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[Music] hi i'm linda o'keefe or linda ann o'keefe if i'm in trouble with my mom 45 years ago today i disappeared from
newport beach i was murdered and my body was found in the back bay today i'm going to tell you my story
july 6 1973 two days after the fourth of july linda was attending summer school young girl 11 year old growing up in
corona del mar usually i ride my bike to school the ride home is easy because it's almost
all downhill but today i got a ride so no bike it was a friday everyone was excited it was a weekend
that you were going to hang out with your friends at the end of her school day she called her mother from the
office and asked her mother to come pick her up and my mom said i'm really busy you can just walk home
and linda says oh but i'm tired can you please come get me and she said linda just walk home
you'll be fine i'm still upset about not getting a ride home i sit on the curb in front of the school
with my feet sticking out in the street i'll leave soon of course she didn't come home and that
was around one o'clock her mother believed that linda had possibly gone to a friend's house
and for a few hours wasn't too concerned it's starting to get dark so my dad and
i got the cars and we drove around and then they decided to call the police because
she should have been home by now no one had seen linda our officers community members search
for linda throughout the night and into the next day a lady in the bluffs above back bay
hears a female voice outside screaming stop you're hurting me she doesn't know that i'm missing
that i'll be dead by morning that i'll be found a couple hundred yards from her home
it's pretty remote you know you feel like you're in the middle of nowhere so in some ways was this a perfect place to
dump a body yeah couldn't couldn't be better it was almost unreal that that 11 year
old a girl my age could be could be killed linda was last seen talking to a stranger in a van near the intersection
of marguerite drive and inlet drive in corona omar they observed what they described as
like a turquoise blue van we got on our bikes and rode around looking for the van and if we could find
the van we were gonna find the murderer after years of working the case the detectives eventually ran out of leads
and the case went cold in our detective bureau we have a wall we've got photos of our cold case
victims you know linda obviously drew our attention we needed to put linda's face out there i went to the
public information officer for the police department right away she said what about twitter
it was so important for me to give a little girl whose life was cut short at 11 years old the opportunity to speak
again now 45 years later i have a voice again and i have something important to say
we knew we were going to find this guy linda is going to help us find this man who did this to her

The "voice" of 11-year-old Linda O'Keefe goes viral in the search for her killer. CBS News correspondent Tracy Smith reports for "48 Hours" on Saturday, August 27 at 10/9c on CBS and Paramount+.

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Brief Summary

Linda O'Keefe's tragic abduction and murder in 1973 is recounted, highlighting the search for justice 45 years later.

Key points

The Day Linda Disappeared. On July 6, 1973, 11-year-old Linda O'Keefe vanished after school.
Linda O'Keefe's Story. Linda O'Keefe shares her haunting story of disappearance and murder.
The Search for Linda. Community members and police search for Linda throughout the night.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I was murdered.

Linda O'Keefe reveals her tragic fate.

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