Case 335: Linda Brown

2025-10-25

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*** Content warnings: Child sexual abuse, grooming, domestic violence ***In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 19 1985, police were summoned to a shocking scene at an ordinary suburban home in Garden Grove, California. 23-year-old wife and mother Linda Brown had been shot twice and killed. The culprit was her 14-year-old stepdaughter, Cinnamon Brown, who was found barely conscious and clutching a suicide note in a dog kennel in the backyard. Cinnamon openly admitted to shooting Linda, and the case appeared to be open-and-shut… But n...

*** Content warnings: Child sexual abuse, grooming, domestic violence ***

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 19 1985, police were summoned to a shocking scene at an ordinary suburban home in Garden Grove, California. 23-year-old wife and mother Linda Brown had been shot twice and killed. The culprit was her 14-year-old stepdaughter, Cinnamon Brown, who was found barely conscious and clutching a suicide note in a dog kennel in the backyard. Cinnamon openly admitted to shooting Linda, and the case appeared to be open-and-shut… But nothing was quite as it seemed in this picture-perfect family.

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Narration – Anonymous Host

Research & writing – Erin Munro, Eileen Ormsby and Milly Raso

Creative direction – Milly Raso

Production & music – Mike Migas

Audio editing – Anthony Telfer