Police find car of missing Missouri woman
SUNSET HILLS, Mo. -- Investigators say they have found the car of a woman who was reported missing on Tuesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Authorities were looking for the 2008 brown Buick Enclave since the 57-year-old Linda McLaughlin was reported missing,
St. Louis police found the car Thursday evening at Tennessee Avenue and Iron Street, near Carondelet Park, the Post-Dispatch reported. The newspaper said she went to dinner Monday night with a group of friends she walks at a mall with, dropped them off at their homes, and hasn't been seen since.
The newspaper also reported Linda McLaughlin and her husband, John, have been married 35 years years, and that she filed for divorce in December.
John McLaughlin had moved out of their home, the paper said, and she alleged in court papers that he had screamed at her, threatened her, and destroyed and booby-trapped items in the home.
A settlement conference was reportedly scheduled for Thursday but was postponed because of her disappearance.
Meanwhile, the newspaper says, authorities on Friday morning returned to a farm in Franklin County to search for signs of Linda McLaughlin.
Anyone with information in the case is asked to call St. Louis County Police at 314-889-2341.