The Murder of Lynne Friend.
Below is from the Sun-Sentinel, a south Florida based newspaper, September 7, 1994.
All Ed O'Dell wants is his fiancee back.
O'Dell is willing to deal with whoever is responsible for her disappearance 10 days ago. Lynne Friend, a marketing employee for Parkway Regional Hospital, was going to marry O'Dell on Oct. 7. Friend, 35, a divorced mother with a 5-year-old son, is described as very responsible and reliable.
Investigators from the Hallandale and North Miami Beach police departments and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement are puzzled. On Sunday, investigators searched the North Miami Beach home of Friend's ex-husband, Cliff Friend, and removed some swords, knives and his 1992 Ford Explorer.
Lynne Friend's 1989 blue Mercury Marquis was found abandoned in north Dade County, at Northeast 26th Avenue and 207th Street, police said.
O'Dell, a Tennessee-based executive for a company that builds and designs hospitals, thinks that his fiancee is alive.
"Every day we don't find her makes me more hopeful she's still alive," O'Dell said on Tuesday afternoon. "We will agree to any deal to get her back."
Police are not so sure.
"We're terribly concerned about the well-being of Ms. Friend," Hallandale Police Chief Kenneth R. Wagner said. "We have a lot of suspicions about where she'd be. We're hoping she's OK. We're very skeptical."
Lynne Friend told her friends and O'Dell that her former husband had threatened to kill her on several occasions, starting after she and her husband divorced four years ago.
Within the past few weeks, Lynne Friend told her close friends that she feared her ex-husband would prevent her from moving to Nashville, Tenn., with her son, Christian.
Christian is in the care of Cliff Friend, police said. Cliff Friend could not be reached for comment on Tuesday evening.
O'Dell, though grateful for everything law enforcement officials have done, has hired a private investigator to help find his fiancee.
Lynne Friend's friends have taken to the streets with fliers depicting the missing woman and her car.
Carole Odom, an executive secretary for nursing administration at the hospital, is a close friend of Lynne Friend.
"It is so difficult," she said. "We've gone so many days without anything."
