The Unsolved Murder of Linda Raulerson

Liz Jin
4 min readNov 19, 2022

She Did Everything the Killer Asked, and He Still Shot Her Anyway

Linda Raulerson was a beloved wife and grandmother; image source.

If you drive down Interstate 10 past Jacksonville, Florida, you’ll reach the quaint little town of Lake City. It’s a place where the locals know each other by name and rally together against injustice.

By way of example, recently, Lake City residents came to the defense of a fellow resident and blind veteran who was wrongfully arrested when his cane was mistaken for a gun. This truly is a town that has your back.

It’s no wonder, then, that the chilling murder of one of their own rocked this tight-knit community to its core.

Linda Raulerson went to work one day and never came home

Linda Raulerson was a clerk at the Joy American Food Store, and she loved her job. Everyone loved the friendly grandmother who treated customers like family.

Linda and her husband of 38 years, John; image source.

Linda wasn’t supposed to be working the night of July 22, 2008, but for whatever reason, she decided to take an extra shift. It would prove to be a deadly mistake.

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Liz Jin

“I wake up in the morning with a desire to both save the world and savor the world. That makes it hard to plan my day.”