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squth of Concord where her mother and stepfather live. "tT don't care if the whole world comes down — I'm not talking," she told newsmen before leav- ing Milford. Whatever the future might hold for the young woman, her mother, Mrs. Jake Byrd, is convinced her daughter did not kill anyone. "! know my daughter," she said. "She was never violent. She loved. chil- dren. There was no hate in her at all. She was searching, searching for love.” Love led to early unhap- piness for Linda as a high school student in Milford. She wed a Robert Peasley and quit school at 16. They lived together three months and were divorced when she was 17. "Something went + Tong with that marriage," said Arlene Sullivan, 18 a neighbor who has hiown Lindsbgrn Virda Ti... D> wed. yea et 2 Miss Sullivan described Lifida as “withdrawn but likable." Another neigh- bor, Mrs. Robert. Pelchat, said. the young woman was "shy, bashful," who "just grew up too fast." After her divorce, Linda moved to Boston where her mother said she mar- ried Bob Kasabian, a "hip- pie-type," and moved to California. In three brief letters, Mrs. Byrd said,’‘her daughter tried to "build it up that she was leading a normal life." But, she said, Kasabian and Linda lived for a time in a hippie pad at Lake Tahoe. "He did not want her anymore," Mrs. Byrd said, and Linda left. . What happened next in her life is a mystery to relatives. ~ How did she meet Char- les Manson, the man who ruled a roving band of hippies? Her father, Rosaire Drouin, a bartender ina Miami, Fla., Skid Row bar, said. Linda showed up there about Nov. 1 and left shortly .. after Thankégive - ing. "What can I say," he told _ a’ Miami Herald reporter’ "She: was‘not a‘ bad girl and she was not a good girl. "She was pretty happy. No, I wouldn't say she was depressed or unhappy or anything like .that. She was: happy as hell.In fact, I kept looking through her luggage to see if she had any drugs. I wondered if she was high." Drouin said Linda "was always talking about the good life out in California. About living in the woods and all that." But, he said, both Linda -the -. woods," and her daughter had scares on their arms. "I guess they got those living in he - added. "She never said." Drouin said he had only seen Linda twice in the 15 years since he separated from her mother, "I remember the first time she came to Miami," he said. "She stole a lot of things from my apart- ment. She was ~° buying dope with the money she. got. "The only time she ever wrote to-me is when she was in California and only when she needed money. I sent her some." Drouin said he took his daughter to Miami Inter- national Airport shortly after Thanksgiving and put her on a flight for _Boston,