Linda Allomong

All witnesses, purchase of interest, and suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Hey, guys, welcome back to another episode of Primetime crime. It's Kylie. Of course. Last week, right after I courted right now in True Crime, the news broke that lur Valo had officially been extradited from Idaho to Arizona. I think I got that right on the conspiracy to commit murder charges against her in regards to Brandon Boudreau's case and the murder charges in the Charles Valo case. So it was a long dry for them. They took her overnight. I think it was like fourteen hours, give or take. They obviously had to make some stops, and our girl, Laurie was quite chatty the entire time. Apparently I do not know what she was saying, but she was quite chatty. And she has officially been booked in the Maricopa County Police Department. She is officially going to be there until the court cases happen in Brandon and Charles's cases. So her initial appearance in court, she asked the judge if both of the murder charges are going to be combined for her case, and she also asks how many public defenders she's going to have and if she's going to get to talk to them before her initial hearing, and it was just very basic. She asked a few questions and that was it. So her new mugshot, she'd be looking rough, like the inside has not been kind to her. And nothing makes me happier than that, because if you listen to my summer series that I did, Lori Valo and her mother put a big emphasis on appearance and looks, and that was honestly one thing that Laurie did have going for her, Like she was very pretty and very bubbly, and now she just looks rough. She curls her hair on the prison bars and she looks rough. And I saw some comments on one of the videos of one of her quarter appearances and people were like, who's giving her a curling iron on the inside like in jail, And like, no one's giving her a curling iron. She literally is taking it and putting it around the bars of the jail cell to get her curl. Like if you listen to Pretty Lies and Alibis prison series, you know, if you know, you know? So that is the news in regards to Lori Vallo, and there is another case that is coming out of Idaho. I don't know what goes on in Idaho. It is alarming to me. That's so much tragic. Horrible things happened in Idaho. There was a guy named Jeremy Bess. He is forty eight years old, and he allegedly murdered his wife, who was named Kellie Jean Randall. She was thirty eight. She was found dead and they believe that her death was a homicide. And their child, Zeke Best, who was ten months old, was kidnapped, and they have recently recent developments found Zeke deceased as well. So not a good situation. This guy is a horrible human. Allegedly, if he did harm his wife and his son, which it sounds like he did, he has now been arrested and he is in custody, and it is just awful and tragic and not the update we were wanting. When the baby went missing. You're always hoping that he's going to be found safe, but unfortunately that is not the case. So I don't know what's gonna come out with that. In this case, It's gonna be interesting. This, like I said, is out of Idaho, and it's gonna be really tragic to watch an unfold really beautiful family, mom and baby, precious as can be, and this horrible guy who has just taken out his whole family and himself because he made really, really bad choices. So I will definitely keep you guys updated on that one. And I feel like that's really it for right now. In true crime, short and sweet things will probably break in the meantime. If that's the case, I will update you guys on them on Friday. Beyond the Shadows podcast. In the darkest corners of our universe live spaces where even the light won't go, places where terror and the unknown lurk always waiting. Join Ryan and Scott on the Beyond the Shadows Podcast as we pull back the curtain and peer into the darkness. We'll examine hauntings, true crimes, mysteries, UFOs, exorcisms, reincarnations, mysteries, and all things dark. Join us as we go Beyond the Shadows. Shadows. All right, guys, Today we are going to be diving into a new unsolved homicide case, and that is the death of a woman named Linda Marie Alamong O'Connor in California in nineteen seventy five. She was only twenty five years old when she was murdered, and unfortunately, there isn't a lot of information out there in regards to Linda and what led up to her being murdered. She was in the last few years of her life kind of a drifter, so as with many cases of this nature, it really wasn't taken seriously by law enforcement, and I think that's a big part of the reason that her case still remains unsolved today. Her daughter does everything in her power to try to spread awareness and keep her mom's name out there to try to figure out what happened to her. And we're gonna go ahead and just talk about Linda. It's gonna be probably a little all over the place because some of the details of her story are a little sketchy as far as we don't really know who some of the people were, who she was involved with, and what kind of circumstances she was in at the time of her death. Necessarily, there's just a lot of different conflicting stories that I'm seeing on the Internet when I'm researching her. So we're going to talk about her and do the best to get her justice, because at the end of the day, she is no less important than any other homicide victim. She deserves to have her story told, and she deserves justice in this horrible circumstance that surrounded her death. So Linda was born February thirteenth of nineteen fifty in California, and she was a very adventurous girl, and she was always chasing her next journey. She was unapologetically herself, and she would often say, when alone, I can smile. Being lonely is better than being false. And I think that's so true, so important, and I think it's really important to be happy with yourself and who you are before you can be happy with someone else. And I feel like Linda very much embodied that. I felt like she was always chasing something more, though just from reading her story, it just sounded like she was chasing something more. So, Linda lived most of her life in Long Beach, California, but she was very all over the place. She didn't like to stay in one place for too long, and she was just always gallivanting off to different places just to find adventure. I feel like she was probably someone who got bored easily and just kind of wanted to get out and see the world and experience it on her own. When she was seventeen, she married a guy named Donald O'Connor, and she had met him at a party and it was pretty much right after he had returned home from the Vietnam War. So they got married and they moved to Colorado. But Linda was not happy in Colorado and Donald realized it, so he decided that he was going to buy her a ticket to la and let her go back to LA if she wanted to, And he said that particular day he came back home and she was gone, but Donald loved her and ended up following her. And at the time she was pregnant. She was pregnant with her daughter, Shannon Miller, and she had the baby, and shortly after Linda had the baby, Donald ended up taking custody of Shannon. And I really think Linda was in a place of not really being ready to be a mother be quote unquote tied down to having this child, and she just wanted to live life on her own, which is fine. She was young, she could really do what she wanted, and Donald was taking care of Shannon. So after that, Linda just started living her life as a wanderer, and she would occasionally come and go from Long Beach, but she wouldn't stay there for very long, and there were times that she would leave unannounced and nobody would hear or see her for months. So Shannon is quoted to say she was only twenty five, she wasn't ready for kids. I'm sure she would have grown out of it. End quote. And I feel like, you know, Shannon was only a few years old when Linda was murdered, but I feel like it's so important in these kind of situations, like Shannon grew up really not in the early years of her life, not really knowing her mother very well, because her mother was in and out of her life, and we also have to consider the time. Things were a lot different back in those days than they are present day. And I think it's amazing that Shannon now present day is fighting for justice for her mother, even though she really didn't know her mother that well. She still feels it in her soul and her heart to try to keep her mother's name out there, to try to get justice for her, because at the end of the day, we know Linda loved her daughter, and despite everything else that went down, and the kind of lifestyle she was leading. She still loved her daughter, and I think that her daughter's love is very evident through all the information I have found, it looks like Shannon is the one that is keeping her name out there to try to solve her murder. And I think that's a really, really great thing. So from here, Linda bounced around a lot, and she got married again in March of nineteen seventy five to a man named Leuis Flores, and no one really knew who this Lewis guy was, but their marriage lasted hardly long at all, because by September she had gotten married again and this guy was named Harvey Walters, and they got married in Las Vegas, and there was no license that was ever discovered, so we really don't know if it was even illegally binding wedding, but regardless, they got quote unquote married in Vegas. And he was allegedly not a good person because he was part of the Health Angels biker gang. And we'll'll get to it in a little bit, but he was one of the main suspects in her death, but he was cleared because he was in prison at the time of her murder. Aka not a good person. There is also another potential marriage to a guy named George Oldham, and I'm not really sure on the timeline of that one, but there's just a lot of question marks in Linda's life as far as everything that happened after she ended up leaving her first husband. So shortly after her marriage to Harvey, she was found murdered in November of nineteen seventy five. Her clothes had been pulled up to her neck with her dress covering her face. They had discovered that she had died from blunt force trauma to her head with a large concrete slab. So whoever did this to Linda definitely did it and it was personal in my opinion. So unfortunately, nobody had reported Linda as missing because, like I said, she would take off for months at a time and not communicate with her family, so nobody even really knew that she was missing. So she did. It end up being found for several weeks after her murder. She was found by a high school student who was looking for lizards, and her body was pretty decomposed. It was at the point where they couldn't immediately identify who she was, and the police unfortunately didn't conduct a thorough investigation due to the lack of information, and for whatever reason, they have lost the files for the case as well as what was used as the murder weapon aka really important evidence. How do you lose a concrete slab? I have questions. I have questions. So, as it turns out, Shannon was not Linda's only child. Linda also had two other boys, two brothers that ended up being Shannon's half brothers. So Shannon growing up grew up near her maternal grandmother, so essentially Linda's mom, So she grew up near Linda's mom, and Linda's mom was raising the two boys. But Shannon didn't realize that those were her brothers. She thought that they were just kids from the neighborhood who were family friends, but they were always kind of around, but they didn't live with Shannon and her dad, and her stepmother and then her stepbrother who she thought was her stepbrother. She thought that those people were her family, like that her stepmother was her mother and her stepbrother was her full blood brother. She didn't realize that she had this whole other family that lived right down the street and she saw quite frequently. So one day she learned from her paternal grandmother, she learned more about her mother's story. Anytime she would ask about it, people were really really tight lipped when they were speaking about Linda's so Shannon just stopped asking about it. But as Shannon got older, she really started to feel that she needed to learn more about her mother and try to figure out what happened in regards to her mother's death, because they later did identify this person as Linda, and they were able to kind of connect the dots as to who her family was. And even though Shannon really never knew Linda, she felt like she needed to try to figure out what happened. And she is quoted as to saying, I just think it's wrong that the killer got away with it. They got to live free, and they still might be out there end quote. So what I'm going to read next is a paragraph that was on a missing person's board that Shannon had shared, and I'm going to just read through that. It was a Facebook group for a murders. Hello, this is my mom, Linda al Among. Her body was found November twenty second, nineteen seventy five, the day after my seventh birthday, in Long Beach, California. Unfortunately, shortly after I was born, she started doing drugs and other illegal activities that go with that lifestyle. She was eighteen when she had me and already had a one and a half year old son. She had another son a couple years after me as well. Her dad was in law enforcement in Los Angeles. So you'd expect her case to have a lot of media attention, right. I have searched and searched, and this is the only article I can find. This was before she was identified. A few years ago. I wanted to see about having her case looked at again, and after getting the run around for a while, I spoke to a detective. He said all of the evidence in her case is lost, not sure how they lost a cement block, and because of her lifestyle, they wouldn't give her case any time. I found out she was married eight months and two months before her murder, information not known to anyone, and they were not interested. Why not? I feel that that's huge anyway, I just thought i'd chair thank you. So all of that, I feel like just adds up to the perfect storm of unfortunately, people not giving this case the attention that it needs, and deserves. She was very young when she had all three of her children, And again the timeline is a little fuzzy for me. I'm like reading it at all and I get it, but it also is fuzzy for me that she had two other kids plus Shannon, so she had a son and then she had Shannon, and then she ended up having another son after she had Shannon. Like, Shannon was seven when Linda was found murdered. So I do think that her murder is solvable. It is astonishing to me that the police department doesn't have any of the evidence or have any information regards to anything that was found. Like we could run DNA if they still had the clothes that she was found in. Like, this crime is so so solvable, and it really makes me mad that it wasn't taken more seriously just because of the way that Linda lived her life. We're not here to judge her. She did what she did. She was a free spirit and she lived life to her own accord, and she still deserves to get justice, and she didn't deserve to be murdered at the end of the day, And a lot of people will the victim blame and argue that well, that's the life she chose, and she got what she deserved. But that is not true, Like there's a lot of emphasis put on that kind of lifestyle, the drifter lifestyle. She's been married all these times, she has all these kids, and it kind of comes back around to like with the Gilgo Beach victims, because they were sex workers for so long, their cases really weren't at the most importance to people, which is such bullshit, because there's still people, they're still human, they still have families, and it's unfortunate that this is the mentality that our society has back then in nineteen seventy five and today in twenty twenty three. Every single life is important, no matter what the person chooses to do in their spare time for their extracurricular activities. If you want to drift back and forth from California to different states and do your thing, do your thing like there's it is what it is. And unfortunately, I think that Linda ran across somebody that didn't have the best intentions for her, and I think that she just wasn't in a position to necessarily understand that and realize when something wasn't in the best interest for her. Because she was just such a free spirit and she just kind of did what she wanted when she wanted. And it's sad because that leaves three children without their mother in their life. Even though Linda is very much in and out of her children's lives, that's still their mother. And I feel like it says a lot about who Shannon is as a person that she very much wants to keep her mom's story out there and try to solve this crime, because at the end of the day, that's still her mother. That's the woman who gave birth to her, and even though she didn't get to really know her as a person, she still feels that connection to her, and I think that's really admirable. Shannon definitely stands by the fact that she wished that she was able to get to know her mother better and that she had the opportunity to get to know her mother better, and she said, throughout most of my life, I wish she was here with me. After having my own kids, I couldn't understand how she could give this up, and that just breaks my heart. I don't think we're ever going to really understand why Linda chose the path that she chose, but Unfortunately, it sounds like she just started having kids way way, way too early. She was not ready for that, that wasn't something that fit in with her lifestyle, and she was never really able to let go of that, and I think, unfortunately that's what led up to her death ultimately, because she was always chasing something new and something more and getting involved with men who probably didn't have her best interest at heart. It does sound like her first husband was probably the best and you have to commend him for raising Shannon, and he obviously did a really good job raising her. But this case just leaves us with so many unanswered questions because all the evidence is gone. There's really nothing left in regards to her case, and there's so many potential people out there that might have been involved who are still alive, who took Linda's life at the age of twenty five, she was just getting her life started when she ended up being murdered. So the address listed for the location of where Linda was found is thirty first Street in Linden Avenue. So I looked it up because you guys know, I'm visual person. I spend all of my time on the Google Maps app, just like looking at everything, So the area now is very residential. But assuming that she was found by a high schooler who was looking for lizards, I can imagine that probably back in nineteen seventy five it wasn't as built up. There might have been more areas that were more wooded, because there's no way that you could have a body out there and not have someone see it as now because it is a neighborhood and the streets are it's an intersection, so there's like homes on each of the four corners, and there's not a lot of wooded areas around. So I do think that back in nineteen seventy five it was a lot more secluded and somewhere that you could probably get away with dumping a body and having it not be found for a few weeks, which I think is what happened in Linda's case because it was so decomposed. So that is the story of Linda Alimong, and I feel like we need to continue to tell her story and fight for someone to look into it further. There has to be some record of something out there. They also had told Shannon that because her case was so old, that they didn't have any information on it. Anymore, which is complete bullshit because police departments don't get rid of cold case files just for the heck of it because they're too old. Nineteen seventy five was not that long ago. I've covered cases from way before nineteen seventy five that you know that there's still information out there on these different cases. So, and how do you lose a concrete boulder? I have questions about that, and the evidence that was probably on her dress that was pulled up over her face. There's so much here that should still be out there and should still exist in evidence that doesn't and that just makes me think that someone didn't take it seriously, or we're in the midst of a giant cover up, in my opinion. So that is Linda's story. I thank you guys, as always so much for listening and trying to unpack this one with me, because this one was kind of all over the place. There's not a lot of information out there, so I had to kind of find things from the different sources I found on the internet, and I will be sure to link all of those sources below. There was also a Facebook page that Shannon set up for Linda, and I did find a newspaper clipping from after they found Linda's body. She had not been identified yet, and it said the badly decomposed body of a woman in her twenties was discovered Saturday in an oil field near thirty first in Linden Avenue by a high school student who was looking for lizards. Long Beach Police reported the victim was not identified. Police said she had been dead for at least two weeks and may have been sexually assaulted. Investigator said the woman's clothes had been pulled up around her neck and added that she may have died from blunt force trauma to the head and autopsy was scheduled for today. So she may have been sexually assaulted and there's no evidence. What is happening? Where's the evidence? And it says it was an oil field, so that makes sense that that's kind of why she wasn't found for those two weeks. Again, we have way more questions than we have answers. I'm going to post pictures of Linda that little newspaper clipping. I'm gonna link all of my sources for this episode, as well as the page for Linda that is on Facebook, and let's just share her story. Somebody out there knows something, somebody is responsible for this, and we need to get her story out there. So thank you guys so much for listening. As always, I appreciate each and every single one of you, and I will see you guys later for a new episode. Bye.