Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today is one that for a long time would have fallen into our missing category. But a strange discovery and a mysterious letter would reveal that this wife and mother didn't just disappear into thin air. And that truth begins to unravel a web of stories that will make you wonder who we can

trust. This is the story of Linda Sherman.

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I'm The official investigation into Linda Sherman's disappearance began on Wednesday, April 24, 1985.

That's when her husband, Don, filed a report with police in St. Louis County, Missouri, where he and Linda live.

And he tells him he hasn't seen his 27-year-old wife since Monday night when she left for work.

And it's Wednesday now.

Right, yeah. So he says he waited this time because she's pieced out on him before.

And they'd been having problems recently.

He thinks that she's been seeing another guy, one of her coworkers.

So at first, he thought maybe she just ran off with him.

But even if that's the case, he says that he's still really worried about her,

and he's already been checking with friends and family trying to find her.

She hasn't even so much as called to check in on their

nine-year-old daughter, Patty. So he gives police a play-by-play of the last day that he saw Linda.

Now, Linda works nights at the National Personnel Records Center, which is basically like this

facility in St. Louis that stores U.S. military and other federal files. And Dawn says that

Linda got home from work early Monday morning, so this would have been around 3 a.S. military and other federal files. And Dawn says that Linda got home from work early

Monday morning. So this would have been around 3 a.m. They argued for a little bit, like probably like an

hour. And then she went to sleep on the living room couch. And what did they argue about?

What took her so long to get home? So I guess the drive from the record center to their house

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