Murder of Linda Jo Stingley by Jerrie Lynn Acklin examined on Snapped

Oxygen is re-airing the Snapped investigation into the murder of Linda Jo Stingley, who was brutally killed and robbed by her own daughter Jerrie Lynn Acklin in Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas.

On June 2, 2014, 65-year-old Stingley left an assisted living center in Batesville where she worked as a part-time nurse and was never seen alive again. Her colleagues contacted the police when she failed to turn up the following day.

The cops couldn’t find any sign of forced entry or a struggle at Stingley’s home, but they learned her purse was missing.

A neighbor told detectives there had been a number of robberies in the area. They had noted the license plates of a suspicious car that had been in the area; the car was licensed to Acklin.

A breakthrough came in the case when the police in Bryant, AR, found Stingley’s purse in a dumpster. The cops then learned that someone had been using the victim’s credit cards.

Lt. Mike Mundy with the Criminal Investigation Division said at the time, “We were advised that credit cards were used in various places and credit cards were found being discarded in various places, which eventually led us to being able to locate her. We hope to within the next 24 to 48 hours to actually have someone charged with the crime.”

Jerrie Lynn Acklin arrested for killing her mom, Linda Jo Stingley

The detectives arrested Acklin a short later at a Walmart in Bryant. They later attained surveillance footage of her using her mother’s stolen cards.

Stingley’s remains were found two days after she was reported missing in a wooded area near Malvern, about 150 miles south of where she went missing and 23 miles south of Bryant. She had been brutally beaten to death.

At the time of Stingley’s disappearance, her boss, Ted Hall, said, “We certainly know she’s going to be missed. It’s just one big family. You care for those people there, so if you don’t have a heart for those kind of folks, then you shouldn’t be there. But she did have that. She was a really nice lady and everybody liked her.”

Jerrie Lynn Acklin pleaded guilty to Linda Jo Stingley murder

Acklin eventually pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, residential burglary, and property theft. She was sentenced to a combined sentence of 56 years. She will be eligible for parole in March 2040, when she will be 66 years old.

The killer is currently incarcerated at the Wrightsville Women’s Facility, about 15 miles south of Little Rock.

This episode of Snapped re-airs Tuesday at 9/8c on Oxygen.