NamUs #MP67589 -- Linda Louise Kerr Missing from Orlando since 1976

Author: Shane Lambert
Original Time of Writing: December 19, 2020
Updated: October 20th, 2025

Linda Kerr has been missing for nearly 45 years at the time of writing. According to NamUs, Linda was reported missing in the early morning hours of February 19th, 1976. She left her residence to visit a friend and has never been seen again. She left her purse and shoes at the residence, details that might suggest that she did not run away as some presumed.

The friend that she was going to visit, according to the journalism around the time of the disappearance was a boyfriend. Foul play was considered.

In the journalism from 1976, it was suggested that this disappearance had to do with retribution. Kerr or her friends (it's not clear which) may have testified against someone about a year earlier that vowed revenge.

After the girl was missing for ten days, there was extortion involved in her disappearance. However, according to an article from February 29th, 1976 in the Orlando Sentinel, these extorters did not know where the girl was. This same article says that law enforcement "discounted" the theory that she went missing as revenge for testimony from her friends a year earlier.

She was also called a runaway in an article. The father expressed frustration with this designation.

Missing Person: Linda Louise Kerr
Last seen or contact: February 19th, 1976 (a Wednesday), or a few months later in a less credible sighting.
Where last seen: Missing from Orlando, Florida (32806). She left her residence at about 4pm. Her address was 2131 or 2121 Dawley Street and her destination was an area called "Erin Court." Conversely, she may have been seen a few months later at a bar in Jacksonville as a dancer.

NamUs # and Link: #MP7589 
Ethnicity/Race: White
Sex: Female
Age at time of disappearance: 15 years old
Hair: Strawberry blonde
Eye color: blue
Height and weight at the time of disappearance: 5'7" and 106 pounds
Scar: scar on right leg
Clothing: White blouse, brown pants/Promise ring on left hand. Diamond ring on right hand.

Linda made headlines several years after her disappearance. Someone, who was perhaps not too credible, claimed that she was dancing topless in a bar in Jacksonville.

Furthermore, Kerr's brother was charged in murder in 1983, leading to Linda's case being looked at again. In a 1989 article, it is stated that nothing tied Kerr's brother to her disappearance.

May 8th, 1983. The Orlando Sentinel.

The next page of the article above suggests that she moved to Miami and married into a new name. But there wasn't any strong evidence.

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