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Linda Sue Boards

Case from Warren County, KY dated May 15, 1981

Victim Details

Linda Sue Boards

Female

Black / African American

Warren County

KY

1981-05-15

23

Linda

Sue Boards

06/23/2026

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On May 15, 1981, the body of 23-year-old Linda Sue Boards, a Black female, was discovered on a farm located on Hydro-Pondsville Road, southeast of Smiths Grove in Warren County, Kentucky. An investigation revealed that she had been raped and strangled to death. Boards was last seen leaving a club in Bowling Green a few days before her body was found. For decades, her case remained a cold case, leaving her family without answers and her killer at large.

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