Do you know who murdered Linda Ann Moody Armstrong in 1993? Linda Moody Armstrong was a 35-year-old Black/African American female whose death in Wilmington, Delaware, became a long-running cold case after she was found on January 5, 1993. Online law enforcement and news reports identify her as Linda Ann Moody or Linda Ann Moody Armstrong, and the Wilmington Police Department later highlighted her case publicly while asking for help from anyone who might know what happened that night.
According to reports attributed to authorities, Linda was last
seen getting into a pickup truck with two men. That sighting became one of the central details in the case because it appears to have placed her with the people investigators believed were involved in the struggle that followed. By the time police found her, the brief encounter with those men had turned into a homicide investigation.
Police found Linda on the 1600 block of Bowers Street in Wilmington on January 5, 1993, near a building that is now the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution. Investigators said she died from injuries she received while fighting with the two men. The available reports do not name either man, and they do not describe any confirmed arrests, charges, trial proceedings, or convictions connected to Linda's death.
Years later, Wilmington police continued to treat the case as unsolved and asked the public for assistance. The case was handled as a cold case through the Wilmington Police Department's Cold Case Unit, which investigates older unsolved cases after original leads have been exhausted. In public appeals, authorities directed anyone with information to contact the Cold Case Unit, and past reports also listed investigators and an ATF special agent as contacts for tips.
The suspects described publicly remain limited to two unidentified men associated with the pickup truck Linda was seen entering before she was found dead. No publicly available online source located for this synopsis reported that either man had been identified by name, arrested, charged, tried, or convicted. As of the latest online information found, Linda's death remains an open cold case, with investigators still seeking the information needed to determine exactly who was responsible and bring the case to a resolution.
