Linda R. Chambrone, 32, vanished from her Ocean Township, New Jersey, home in the summer of 1980 after an argument with her husband on the evening of August 1. She was last seen wearing blue jeans and sandals, left behind her purse, money, clothing, and her dog, and visited a friend briefly before saying she would hitchhike to Asbury Park. Her husband waited eighteen days to report her missing, saying short absences were not unusual; the couple reportedly faced serious marital and financial problems and Linda had a history of depression.

Five years later, while under investigation for another killing, William John Deeves Jr. confessed to encountering Linda in a bar in Asbury Park, driving her to Neptune, and throwing her from a bridge over a stream along Old Corlies Avenue after she rejected his advances. Police divers searched the stream and found no sign of her; the waterway flows into the Shark River and then the ocean, which complicated recovery efforts. Deeves pleaded guilty in 1985 to Linda’s murder and to the killing of Sylvia Murphy, and received a combined sentence with a minimum of fifty years.

Her remains have not been recovered, and despite the conviction the family remains without a place to visit. Did anyone in Asbury Park or Ocean Township remember Linda or see her the night she left home?