over. Jandi wouldn't realize the significance of what she'd seen until that night when she came home from work. I just thought it was odd because I never see those girls without their parents or one of their siblings. And the van is right there in the street, the door is open. Jandi Pierle: I saw Linda standing – like you were he, about this close. It was the last time anyone saw Linda alive. The women thought the scene was odd, but didn't think it was dangerous. the day Linda disappeared, less than an hour after Linda called for a ride, Jandi Pierle and her mother spotted Linda talking to a white man in a turquoise van near the intersection of Marguerite and Inlet Drive. She and her family lived a few houses down from the O'Keefe's. Janine Pierle, who goes by the nickname Jandi, was 19 at the time. Jandi Pierle: Oh yeah, I don't even need to close my eyes. Tracy Smith: If you close your eyes, you can remember it like it was yesterday? She and her mom are driving up Marguerite right now, and they see something they won't forget for a long time. JENNIFER MANZELLA : Late tonight the police will talk to a young woman named Janine. She was talking to a man who pulled up next to her in a van. on July 6, 1973, less than an hour after Linda had called home asking for a ride, a mother and daughter spotted her near an intersection about a mile from her house. none of this would have happened.Īt around 1:15 p.m. Cindy and her Mom would play the "if onlys" over and over in their minds.Ĭindy Borgeson: I felt terrible for not insisting that I go get her. I went the opposite direction.Ĭindy had overheard her mom's end of the call telling Linda she was too busy with work to pick her up from school. she left the office and I walked out behind her. Lysa Christopher: She was upset, crying, just very, very sad. Linda was on the phone with her mom in the school office, begging for a ride home. What Christopher couldn't have known then was that this unfathomable tragedy would unfold moments after she saw Linda at summer school. You just knew she wasn't gonna be there anymore. Lysa Christopher: How do you make sense of it as an 11-year-old? You can't even grasp death. That made her murder all the more horrific and shattered the idyllic life they knew.
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