{"id":27517,"date":"2022-12-02T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=27517"},"modified":"2022-12-02T09:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:37:48","slug":"lakelands-infamous-cold-cases-to-be-featured-on-cbss-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/12\/02\/lakelands-infamous-cold-cases-to-be-featured-on-cbss-48-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland&#8217;s infamous cold cases to be featured on CBS&#8217;s &#8217;48 Hours&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Lakeland&#8217;s most infamous cold cases is will hit primetime tv as CBS investigates the murder of Linda Slaten. CBS&#8217;s &#8220;48 Hours&#8221; will broadcast &#8220;The Betrayal of Linda Slaten&#8221; at 10 p.m. Saturday on CBS and will also stream on Paramount+ network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"470\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/LAKELAND-MURDER.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27518\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sept. 4, 1981, Lakeland resident Linda Slaten, then 31, was murdered inside her North Brunner Parkway apartment &#8211; raped and then strangled with a metal coat hanger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November 2018, the police department received a call from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in Orlando asking if they wanted to send over the DNA evidence in Slaten&#8217;s murder for further testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 38 years later, Lakeland police arrested Mills, now 58, on Dec. 12, 2019, to charge him with the murder of Linda Slaten.&nbsp; In February 2022,&nbsp;Mills, 61, pled guilty&nbsp;to four charges including sexual assault and first-degree murder of Linda Slaten. Mills was sentenced to life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sneak preview of CBS&#8217;s 48-Hour piece to air Saturday can be watched online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/sneak-peek-the-betrayal-of-linda-slaten\/\">www.cbsnews.com\/video\/sneak-peek-the-betrayal-of-linda-slaten.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Lakeland&#8217;s most infamous cold cases is will hit primetime tv as CBS investigates the murder of Linda Slaten. CBS&#8217;s &#8220;48 Hours&#8221; will broadcast &#8220;The Betrayal of Linda Slaten&#8221;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}