Lina Reyes-Geddes

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Lina Reyes-Geddes
Name	Lina Izaguirre Reyes-Geddes
Sex	Female
Age	37
Missing from	Austintown, Ohio
Disappeared	April 8, 1998
Discovered	April 20, 1998
Location	Garfield County, Utah
Identified	November 2018
Span	20 years
Cause of death	Gunshot (homicide)

Lina Izaguirre Reyes-Geddes was a woman found murdered in 1998 near Maidenwater Spring in Garfield County, Utah.

She was identified in November 2018.

Disappearance

Reyes-Geddes was last seen in Austintown, Ohio on April 8, 1998. She was supposed to travel to Dallas, Texas and then to Laredo, Texas, but it's not apparent if she ever made it to these destinations.

Six months later on October 14, her husband reported her missing to the police department in Youngstown, Ohio.

Case

Lina's body was discovered on April 20th in Garfield County, Utah. It had been covered with plastic bags, wrapped in duct tape, tied with a rope and placed inside a sleeping bag before being wrapped in a rug. She had been shot in the head and her fingers had been cut off, preventing identification.

Serial killer Scott Kimball was considered a suspect in her murder as the way she was found was similar to the way many of his victims had been discovered. Kimball is a suspect in the presumed murder of Jennifer Marcum.

In June 2022, it was announced that her husband, Edward Geddes, had been identified as her killer. Geddes had taken his own life in Nevada in 2001.

Identification

After a press conference and renewed push by law enforcement on October 2nd detailing the 1998 death of the then-unidentified woman, an amateur sleuth contacted law enforcement to suggest a comparison between Lina Reyes-Geddes and the Jane Doe. After making contact with police in Youngstown, Ohio, investigators were able to make contact with a family member of Reyes-Geddes in Mexico. In early November 2018, two of her family members agreed to travel to the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico where DNA swabs were taken. A Utah-based company then compared their DNA with the victim and confirmed the match.

Characteristics

• Brown shoulder-length hair.
• Brown eyes.
• Extensive dental work.
• Freckles.
• Tattooed eyebrows.
• Small, dark moles on her right ear, upper lip, chin and left shoulder.

Gallery

Sketch

Reconstruction

Sources

• Lina Reyes-Geddes at the Charley Project
• Deseret News (archived)
• The Salt Lake Tribune
• Fox News