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Linda Evans Lunsford, 38, vanished from Midlothian, Virginia, on December 26, 1996, after finishing an overnight shift at the Walmart on Midlothian Turnpike. She and a co-worker and former boyfriend, John Howard, went for breakfast at a nearby McDonald’s; Howard said she later went to his home and left alone. Linda never showed up to pick up her three daughters from her mother’s house.

Her 1994 burgundy Nissan Sentra was found locked and abandoned that same day in the parking lot of a Food Lion in the same shopping center where she worked. Family members described a strained relationship with Howard, saying Linda had complained of stalking and had filed a sexual harassment complaint against him at work; her sister reported Linda had warned at Thanksgiving that Howard would be responsible if anything happened to her. Investigators treated the disappearance as suspicious and the case eventually became a no-body homicide.

What details from December 26, 1996, or the weeks before might jog someone’s memory about Linda’s last movements or contacts?