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[This story originally aired on October 16, 2021.]

For nearly 45 years, the murder of 11-year-old Linda O'Keefe haunted the Newport Beach Police Department in California.

Peter hooten biography

Her image hung among the faces of other unsolved cases, reminding each new generation of officers of the work they still had to do. Could new technology and social media turn the tide?

Former Newport Beach Police spokesperson Jennifer Manzella had come up with the idea for telling Linda's story on Twitter after lead investigator Sgt.

Court Depweg tasked her with bringing attention to the case.

"Hi, I'm Linda O'Keefe (or Linda ANN O'Keefe, if I'm in trouble with my mom)", begins the first tweet. "Forty-five years ago today, I disappeared from Newport Beach.

I was murdered, and my body was found in the Back Bay. … Today, I'm going to tell you my story."

There were few clues to what happened to Linda, who was last seen by witnesses talking to a man in a turquoise van after she left summer school in July