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Linda June Hamilton










Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021


Linda, approximately 1977; David Hamilton; Edward Surratt, approximately 2007




Date reported missing : 09/20/1977

Missing location (approx) :
Beaver Township, Ohio
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White


DOB : 05/31/1949 (72)
Age at the time of disappearance: 28 years old
Height / Weight : 5'6, 135 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Linda wears eyeglasses. She has a small scar on the bridge of her nose, her ears are pierced and her upper front teeth protrude.





Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Linda was last seen with her husband, David A. Hamilton, and their two young children inside their house on Route 164 in Beaver Township, Ohio on September 20, 1977. A photograph of David is posted with this case summary.
That morning David was found dead in his home; he had been shot three times with a .38 caliber gun. Linda was missing and so was the couple's vehicle. The couple's children were unharmed; they had slept through their father's murder. In the yard of the house was a bicycle that had been stolen from a neighbor several doors down the street.
The Hamiltons' car was later found parked at the entrance of a closed strip mine off State Route 7, near the truck stop where Linda worked. A man's boot prints and a woman's bare footprints led away from the driver's side of the car. Sometimes the woman's prints indicated she was walking and sometimes the prints were dragging, as if she was being pulled along. There was no sign of Linda, or anyone else, at the scene.
Authorities initially suspected Linda had murdered her husband, and a warrant was issued for her arrest. The warrant remained active for several years following her disappearance, but investigators eventually concluded that some other person or persons had murdered David and Linda had been abducted by the killer(s).
Edward Arthur Surratt is considered the prime suspect in Gregor's disappearance and Feeny's murder. A photograph of him is posted with this case summary.
Surratt is suspected of at least 18 murders, including the October 1977 disappearance of 15-year-old Ranee Gregor and the murder of her seventeen-year-old boyfriend. He's been in prison since 1978, serving multiple life sentences for burglary, Gender : ual battery and escape.
In 2007, Surratt admitted to killing the Hamiltons, Ranee and her boyfriend, and four other people. He stated Linda's body was "unrecoverable." In exchange for his statements he asked to be transferred from his Florida prison to a prison in South Carolina. He remains in Florida, however.
Authorities stated Surratt's admissions were vague and they would like more detailed confessions from him. He has not been charged in connection with David's homicide or Linda's disappearance.
Foul play is suspected in Linda's case, which remains unsolved.


Other information and links : ncy

Beaver Township Police Department
330-549-5338



September 2021 updates and sources

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Doe Network
The Valley Vindicator
Florida Department of Corrections
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