This is a nonsense crime because
Linda was very devoted to her family,
good care of all of us.
You know that poor babies.
I feel sorry for them.
That's really why I bought
flowers over here this morning.
We don't know why
it's happened and we want to know who it is.
We want some justice to be done.
We grew up together and I mean,
she was pretty much my best friend
until she was taken away from me.
Linda was incredibly amazing.
She came over here as a
little girl from Vietnam.
We'll see where the lovely daughter.
Ramsey born. I jump up and down because
I so happy my daughter had a good person.
She's treating people right.
Her, her children were everything to her.
Austin was only 22 months old
at the time. Patricia was nine,
Linda was 26 and she was pregnant.
And then this one, do you
have this one uncle memories
of Linda Tran and her children
live on in this house.
And every time we talk about this
subject or Linda we should have a
happy thoughts and and we are happy
when we get to think about them.
But we know that the end result isn't there.
Like we have no closure.
Her family is searching for answers.
Body knows anything. I mean it's they've
been searching for more than 20 years.
And we don't know why it's happened.
We talked a lot, and she never once
had mentioned feeling threatened.
It was a Friday night,
December 18th, 1998.
A week before Christmas,
Linda Tran and her two children
abruptly left her father's home. She
had rushed home because she had
gotten a phone call saying, hey,
I'm at your house and I have Christmas
presents for the kids.
Linda never said who called.
She went home with somebody waiting for her.
That was the last time
her family saw her alive.
Stuck to your very.
Yeah. And good, Madison.
Nice to meet you, too.
Thanks for your time. Sure.
I'm gonna guess it was about right here.
Right where we're standing.
Yeah. Well, when I arrived,
the fire had was under control
and there was a fire engines out in front of
the house, medical people, police personnel,
numerous TPD officers out front,
a very chaotic scene.
It was getting dark.
It's in December,
but the blast was very violent,
very, very powerful.
The witnesses heard some
yelling and some shouting.
A short time after that
suspect was seen running from
the back of the House, house
exploded. Whoever this was new
Patricia knew Austin and Lord
Thurman with Christmas gifts.
Another possible Ave to explore here,
what happened to Linda the night
before she was murdered and
she had called me about it was
probably at 8:00 o'clock at night.
She'd just gotten home again just
from her parents house and she said
that the back window was broken.
So at that time we just we just
figured it was just some kind of
random. You know, attempted
burglary or something.
But is it possible that
there's a connection there?
Of course, yeah, there's certainly
is a possible that somebody wanted
to send a message, somebody
wanted to go in and lay and wait.
You read through these case files recently.
What stood out to you?
The young children,
do you think this is a solvable case?
Absolutely. What makes you think that?
Like I said, there is somebody
that knows something.
I believe that this was not
just random, it comes
down to somebody talking.
Is there somebody out there that is
incredibly evil to do such a thing
and then live with it for 24 years?
So we're gonna need somebody help
me help my family find out who did
it. Closure for the family.
If I could have one wish,
that would be the wish
anybody knows anything.
I mean, it's just for the
sake of two children.