Linda Edwards

Click here to view Cold Case Revisited. This link will take you to the Arkansas Matters website. Thank you, Cecillea Pond-Mayo and KARK.

Thank you to the following newspapers for publishing our Letter to the Editor on August 28:

Batesville Daily Guard
Newport Daily Independent
The Sheridan Headlight
The Standard - Amity, Glenwood

This letter was sent to about 25 other newspapers and I am unaware if the letter was published in those newspapers or not. Please let me know if it ran in your paper. I would like to thank them as well.

Dear Editor:

Thank you for printing our previous letter regarding Linda Edwards. Several people have called with information. Our attorney has been able to take sworn statements that will assist the prosecution. I would like to thank these individuals for their concern and their time. I know there are others out there who are struggling to come forward. Please contact us. No detail is too small. Phone numbers to our attorney and investigator are listed at http://www.lindaedwards.com/.
I remember very little about my mom and I appreciate all the people who have called or written to tell me how much she loved us and how nice she was to everybody. I have few specific memories of her. I remember how the sun shone through her hair and made her look like an angel. I remember how she hid the gun so I couldn’t play with it and I remember one man coming to the house while she cried and told him she was pregnant with his friend’s child. My regret now is that I was too young to foresee the future and prevent her untimely death. Today, I only want to see the person or persons who killed her and her baby receive their just compensation for this evil crime.

Toby Edwards

Letters were sent to the following:
ABC News - Law and Justice Dept. - Lara Setrakian
Courtroom Television
CBS 48 Hours
CNN
NBC News - Dateline Story Editor

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Thank you

Mr. Rhodes and I just completed an interview with Cecillea Pond-Mayo from KARK. She indicated it would be on the 6:00 P.M. newscast tonight, 8.28.2007.

Letter and Response.

Thank you all for your show of support thru emails and phone calls. Thank you for the tips. I know it’s always a relief to get things off of your chest. Thank you Mr. Frederick for your comment in the Arkansas Times comment section.

Thank you to the following newspapers for publishing our Letter to the Editor:
Batesville Daily Guard
Newport Daily Independent
Texarkana Gazette
The Sentinel Record
The Sheridan Headlight

This letter was sent to about 25 other newspapers and I am unaware if the letter was published in those newspapers or not.Please let me know if it ran in your paper. I would like to thank them as well.

Dear Editor: Murder, lies, sex…sounds like something out of a soap opera. Unfortunately, this affected my life by the age of 6. At 6 years I experienced life in a way that no child should ever have to experience life. My mother didn't come home one night. One night stretched into 6 long months. Six months of thinking she was on vacation. Six months of waiting for her to come back any time to take me home. Six months of fruitless hope because they found her remains, tossed like trash, out on Jack Mountain outside of beautiful Hot Springs, AR. Now, 31 years later, her murderer is still free. Free, not because there isn't enough evidence to take the case to court, not because every single avenue has been exhausted, not even because people are not interested; free because the prosecutor has the sole discretion to determine if it's worth taking to trial or not.
There is a website at http://www.lindaedwards.com/ dedicated to my mother that includes phone numbers to the Hot Spring County prosecutor, state police and other individuals as well as including many of the news articles and case facts on the murder. If you remember anything or just want to encourage the prosecutor to take this to trial, please contact us either via the website or at the phone numbers listed. Thirty-one years is to long for a murderer to go free.
Toby Edwards

Per our attorney, this is where we stand. He's contacted the prosecutor several times and has been told that the prosecutor is considering trying the case and is looking for funding for the exhumation/DNA testing. Also, we were told that there is enough admissible evidence in the case file for the prosecutor to use.
On the flip side, the prosecutor keeps telling our attorney that he will make a determination in 2 weeks time. This has been going on for several months now.
As of Monday, August 20, 2007 -- Call back in 2 weeks (again).
Per the Governor's office....they can do nothing at this time to encourage or prod the prosecutor into trying the case. It is at the sole discretion of the prosecutor to make that determination. However, at some "point" in time when we feel that we dissatisfied, we can contact them for an update and to see if they are able to help. When asked at what "point" they could step in, the response was very vague.

The Arkansas Constitution needs to be amended. A fundamental characteristic that should be included is:
The constitution should make direct grants of authority so that the governor and legislators can be held accountable by the voters for their actions.
The above italicized is quoted from the book, State and Local Government, Eighth Edition, Authors David C. Saffell and Harry Basehart.