Linda June Hamilton was 28 when she was last seen in North Lima, Ohio, on September 20, 1977. The next morning her husband, David A. Hamilton, was found shot three times on the kitchen floor of the family home on Route 164; their two young children were asleep in the house and unharmed. Linda and the family car were missing from the scene.

The car was later found near the entrance to a closed strip mine, not far from the truck stop where Linda worked. Investigators found two sets of footprints leading away from the driver’s side: a man’s boot prints and a woman’s bare prints that alternated between normal steps and marks suggesting she was being dragged. Neighbors reported hearing rapid hammerlike sounds around 12:45 a.m. and seeing a man walking from the truck stop that night.

Authorities at one point issued a warrant for Linda’s arrest, but the investigation shifted toward the view that she had been abducted. In 2007 inmate Edward Arthur Surratt made a vague confession saying Linda’s body was unrecoverable, but no charges followed and her remains were not found. Linda is described as having brown hair and brown eyes, wearing eyeglasses, with a small scar on the bridge of her nose, pierced ears, and protruding upper front teeth.

If anyone knew Linda, her movements that night, or saw the car near the strip mine, please come forward with information.