Linda Mae Hampton, a 58-year-old woman, was reported missing after she was last seen in Kern County, California. Public missing-person listings note that she was not heard from again after her disappearance and that very few details were released about the circumstances, leaving many key questions unanswered for those who cared about her and for the broader community trying to help locate her.
Available descriptions identify her as a white woman with blonde hair and blue eyes, about 5’4” and roughly 150 pounds at the time she went missing. Records also note several identifying scars and indicate she may have used the last names Anderson, Chavez, and/or Pyke, details that can be important when the public is asked to recognize someone across different documents or encounters.
The case is no longer considered an active missing-person investigation. In a later development, local reporting states that Linda Mae Hampton, of Bakersfield, was identified by the Kern County coroner as the woman found deceased in the 1500 block of Ohio Drive in Bakersfield on June 29, 2025. According to the same reporting, an autopsy was conducted, but the cause and manner of death were undetermined, and the Bakersfield Police Department investigated the incident.
For those who followed her disappearance, this outcome brings a different kind of sorrow than uncertainty, but it can also bring an important measure of closure. Even so, the lack of publicly available detail about how she went missing and the undetermined findings reported afterward underscore how many unanswered questions may remain for her loved ones.
Last Seen: Dec 29, 2020
