“Daughter Discovers Mother, Linda Sue Anderson, Identified as Cold Case Homicide Victim Found in Las Vegas Desert after 30 Years”

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Accident – Death – Obituary News : LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — In a shocking turn of events, a daughter who believed her mother had abandoned her over 30 years ago received a call from the Las Vegas Police Department. The police informed her that her mother was actually a previously unidentified homicide victim, known as “Jane Tropicana Doe,” found buried in the desert. The victim, Linda Sue Anderson, was approximately 38 years old at the time of her death and had ties to Bakersfield, California, as well as Las Vegas and Henderson.

The discovery of Anderson’s remains occurred in April 1993 when scientists, while surveying the area for tortoises near Tropicana Avenue and Durango Drive in the southwest valley, stumbled upon a grave covered with a quilt and rocks. Homicide detectives later determined that Anderson had died from multiple gunshot wounds, likely in mid-to-late 1991.

It came as a shock to Anderson’s children, who had believed that their mother had abandoned them. They had no knowledge of her death or the circumstances surrounding it. Anderson’s daughter, Mical Collition, shared her disbelief and expressed the impact this revelation has had on their lives.

The family had assumed that Anderson had walked out on them, leaving them to believe that she didn’t love them. Collition stated, “So, this whole time we’re thinking that she left us, and she didn’t love us. This is a huge thing in our lives.” The revelation of her mother’s murder has left them with unanswered questions about her suffering and the identity of her killer.

According to Collition, her stepfather informed her and her siblings in 1991 that their mother had chosen to leave and start a new life. He claimed that Anderson had left a note expressing her desire to cut ties with her past and not be found. However, Collition revealed that she never saw this note, and divorce records from 1992 indicate that her stepfather believed he had last seen Anderson in October 1991.

The breakthrough in identifying Anderson came last year when Texas-based Othram Labs, working alongside the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD), notified them of a DNA match. Anderson’s brother’s DNA matched that of the.

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