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Jul 23, 2020 · James Alan Neal has been arrested in the July 1973 murder of 11-year-old Linda Ann O'Keefe in Newport Beach. Feb. 20, 2019. (Newport Beach Police Department) James Alan Neal, 73,...
Jul 24, 2020 · July 23, 2020 6:23 PM PT. The suspect arrested last year in the cold-case killing of a Newport Beach girl died Wednesday in police custody. James Alan Neal, 73, was an inmate at the...
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Jul 23, 2020 · Newport Beach PD. A defendant in the 1973 killing and sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in Newport Beach succumbed to a disease Wednesday while in custody. James Alan Neal, who was 73, was...
Jul 23, 2020 · NEWPORT BEACH, CA — A man accused in an infamous cold case killing of an 11-year-old Newport Beach girl died in custody this week, while awaiting trial for charges of murder and sexual assault....
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- The Short and Tragic Life of Linda O'Keefe
- Speaking from The Grave
- Linda's Last Day
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- 45 Years Later ...
- A Viable Suspect
- Will There Be Justice?
On July 6, 1973, Linda Ann O’Keefe, 11, woke up for summer school at her home in Newport Beach, California. She put on the dress her mother had made for her. It was a pretty dress with light blue flowers and dark blue trim. She then put a ponytail in her hair, put on her white ankle socks and dark blue shoes, and headed out the door. Her piano teac...
For 45 years, Newport Police Department followed lead after lead, but each turned into a dead end. It seemed like Linda had no voice, but with help from investigators, however, she was about to tell her story. On July 7, 2018, the 45th anniversary of her death, Newport Police Department announced they would be using DNA technologyin the search for ...
In the series of tweets, police invoked Linda's voice to construct a timeline of the day she was murdered. Linda had stayed at school through four piano lessons that day. After her second class, she went to a local store a block away from her school and bought bubble gum. She managed to return to school before her third class started. After school,...
At 6:42 p.m. police were notified. Police began searching nearby, but quickly expanded their search with helicopters to the nearby forests and meadows. Meanwhile, the family continued making phone calls to Linda’s friends. During the search for Linda, police questioned a little girl named Jannine, who had been driving with her mother and saw Linda ...
Police enlisted scientists to try a controversial forensics techniqueknown as DNA phenotyping, which creates a realistic, age-progressed profile of a perpetrator's physical appearance based on DNA and genealogy. A profile of Linda's killer was produced and released to the public. Linda’s murder had been a cold case for over 45 years, spanning gener...
Detectives also submitted the DNA recovered from Linda's body to a genealogical website. They received a clue that James Alan Neal, 73, was a viable suspect in Linda’s murder. He was found living in Monument, Colorado and arrested in February 2019, then extradited to Orange County, California. The Orange County District Attorney told KKTV: Neal ple...
Finally, the O’Keefe family would see justice, but that sense of potential closure would be short-lived. Neal was taken to an area hospital on May 25, 2020, due to an undisclosed illness, and died a few days later. The Orange County Sheriff said he did not appear to have COVID-19 symptoms. Newport Police Chief Jon Lewis said at a press conference:
Jul 23, 2020 · NEWPORT BEACH, CA — A man accused in an infamous cold case killing of an 11-year-old Newport Beach girl died in custody this week, while awaiting trial for charges of murder and sexual assault....
Feb 20, 2019 · The Orange County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday that 72-year-old James Alan Neal was apprehended Tuesday morning in Colorado Springs for the murder of Linda Ann O'Keefe. A...
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