A Model Murdered: The Death of Linda Sobek

Crime x Cassie & All Things Creepy

Happy Thanksgiving! This week we’re taking it back to November of 1995. When former Raiderette and model Linda Sobek disappears from her idyllic life in Hermosa Beach, California, it’s an immediate media circus. The truth of what happened to Linda lies in the Angela’s National Forest, and it’ll take a famous prosecutor from the Manson Family trial to bring Linda and her family justice.

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People magazine investigates: Crimes of Fashion
City Confidential

Is Charles Rathbun Still In Prison? Linda Sobek’s Convicted Murderer Received A Long Sentence (bustle.com)
Charles Rathbun - FFF (forensicfilesfiles.com)
Friends, Others Offer Complex View of Rathbun : Profile: Descriptions of the top auto photographer, suspected in the slaying of a Hermosa Beach model, range from a nice, social guy to a loner with a temper. Investigators find it equally difficult to pin down simple aspects of his life. - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)