Linda Louise LeBeau, 27, was reported missing from Tustin, California, on October 6, 1977. She was last known to be planning to meet her ex-husband, Phillip LeBeau, at a restaurant to collect $300 he allegedly owed her for damage to her boyfriend’s car; witnesses also saw her arguing with a man believed to be Phillip at a nearby gas station that day. Her Volkswagen van was found abandoned three days later with all her belongings inside.

Skeletal remains, including a skull, were found along the Ortega Highway in Lake Elsinore by a survey crew in 1986 and remained unidentified until DNA work by the Riverside County Regional Cold Case Homicide Team confirmed in 2022 that the remains belonged to Linda LeBeau. Examination showed she had been shot in the head. Phillip LeBeau, who had a history of harassing Linda, became the primary suspect but died in 2008 and no arrests were made.

The Tustin Police Department continued the investigation for years, and the cold case team exhumed several sets of remains for comparison in 2021 before the identification. Does anyone have information about Linda’s movements or contacts in Tustin around October 1977?