Murderer behind bars by Claudia Sonea

On March 3, 1970 at half past 12 in the afternoon, both police and fire brigade rushed to a five-room house near 175th and Beech Avenue in Hammond's Woodmar section where an explosion took place. At the scene of the fire they found a body lying in the bed with a hole in the head created by a shotgun and the body was all wrapped in plastic garment bags. The first person to be interrogated was his wife, who initially stated to have been out of town, visiting her family in Ashland, Ky., and in the night of the incident she was staying at a motel in Valparaiso-area. They suspected Linda Darby due to the financial issues that were leading to the break up of the marriage. Moreover, just before his assassination, Charles posted an advertisement in The Times saying he has no debts towards his estranged wife. But without the testimony of her 9-year-old daughter, Terry Dixon, she wouldn't have been convicted. She was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Indiana Women's Prison from where on March 13 she escaped by climbing over a barbed-wire fence. For 35 years she lived a quiet life with her third husband in Pulaski, Tennessee, near the border with Alabama, under the name of Linda Joe McElroy. According to Karen Cantou Grubbs, a spokeswoman for the Indiana Department of Correction, she had two children with her third husband and five from her previous two marriages. Although she refused to give an interview to AP, she talked with WSMV-TV of Nashville and stated she is not guilty and she cannot understand how they convicted her the first time. Both WSMV-TV and Giles County Sheriff Kyle Helton said that she had lived a flawless life in the past 30 years, cleaning houses and taking care of her one-story yellow house with flowers planted in the yard and a pasture with horses behind it. The success of the 30 years hunt is due to the collaboration between Pulaski Police Capt. John Dickey and the Indiana Department of Correction's new Indiana Fugitive Apprehension Unit, created thanks to a law approved by the General Assembly. For all those offenders who have escaped, fled residential programs or vanished while on parole, watch out there's a new unit in town!and your busted!

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071016/ap_on_re_us/fugitive_captured;_ylt=ArXyhMLR6viW9GhXA8VAzrGs0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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