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MURDERED: Linda Sherman

In 1985, 27-year-old Linda Sherman vanished – just as she was making plans to leave her tumultuous marriage. For five long years, her family had no answers — until a human skull appeared beneath a restaurant window near a St. Louis, Missouri-area airport -- where her husband was a regular. Decades later, Linda’s daughter is still searching for the truth about what happened to her mother.
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24 Nov 2025
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In 1985, 27-year-old Linda Sherman vanished – just as she was making plans to leave her tumultuous marriage. For five long years, her family had no answers — until a human skull appeared beneath a restaurant window near a St. Louis, Missouri-area airport -- where her husband was a regular. Decades later, Linda’s daughter is still searching for the truth about what happened to her mother.

  • If you have any information about the murder of Linda Sherman, please contact St. Louis Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-866-371-8477 or submit a tip online here.
  • You can also contact the North County Police Cooperative at 314-428-7374.

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Hi, crime junkies, I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today is one that for a long time would have fallen into our missing category. But a strange discovery and a mysterious letter would reveal that this wife and mother didn't just disappear into thin air. And that truth begins to unravel a web of stories that will make you wonder who we can trust. This is the story of Linda Sherman. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING]
The official investigation into Linda Sherman's disappearance began on Wednesday, April 24, 1985. That's when her husband Don filed a report with police in St. Louis County, Missouri, where he and Linda live. And he tells him he hasn't seen his 27-year-old wife since Monday night when she left for work. And it's Wednesday now. Right, yeah. So he says he waited this time because she's pieced out on him before. And they've been having problems recently. He thinks that she's been seeing another guy, one of her co-workers. So at first, he thought maybe she just ran off with him. But even if that's the case, he says that he's still really worried about her. And he's already been checking with friends and family trying to find her. She hasn't even so much as called to check in on their nine-year-old daughter, Patty. So he gives police a play-by-play of the last day that he saw Linda. Now, Linda works nights at the National Personnel Record Center, which is basically like this facility in St. Louis that stores US military and other federal files. And Dawn says that Linda got home from work early Monday morning. So this would have been around 3 AM. They argued for a little bit, like probably like an hour. And then she went to sleep on the living room couch. And what did they argue about? What took her so long to get home? So I guess the drive from the record center to their house on Monroe Avenue is like less than 10 minutes. But he says it took her like 45 to get there. And he's already suspicious, right, that she's seeing someone else. I'm sure he was just like there,

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In 1985, 27-year-old Linda Sherman vanished – just as she was making plans to leave her tumultuous marriage. For five long years, her family had no answers — until a human skull appeared beneath a restaurant window near a St. Louis, Missouri-area airport -- where her husband was a regular. Decades later, Linda’s daughter is still searching for the truth about what happened to her mother.