Mississippi Woman Arrested in Longview
Posted/updated on: October 27, 2012 at 8:00 am
LONGVIEW – A woman arrested in Longview has been returned to Mississippi where she is accused of embezzling funds from her employer and then faking her kidnapping. Arrested Thursday morning was Linda Gale Reed, 66. She was picked up during a traffic stop.
Mississippi authorities at first thought she had been kidnapped. Her bloodied SUV was found in a wooded area on a logging road off Interstate Highway 55. She was last seen April 29th at a Wal-Mart about 20 miles South of Jackson. She was reported missing after she didn’t show up for work April 30.
As investigators looked into her disappearance, $20,000 was found missing from a petty cash fund to which she had access. She had been working as a bookkeeper for Moore Fabrications in Gallman, Mississippi. At the time of her arrest, she had been working in Longview as a bookkeeper. In Mississippi, Copiah County Sheriff Harold Jones says Reed was using her real name and Social Security number as she worked in Longview.
