She was immediately stricken by the neat and tidy attractive man and "couldn't accept" he needed to date her.
So when Walter proposed only a couple of months into their relationship, Linda seized the opportunity to turn into his significant other when she was only 16.
Addressing History's I Am A Killer Linda stated: "I was as yet a high schooler and I thought I was infatuated. Presently, I wish I'd never met him."
The adolescent lady of the hour says the beginning of the marriage was cheerful however she asserts when she fell pregnant with the couple's first kid, Roxanne, things significantly changed.
Linda stated: "He pushed me down the stairs while I was pregnant with Roxanne and when I brought her home he clarified that all the child-rearing was down to me.
"He would blow up each time she cried and the scarcest thing she would do, he would beat her."
Walter's viciousness is something Roxanne recollects with appalling clearness.
Presently living in Ghana, Roxanne stated: "My dad had a temper than would go from zero to 80 of every a brief moment. At the point when I was a child, I looked simply like my mum and that wasn't what my dad needed.
"I wasn't entirely enough, my evaluations weren't sufficient, I was never enough for him.
"I would be beaten each day. I became acclimated to it, I simply needed to manage it. He depicted being such a caring dad, be that as it may, that was only for appear.
"It was a dream that he made for every other person. He would hit her and once in a while he would hurl her against the divider."
And afterward one night, Linda makes statements took an extremely dull turn.
Walter routinely appreciated evenings out with his companions and Linda was woken up one night by the entirety of his buddies in the room she imparted to her better half.
She stated: "He said they needed a piece of me. I was assaulted by the entirety of his companions and Walt just watched and chuckled.
"I felt caught. Whenever his companions came over, that would occur. Gradually he was carrying me to a breakdown."
At that point, the youthful mum of three ideas she had an exit plan - she had been acknowledged onto a school course, something Walter was troubled about.
Linda stated: "School would have been my departure since I would have been there and away from him.
"It incensed him and he needed me to stop the program and remain at home with him.
"That was the first run through in my marriage that I disapproved of my significant other."
The couple contended about it and Linda claims Walter raged out of the room and went to snatch a recently purchased firearm.
She says they battled and she kicked him in the crotch before grasping the weapon.
At that point Linda asserts as she bumbled in reverse, she stumbled and the weapon went off, shooting Walter in the head.
In any case, rather than reaching the police promptly, what Linda did next was really chilling.
Her preliminary heard that in addition to the fact that she dug up the couple's vegetable fix for a shallow grave for her better half - she made her three youngsters help her.
Linda has consistently demanded that what occurred on that October night in 1984 was a mishap and she didn't intend to execute her injurious spouse.
Be that as it may, the judge and jury didn't concur and she has been in prison for his homicide from that point onward.
Linda was condemned to life for bothered homicide and has so far been rejected parole multiple times.
Her next parole hearing is in 2020.
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