(NBC News) — Friday on “Dateline,” when former Arkansas State Senator Linda Collins is discovered fatally stabbed outdoors her residence, investigators should decide if her homicide is linked to her political profession or her private life.
Here is a preview of Dennis Murphy’s report:
For elected officers, it comes with the territory. Now and then you definately get tossed out of workplace. For Arkansas State Senator Linda Collins that day of reckoning with the voters arrived in 2019. She’d been primaried and misplaced her seat within the State Capitol.
After almost 10 years of service, she was packing up her bins. It was an altogether dangerous patch for the senator. She’d been going via a divorce as nicely.
Her youngsters, Butch and Tate, knew all of the turbulence had taken a toll on their mother.
TATE: in the event you knew Linda, you knew that– most vital issues to her had been God — after which her household — after which in all probability the folks of Arkansas.
DENNIS MURPHY: That’s her motto? That’s what she’s received stitched on —
TATE: Yeah.
DENNIS MURPHY: — her pillow?
TATE: Exactly.
BUTCH: Pretty a lot yeah.
TATE: Exactly.
But Linda, a pressure of nature if there ever was one, picked herself off the mat and did a bit reinventing.
She returned to her rural hometown of tiny Pocahontas, Arkansas, within the northeast a part of the state –soy and rice-growing nation — and inside months was relationship a brand new man. She was wanting into good-paying lobbying jobs across the nation.
BUTCH: you realize, she loves politics. Why not proceed that perhaps in a distinct — totally different position, and — flip it into — an precise paying, you realize, gig.
But because the thinker noticed: Life is what occurs while you’re making different plans.
After a job-hunting journey to D.C., Linda Collins merely disappeared.
Watch Friday’s “Dateline: The Hands of a Killer” at 9 p.m. on News 2.
