The cold-case killing of Linda O’Keefe gets a hit thanks to DNA testing, genealogical database

Linda O’Keefe was 11 years old when she vanished July 6, 1973, on her way home from summer school in Corona del Mar.

Her body, still clad in the flowered white dress that her mother had sewn, was found the next day. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled and her body discarded in the brush.

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