Newport Beach cold case: Arrest made in connection to 1973 Linda O'Keefe murder case

Tuesday, February 19, 2019
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- An arrest was made in connection to a 1973 cold case involving the murder of an 11-year-old girl in Newport Beach, ABC News reports.

Linda O'Keefe disappeared while walking home from school in a blue and white dress on Friday, July 6, 1973. The next morning, authorities discovered her strangled body in Back Bay.
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Homicide investigators reviewed the evidence several times, but never found her killer.

In July 2018, the Newport Beach Police Department launched a social media effort to tell O'Keefe's story in her own voice on the anniversary of her disappearance.
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The Orange County District Attorney's Office and Newport police will hold a joint press conference Wednesday morning with more details on the arrest.
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