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On June 30, 1974, 22-year-old Linda Leon was found murdered in her Phoenix home alongside her husband, Randy. The couple had been involved in selling large quantities of marijuana, and investigators say that motive for the killings was robbery.

Police identified 19-year-old Jose Jesus Ceja as the assailant. Finding Linda alone, he shot her twice in the chest, dragged her into a bedroom and shot her four times in the head, using a pillow to muffle the shots. He then waited for Randy, who was shot multiple times after returning home. About 70 pounds of marijuana was taken, the phone was left off the hook and the television was left on in an apparent attempt to make the house seem occupied.

Ceja reportedly attended the funerals, helped the family move furniture and offered to assist police before investigators focused on him. He was arrested and later convicted on two counts of first-degree murder. Did anyone in Phoenix at the time remember suspicious activity or the disappearance of such a large quantity of marijuana around late June 1974?