Linda Brown‘s friends and loved ones said they will be picking up the search for the missing special education teacher today, Friday, January 9 — one day after police reported finding her abandoned vehicle..
The search was set to commence this morning at Chicago’s Margaret T. Burroughs Beach and Park, known to locals as 31st Street Beach. The search party will look for any sign of Linda as it makes its way down the shoreline, according to ABC 7.
This week, police said they found Brown’s Honda Civic undamaged near 35th and Lake Park Avenue in Chicago, and had it towed.
Linda’s family further revealed surveillance video footage has been found of the teacher walking over a pedestrian bridge near 35th and Lake Park Avenue, which leads to the lakefront.
The video has not been released. Linda is said to be alone in the footage, which has a 3 a.m. timestamp.
Linda, 53, was last seen on Saturday, January 3, leaving her Chicago home for an acupuncture appointment her husband said she never showed up for.
“She is being missed a lot, especially by me,” Linda’s husband, Antwon Brown, said. “I am not eating, I am not really sleeping, so man, she needs to come home, come home.”
Brown said that when woke up just before 9 a.m. on Saturday, Linda had already left for her acupuncture session, which was a weekly appointment she kept.
Antwon said he and his wife do not track each other’s phones and explained there are no cameras in either the front or back of their townhouse, making it impossible to know when Linda left that morning.
Linda is a teacher at Robert Healy Elementary School in Bridgeport. The endangered woman stands 5-feet tall, and weighs between 130 and 140 pounds, according to the Chicago Police. She has a fair complexion and brown hair with matching eyes. Linda was last seen wearing shiny UGG-style boots and a long black puffy coat.
Brown told local news reporters his wife took her purse, credit cards and car keys with her when she left, with family members telling ABC 7 Chicago it wasn’t like Linda to not maintain constant contact with her husband and sister.
According to reports, Linda had been on medical leave for unspecified mental health issues but was due to return to Robert Healy Elementary School next week.
Chicago Police have said that Linda “may be in need of medical assistance.”
Erin Kamradt, the school’s principal, sent a note home to families about Linda’s disappearance. “I know that news like this can cause many emotions, questions, and concerns for our school community,” she wrote, urging people who know anything to come forward. “Please know that we are partnering with the CPS Crisis Management Unit to support our students and staff members.”
Chicago Police ask that anyone with information about Linda Brown’s whereabouts to contact the detectives of Area One Special Victims Unit at (312) 747-8380. If it is easier, members of the public who spot Linda can also just dial 911 and report the sighting to local police.
