Missing person detectives today learned that Linda Hamilton, 69, died in Louisville, Kentucky on March 22. The coroner in Kentucky ruled that she died of medical complications.
At the time of the disappearance of Hamilton and her husband, both of whom are intellectually disabled, Linda was being treated at St. Thomas Midtown after having her right leg amputated. Joel Hamilton removed his wife from the hospital on March 12. Attempts to locate them were unsuccessful.
After learning that Joel Hamilton had returned to the couple’s Crockett Street residence, detectives located him there and learned that they had driven to Louisville where Linda Hamilton had died in a hotel.