From the Keyboard of B.R. Bates ...

You might not have heard of Linette, a lesser-known victim of convicted serial killer John Eric Armstrong. She lived in the Norfolk, Virginia, area in the late 1990s. She was a daughter, sister and mom, at one time a wife. She was beautiful and generous, cooking for people she barely knew, for instance. She was very precious to the sister I spoke with for my research on the case. Her murder also broke the heart of her devoted father.  Linette. Image courtesy of the family; see note below. Linette is one of the "other" confessions Armstrong made when he was arrested in Detroit in April 2000. When his words started flowing freely, he told Detroit police he actually had killed a lot of other people elsewhere around the country and world while traveling with the Navy aboard the USS Nimitz through the 1990s. Of those 10 confessions this killer made to other murders outside of Detroit, Linette's is the only one that police have been able to pair with an actual crime. Armstron...