Linda Malcom, 47, was found dead in her Sidney Avenue rental home in Port Orchard, Washington after an early-morning fire on April 30, 2008. Firefighters discovered her body on the master bedroom floor; an autopsy determined she had been stabbed 24 times and had blunt force trauma to the head, and that she died from those wounds before the fire was set. Defensives wounds on her hands and arms indicate she fought her attacker or attackers.

The Port Orchard Police Department opened a homicide investigation and developed several persons of interest, but no arrests were made and the case subsequently went cold. Volunteer investigators from American Military University later reviewed the case with the department, re-examining evidence and pursuing DNA and investigative genetic genealogy as potential avenues for new leads. The investigation remains open and active.

If anyone knew Linda, lived on Sidney Avenue in 2008, or has information about people seen near her home that spring, please come forward with what you remember.