Linda Ann Hamilton, 16, was found dead on July 22, 1975, by a fisherman on a beach near Turtle Mound State Park in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The body showed she had been strangled, drowned, and buried in the sand.

Years later serial killer Gerald Eugene Stano, born Paul Zeininger, confessed to Hamilton’s murder. Stano was active between 1969 and 1980, and authorities confirmed 23 victims with suspicions of many more; his known victims were largely young Caucasian females aged about 16 to 25. He was apprehended on April 1, 1980, after an attack in which a woman escaped and identified him.

What information do readers have about Linda’s life or her movements in the days before July 22, 1975?