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The Night the Music Stopped: Unraveling the Disappearance of Linda Fledderman in Myakka City
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The Night the Music Stopped: Unraveling the Disappearance of Linda Fledderman in Myakka City
Posted by admin on August 9, 2025, 01:02 162 0

A small town, a sudden absence

In the quiet stretch of Manatee County known as Myakka City, a summer weekend in 1996 turned from ordinary to unfathomable. Thirty-two-year-old Linda Louise Fledderman vanished in the early hours of August 17, and by evening her longtime boyfriend, Jefferson Lowry Blanton, was found dead inside their home on Sixby Road. Nearly three decades later, the case still hangs over the community like Spanish moss—ever-present, unsettling, and unresolved. 

The last night out

Witnesses placed Fledderman and Blanton at the Myakka City Bar the night before and into the early morning of August 17, 1996. They were seen leaving together; some accounts say they departed in Fledderman’s vehicle in those pre-dawn hours. It would be the last confirmed sighting of Linda. ...Read More

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