Eleven year old girl left school and disappeared without a trace for many years years, this case was one of the most confused and creepy in California with many unexpected turns and strange facts it took 45 years to finally find out the truth But that’s it the story doesn’t end in this video we let’s tell you what happened to linda o Kyiv and why this investigation attracted the attention of millions of people around the world Friends after watching I recommend it look at my telegram channel where I am
I publish interesting things for you every day crime news from around the world without censorship link is in the description Linda Kyiv was born on May 24, 1962 in American city of Newport Beach California she grew up in a big friendly in the family her father was a machinist and her mother seamstress Linda had two sisters, an older one and the youngest Linda was fond of drawing played the piano and loved nature very much and animals warm summer days she doesn’t miss every opportunity to go to beach which was just from her house
The girl was also 800 meters Girl Scout and attended summer school in July 1973 When the lens was 11 she went there almost every day She usually I rode my bike to school but on the morning of July 6 and he agreed to let her down piano teacher who lived through several houses from a family about Kyiv after the end of classes Approximately half first Linda used the school phone to call her mother asked to pick her up because that the day was without a bicycle but the woman this moment I was working from home and didn’t want to
to get distracted so I told my daughter walk Despite the fact that from school was just a little further from home the lens didn’t want to walk two kilometers on foot after talking with her mother she The school secretary even cried I thought about taking her home but the woman had to go to another side so she abandoned this ideas Linda has been out of school for a while sat near the building and headed to side of the house her route should have been take no more than half an hour but the girl is clearly At first her mother did not stay
she attached special importance to this I thought Linda had met hers friends went for a walk with them However, with every hour she began more and more worry by 6 pm mother I decided to call everyone I know who has children lived nearby and could walk with her daughter but none of them saw Linda in the day her father returned from work the family decided to go in search of them traveled around the entire area including the route along to whom Linda had to return from school at that time parents they assumed that the girl was offended by her mother
for refusing to pick her up and deliberately not going home but when they couldn’t find and it started to get dark outside, they decided contact the police officers took a missing person report the girls started searching for topics time her father and older sister again went to comb the surrounding area two cars and the mother stayed at home calling dozens of people who at least with the slightest degree of probability could see Linda the search continued throughout night the police searched the streets and
parks deployed search dogs and helicopters all this did not bring any results by morning policeman the department sent more officers to participate in searches and local newspapers have already written about a large-scale operation related to disappearance An 11-year-old girl at approximately 10:30 a.m. cyclist with his friends and son drove through the park which was located at 9 kilometers from Linda’s house they headed there to watch representatives of the local fauna Botanical mug father with child dismounted and headed to the ditches to
see frogs but there was something waiting for them otherwise noticing something light in the grass the man came closer and saw there human body partially covered water in the morning newspaper he read about the disappearance of a girl who spent the whole night the police were looking, so I immediately thought that the body belongs to her as follows minutes a man with his friends ran out of the park, got into cars and rushed to look for the nearest payphone to Report your Find along the way they came across an officer who was just
participated in the search for Linda after hearing them story the policeman reported this and investigators headed to that place immediately realized that the deceased was Linda Okiv was wearing the same clothes in where the girl went to school and next to lay her backpack, his and white the dress the girl is wearing is Shala mom however, she was not wearing their shoes and could not be found near the body here from a crime scene that will not pass You can find YouTube censorship in our Telegram link is in the description
detectives began examining the area crime they found tire tracks on ground near the place of discovery bodies but no other clues there was medical experts found that the cause of death was strangulation they found out that death occurred in between 11 pm and 2 am users understood that Linda would rather just kidnapped shortly after her leaving school Which means a criminal somewhere held her for about 12 hours the victim was also subjected to violence and experts found traces of semen on her body they were transferred to the laboratory for storage
since in those years DNA analysis was not yet was carried out without having a single one on hand detectives began to investigate a serious lead in search of witnesses they interviewed everyone Linda’s friends and school staff residents of the streets along which the Girl must was to go home soon it brought its I saw a girl on the way from school her friend who noticed something strange Linda walked along the road in at some point I caught up with her the turquoise van he got rid of the speed and continued driving next to the girl but
there are no further events, my friend saw because Linda and the van almost disappeared from her field of vision immediately the police managed to find two more witnesses A 19-year-old girl and her mother were driving by car about 100 meters from the school Linda at some point They noticed how girl talking to driver turquoise van I stopped next to her.
It was at approximately 1:15 p.m. the witnesses lived next to the Okiv family and were well acquainted with them so they We were very surprised that Linda was talking with some grown man on the street and decided to watch what was happening The passenger door of the van was open and Linda stood right in front of her all over Apparently she was talking to the driver at some point the girl got into the car immediately after that the van drove off and the witnesses decided not to betray this special significance They thought that Linda
taken by one of the relatives or acquaintances because they were sure that The girl wouldn’t get into a stranger’s car Yes, the investigators forgave the girl her mother got a rough description of the driver this was a white male aged 24 to 30 years old with blond curly hair and Unfortunately, women do not have an elongated face were able to remember the car number plates and even his brand despite this story two women was the only serious one investigators have a clue in this case made references to the suspect
and his car based on the words of these their witnesses were sent all over California but it didn’t bring any fruits detectives spoke several more times with women hoping that they can remember some additional details at some point they were even offered undergo a hypnosis session and they agreed it only partially worked, witnesses remembered a few additional facts about the suspect’s car but that’s all they were too insignificant to help find the killer soon the police were able to find more one witness was a female resident
near where the body was found Linda heard a woman’s scream at about 10:30 pm she thought that someone shouts to stop it hurts me but this the voice stopped abruptly considering that the girl died around the same time the witness could hear her after that the detectives got another one interesting tip that morning When it was Linda’s body was discovered.
Artist painted noticing a painting in that same park he started dozens of police cars watch what was happening and realized that something serious happened somewhere moment he saw what seemed to him strange besides the police in the park was some young man who was watching to what’s happening out of the bushes he stood very close to him and the artist decided to ask what going on the young man looked extremely alarmed and said that The police found the girl’s body only the men and the artist stood far enough from the detection site
bodies and could not see any the details of the detectives appeared logical the question is how did this person know that they they found the girl’s body the artist described this man as thin white male between 18 and 24 years old about 180 cm tall with blond hair and the sideburns were enough close to what the two told the police witnesses describing appearance van driver as a result investigators concluded that this the man was the killer and that morning he decided to look at the actions of the police Even though the police had
quite detailed description of appearance the killers found him in the big city quite problematic However, after two something unexpected happened to them 18-year-old Peter Wooton came and confessed in the murder, the young man lived near his family okiv and studied in the same class with the older one the victim’s sister Cindy this news instantly spread throughout the city the police shocked its residents who did not expect such a turn events, the guy was interrogated throughout seven o’clock and also searched his house
parents where he lived after that he was officially presented murder charges three days later waiting for another unexpected turn investigators said the speeder was removed all charges and released according to their words the young man’s confession was too much inaccuracies and the only coincidences in his story intersected with information which made it into the newspapers otherwise he gave investigators knowingly false testimony that contradicted real evidence finally two witnesses who Linda was seen next to the van driver with
They stated with complete confidence that it was not Peter they both knew the young man because lived next to him so the women immediately the police would recognize him as a result came to the conclusion that the young man just trying to get attention confessing to someone else’s crime Perhaps the guy had some problems with psyche But he had nothing to do with this murder no relation after that there are no detectives left serious clue They continued to search van and its driver combing the whole the city even Linda’s Odnoklassniki
participated in the search despite police protest children went to biking through the streets trying to find one the most turquoise van but all this is not brought no results first month of police investigation interrogated 175 people combed each a millimeter of her path from school to home appealed to the public for help After a few weeks they decided publish an approximate portrait of the driver van But this also did not bring any Initially the detectives had no results wanted to do this because they were afraid
that a man can run away from the city but with every day they had to use more and more tools to unlock of this case two months later the police there’s a new lead, another girl was subjected to violence in the same area an unknown man dragged her into his the van was taken to a deserted place and then investigators immediately released the crime guessed what is behind this crime Linda’s killer may be standing here, but they were here his inconsistencies, the attacker went to white van and a description of his appearance
did not correspond to those data provided witnesses in Linda’s case detectives soon managed to reach The suspect turned out to be a 32-year-old Trucker and his guilt was proven the witness stated that he was completely doesn’t look like the man with whom Linda Yes researchers spoke came to the conclusion that this person is not has something to do with her murder Since then not a single one appeared in this case significant evidence even though detectives and continued to work on it subsequent years in 2001 after 28 years
after the murder the police sent semen samples from Linda’s body laboratory for experts to extract from they have the killer’s DNA profile they succeeded However, the man was not in the PBR database this meant that the killer was not held accountable for other criminal cases or this happened before those times when criminals began take DNA after a few years experts tried to look for his nearest relatives in this database but also here failed, but in those years it was it’s almost impossible to do anything similar because analysis tools
The DNA was far from what we have there is now a breakthrough in this area criminology occurred approximately in mid-tenth and the police appeared new search capabilities suspects investigators in Linda’s case also did not stand aside in 2018 year they turned to a private Parabon laboratory detectives received from them a portrait of a person drawn up on based on the DNA of Linda’s killer innovative technology called DNA phenotyping allows you to find out various features of human appearance with only his DNA sample in hand
experts made two portraits at once showing how the criminal could look in aged 20 and 60 years Surprisingly, this the portrait is very close to the stories witnesses who saw the suspect live 45 years ago usually in such cases, the police publish portraits in the media to attract public attention and Reach out to those who might know this human but investigators in Linda’s case did something that no one had tried before July 6, 2018 exactly 45 years after they published the murders on Twitter a series of messages on behalf of the victim himself in
a series of 68 messages described the last day of Linda’s life detectives presented this information as if it she tells the world what’s wrong with her happened on July 6, 73 the story begins in the morning Linda tells how her day went in school how she was offended by her mother for that that Tanya began to pick her up in the car and how the girl went home on foot All the facts from these reports have been carefully selected by detectives to compile the most accurate picture of that day series of tweets ends with:
the search for her killer is still ongoing were successful at this point as well a police officer published on behalf of a girl portrait of a criminal now 45 years later I can talk again and eat something important thing I have to tell you in my In fact, a new lead has appeared obtained thanks to the DNA of the killer who he left this technology existed in 1973 but now it can change everything This approach instantly attracted me to the matter.
Linda gets a huge amount of attention people around the world are police officers before shared information on old unsolved cases on social networks but the story from the victim’s perspective was something new the portrait of the killer itself was useless he could help solve the case only if someone finds out about this person and will inform the police therefore investigators needed to involve pay as much attention to these pictures as possible and they coped with this task great total series saw more than seven million tweets
man police received a lot tips on the possible identity of the criminal and detectives spent several months to check them, but they don’t care couldn’t find a suitable one despite this they are not a suspect were going to give up, especially after how they became interested in Linda’s case millions of people investigators again turned to parabon and this time They asked to try to find relatives killers through his DNA something similar criminologists have already tried to do early 2000s, but then it was simply not
there were the necessary tools almost 20 years later the situation has changed Parabon experts successfully found people related to the owner of the DNA and to Using this information, investigators could find the criminal The search for Linda’s killer began in August 2018 it took experts almost six months to get first results using private DNA databases could not be found the killer’s second cousin for detectives this actually meant that they are one step away from solving this case they just had to study the pedigree
this person and find the suspect but the experts from Parabon continued to dig deeper and soon the Unexpected awaited them opening in one of the private bases they found the DNA of the killer himself, he voluntarily uploaded my sample to the database which allows you to search for lost or distant relatives, as it turned out later one of his family members gave a man needs a special set to get into the database 45 years later the police finally had them killers James Allen is a nice man moment was 72 years old lived in another state and
in January 2019, detectives went to him before arresting him they needed a suspect get a sample of his DNA because a private database would not have required weight in court on January 29 police set up surveillance of the house Nila and also agreed with the service on garbage collection so that they hand over everything what will the suspect do? having obtained several items from which experts could take a sample of his DNA investigators sent them to the laboratory after which they continued to monitor James for the next three
days, unfortunately, the criminologists were unable to get a DNA sample from a man so detectives needed to find something soon they imagined this opportunity they were watching suspect while he was sitting in his car in the parking lot and smoked after that he threw the bull on the asphalt and drove away the police immediately picked up this evidence this time the experts were able to extract DNA sample and it completely matched killer DNA found on Linda’s body is meant what exactly James Neal is the same criminal they were looking for
almost half a century a few days later detectives organized a press conference where the arrest was finally announced suspect James Neal was born in 1946 year in Chicago after which his family moved to California parents often beat and humiliated him and also subjected him to violence because of which he from an early age started behaving aggressively as a teenager he committed various minor offenses including breaking into other people’s houses after that he dropped out of school and tried to get a job some work but couldn’t do it
stay in any place longer a few months later it turned out that he was a man had a rich criminal history arrested more than 12 times in a crime of excellent gravity theft car theft robbery but Almost every time he got away minimal punishment after which again picked up the old stuff at the age of 25 James first married and the couple settled down their home in the suburbs of Los Angeles was located half an hour from the city in where Linda lived and two years later years after moving He killed her that at the moment James’s wife was pregnant and he
criminal Was on probation term for less serious crimes in another state after that he got caught by the police several times for theft and forgery of bank checks as well as spent a short time in prison for probation violation leaving prison James three more times came to the attention of the police for violation of traffic rules divorced his first wife who they had two daughters and lived in different but then returned to Colorado and 1997 married another woman she had they soon have a child from their first marriage
James’ daughter appeared after studying him biography in more detail detectives discovered that a man can have attitude towards dozens of cases of violence against children but never carried responsibility for what was done in 95 and 2004 year, Neil kidnapped two girls by driving up to he subjected them to him in his car violence and then released in both cases it was not possible to prove his guilt that’s why James remained free later the police suspected him more in at least five similar episodes when an unknown man is driving a car
kidnapped girls from the street in 2010 James complained to a girl who she went to the same church with him admitted that the man to whom moment was 63 years old, molested for another for several months in total the victim reported several difficulties Enil gave gratitude to similar episodes testimony That’s what happened next something incomprehensible, this thing is somehow way hushed up the victim refused But the man did not bear his charges no punishment James returned to normal life and for the next 9 years
came to the attention of the police while he was wasn’t arrested for Linda’s murder on During interrogation, the man denied his involvement and said that he never kidnapped girls in his van when he was shown a photo of Linda and stated that the man had never seen her before added that she looks like one of his daughters given that the suspect’s DNA clearly was on the victim’s body court I had to admit it anyway Nevertheless, the investigators are guilty tried to get as much as possible evidence They wanted to know if James had
turquoise van but couldn’t find any one birth of this fact, however an explanation was quickly found for this at the time of Linda’s murder he was a worker at residential complex and had access to service van during a search of his at home, investigators found several hard disks on which prohibited materials involving minors similar photos and videos were also found on his smartphone they also found something on his computer interesting thing it turned out that James studied history of criminals who committed
crimes of a violent nature and were caught thanks to Poe’s DNA analysis apparently he understood perfectly well that it is DNA that can help the police connect him with various atrocities another amazing discovery awaited detectives after James examined before moving into a cell on his name was tattooed on his wrist Linda investigators thought that in this way he left a reminder of his to the victim However, it turned out to be creepy Coincidentally James got a tattoo long before the murder and the police managed to confirm this
the trial was about to begin A year after his arrest in February 2020 however, it was postponed due to the pandemic James continued to insist on his innocence but detectives are no longer doubted that it was He who killed Linda however, the case never came to court May James was admitted to the hospital where later he died two days ago due to lung cancer knew about her illness before her arrest and when she discovered it was too late to start treatment in this way in this matter half a century ago was finally
the detectives are finished believe that James could have had much more victims and they intend to continue investigation in this direction Linda’s parents died long before how the police found her criminal mother throughout her life blamed herself for what happened because she refused to pick up the girl from school Linda’s sister thanked investigators for the fact that they did not give up this business and got to the bottom of the Truth, they only regretted the fact that their parents did not live to see this
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