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Where is Linda Price? | Part 2 of 2
A decade of unanswered questions haunts the family of Linda Price, who vanished from a small Kentucky community leaving behind only whispers, theories, and a mother and son determined to bring her home.
The truth seems tangled in the complex web of small-town silence. Linda's son Chase and her mother Mary Elizabeth share their most credible theory: Linda was staying with a man in McKinney when she and another woman allegedly took money. When consequences came calling, the other woman blamed Linda entirely—potentially sealing her fate. This narrative has consistently emerged from multiple sources, including prison informants and community whispers.
"It's a very tight community down there. You know everybody's got tight lips... If you're a snitch, you're going to go missing," Chase explains, describing the code of silence that has protected those with knowledge for ten years. The woman who allegedly falsely accused Linda still lives in the community, reportedly clean from drugs but "carrying a demon on her back," while the man Linda stayed with has seemingly vanished without trace.
Their search has led to "the cut"—an old train tunnel in McKinney where sources suggest Linda's remains may have been discarded after being moved multiple times during decomposition. Despite numerous searches by both family and authorities, no conclusive evidence has emerged. A recent anonymous tip pointed toward Pulaski County Park Lake, offering yet another location to investigate.
What's most striking is the family's perspective on justice. They've prepared a headstone with Linda's birth date but no death date, and a burial plot awaits her. "I'm not looking for revenge or retribution, just relief," says Chase. Their message to those with knowledge shows remarkable grace: "I respect why you're doing what you do, because of the world you live in, but don't make us be a part of that world and just give us what we want."
If you have information about Linda Price's disappearance, please come forward—even anonymously. A family waits to bring their loved one home, offering understanding rather than judgment in exchange for the truth they've sought for far too long.
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From sources that I've been informed her body's been moved around through the decomposition states until it finally decomposed down to bone and they just disregarded the remains in that cut. I've been in that cut six times and it's a public area. You know it's railroad property but people go down there as long as you're. You know a lot of the people are respectful to go down there. You know they don't trust the place. They just go down there and look at it. You know I don't think a body is going to stay in there for 10 years and not be noticed. Where is Linda Price? Part two of two.
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David Lyons:It's a mystery, obviously, but if you want to give those theories whatever you're comfortable with, of course we won't name any names or anything like that, but I think the operating theories are good. Of course we won't name any names or anything like that, but I think the operating theories are good, because I was curious as to if you all could guess where in the community, or if there was a group in the community that would be more likely to have answers. Where would that be? And because, again, we're talking about small town stuff, really small town stuff.
Chase Ellis:What did you end up learning? It was after her oldest I'm sorry, her second oldest brother. He had just got out of prison. He had messaged me and wanted me to come and meet him. So I came and met with him in Parable and he explained to me what he had heard in his time in there and what he's heard on the outside. And the theory that he gave me was that she was with a guy, she was staying there with him in McKinney and her and a woman had took X amount of money. When it came to collect the debt, the woman threw my mom under the bus to clear her name and she inevitably met her fate to cover for the other woman.
David Lyons:Oh wow, and that's McKinney, another very small town. Perryville's a tiny town next to here too. How far is McKinney from Danville?
Chase Ellis:McKinney from Danville. I would say it's about a 15-minute drive, Gotcha.
David Lyons:Yeah, Would we call that a mountain and a holler? Do you think I would?
Chase Ellis:call it like a valley sort of. It's got different landscapes, but but I mean there's rolling hills, there's there's plains, things like that.
Wendy Lyons:You know, just your, your average kentucky landscape gotcha so she was in mckinney staying and that's so supposedly, money was taken. Another lady said that linda, your mother did that, and so that's someone supposedly did something to her because of the taking of the money.
Chase Ellis:That's correct. That's the strongest theory that's been going for the past four or five years and many sources have backed that Inside sources, informants, I've spoke to Anybody that knew about the case or knew of the people that were involved. That's the one that keeps coming up.
Wendy Lyons:Now, those people, the lady and the person she was staying with. Has anyone ever spoken to either of those people or validated that Any law enforcement or anything?
Chase Ellis:those people- or validated that any law enforcement or anything. As far as I'm concerned, no one law, no one in law enforcement has spoke to him. It's a very tight community down there. You know everybody's got tight lips down there. You don't speak. If you're a snitch you're going to go missing. Wow, you know very, very tight community down there, hear no evil, see no evil.
Wendy Lyons:So that's what you all have been living with for the past however many years. That that's the last known thing that happened to her.
Chase Ellis:And that's the biggest hurdle is you know, you get names, you have theories, but you also have to understand that law enforcement they have regulations and they have restrictions, they have guidelines. They just can't go in guns blazing hey, we need to question you. There's procedures that they have to follow. So it's such a battle with okay, we know these people are involved, we want them to talk, but on the other side it's okay, we understand you guys just can't go in here and do what you want. And it's a battle on the other side too, of these people aren't going to talk. That's the biggest obstacle is getting someone to talk. You can't strong someone into talking.
David Lyons:Yeah, that's got to be frustrating for a family. Oh, absolutely, there's a lot of misinterpretations. We've kind of halfway joked before that that pesky thing called the Constitution and the amendments is that we're not China. We just can't pick people up and make them talk. That said, I guess that I agree that those people are clannish and they're tight-lipped and everything, but one of these days one of them might just get in enough trouble that they don't want to take a ride for somebody else. I think that's what I always rolled the dice and crossed my fingers for is that everybody's a bad actor until they're staring down real calendar time and being torn away from their family. So maybe that'll loosen those lips up one day too.
David Lyons:So we've got McKinney. I guess if we were going to focus then I'd say that the answers would be somewhere in McKinney or here in Danville or Perryville or Lancaster or Stanford. This is the general area again too, right?
Wendy Lyons:Had any of those theories that you heard back years ago at the jail? Did they match what?
Mary Elizabeth:your oldest son told Chase. Yeah, because in the jail system they have their own, you know their own talking.
David Lyons:Yeah, they've got their own.
Mary Elizabeth:I'm just hoping eventually someone will just somehow just call anonymously and just drop an area. I'll go pick it up myself. No police involved, just to loan her remains home.
David Lyons:Have you heard any theories about where her remains? Might be that you would want to share? And again, if we go somewhere you're not comfortable with, don't but general areas. I don't want to sick a bunch of people on an area looking.
Mary Elizabeth:Well, they have done a search at the cult a cut the cut the cut.
Chase Ellis:A lot of people in the community know that as the cut it's the old train tunnel in McKinney there off of 501. Okay, the cut it's the old train tunnel in McKinney there off of 501. Okay, um, uh, from sources that I've been informed, um, her body's been moved around, uh, through the decomposition states till it finally uh decomposed down to bone and they just uh, disregarded the remains in that, in that cut. Um, I've been in that cut six times and it's a public, it's a public area. You know it's, it's railroad property but people go down there as long as you're. You know a lot of the people are respectful to go down there. You know they don't trust the place. They just go down there and look at it.
Chase Ellis:You know, I don't think a body's going to stay in there for 10 years and not be noticed. Yeah, years and not be noticed, yeah, that doesn't sound too reasonable but a lot of the theories are surrounding. She was in McKinney and didn't leave McKinney. I was given an anonymous tip a few weeks back that her body was supposedly dumped in the PC Park Lake, which is Pulaski County Park Lake, which I'm going to try to get some more credibility for that before I try to get a team out there to search, because logically you've got to think as well. That river flows, or that park flows lake, I'm sorry flows into the Cumberland River. You know there's so many drafts in there. The water's constantly up and down. Amen, amen, yeah, and I don't remember the case of the woman's name, but there was a case where her remains were washed 119 miles down the river and I think it was a quote that either you said or one of the detectives says the river always gives up.
David Lyons:Sure it does, sure it does, yeah, it does, those bodies of water. You know, at some point I think it was the Odie Massey case probably where they still haven't located all of them.
David Lyons:But eventually it gives it up. You know, we've just said to date this we've just had some really big flooding. To date this we've just had some really big flooding. I was mentioning that the river, the Kentucky River, is still up and it will do one or two things that will make it harder or easier when it starts cutting away at banks and things like that. We can always hope on that too, that things get uncovered in that process. What else have you done? And, by the way, where you're talking about is if we were looking at who might want to move somebody there, pretty much a straight shot down Highway 27, right?
Chase Ellis:Yeah, it's off of 501. There's a small bridge and there's four roads that break off from it and you can take one of those roads called Tunnel Road and you can go down there right along the cross the railroad tracks and then you just cross over those and you walk through the tunnel. You can get a side-by-side atv, an off-road vehicle, through it. Um, I've been in it six times. It's it's a really unique site. Um, you walk in about, um, I think it's about three quarters of mile long. You walk in about the first quarter.
Chase Ellis:There's a cavern to your left or your right and it's about three quarters of a mile long. You walk in about the first quarter. There's a cavern to your left or your right and it's about 12 feet up and that's where they used to store coal for the old steam engines. And you get down further to the end. There's a stream that runs through it and there's a body of water that slowly declines or gets deeper and you can't get into that. I've been up to it about mid-chest high and you can still keep walking. You can about swim that. But where they've closed it down, they've backfilled it, so there's a lot of rubble at the end of it.
David Lyons:Gotcha Just to keep people from wandering and getting hurt and getting lost. I reckon too.
Wendy Lyons:So have you all ever hired or Chase, are you doing all the kind of investigating yourself, or have you all hired someone to assist with looking in?
Mary Elizabeth:We've never hired anyone, okay.
Wendy Lyons:And I guess police have not given any theories about what they're thinking or what they've heard.
Chase Ellis:There's been a very stretched communication there with us and the detectives, but there's an understanding. There's more than one person out there that's missing.
Chase Ellis:I understand they have a job. So there's been a not very strong communication with them. There has been a couple of searches conducted by KSP and detectives Detective Thornberry, or not Thornberry, detective Mike Ward he did a search on top of the tunnel with a dog. He said that he didn't find anything but at the time that he went out there they was doing some cleanup there. So KSP and detectives they done a couple of searches. The torch was passed down to me from Mary. I'm getting what I can from informants and seeing what's more credible to pursue and what I just don't need to bother with. I just don't need to bother with. I'm hoping to get another search down at the end of that tunnel and get some more credibility to go down to PC Park Lake.
Wendy Lyons:Do you think there's still people out there that would be willing to tell you or share what they know, or do you just think it's beyond that no one's going to tell if they do know?
Chase Ellis:I think that maybe in time, if there's a certain circumstance that comes along, maybe somebody's on their deathbed Like hey, I'm about to go, I'll give you what I know, or maybe somebody will just get tired of sitting on it. You can only stand on hot coals for a long time, for a period of time before it's all right. I'm going to hop off this, and you know. So. I think maybe in time somebody will say something. But there's also the other side of you know, it's been 10 years. Surely something would have been said.
David Lyons:Never give up. Never give up. I mean, that's easier said from somebody who isn't in that shoe, but especially with today, with the modern technologies and the science that we have, that we didn't have several years ago, I would not give up. And again, motivators change for people on a dime. Like you said, circumstances change and they do that. What do you all think about? Let's talk about missing people for a little bit. Do you ever get the impression that society just forgets about people like Linda or Michael? Do you get the feeling like you're just left alone in this at some point?
Mary Elizabeth:Yes, I do.
Chase Ellis:I didn't mean to cut you off there, absolutely. There's a lot of days it's a struggle, thinking that you're just tucked in the corner, you're putting that filed away box, but also understanding the other side from the, trying to see it from the detective sides. I think the statistics was that 400,000 missing people cases are filed a year and you know they got to pick through those, see which ones are actually missing or if it's just some, you know juvenile that's ran away from home because they're mad at mom and dad. You know they'll come back. So it's, there's days it feels like nothing's being done and it's a struggle. But then I look and try to see it through the detective's eyes that you know they're not superheroes, you know.
David Lyons:Yeah, it's tough triage them because most people aren't really missing. Missing like Linda is. Does that make sense? So we have that 400,000 and it really is tough to pick which one that you're going to lean into. I think intuition comes into. I think communicating from the family is a big one. Just through experience, the more honest a family is. You know, for example, when I'm pretty sure when you all talked about linda, you talked about her life challenges, because that's a big deal that that tells where you might go. We call that victimology and that might help us when we decide where to go with something like that. But it I think it's one reason we like sitting down and talking with you all is that maybe the less than the likelihood that somebody gets lost in the in numbers and just is more than a nameless number.
David Lyons:All right, I mean, Linda's got a nameless number, but we need to make sure that her name is in front of all of that too. What would justice look like? I mean, you mentioned, I think, Mary Elizabeth, that locating her would be your biggest thing.
Mary Elizabeth:Just bring her home, so I can bury her.
David Lyons:That's it. Yeah, to have something to work with Closure? Yeah, exactly. What about you, chase? What's that look like?
Chase Ellis:I feel the same way for the majority of the part. You know I have my own system. I call it the 3R system. I'm not looking for revenge or retribution, just relief. You know, when we have our annual vigils between the family for my mother it's a very, very unexplained feeling when you look at a headstone with a birth date, no death date and knowing that she is not there.
David Lyons:Yeah, so you have a marker ready.
Mary Elizabeth:Yes, what a horror we have her a barrel pot, just in case. We have her a headstone. It has a picture. She has a birth date, but I did not put an exit date.
David Lyons:What cemetery is she?
Chase Ellis:in Lanham Town Cemetery outside In Casey County.
David Lyons:Lanham Town. Okay Gotcha, what a horrible position to be in to have a place to rest your family.
Mary Elizabeth:When my son and Chase started searching and we were finding some bones, I had to think what if we do find them? I don't have a place to lay them. So we got that, took care of a place to lay them. So we got that took care of, and I've had her picture put on there just so even that's a place to go and talk to her.
David Lyons:You have to start somewhere. I guess you have to start somewhere.
Mary Elizabeth:That way, if I leave this world, it's took care of.
Chase Ellis:There we go, which I think putting that stone there for me was a uh, was a motivator in a way to to finally get the stone finished and know that she is there. There we go bring her home.
David Lyons:Bring her home, um, for the people that you know. We know, people know things. We can agree on that small town, like you said, tight-lipped clannish, um, what would you say to those people? If you met one, what would you say, uh, to somebody that knew something that isn't coming forward, what? What would you ask them? What would you, what would your argument be with them? What would you say to somebody like that that's holding it inside?
Chase Ellis:I respect why you're doing what you do, because of the world you live in, but don't make us be a part of that world and just give us what we want. I don't want you behind bars. You'll have to live with that for the rest of your life and in the afterlife you'll be judged for it.
David Lyons:It's very profound, very profound. I've never heard anybody put it that way, so that's very profound. I've never heard anybody put it that way, so that's very profound. And again, I think that the whole idea of having that marker to drive to get that fulfilled, how can people help with this in the community? What would be the avenues of communication? What?
Chase Ellis:would you ask the community to do Keep their ears out. If you know something, come forward. I mean, if I can get enough credibility to go and do searches, boots on the ground would be greatly appreciated If you want to come out for 15 minutes, if you want to stick around for eight hours.
David Lyons:Boots on the ground, more eyes, more coverage, okay so if you get a good search area, then you would ask people to come out and give you a hand. I agree with that. That's good to cover more ground.
Wendy Lyons:I did have a question that I wanted to ask. You all had mentioned that there was a female that had blamed Linda for taking the money, when she, in fact, is the one that took the money. Whatever happened to her, was she ever surfaced, and what happened to the guy that Linda lived with?
Chase Ellis:The woman. She's still out there. She's well aware that we know she lives within that community. She's part of that community.
Wendy Lyons:Still today.
Chase Ellis:Yeah, that tight-lipped community. From my understanding she got out of drugs. She's cleaned up for herself, so I'll give her props there. You know she did better for her life.
Chase Ellis:But, you're still carrying a demon on your back, the guy that she was staying with, he just kind of vanished. You don't hear anything about him. That's one of the interesting things about that community there is you might hear something about this guy or that guy, this woman, that woman, but I mean they're not too much of a known figure that you want to keep up with them. So you know, they might be three states away, they might just be next door. So nobody's heard anything about him.
Wendy Lyons:So the female's still there, but the male just kind of disappeared.
Chase Ellis:Yeah, he's just under the radar. Nobody's heard anything about him.
Wendy Lyons:So my wonder would be is if the lady that's still in that community does she know where he is? Because I'm guessing they all were in this little circle together. So I'm wondering if she knows where he is, because I'm guessing they all were in this little circle together. So I'm wondering if she knows where he is and I'm not expecting you to answer that, because I know you can't answer what she knows, but you know one would think if you hung out in a circle you would kind of maybe still keep up with that person, or maybe if she's clean now she doesn't want no part of that life anymore. But it just, I agree with you, she still has that demon on her back and if she did make a wrongful accusation on your mother, for whatever reason, she would have made it. I'm just wondering how she herself lives with that today, thinking that maybe that wrongful accusation is why Linda's missing. Maybe it had to do with her making that lie up.
David Lyons:Either way. That's two people that know that need to come forward either way. And I agree with you. She's carrying that demon on her back still. She's still carrying that demon on her back. Definitely two people that would be interested.
Wendy Lyons:I mean, I don't know about you all, but I often speak for myself on this podcast. My hope to her, whomever she is, I don't want to know her name, don't need to know her name, but she knows her name and if this podcast reaches her, I guess my question for her would be is how has she lived with this for the past 10 years, knowing something? I mean? If she's clean, that's great. Like you said, props to her. She got herself straightened out, but at least my I would hope that she would give you all, her family, linda's family, some answers so she can go on with her life and put that behind her and you all can finally have answers.
Mary Elizabeth:Well, they have to think too. If they're a mother, which she is, what if that was your child? Right, what she is. What if that was your child?
David Lyons:Right. Putting yourself in those other shoes is an important part.
Wendy Lyons:So my hope would be to this lady, wherever she is, if the podcast makes its way to her, that she would find it within herself to tell something we're not saying, and I don't think you all are saying. I mean, yes, she made up a lie, but she didn't. Maybe she didn't, maybe she didn't do something. But my wonder would be is she know something? Why can't she tell? Um, you know, we told, we spoke on a podcast that we did formerly of a kind of a similar situation. David, you can talk about it how, when those people know something, even if they didn't do something, there's still, there's still a level of guilt with that if they don't tell, even if it's been years later. So, mary Elizabeth and Chase, you all obviously know who this person is and we're not asking for her name, but is there something you all would like to say to her, in the event this does reach her?
Chase Ellis:I would just ask the direct question where can I find what's left of my mother? I have a very sincere feeling that she knows where. I don't want you charged with anything. I don't want you to spend a day in jail. I just want to know where my mother is and we'll be out of your hair.
Mary Elizabeth:Mary Elizabeth yeah, just reach out to us, let us know where she is so we can bring her home, because if it was your child you would want to do it.
David Lyons:And she could do that anonymously.
Mary Elizabeth:Yes, yes.
David Lyons:Right, I mean as long as it's verifiable. Like you keep saying, Chase, what do you got that you could run with, that has legs? That's. What you need is something that's.
Mary Elizabeth:And I'm thinking, the last time I had talked to Detective Thornberry he mentioned amnesty. So there you go.
David Lyons:Right, exactly, yeah, something about that. As far as that goes, they'll lean a lot on what you all with the family think that's a big weighing, especially after 10 years, though.
Mary Elizabeth:Right.
David Lyons:I think that's what he's talking about. There is what you're all's end result is too, and there's a big difference between somebody leading you to where Linda's remains are and actually being responsible for her death. Those are really kind of two separate things. Let me ask you this, as we're kind of rounding around the corner now and we'll do it one at a time but what would you all say to Linda? If you could speak to her right now? What would you say to her? Start with you?
Mary Elizabeth:Mary Elizabeth, Tell me where you're at so I can come get you right now. What would you say to her Start with you?
David Lyons:Mary Elizabeth, tell me where you're at so I can come get you I can understand that completely and Chase what would you say to her?
Chase Ellis:Thank you for giving me the gift of life. I just only wish you could have been here to be a part of seeing how my sister and I have grown up.
David Lyons:The biggest tragedy in something like this is people can change and they can walk away from lifestyles, but if somebody takes that opportunity away from them, that makes it really evil. I've known too many people who have fought really hard, challenging things with substance abuse and turned their lives around. But if somebody robs us of that, that's the unfair part of this, I think.
Wendy Lyons:Well, thank you all so much for coming and speaking with us. I can't imagine how tough it is to do it. Our hope again is that we get answers for you all, or that somebody will come forward and even, like you said, anonymously, tell you all something, so that you can at least sleep in peace, knowing that you have solved this dreaded 10-year nightmare. So, and to the lady, if you see this, whomever you are, please, if you know something, tell. Or if somebody else knows something, just tell. I think that's only fair for you all, for what you've gone through for all these years.
Wendy Lyons:So thank you so much. Our prayers will be with you that you get some kind of answers. And thank you for taking your time to talk to us.
Mary Elizabeth:Thank you for having us.
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Mary Elizabeth:Lock it down.
David Lyons:Judy.
