The Last Shoot of Linda Sobek

Lori Johnston
9 min readMar 17, 2021

In Search of Fame, Model/Actress Linda Sobek Instead Had a Deadly Run-In with Murder

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Thursday, November 16, 1995 started off as a great day for 27-year-old Linda Elaine Sobek. She had recently scored a role on the popular sitcom “Married With Children,” which she felt would kickstart the acting career she was yearning for. In the meantime, the modeling career she had begun after graduating from Cerritos Community College and during her five-year stint as a Los Angeles Raiderette cheerleader (in which she was named Raiderette of the Year during her third year) not only paid the bills but had kicked into high gear. At only five-foot-four, Linda wasn’t tall enough to be a high fashion model but her pretty looks and her curvy size-three figure got her “body model” work, where she graced swimwear layouts, calendars, car magazines, catalogs, beer posters and Frederick’s of Hollywood.

Linda as a Raiderette (photo source)

That morning, Linda called her mother Elaine to say she was running late for a daytime photo shoot but promised to call that evening to discuss plans for a weekend barbeque that was planned at the Sobek family home. Besides her natural beauty and bubbly personality, Linda was perhaps best known for her reliability. So when she…

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Lori Johnston

Writer, reader, margarita drinker. Currently looking for a “dare to be great” situation.