CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Investigators will return Wednesday to the backyard of a home in Northbrook. A forensics team was digging there Tuesday looking for clues in the disappearance of a woman nearly 40 years ago.
Linda Seymour disappeared in December 1982. She was 35-years old and married at the time. She had lived in the 1400 block of Orchard Lane in Northbrook, where Northbrook police and members of the North Regional Major Crimes Task Force, or NORTAF, spent the day Tuesday digging in the backyard.
Neighbors said investigators have been carrying out large bags and put up a tent that has obscured their work in the yard near a shed.
Seymour's son is said to be living in the house now.
Down the block, as children played baseball, Michelle Nicholls told CBS 2 she was keeping one eye on the game, with the other on what was going on at the Seymour house.
“Well, you’ve kind of got to position yourself so you can see the excitement of what’s going on across the street,” Nichols said.
“It’ a little eerie – I’m not going to lie to you. It’s just like it’s kind of crazy – a lot crazy.”
Northbrook police would only say that a "tip" brought them to the home.
And according to another neighbor, it is not the first time police have been to the home.
“Two weeks ago, they brought dogs into the backyard to sniff around,” neighbor Lindsey Reid told CBS 2.
Another neighbor said many people have long suspected Linda Seymour had met with foul play when she was last seen.
"People have wondered what really happened and I think there has been suspicion that there was some kind of foul play," the neighbor, who identified as Julie, said.
It is expected that the task force will continue to dig until Thursday.
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