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Case Description

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In the early morning hours of November 7, 1998, the Lexington Fire Department responded to a structure fire at the Nixon Hearing Aid Center on Malibu Drive. After quickly extinguishing the blaze, firefighters made a grim discovery in the back hallway: the body of 43-year-old Linda Marie Rutledge, a female employee at her family's business. An autopsy would later reveal a more sinister cause of death; she had sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the head, injuries unrelated to the fire. Her car w ...Read More

Victim Details

Linda Rutledge

Female

White / Caucasian

Lexington

KY

1998-11-07

43

Linda

Rutledge

04/30/2026